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>> i think hillary is getting killed now with russia. the real russia story is hillary and collusion. somebody told me, a million dollars -- >> yeah, someone just said shes far for the country then -- >> you see, nobody knows who spent t. >> woody allen once said, what did reality ever do for me? what world is he in here? >> but its interesting. one thing consistent about donald trump is he believes he can create his own weather. he can create his own reality. and hes had some success doing it, ...

Support across the believe, even from diplomats and others who were deeply skeptical of the wider trump administrations foreign policy commitments and priorities. what my colleague carol and i wrote in this piece is kind of a story of how his early weeks havent lived up to the early promise, at least in the minds of diplomats in the building. they feel like he is cut off from them. that their needs and concerns about what priorities and policies should be arent making it to him. and more importa...

That saddam hussein had wmd. if president bush lied about it, what did you do? did you lie or were you derelict in your duties and didnt look at the intelligence and arrive at your own independent conclusions? this was 67 democrats who stood up on the house or senate during that debate and voted for it and said, saddam had wmd. even opponent, barbara boxer and ted kennedy said saddam had wmd. al gore gave a speech in september of 2002 and said wmd. you cant make the argument about bush and isola...

I know you have a lot going on. have you seen the movie "the hurt locker" which won the academy award for best picture of the year? >> i have. they actually sent me a copy so i could look at it several months ago. its a compelling movie about the heroism and the camaraderie about what some of our soldiers, sailors and marines go through here in iraq and afghanistan. and i think its an important depiction of some of the sacrifices that go on here in iraq and afghanistan. >> so you would recommend...

Post," this thing went away. as long as they thought it was me, there was an interest. i lerlly on got every signal from the fbi and then the prosecutor that i was not in jeopardy because of anything i might have said to robert novak about valerie plame. they were interested in side issues which i described in the book which was really extraordinary. when they finally laid them out on the table and my attorney told them what was behind that, fitzgeralds comment to them was, youve rocked my world...

Meeting a state standard. those children are barely able to graduate from high school and are totally inadequately prepared for college. >> who do you blame for this failure? >> i agree with the secretary that there have been a number of states that have lowered -- like 15 to 18 states have lowered standards since no child left behind. but there are the pressures of the groups -- the labor unions get into it -- >> teachers unions -- >> and they react negatively. there is insufficient accountable...

Teachers who arent educating the kids but they cant be fired because of the unions? >> this idea of higher standards, both national unions are absolutely behind that effort. theyre supporting that. youve seen the head of the aft say they dont want to protect teachers who arent making it. the majority of teachers are working extraordinarily hard. teacher evaluation systems in our country are broken. we need to reward great teachers, help those in the middle improve and those at the bottom where i...

Nothing more important than educating our kids. lets talk about it in our strategy session. joining us, two special guests, the education secretary, arne duncan and cnn political contributor, bill bennett. he served as education secretary under president reagan. he also has a brand-new book thats just out. thanks very much for coming in. secretary duncan, what is the single most important initiative, just one initiative, that the federal government can do to improve the education of our kids? >>...

Back to jack for the cafferty file. jack. >> there is a deafening silence emanating from the vatican. when pope john xvi met with uganda, he made no mention of this bill. a bill called kill the gays is making its way through the parliament. people around the world have rightfully protested it, expressing outrage. president obama has called it odious. secretary of state hillary clinton said she has called the president of uganda to express her concerns. they would not recognize homosexual relatio...

Line. in other words, amnesty with some inconvenience attached. for many americans thats a nonstarter. anything reassembling amnesty wont cut it. heres the question -- are worker i.d. cards a good idea? go to cnn.com/caffertyfile and post a comment on my blog. good to have you back. more allegations are surfacing about eric massa. there are new reports that massa has been under investigations for allegations. massa had acknowledged he was being investigated for possible harassment, but he ha...