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He bought it and changed it. ed henry from the white house. joining us now, we have bud sexton, former c.i.a. analyst and syndicated talkshow host. and brad blackman, former president with the george w. bush and george h.w. bush administrations. talking politics and i dont think you are surprised. >> im not surprised. and its sad. we should listen to the white house and held a moment of silence. he expressed his condolences and then spoke comfort. those who own firearms are responsible, good, de...

>> now the runways are pretty open. >> yes, sir, . four major runways are fully operational. amazing job. so amazing that we are ordering hundreds of millions of dollars worth of new airplanes for the air force, especially the f35. do you like the five? how does it do in the fights and how did they do in fights with the f35? we do very well, you cant see it. literally, you cant see it. so its hard to find a plan that you cant see, right? but thats an expensive plane that you cant see. and as you...

Substantially. something that other administrations would never have done, that i can tell you. thank you very much. where is the coast guard? who can speak on behalf of the coast guard? who can speak? where is our coast guard representative? get over here. come here. come here. my man. . >> i dont think theres anything that the men and women in the coast guard would rather do than help the people of puerto rico. this is what we get to do on a daily basis, getti. getting to help our fellow citiz...

Congresswoman, you can hear the frustration and exhaustion and his voice, he makes some good points and its tougher providing these resources to an island where a lot of the roads have been wiped out. how fair do you think the criticism of the administrations responses? what you make of president trumps tweets? >> we need to realize that puerto rico is already in a fragile economic state. that combined, i understand the points but also the mayor of san juan. whenever you have a crisis like this ...

>> sandra: thank you for the update there. meanwhile, we are awaiting the president. we are expected to hear from him sometime shortly. he is hosting the prime minister of thailand. obviously going to make comments on las vegas, and the situation in puerto rico. because brian, as i have been talking about today, there is so much that the president faces right now. and we face as a country. >> brian: karl rove, earlier today, he has a perspective on administrations and things out of their control...

Howie: its true a number of obama officials used private jets. this guy is running the health department. but its also true that those earlier examples were not as big a story. katie: the obama administration didnt have a mantra or slogan of making sure taxpayer money was spent in a way that was helpful and not beneficial to the washington, d.c. swamp. yes this has been done by previous administrations and it deserved as much scrutiny they are giving it now. the trump administration needs to loo...

Said all talked of the promises. eric: he does have a point when he said that be nice to recommend hasnt worked in 25 years so i would work now. look, 1994 the oil for food program administration with clinton and north korea lied any of the six party talks that failed in president george w. bush took north korea off the terrorist list and thats an olive branch to them and they gave us the baseball bat. president george w. bush tried and it still didnt work. >> yeah, the fact that were still havi...

And its disruptive and unpredictable and better be careful what i do. at the same time i think he is saying wow, we have china involved now and you united states said they dont want regime change. thats a good thing for china. i think he is getting hemmed in. i dont think that we have been successful trying the overt diplomatic approach without walking softly and carrying a big stick. >> how different is this method of back channels that the u.s. can and is exercising that rex tillerson, the sec...

Congresswoman, you can hear the frustration and exhaustion and his voice, he makes some good points and its tougher providing these resources to an island where a lot of the roads have been wiped out. how fair do you think the criticism of the administrations responses? what you make of president trumps tweets? >> we need to realize that puerto rico is already in a fragile economic state. that combined, i understand the points but also the mayor of san juan. whenever you have a crisis like this ...

Great deal of speculation inside japan and making it a lot easier foropponents to gain the upper hand in the election. so talking about discussions in public is probably not the way to conduct diplomacy if you want any diplomacy to be successful. >> colonel, have we seen these direct channels with previous administrations? >> yeah, we have. weve spoken indirectly many times. weve spoken directly several times with the north koreans. most notably back during the carter era when direct talks with ...