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Prosperity and stability throughout and beyond the middle east and place -- which places american lives at risk. president trump has severely criticized various agreements reached between iran and obama administration as well as united nations as being weak and infect ty. instead of being thankful to united states in these agreements, iran is now feeling emboldened. as of today we are officially putting iran on notice. thank you. >>. >> thanks, general. were going to have a background briefing w...

Within some of the administration that reporters -- it might have behooved them prior to the release of the executive order rather than essentially a day and a half after it came out sunday night when there was a background briefing here in the west wing or the white house for members to try to explain some of these question marks that come up over the past couple of day us. that said, what you saw from sean spicer is a real sense of frustration at what they believe is misreporting from -- about...

America here. >> eric: i am. >> dana: i disagree with that characterization but i think theres one thing they can do. doesnt necessarily have to do with the. offer a closed door, no phones allowed, background briefing for members of congress. consider a republican briefing where you signed up mr. bannon or mr. miller to the hill, no phones allowed, explain what youre doing so people arent caught flat-footed. the other thing thats going to happen is that, why give them any rope to hang you with? ...

Press conference hes had since july, and his first since winning the election. >> jon: so we should inspect suspect he will get a lot of questions about the russia situation, his ties to russia, his feelings about vladimir putin, that sort of thing? >> i would think so, i would think that because of all the reports the press is ginned up the i kind of line of questioning. i do think what john asked earlier, the background briefing he received about the separating with businesses, is going to be ...

Will have to be pushed off. andrea mitchell is there with the litatest. i understand youre getting new information about these negotiations. >> yes indeed. kristen, we just came from a background briefing senior u.s. official telling me the talks will go past that deadline, tomorrows deadline. they are not granting a long term extension. they say that is not going to happen. john kerry is up in his hotel suite here. hes unable to walk on his broken leg. hes now home alone. the other foreign mini...

Including some very basic details that i will not be in a position to discuss. for example, im not going to be in a position to talk with precision about where this operation occurred. and im not going to be able to talk in much detail at all on how this operation was carried out. that all said were not planning a background briefing here at the white house. im here at the presidents instruction to answer as many questions and as much detail as i can on the record and in public. and as the presi...

But they say it will be information that has already been reported in the media as well as information that came from other sources, not from the american government. white house officials continue to be alarmed at not only the background briefing in which israeli officials told reporters that the prime minister would talk about some sensitive information but also the fact that there have been leaks to the israeli media from israeli government officials about details from these negotiations with...

Saw a prisoner was lease was suggest bergdahl being released and the white house faced criticism for that. this is not just a prisoner release, theres a humanitarian release, theres also a change, a call for change in policy in a long standing 50 year battle, if you will, or at least a freezeout there will be backlash. >> its fascinating. were hearing from members of congress, some cuban americans. were hearing from people within the state department who said they felt shut out of these negotiat...

That the military didnt do any abusive things. >> thats separate. >> thats wrong, by the way,. the military did things. also, why arent any of the politicians if youre going go for a full accountability, why not go for the president? he was getting this intelligence every day. what about condi? theres some political scores being settled here between the committee feinsteins committee and the agency. >> one of our colleagues is getting a good glimpse of the report just released. and breaking down...

Participate in the investigation before anybody can move anything. now, of course, there are already some indications based on what the ukrainians have said that stuff has been moved away from that crash site, that a possible surface-to-air missile launcher has been moved away. this is all coming from the ukrainians, unconfirm by u.s. intelligence. but those are the real concerns there that anybody i will ever get to the bottom of it at this point. and i think whats really interesting is that wh...