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Circle has to say about this rogue gallery as michael crowley accurately described them, what they have in common is an affinity for putin and a pension for lying about their contacts with russians? >> well, what we detected last year throughout the course of the reporting on the trump foreign policy team was that this was a group not part of the foreign policy establish lt in washington, and they did not have smf oit hawkish views in particular with regard to russia like some of the people have...

Its pretty clear that the president did tear it is inflicted calamity of human rights abuses on the philippines is off the table in terms of president trumps priorities and which is very disappointing but not surprising because president trump has repeatedly proven that he has an affinity for strongman rulers with well documented abuses against their citizens but the wider issue is we have these human rights abuses going on the philippines but rule of law is under attack in the philippines and r...

Calculation of numbers. very slim majority. they have big issues, especially tax cuts. they need that vote. and its all about power. its not about whether or not this person is a child molester or not. its about whether or not hell vote with the president. >> if the president had managed to score other legislative wins, or any legislative wins really, to be accurate, do you think he would have been in a position of embracing a roy moore? is this done out of desperation? >> well, if he had had ea...

Are the consequences for him. >> well, one other thing they all have in common at least carter page and george papadopoulos, they both had contacts with rugs, they both initially lied about their contacts with russians, they both confessed to their contacts with russians. but what does trumps inner circle has to say about this rogue gallery as michael crowley accurately described them, what they have in common is an affinity for putin and a pension for lying about their contacts with russians? >...

A challenge. >> there are fewer people, fewer members of congress at this point than there were at the point starting the health care debate that feel a particular affinity to the president and tax reform is bigger and more complicated issue, there are other things shifting around, there are people speaking openly about how this is going to be a mess already. and so to actually build cohesion -- youve got the cohesion around the vote last night because everybody wants to start the process. but t...

Mindful of also joined the group. in one thousand nine hundred seventy two they already have carried out a series of deadly bombings including some aimed at u.s. troops in west germany it was a protest against the war in vietnam but by our mind it was widely known that the u.s. forces stationed here played an important role in the criminal war in vietnam worth . in vietnam but four people were killed and fifty others were wounded in the attacks many who had sympathized with bad and my hope were ...

He was a normal, everyday guy that walks into my door 50,000 times a day. >> reporter: police say paddock wasnt on their radar, with no criminal past, and believe he acted alone. his brother, eric paddock, left stunned by the carnage, telling cnn he never exhibited any violent tendencies or had any affiliations with any terror or hate dproops. >> he bought the machine guns and did this. he has never even drawn his gun, you know? i mean, it makes no sense. >> he did not own machine guns that i kn...

Kgb agent. kgb spent years cultivating assets. this is not something they do quickly. i think the idea that you have somebody like donald trump, who showed the affinity in the 80s, showed an interest in the 80s, had a need in the 90s, need and greed are usually the components of the way that the russians, even when they were the soviets, would develop assets. this is how its done. i think the idea is if youre going to interfere in a presidential election, this is really taking it to a level that...

Harvey: howd they treat you? judy: fine. i never had an issue with gender. when you graduated law school, tell me about your first job. first job was with a cosmetics firm, casmara, incorporated. there were two lawyers hired. its a man and a woman. he went into products liability and they gave me a long pad and they told me to call all these drugstores to take orders for soufrage which was their new product. - you were a telemarketer? - it was an unsatisfying job. why would they hire you as a la...

Donald trump ran with almost no support from the republican establishment. in many cases, they actively denounced him. they almost all despised him, but he won because his campaign promises had appeal. rather than take advantage of their good luck and whether they ought to try to help the president achieve those campaign promises, republicans have repeatedly showed their campaign pledges were lies and their chief interest is not protecting the donor class that funds are campaigns. they so more a...