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Levers and chemical weapons that stood for nearly a century. although a lower order of magnitude the use of a nerve agent on the streets of uk is part of disregard for the norms. while this actio is about deterring the syrian regime, it will also send a clear signal to anyone else who believes they can use chemical weapons with impunity. there is no graver decision for a prime minister than to commit our forces to combat. this is the first time that i have had to do so. as always, they have serv...

Issues like that. when is somebody going to cry enough of this ridiculous way to run the senate? whether its harry reid or mitch mcconnell? >> well, chuck, one of our challenges is that we keep having people elected to the senate, to the house, who come here not to compromise, not to seek bipartisan solutions, but to join sort of their team. i worked very hard two and three weeks ago to try and get an alternative path for this tax bill. meeting with republicans, putting together a proposal that ...

Your home state of delaware who will see their taxes go down, maybe as early as february. their paychecks are going to be a little bit bigger. theyre going to be pretty happy about that. and a lot of your constituents are probably saying, yes, even though rich people, theyre going to get some tax breaks, theyre going to get some tax breaks, as well. >> and wolf, as ive said both at home and here, the problem with that is, whos going to end up paying for these tax cuts? the way its structured, ta...

Timing of 2018. meaning they are thinking about the midterms, they are thinking about what are the electoral consequences of this kind of activity by the president, these kinds of statements on the gop, but the other is about the presidency. and it was striking to see two presidents, obama and bush, speak on the same day. and i do think there is a genuine fear or sense of concern about what donald trump will do to the presidency in the way he handles things, such as puerto rico or the condolence...

Every time we turn around another shoe drops from the centipede. three month as the go. any less true now than it was then? >> of course it is not. and the tragedies of this episode. there was an alternative path. the alternative path was after the inauguration. the president says, gosh, could be a big distraction for me. so, i am going to order all my people to go to the fbi and disclose everything. make it all public. they took the opposite take. they have consistently lied by saying there was...

Said, quote, every time we trn around there was an alternative path. the alternative path was right after the inauguration the president says this could be a big distraction for. >> they took opposite tack prshlg the president said there was no contact. and as a result this story has dragged out for many months and the white house has lost every shred of its credibility. now were in a terrible position about what we can trust and the

Been disrupted in part because president trump has threatened to withdraw payments that help them reduce the cost of premiums. lets do that and then have what ron johnson called a more thoughtful approach to this issue, which might involve a bipartisan deal with democrats. that, of course, is going to be difficult to achieve in its own right but its an alternative path to the one republicans are currently on. >> guys, unfortunately im out of time but look forward to having you both back on. have...

Always have. he has not believed on having pressure on these totalitarian or authoritarian figures throughout the world. this has upended american foreign policy in the same way hes upended domestic policy. >> do you think its part of his anti-establishment attitude, which is just if everybody else says these guys are no good, im going to say something good about them? just defiance. >> i think thats the right word. theres a very strong bright line of defiance there. if the conventional wisdom a...

In a linear way or in a strategic way. >> frank, go ahead. >> no, well, thats exactly what i was going to say. you dont dismiss the words of the president. you have to listen to the words of the president, but this president more than other presidents wings it and is a freelancer and speaks in superlatives and then reels himself back. its on-the-job training day 99. well see where day 100 and on go. but the fact is diplomacy is carrots and sticks, good cop and bad cop. we saw that before war in ...

Please, senator, do not suggest in any way that that word means that i was hostile to the act. i said then and i say now it was necessary that the act be intrusive because it had to force change and it wouldnt have happened without the power of the federal government. that is a plain fact. >> im suggesting an alternative path forward for the voting rights act not singling out one state or region but would have allowed the act to continue to be noif the face of the recent record showing ongoing d...