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And now here is the cia director mike pompeo on "face the nation". >> the notion that president trump is a threat to american national security is ludicrous. the idea thats contained in the "new york times" story that president trump was a threat to american national security is silly on its face and not worthy of a response. >> im sorry. former cia director and current secretary of state mike pompeo. what would you make of it if a client or defendant or their representatives were doing these th...

Media is in the business of story telling, which you can debate whether or not thats what it should be. its story driven coverage. but something like a shutdown is going to produce all over the country, in every local news market in america, these stories of people who are personally suffering because of this shutdown. its inevitable. the white house cannot avoid it. even fox news is going to be hard pressed to avoid it at a certain point. and it is empirically true there is not a crisis at the ...

Come up with a strategy that diverts political blame from tru donald trumps lap. they came up with this idea for a national speech. mick mulvaney and others were pushing him to do it. but its pointless when the president every day is tweeting out a stream of conscious with why he needs his wall. everyone knows what donald trumps position is. >> thats the thing, carole simpson. >> joy, i -- >> go on. im sorry. >> i just wanted to respond what george said about the cables should take care of the n...

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House. even if they impeach donald trump they couldnt remove him. what does the constitution say, if anything, about what can be done if an american people is found to be in the sway of a foreign power? >> well, youre going back to -- and you have already said it, the crux of the problem which is first of all legal scholars debate what the constitution even means on this front. i have my own particular views. but i think what is centrally important to our democracy is democracy. that means it is...

He was nominated and became the republican nominee. his campaign had already had seven contacts with russians at that point. they never, despite the fact that the fbi asked them to, never continued to report contact with russians. >> it is bizarre. evelyn, i will come to you on this. to build on what we just heard from frank and maya, the fbi was alerted to donald trumps weird behavior even during the campaign. one piece of the "new york times" story. investigators watched with alarm as the repu...

Donald trump even the morning that he gave that primetime address was calling, you know, the news media fake news but of course needed the networks. >> of course. >> to give him that time. you talk a little about the background of him doing it. we know its been a fund-raising bonanza. they immediately began fund raising. i tweeted out the text. lawrence odonnell talked about the letters they sent out to fund raise off of it. it was a fund-raising success. how did the negotiations work with the n...

Night. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think its the most insulting thing i have ever been asked. i think it is the most insulting article i have ever had written. you look at whats going on, i fired james comey. i call him lying james comey. he was a terrible liar. he did a terrible job as the fbi director. i have been tougher on russia than anybody else. probably any other president, period. including the fact that we are doing oil like we have never done...

Actually do something about steve king. now, they could have said something earlier. right now they have another problem, which is all right, youve said these terrible things, what are you prepared to do about it? are you prepared to kick him out of the caucus? are you prepared to take away his seats on committees? are you prepared to censure him? so theyre caught between what they know is an unacceptable position and they refuse to throw the bums out. they have to make a fundamental choice. wit...

>> and the house of representatives has voted multiple bills to reopen the government. theres nothing more the house can do in terms of that. what do your republican colleagues say to you behind the scenes, if anything? how do they justify hurting this many people over a thing that cannot and will not be done? there isnt going to be a wall across the southern border. ike most americans have figured that out. maybe even trump supporters have. how do they just pify it? >> most of them are embarras...