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Fighters fleeing to their home country. i think most administrations get credit for this. something that hasnt happened, theyre aware of the threat, the ability of, say, someone from raqqah to go up through turkey, get into europe. but say october 2016, ash carter, the then secretary of defense going to paris. that was a big concern. they thought there would be thousands of fighters comes back to europe. that hasnt happened. what has happened is the ideologies have shifted. when you saw the atta...

Was many years ago before i had heard of him. he worked for me for what was it, two and a half, three months. paul manafort was a partner of roger stone and they have known donald trump for a long, long time. he didnt just meet paul manafort. >> he tried to put distance between himself and manafort several tilmes. he gets into the fact that manafort worked for the previous administrations and look, he spent so much more time working for other republicans, much more time than he worked for with m...

Problematic so far. katie says theyre normal for any administrations but he said to the russians dont worry about the sanctions we put in place because of the election. >> lets address the flynn problem and not say obama always. >> you are maximizing when you consider the enemys behavior while minimizing your allies. >> it is two separate things. >> they arent separate. >> lets go back to what the president said to also telling "the new york times" he believes special counsel robert mueller will...

Competent but sort of not empowered within the white house to do this. either way hes been quite ineffectual. and so theres a big push to bring in someone from the outside. sort of a political guru who might not necessarily replace the current political director but would play more of the role that, say, karl rove or a david axelrod played in previous administrations, sort of understanding the states and landscape and directing the white house and president on how best to prepare for the 2018 mi...

There is a complete disconnect here between president trumps policies which are seen as the policies of his administrations that one would think he signed off on, right? his twitter feed for the point. >> today he tweeted cochran very disappointed that china is allowing oil in. there will never be a friendly solution if this continues to happen. you look at the tweet and you look at what tillerson said. what do you think? >> the tweet seems to confirm an anonymously sourced south korean media re...

Involves keeping and enforcing the iran deal. >> de-emphasizing it so donald trump can say this is terrible? >> i think to zoom out a bit and say lets not focus every three months just on the iran deal. lets get the president comfortable with the broader strategy towards iran and he can feel sufficiently robust and aggressive and maybe the iran deal isnt constantly on the chopping block. i think thats what tillerson is trying to accomplish. whether he can succeed in that i think is another quest...

House with no evidence at least knot yet of collusion. the last two administrations tried to have warmer relations. whats wrong with that? >> trish: good point. i know i will see you tonight 11:00 p.m. you will be hosting all week at 11:00 p.m., hosting for shannon. >> ed: lets get lobster in the new year. >> trish: done. michael that beauty toe former trump campaign advisor and democratic strategist who served on president obama and hillary clintons presidential campaigns. good to see you both....

President trump is touting his legislative record boasted that in his first year of office. broke president truman for signing new bills into law. >> it was one of the things that people dont understand, we have signed more legislation than anybody that broke the record with harry truman. >> so this pat on the back came at a florida fire house, he was there to thank responders. well the president preeted over and over again he is one of the most productive presidents ever. here to fact check is ...

These comments came as the president was talking to first responders in west bauch paem, florida, yesterday where hes spending his holiday. lets break down what he said with sarah murray joining us in west palm beach. sarah, what are the facts? >> reporter: well, look. obviously the president is riding high on the victory of passing a sweeping tax overhaul and no small potatoes in washington. we know that this is a president who likes to embellish the record and obviously cant stop talking about...

Spi despite the republicans and not only that, people who were in trumps inner circle have either pled guilt y or are under indictment. things arent looking good for the white house. >> and the mentioning the effort to discredit robert mueller. similar attempt of the deputy director of the fbi. read something from the press. "andrew mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits, 90 days to go." indicating he plans to retire when eligible full pension benefits from the fbi. what do you ...