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September 24, 2017
Tougher. >> even president trump is acknowledging the latest republican effort to dismantle obama care is very likely dead >> were going back. were a boxer, you get knocked down, get up, knocked down, get up. >> in alabama on friday night, the president lashed out at senator john mccain, hours after mccain announced his opposition to the bill, backed by republican senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy. >> john mccains list. his last campaign was z all about repeal and replace. repeal and repl...
September 17, 2017
U.n. unexpectedly relevant. we thought that trump would trash the organization, but his single biggest foreign policy priority containing north korea is being handled right here in the security council. >> reporter: trump will also call for more he reform of the u.n., unclear if he again decommadhands changing of the marble. richard roth, cnn. a russian attack injured members of the u.s. backed syrian forces. the strike hit the rebel group near the former isis stronghold. both russian troops a...
September 12, 2017
The flip side going in, why was this such a surprise that it would be like this? >> thats a good question. i dont think i was naive when i took job. i knew that sputnik was russian government backed. i went in to interview for the job of they asked me questions. i asked questions. and they made certain he assurances. they told me that i would have the editor i cant independence and the ability to work in the same manner that i would work at any other journalism organization. and those promises t...
September 7, 2017
Maybe when people were reading their facebook page, they knew this was russian-backed. what do you think? >> the revelations out of facebook is straight out of russias playbook. this is exactly what they do. that what theyre trying to do is divide us from each other and create these wedges. >> it worked. >> its had some effect. second, its hard not to feel total sympathy for secretary clinton in wishing and feeling more could have been done at the time. i think there were good reasons for the ap...
August 21, 2017
Heading into afghanistan now. this is something that is so, so deeply personal with the chief of staff, that you can understand why steve bannon is no longer in the white house for one thing. >> general kelly and every family of every soldier whos died in afghanistan wants to believe that the sacrifice was for something, that it was leading to something good, it wasnt leading to just walking away. so i understand that. i think the one important difference that well see tonight is that where pres...
August 11, 2017
That is a rational strategy that he has. his bellicose anguish and verbosity.st and saying that he is going to destroy the american people, thats kind of language is unacceptable. stillness question, general. we appreciate your insight. on a scale of 1-10, howe dangerous is the situation for the united states and the world tonight? >> well, it is a dangerous situation. let me just say it in my own words, i do not believe we are going to war with north korea. i think that this president will keep...
August 9, 2017
Dealings about, all the money he was making, how he was making that money. where do you see, do you see potential connections between that element of it, the business dealings of paul manafort, before he was trumps campaign chairman, and those questions that i think a lot of people are wonder berg when it colonels to the trump campaign collusion russian involvement? could they be two very separate things and manafort happened to arouse suspicion at the wrong time? >> they could be separate but r...
July 19, 2017
Support. there have been people in the trump white house arguing to the president and others that look, we shouldnt have started with health care because this is not a place where the base or core of trump supporters liked what he was saying on the campaign trail. im not going to touch medicaid, give everybody better health care thats going to cost less and were not going to hurt the health care you currently have. clearly, theres some policy differences deep policy differences between what the ...
July 15, 2017
Funding. how much did you raise for sprout? >> ultimately $100 million. >> thats amazing. >> no venture capitalists. i want to know why. what was behind that? >> ive been in different operating roles in venture-backed companies. i felt the lack of appreciation of the fabric of building the company really was missing. when i was going to do it, i was going to do it on my own terms and i wanted people in there who believed what i was trying to do, more than just the bottom line alone. >> youve bee...
July 10, 2017
Air strikes over western mosul and the sounds of outgoing gunfire and ar till larry. i was back there a couple of hours ago again today, same thing. i heard three air strikes in a two-hour period. again, more vol list of gunfire. so theres still pockets of isis resistance, but it is true that the majority of this important city is now back under iraq control. >> the reason mosul was able to fall to isis in the fist place is that the iraq government was weak and the u.s. backed iraq forces were a...