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Vetting, whatever that means. >> so they call it extreme vetting. two things here, andrea. the first is the executive order the president signed and the revised one that came out in march that said a hold for 90 days on visa applicants and 120 days on refugees from the six designated countries. but beyond that, for all other countries that require a visa to come to the united states, the department has been doing what they call extreme vetting. which is to look much more closely at things like p...

Promise is to deliver dirt. >> reporter: to be clear, he was never charged and he t and the lobbyist deny any wrongdoing. tom foreman is "out front." >> reporter: this is in the video, in the backgrounds, thats the eighth person at that meeting last year between team trump and the russians. his lawyer effectively says, so what! >> before that day, he had not met any of the other people in that room. prior to one hour before the meeting, he had no idea what the meeting was going to be about. >> r...

Written notes? >> we heard chris christie a moment ago, hes a fierce defender of donald trump, hes also somebody who knows the law. for him to say potentially there could be legal consequences here, if something was exchanged. that seems like a pretty big deal to me. >> chris christies been a bit off the hook recently and not afraid to make his feelings known. obviously the beach photos of him havent helped. we have not independently verified what rosalind reported with the russians moving money...

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Of the intel committee. theyre doing the work -- mueller is doing his work. democrats should get back to the front lines of health care and defending americans of all types, economic backgrounds, social backgrounds. that to me is the most important thing. and if i may, let me make a quick point. i think that donald trump probably waived the clearance requirements for jared kushner. having been through as i think elise has, an fs-86, which listeners dont really need to understand other than its a...

Security clearance, if he omitted key information, should be disqualifying. as well as mr. schiff responding that the house intelligence committees investigation is moving frustratingly slow. schiff responding to that and calls for the former trump adviser to testify soon before his committee. >> congressman, what was your reaction to seeing these reports of this russian-american lobbyist being in the meet are at trump tower with donald trump jr. >>? yes. another disturbing set of facts. its all...

Court practices and we represent all people from all groups of life and backgrounds. >> martha: do you hate people who are lgbt? >> no, not at all. its insulting to even hear something like that. which was in that headline. in fact, the people we represent, especially with respect to the wedding industry, these clients all have a common denominator. they serve and love everyone who walks through their doors. they cant participate in all religious events that violate their faith but i would hope ...

As long as we have pride in who we are, where weve come from, how we got here and what we have achieved. as free and democratic nations, there is nothing we cannot accomplish together. you did get a sense that these men felt like there was a lot they could agree on even though they disagree on something like the paris climate agreement. >> absolutely. their personalities are quite similar, when you look at their political backgrounds, these are both people who were elected as political outsiders...

Agreeing upon, because we want to take an initiative with the members of the security council and the members of countries involved in the process. of course, there will be representatives of assad that will enable us to put in place a road map for after the war, but there will also be representatives of these here in position and people with different backgrounds, and we will talk to all of them against that background. one last question. for an american journalist. >> thank you. tv of -- [ spe...

If you can develop more of a rapport, more of a working relationship, more of sort of an open channel going forward, i think that might be where you have progress as opposed to like coming out and heres the proclamation we both agreed to sign, or hey, you know what, guys, i rethought it, im going back to into the paris accord, i dont think were looking at anything like that coming out of it. the potential here is that you might see a relationship, donald trump building a relationship with a euro...