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You are innocent until proven guilty and he abused his prosecutorial authority by making that claim. and, he had no control over his own team. he said he didnt even ask questions when he hired his staff. they hired 14 democrats, no republicans, clinton donors and clinton lawyers, they come on the team, he didnt know about those conflicts. he found out, he didnt do anything about the conflict. >> kennedy: that was one moment he got fired up today, defending those on his staff, the lawyers that wo...

Damage as he possibly can to the democrats brand. with us still, the aforementioned jeremy peters and juana summers. jeremy, i want to take this in another direction, and that is the republicans watching and listening. lets talk about some prominent senators who have been mostly silent, people with names like portman and blunt and sasse. you cover republican reaction or lack of it often for your newspaper. whats going on there? >> its an absolute paralysis by fear. they are terrified of getting ...

Which has to be their base if they want to win reelection. they are also mindful that they would be seen as causing strife within their own party, and they dont want the presidents wrath. this is a guy who is known to attack opponents regardless of their partisan affiliation for the sin of speaking out against him. this is not a republican party that toll rates dissent. i think what is also going on here is this fear they have of being caricatured and attacked in the conservative media. the cons...

They are also mindful that they would be seen as causing strife within their own party, and they dont want the presidents wrath. this is a guy who is known to attack opponents regardless of their partisan affiliation for the sin of speaking out against him. this is not a republican party that toll rates dissent. i think what is also going on here is this fear they have of being caricatured and attacked in the conservative media. the conservative media is also very unkind to anybody who is not se...

Diversity of thought and mindset and political affiliation. im glad to be the voice for this right now.

The president is not wrong in some of the statements you showed about the trouble they pose to the entire world but the united states acting alone despite our awesome power is never as effective as acting with allies. >> john mclaughlin, you were working for decades without any partisan affiliation in the intelligence community. and it strikes me that in the past republican or democratic administrations, nick as well, there always was a strategy. there were deputies meetings, there was a game pl...

Success is still pretty impressive. but heres what is needed. for every demagogue to be beaten back. and thats what this president is. forget about whether he thinks hes a racist. that only gives cover to his defenders. he is a demagogue. he pitches to prejudice and he does it on purpose. but they have to meet their match. not someone who is tougher or more violent. but who overwhelms by being the demagogues positive opposite. example. for mccarthy it was joe welsh. chief counsel for the army wh...

>> i cant get into specifics. but ill tell you that were strong white men. were proud of that. >> we dont hate anybody else, but if you hit us, we hate you ten times worse. if you hurt one of us, were going to hurt you ten times worse. >> active members rarely speak about their affiliation on camera. this time weaver made an exception. >> i lost a little bit of sleep over it. doing this interview. brothers dont normally get on camera. but i talked to a lot of my guys here. brothers that i respec...

Because it does one of two things. it either alerts the target who is either going to flee or theyre going to prepare themselves for the potential encounter. and then it cuts officers lives in danger. >> right. >> its nonsensical that a president would be putting officers safety at risk, and also the targets safety at risk. its not a good combination. >> theres two questions quickly. what are ice agents think about this by this description, and how effective do you expect the operation to be? >>...

Supposedly the money order, going to, and according to what they were telling me, he was in debt. the one guy doesnt have any affiliations with no organizations whatsoever, which would rule out the extortion theory. the other one, he gave compton commissary to pay off a debt to keep him from getting hurt. it sounded like he was playing a game on his mom. >> how so? >> by telling her about the extortion to get the money to pay for his debts. its common. they play their family like that all the ti...