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>> about my being a jainlts among constitutional lawyers? absolutely not be you are correct on that. no, the point is a good one. im not sure what point was being made by the u.s. attorneya cause on this. he does serve at the pleasure of the president it has happened before. and the great irony is presidents will often ask for global rest is nations and decide not to accept some. and he decided in two cases to do precisely that. its bizarre to me for people to lionize this act. i considered it d...

One. right now at the white house theres a senior direct orr, political appointee writing down talking points and intel professionals trying to brief both the president and the president-elect on friday but come friday at 12:00 that person is no longer going to be there. thats the unpredictable situation. the very predictable situations are things like north korea test firing a ballistic missile, iran testing us, whether its in the persian gulf or the battlefields of syria and russia for that ma...

Security front is that transition is a dangerous time because theres always going to be a learning curve even in a well-run transition, even in when people are in place the vetting has been done, the security clearances have been done, the confirmations are proceeding smoothly. its dangerous in particular because other countries know that about us and will use it as a time to test us and see what they can get away with. is that a hypothetical that we should just be prepared for the worst-case sc...

Security front is that transition is a dangerous time because theres always going to be a learning curve even in a well-run transition, even in when people are in place the vetting has been done, the security clearances have been done, the confirmations are proceeding smoothly. its dangerous in particular because other countries know that about us and will use it as a time to test us and see what they can get away with. is that a hypothetical that we should just be prepared for the worst-case sc...

Al baghdadi just a few days earlier and on that exact same road. thats according to fox news military analyst major bob scales. while the death is certainly a win for the u.s., analysts say it will lead to more security around al baghdadi making it even more difficult to catch him. elizabeth. >> kristin fisher reporting live. thank you. investigators try to recover e-mails from hillary clintons private server. senator johnny isaacson member of the senate foreign relations committee joins us fr...

Behind the probe? lewis greenwald serves on the special investigative committee himself. loretta weinberg is a state senator whose district includes ft. lee and has been fighting to get to the bottom of this scandal since it began. and now we have the finalist of subpoenas issued by the special legislative committee investigating the deliberate george washington bridge traffic jams, or as i call it, operation road hog. and here they are. bridget anne kelly, christies deputy chief of staff who wa...

Appointee, he is the same chris christie political appointee who gave the order to close those lanes on the bridge. hes the man who gave specific instructions to bridge officials to not warrant local police, and not warrant town of fort lee about what was about to hit them. other e-mails that have been made public show that the port authority knew they were advised explicitly that shutting down those lanes on the bridge would cause the whole town of fort lee to be gridlocked in a backlog of hund...

That he go to church. the most important issue is that the -- that the punishment doesnt really fid the crime. this kid already says he goes to church. they said he has to get his g.e.d. while, its a good intention, plenty of people have education who go out and kill people or drive drunk and end up -- >> greg: a dead kid isnt getting his g.e.d. and going to church. there is a punishment for that. >> bob: there are kids i know alcoholics who go for weekend in jail. there they have to do intensiv...

That he go to church. the most important issue is that the -- that the punishment doesnt really fid the crime. this kid already says he goes to church. they said he has to get his g.e.d. while, its a good intention, plenty of people have education who go out and kill people or drive drunk and end up -- >> greg: a dead kid isnt getting his g.e.d. and going to church. there is a punishment for that. >> bob: there are kids i know alcoholics who go for weekend in jail. there they have to do intensiv...

Republican memo, which no one disputes, contains highly classified information, has never, ever been invoked. >> let me talk a little about whats at stake here and who thinks it shouldnt be revoked. lets look at the memo and why it is so controversial. and who is opposing it. one week ago, assistant attorney general steven boyd, political appointee and former staffer to then senator jeff sessions, warned devin nunes that releasing the memo would be extraordinarily reckless without input from the...