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Between fire and fury and destroying the united states, et cetera. what it does is it increases the tension level. is the concern about a miscalculation. or a mistake that will ultimately escalate to a greater conflict. it would be far better to lower the volume of rhetoric. >> sandra: isnt that what we have seen in recent history with recent administrations? >> david: part of the reason that president trump inherited these incredible problems around the world, iran and north korea and others is...

>> in previous administrations, he would walk into meetings like this with a clear list. with president trump, who knows where this conversation is going. who knows whos going to catch his eye or what one question is going to spurn him to say something. who knows. >> by the way, thats an excellent point. the presidents own senior staff doesnt know. they made promises to capitol hill. the president watches something on capitol hill and starts tweeting about it. thats one of the big things, they w...

Attorney generals have gotten in trouble when they have forgotten that theyre different than other cabinet agencies. senator leahey said to me, you are not the secretary of justice, you are the duepartmen of justice. put up kind of an interesting thing between me and a president who i was a friend with. there were certain things we couldnt discuss, certain things we didnt discuss. but i think thats an appropriate way for an attorney general general to think of himself or herself and its an appro...

Dangerous missions. we have to understand that. and understand, it is an obligation for all of us in congress to be thinking about this. and more importantly, debating it. >> now, congressman will hurd out of texas, republican, was just on the show. and he says, no, you guys do support the military, because you fund the operations. so its there. but i think theres a larger kind of support that is absent, which is what youre talking about, which is the debate, which everybody says they want to ha...

Fake things true and true things fake. >> among people who listened to those two conservative leaders, trump probably lost some credibility today. the question is whether he picked up two senate seats which would not exactly be a draw. the senior policy adviser for the reagan and george w. bush administrations. he is the author of the aptly titled, the truth matters. that followed your work and your conservatism for a long time. your view of what we saw today and the centrality from these conser...

Between the justice department and the white house, even though youre a part of the administration. put up kind of an interesting thing between me and the president who i was a friend with. there were certain things we couldnt discuss. certain things we didnt discuss. but i think thats an appropriate way for an attorney general to think of himself or herself and its an appropriate way for the justice department to be run. >> is there more discontinuity between the justice department under jeff s...

>> congressman jim himes, thanks for coming on the beat. >> thank you. >> i want to show you all another thing that happened on these issues. a protesters made it inside the capitol. someone was able to throw he russian flags as he walked mitch mcconnell. an unusual protest scene. you can see the russian flags raining down. im turning now to flick ackerman, now a partner at dorsey and whitney. it dont have to have any analysis of the flags. >> thank you. >> it was definitely a noticeable scene. ...

Woman would be -- that somebody would be listening to that call. he was -- he actually couldnt belief it. actually, he said to me, sir, this is not acceptable. this is really not acceptable. >> it didnt take long for the congresswoman to hit back. she claims the tragedy in west africa will come back to haunt him. >> i think ethic is going to be this administrations benghazi. this is going to be trumps benghazi, trumps niger. >> congresswoman wilson is demanding an apology from the chief of staff...

His presence in africa and his operations in africa. i know the previous president obama notified congress when these forces were initially sent into niger. so its a little bit of a chicken and egg here. i feel like the congress has an oversight responsibility, whether or not they asked the right questions during testimony really is something that is up to them. i feel like both the pentagon and the last two administrations have to get their war powers notifications and moved over to congress wh...

I wouldnt put it past them if they have one soon. but maybe the north koreans have said, okay, lets see what are the conditions for dialogue, and maybe were doing the same. thats my only hope right now. >> governor, what do you make of the criticisms that president trump has for your administration and prior administrations, going back several administrations, that the concept of having strategic patience and giving north korea a little bit in exchange for not advancing its missile defense syste...