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In venezuela, a key benefactor. let me make a statement on the threat from illegal drugs. the threat to the united states from foreign-produced drugs, especially heroin, meth and cocaine and opioids have grown in the past few years contributing to previously unseen levels of u.s. drug-related mortality, which now exceeds all other u.s. causes of injurious death. finally, i would like to make a few points that are important to the i.c. going forward. as you are all very aware, section 702 of the ...

In venezuela, a key benefactor. let me just make a statement on the threat from illegal drugs. the threat to the united states from foreign-produced drugs, especially heroin, synthetic opioids, meth and cocaine, have grown significantly in the past few years. this is contributing to previously unseen levels of u.s. drug-related mortality, which now exceeds all other u.s. causes of injurious death. finally, id like to make a few importance here that are important to the ic going forward. as you a...

Attack. jake? >> ben wedeman, thank you so much. another major world crisis, north korea, another provocative missile launch coming just before a big meeting with president trump and the leader of china. cnns will winly joins me now. the big question, i guess, is was north korea trying to send a message ahead of this big meeting between president trump and chinese president xi. >> reporter: well, theres no public statement of saying that from north korea, and chinese officials here in beijing ...

Charge of the white house? >> right now, it is the president. it starts at the top. this is a president who will never get cross with russia. so because russia is the great benefactor to bashar al assad, that is why the president is not condemning them. he is trying to blame president obama. again, he is the president now. the world is waiting for him to lead. >> secretary tillerson said something interesting about north korea. another obviously hot spot on international relations. he put out th...

U.s. politics and business and trying to influence what goes on here in the united states. they will take a hard look at what was going on in the last days of the obama administration with the various transcripts and various intelligence reports that included trump transition personnel and where they went and who had them and who authorized them about the unmasking. the intelligence committee both of them, will have a tremendous amount of work to do over the next 6 to 12 months. >> do you believ...

Thats always been the break point in these issues, and if theyre getting to that point, the united states is saying were done with diplomacy. paul: well, and do you think, mary, that this was as much aimed -- tillersons comments -- as much aimed at china as they were at north korea? because china, for all of its talk that north korea must denuclearize, theyve done nothing to stop them. >> yeah. china is north koreas main benefactor, and north korea, as dan said, is increasingly a threat not just...

Here, secretary of state rex tillerson has made it one of his priorities to put pressure on north korea as north korea only ally and benefactor, hes been putting pressure on the chinese after his meeting with foreign minister wong -- wang in berlin a couple of weeks ago. you saw the chinese cut off all full imports from north korea. theres a lot more chinese can do, its not enough the u.s. that i think that the pressure will slowly begin to grow on china to do more to bring north korea to the ta...

Note to putin, that they should hold off until the new team comes to town and makes things square for us. did anybody tell putin that his kindness would be rewarded by january 20? on that point, where was the russian benefactor putin? did he say something, send some note of gratitude that he might someday soon be called to explain? its all interesting. the dots are there. we need someone to see if theyre connected, dont you think? anyway, happy valentines day. and thats "hardball" for w. thanks ...

Fired because it draws all the attention away from that big story the guy doing the hanging hopes you dont ask too much about. is it about mike flynn, or is it the half-told story about the russians, what vladimir putin was up to, during the 2016 elections? and what was his beneficiary, meaning our president. did they ever send a thank you note to putin, that they should hold off until the new team comes to town and makes things square for us. did anybody tell putin that his kindness would be re...

People get fired. it grabs the attention away from that big, bad story -- the guy doing the hanging would prefer you not ask too many questions about it. is the big story here about mike flynn, or is it about the half-told mystery of what the russians, vladimir putin, that is, were up to in the 2016 presidential elections? and closer to home, what was his electoral beneficiary up to? by that i mean our new president. did donald trumps team ever send a thank you note to moscow? did they ever whis...