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For should the syrians act in a way that we hope they wont. if the syrians would incentivized backing down would physicality their attacks on their own people, then would the united states physicality and this could expand? >> yes, certainly the case, and all of that has been war gamed out. but theres another actor here that may in fact, curb the syrian behavior, thats the russians. the russians do not want the united states involved in syria where were trying to gain a political outcome thats f...

Donald trump has authorized his political strategist, the aforementioned former editor of breitbart, steve bannon, to join white house national security council meetings as a permanent regular member of the nsc. >> ever since president trumps tweet last month that president obama wiretapped him, his administration has been left grasping at straws to explain his unsubstantiated claim. but now bannon has been removed from his position on the nsc, which has exposed a rift between the west wing demo...

Trumps trying to grow that. were seeing sort of widespread confusion stories that are being attacked, journalists by name, singled out, and its really widespread. its actually in some ways amusing is the wrong word but certain people in trumps orbit that six months ago were tell me all this skeptical stuff and of warriors against the media, its all kind of amusing, but theyre taking their cues from donald trump, and theres no one in his or bit below that inner circle level who is willing to push...

Rulings, the way he issues that restraining order, he says its against the defendants and all of their respective officers, agents, attorneys and persons acts in concert or participation with them. and jeremy, you can just see that hes trying to nail down every possible escape hatch that the administration might try to find in in ruling. >> its the entire order, its definitely comp hence si. for the moment, the department is backing down, the department of justice says theyre already going to ap...

Basis, which is normally implicit in federal judges rulings, the way he issues that restraining order, he says its against the defendants and all of their respective officers, agents, attorneys and persons acts in concert or participation with them. and jeremy, you can just see that hes trying to nail down every possible escape hatch that the administration might try to find in in ruling. >> its the entire order, its definitely comp hence si. for the moment, the department is backing down, the d...

Hackers from russian intelligence were very disciplined. they didnt want to be noticed. but since that invasion, he says the russians have been much more blata blatant. theyve hacked the white house, the joint chief of staff e-mail systems. they dont care if the americans know theyre there, and in some cases instead of backing down, they have fought in cyberspace against the american defenders of our computer systems. they are very aggressive right now. >> brian todd, thank you. coming up, don...

. were back, this is cnn. softing, backing down, flip-flopping. call it what you will but the words candidate trump are different than president-elect trump. here are a couple can examples. first on torture. >> torture works, okay, folks? you know, i have these guys, torture doesnt work. believe me, it works, stock? waterboarding is the minor form. some people say its not actually torture. lets assume it is. they asked me the question what do you think of waterboarding? absolutely fine but we ...

This is about making america great again. >> a new cnn poll today giving trump a commanding lead in the first primary state of new hampshire. trump has 32% of the vote. his closest rival marco rubio, 18 percentage points behind. dana bash is "out front." trump not backing down tonight, not close to it. >> not at all. he is not a man who regrets things, especially this. despite universal condemnation, not just from his republican rivals, but also from party leaders, trumps sources think those sta...

Viewers in the u.s. and around the world. "newsroom l.a." starts right now. >> u.s. presidential candidate donald trump is not giving any ground on his proposal to ban muslims from entering the united states. hids suggestion has been met with nearly universal condemnation. but as dana bash reports, the republican front-runner just keeps piling on. >> this isnt about being political correct. >> you could have many more world trade certains if you dont solve it. >> never mind backing down, donald ...

The attacks. he could not recall talking to anyone in or around jersey city. here is what trump said, imitating her disability. >> written by a nice reporter. now the poor guy -- youve got to see this. guy. i dont know what i said. i dont remember. maybe thats what i said. this is 14 years ago. they didnt do a retraction. >> "the new york times" was obviously flabbergasted by this. a spokesperson telling cnn, we find it outrageous he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters and not ...