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He passed the health care bill through the house but didnt go to law. failed by a vote in the senate. one person isnt going to solve all those things. i feel like ive done a lot to advance that debate. im not going away from -- >> lets talk about fiscal discipline and i want you to respond about what corker said. congress and the administration will go down as one of the most fiscally irresponsible administrations that weve had and hes referring to the fact that this tax bill, despite the defici...

York. thank you for being here on a saturday night. >> thanks for having me. >> you are saying this worked for what it was but it doesnt have a mission. barack obama did a lot of strikes without authorization, same standard? >> same standard. first of all, i think the strike yesterday was fine, i think what assad has done to his own people is horrendous and i think it sent a well deserved message to him. but, if this is going to involve things to come, the president needs to come to congress. co...

His at the fbi, comey will be forever known who broke his secret trust with the president of the united states. one of the presidents greatest achievements will go down as firing director james comey. >> wow. speechless. joyce, go. >> well, one thing jumps out at me, which is the director of the fbi does not have a sacred trust with the president of the united states. directors are appointed for ten years, they serve a cross administrations because they owe their allegiance to the rule of law an...

>> reporter: the other looming question is how to handle syrias two biggest backers, russia and iran. >> to iran and to russia, i ask, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of neinnocent men, women and children. >> the vice president continued the talk at the summit of americas in peru. >> our message is russia is youre on the wrong side of r t history. >> reporter: president trump will be splitting his time discussing the fate of another rogue regime with weapons of ...

Completely bewildered of what this administrations policy is now or going forward. >> one difference between this and the obama administration is the obama administration decided not to sporespond to the chemic weapon attack and the trump administration seems to be saying sometimes it will respond, it did one year ago and last saturday. what we dont know is what it will do going forward. the pentagon officials were asked what if assad uses chlorine gas, will that prompt another response? do you ...

Interests. russia is interested in protecting its equities in syria. the syrians want their country back. but putin doesnt really care. the iranians want to be able to strategically threaten israel. thats good for the iranians. the russians dont really care about that. so the russians are perfectly willing to fight this war to the last syrian but they have limited interests and theyre going to protect their interests and i dont think putin is going to stick his neck out for anybody. >> what kind...

You have nationalists and globalists. its about whats on the interest of the united states. theyre living and madeleine albrights world and the president is in danger of joining the likes of lbj and george w. bush. filled presidents, field administrations involved in failed wars by listening to these people. he should not act. if he doesnt act, then he should feel quite comfortable because he the company of george washington, john adams, and the man who said we dont want to be a part of other pe...

Looking at what happened in the last 24 hours. how costly was this to assad. he did win his tactical victory and hes still standing. >> stay with me on the idea for a while, is this transactional foreign policy? is this the trump doctrine, as we often talk about, when we look at administrations and the way they approach foreign policy, is this transactional foreign policy? >> its certainly a unique kind of foreign policy, sorry, richard, than weve ever seen before. its unlike i think any other f...

Welcome back. two very telling headlines out of the trump white house in just the past 24 hours. one, a west wing campaign to discredit the former fbi director. two, a west wing campaign to discredit the deputy attorney general. thats james comey and rod rosenstein. together they have a combined nearly 50 years in federal law enforcement across democratic and republican administrations. both have republican pedigrees. but team trump says theyre the enemy, not to be trusted. comey is enemy number...

And in his view, as the fbi director, having a president to try to get him to drop an investigation with michael flynn, which he had a huge problem with. that is the overall takeaway. while the other part is salacious and what we will be discussing, i view that as the takeaway. >> the fbi director is essentially comparing the president to a mob boss ermts as was said in the introduction, theres no minced words here. we havent read it in its entirety, its an extremely shrewdly done book. comey ta...