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Greed? >> many people would say it was certainly greed that got them there. roger says hes proud of it because he made a lot of money. but one of the other things is that they were anti-communist. anything anti-communist at the time in the reagan administration and the congress got the rubber stamp and they were more than happy to overlook any genocide or other accusations because there was a great pay check in it. >> i want to put a pin on this anti-communist thing because there was an interest...

More importantly i dont want -- and i dont want to minimucep w can talk about joe biden and elizabeth warren we can have a peoples march and talk about bernie sanders but this is barack obamas party mp the coalition he had has been the core of the exactic party a long time. the core is african-american women. that is how we win. we lost this election in 2016 -- 2016 because african-american voters, the turn out of african-american voters compared to 2008 and 2012 went down in sever swing state i...

Out on a the other side ran against nancy pelosi they didnt run against president obama. nina? >> and that doesnt mean -- i dont think there is a disagreement among the three of us. i dont personally believe that leader pelosi should be thrown under the wugs. what i am saying about the nba and algae is that frerk doesnt always mean young it means at a certain point a certain time people have to make a different play. and that is what we are facing. that is what the democratic party is facing. an...

Weakness is this in james comey testimony, the fact he didnt stand up to the president when he saw something that he thought was inappropriate? >> i dont think its a weakness at all, think about the scenario he was in, when the room was where the president was, so he could bear down on comey, and asking him to top the investigation. jim comey is for shrinking violet, and has a back bone and was fbi director when i was working with the agency. he is not afraid to take the stand. this is a man who...

Complaining about comeys words at the time. >> yeah. and the president-elect also as a candidate applauding james comey at the time as well. and also as president as well saying he has taken some heat got a strong back bone pamela here is the really important question. comey was overseeing the russia trump investigation, fired by the people he is investigating now. so who is in charge what does it mean for the investigation. >> that is part of what makes this so extraordinary, don. as of ton the...

Or. we need to really be listening and hearing and working with african-american women who have been the back bone of the democratic party. this is not an either/or situation. this is and. we have to do both better. >> all right. thanks to both of you for joining us. thank you. some news today from capitol hill. the republican congresswoman, she represents a district from florida. she caught washington by surprise announcing she will be retiring at the end of her term. she is from a heavily de...

Qualified, were going do succeed in getting it done. >> let me turn your attention to tax reform real quick. theres a report out there that says the president had basically gone back to the drawing board as it relates to taxes. is that accurate or does he still -- what he put out there on the campaign trail, is that still the back bone of what he wants to get done? >> thats the back bone. i think what youre seeing is us going through the process. his economic team. everyone from secretary mnuchi...

They have an older, reliable russian air-to-ground bomber. its the back bone of the syrian air-to-ground effort. theyve got a lot of them and they fly them every day. and this base here is a very great location because they can get from this base up into that idlib province. after the fall of aleppo, almost all of the bombing shifted. it doesnt surprise me at all this was the base used to launch this attack the other day. so youve got two squadrons there and also your administrative area, your r...

Talking big about his infrastructure plan. >> -- the back bone of america, with the talent in this room, we can build any city at anytime, and we can build it better than anyone. but were going to do even better than that, together, we are going to rebuild our nation. >> now, were not anywhere close to an an infrastructure plan. well come back to that in a minute. 76 days in, i applaud him trying to stay optimistic, i think you have to do that but this administration at the moment has zero big l...

Detectors placed throughout the city, active shooter training for officers and intelligence analysis which is key to preventing another terrorist attack. >> under the presidents proposal nearly all federal funding to the nypd would be irradiated. this is critical and back bone of our entire counterterrorism apparatus. >> new york city is directly in the cross hairs of this budget proposal. the people of our city, their lives would be hurt by it. >> security experts say new york city is the natio...