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Time. they are taking the money paid out by the federal government and rebalancing it and taking enormous sums of money out of states like california, new york, massachusetts and maryland. you might notice they are blue states in order to spend them and say its like arizona and nevada and south carolina and west virginia and alaska. states that have senators they need and that is going on in background conversations and its really the votes for this. >> 45 senators would vote and the question is...

Fallback candidate. conservatives are pushing back hard. talked favorably raising carbon taxes in in favor legalizing undocumented and dont want him chief of staff. what does the president do? let this keep twisting in the wind? >> its possible, weve seen it before. this could sort of be another moment where we all think this is going to happen and it doesnt. it does feel like this is a little different, but the problem is, as you pointed out, the language isnt really the problem. i mean, senato...

Now you have your state department, your national security team sort of playing catchup which is never a good thing. two, from what we understand, theyre going to be background conversations to sort of dial this back as quickly as possible because the president cannot afford to be yet again associated with a dictator and bad guy who has not worked in the best interests of the united states but more importantly worked in the best interests of his own people. >> what is this affinity for strong me...

Called jared kushner a cuck and globalist. the reason they cant work together is youre a democrat. this language of cuck and globalist, can you explain to those that might not be familiar with the lippingo. >> code words, those familiar with the alt-right and read platforms like breitbart regularly, they know exactly what that means. essentially, they are not with us, not one of us, dont put america first, different agenda alt-right. they are the enemy. those code words, very deliberately. moreo...

>> the white house in background conversations with me today, is certainly threatening that. i have not seen a coherent plan or some kind of action blueprint about how theyre going to go after different people but theyre talking about it. >> kasie, another senate intelligence committee hearing, what did we learn this morning? >> craig, this is the sort of back half of what we started to see this morning where they have experts testifying as the senate investigation rolls under way. before we tal...

I played that clip from david jolly. who? the only republican i could find whos really saying donald trump, youre out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale. clearly, in basic, factual terms it is beyond the pale, but republicans cant say that. >> if they say it, theyll push him too far, then he can galvanize his anti-establishment base. >> are the republicans really thinking about it this way? >> yes, they have to thread the needle here. and when i have these background conve...

Beyond the pale. clearly, in basic, factual terms it is beyond the pale, but republicans cant say that. >> if they say it, theyll push him too far, then he can galvanize his anti-establishment base. >> are the republicans really thinking about it this way? >> yes, they have to thread the needle here. and when i have these background conversations with sources in the rnc, they say were in a delegate situation, we have to be careful what we say. if we push back on him too hard, the base will say w...

Hes going there to say this is a bad deal for israel. thats what hes going to lay out tomorrow. he feels that congress has mop been informed of the deal. he wants more discussion and hes going to urge congress to push back the march 24th deadline. >> youve been talk to israeli officials. you flew back to washington from israel on the prime ministers plane. do they acknowledge that behind the scene, background conversations with you that they totally mishandled this invitation from the speaker of...

The end of his term at the end of january next year. i think thats been the anticipation out there. the president really kind of confirmed that. he tried to walk back the idea that he was insulting and disrespecting bernanke, but they didnt in the background conversations walk back that bernanke is leaving. i dont know the market is incredibly spooked by that in that there seemed to be a number of people that could be considered that would probably continue the policies of the current chairman. ...

>> a field where there is no favorite, i have been saying to you all week, john, and you followed, im lonely as a reporter on the story because its so hard to get information. what are the hard facts that make angelo scola someone who must be considered at the top or near the top of the list who could be pope? >> i think the first is those of us with background conversations of cardinals over last two weeks constantly hear his name. further i think theres universal agreement among people who sor...