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From mattis staffers or mattis himself in your role as a senator on the committee that provides oversight that he was essentially working to contain the president, particularly in regards to nuclear issues? >> i had tremendous faith in jim mattis because one of the first things he did when he came secretary of defense was to go to the asia pacific area because he knows that area of responsibility is hugely important to our country and he wanted me to know that the first countries he visited were...

In our world lead president trump tweeted in juan that north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. that was not true then. its apparently even less true today. today north koreas state-run media announced they are not giving up their nuclear weapons until the united states gets rid of its own, vote, nuclear threat first. cnns will ripley joins me now. the simple go question is did president trump get played by kim jong-un? >> reporter: you can make. case that he got played by himself because pres...

We have reaction. alan dershowitz and mike lee of the senate judiciary committee but that is not all. breaking news night, it is official the republican house freedom caucus could veto a short-term spending bill, a move that would shut down the government on friday. it is about funding for the border wall. putting the pressure on the white house, softened its position on the presidents $5 billion demand. how will the president respond? the bases asking tough questions about what happens to the c...

Of this. this is astonishingly fake and empty discussion. we talk about the difference between 1.6 and 5 billion. neither of those things will either insure border security or deprive us of border security. it is a marginal fight for the bases of these two respective parties and making noise instead of doing your job and so if you are the one who shuts it down, you are going to be the one who is stuck with the bill at the end. >> bill: do you agree with meadows its a fumble. if not now, when. >>...

If you look at the situation around ukraine today you see the following. you see a sustained build up of russian forces along ukraines eastern frontier. for two years russia has been building bases and roads and deploying large amounts of tafrpgs, forces and just recently more tanks, more aircraft into that area, air troops into that area. from putins vantage point he sees a west in political disarray and paralysis. he sees germany in disarray. he sees the protest in france. he sees britain froz...

Vacuum for terrorism. how big is that concern? >> theres a big concern. theres thousands of isis fighters still in the area, theres a significant threat of them surging and reconstituting themselves. but you also have the vacuum with iran and russia. they have long sought to get the united states out of syria. theyve called for the u.s. to withdraw from its bases in syria. they see that has a bulwark against them. this is a victory for iran and russia absolutely and in addition having a surge in...

Attorneys who he is sliding out information to, when his investigation isnt looking at it, they hand it to the southern district. its highlighted things jared kushner was doing in baltimore. youll have a generation of states attorneys digging through every aspect of trumps background. this for a young democratic state attorney is going to be like going after the aca for a republican. im going to spend the next five years and run for governor saying i went after trumps businesses near much. thats...

Companies like netflix and spotify to have access to users messages will irritate a lot of people. a lot of things on facebook today i will delete facebook. theres problems here already for facebook. >> a study back in september said half the users 18 to 29 deleted the facebook app from their phones. that may not have to do with privacy concerns, it may i dont want to be on the same platform my grandma is to check out what im doing, but even if you go off facebook, then is my information protect...

Partner who has taken ftremendos losses and hits throughout this campaign? it fight this is narrative that we have been hearing since late summer that large part of the presence there is to push iran out of syria. iran is really dug in in syria. they have bases. they have a tremendous presence there. the third piece is the idea the u.s. presence there in the south, i was there several weeks ago and large part of the presence is to stop isis from moving across the all across syria into iraq. all ...

Last night, and over the weekend contradicting flynns team. basically they say you did it, you knew it, and it wasnt just a few slipups. a jam-packed hour here at the courthouse. nbcs ken dilanian also in washington. hallie jackson standing by our chief white house correspondent here in new york. legal analysis. we brought them both out for this hour, danny cevallos and our chief legal correspondent ari melber. in washington two former top justice department officials, former chief spokesman mat...