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Federal machinery of putting out red tape this is a remarkable performance and it has a lot to do with i think growth picking up investment corporate investment picking up. >> maria: theyre loosening the purse strings but they need every vote this is through executive order. they need every vote in order to get a win on the board and now were facing this senate race in alabama and roy moore jessica, so we dont know where that vote is. >> no, we dont. the polling right now looks good for doug jon...

The atlantic magazine now. great to have you here. let me ask your top line reaction to the speech tonight. >> you hit it. its not a policy change. the big shift is where the president has been. he has been down on this war and now hes the president and has to confront a series of some really bad options in afghanistan. i think the biggest takeaway is that he is now taken ownership of this war. to a certain degree mattis insisted on that. this is not going to be something he delegated to the gen...

And he has another marine son either deploying or about to be deployed. >> that human connection for some of the key decision makers here is absolutely key. andrea mitchell, pleasure and honor to have you hear with us tonight. joining us now in studio is a veteran of the war in afghanistan. he was an adviser to stanley mcchrystal. its great to have you here. let me ask your top line reaction to the speech tonight. >> you hit it. its not a big policy change. the big shift is where the president...

Here is absolutely key. andrea mitchell, pleasure and honor to have you hear with us tonight. joining us now in studio is a veteran of the war in afghanistan. he was an adviser to stanley mcchrystal. its great to have you here. let me ask your top line reaction to the speech tonight. >> you hit it. its not a big policy change. the big shift is where the president has been. now he is the president and has to confront a series of really bad options in afghanistan. i think the biggest take away i...

>> all right. it will be interesting to see the justification for that. it is a big, big shift. rene marsh, thank you very, very much. in moments, a colorado mother will walk free from the church where she spent the last 86 days. she says she was avoiding deportation. immigration officials granted jeannette advise gadvise guerraa temporary stay. she was afraid of being separated from her children. she was undocumented. advise g viguerr weinke "times" most unusually people. his deputy is in t...

I told them to straighten it out or i will. white house officials are pushing back, saying healthy debate among policymakers is not only normal, it is good. >> he understands that we have some pretty smart talented individuals who are opinionated on a lot of subjects. but that are battles and policy differences need to be behind closed doors. >> reporter: bret, the white house says were over blowing it, infighting happens all the time. i should also point out tonight, were learning from an inter...

Trump that it is much more complicated than that. he basically admitted he was wrong. it is interesting, but at the same time, china does seem to be leaning on north korea that it never did under obama or george w. bush. it seems some kind of productive relationship came out of that mar-a-lago meeting, and he deserves some credit for it. >> and also abstained -- >> that was a big deal. >> the u.n. security council vote, the chemical weapons attack was bad and they abstained on that vote. >> didn...

Minutes, and convinced donald trump that it is much more complicated than that. he basically admitted he was wrong. it is interesting, but at the same time, china does seem to be leaning on north korea that it never did under obama or george w. bush. it seems some kind of productive relationship came out of that mar-a-lago meeting, and he deserves some credit for it. >> and also abstained -- >> that was a big deal. >> the u.n. security council vote, the chemical weapons attack was bad and they a...

Wednesday. this came up at a press briefing at the ministry of foreign affairs on friday, a day before the u.s. patrols actually began. china has suggested it does not like the idea of its encroachment on cybersecurity in the name of navigation in the seas. that would include ships. the trump administration has acknowledged the one china policy that beijing has with taiwan, which was a big shift by mr. trump after the calls he held with the taiwanese president. these are very strategic. they don...

Scalia. thats replacing a conservative with a conservative. the big shift will happen if trump gets another seat. say he gets the seat of justice ruth baiter ginsburg. or anthony kennedy. meanwhile on the lower court trump is going to come in with 103 vacanties on the district court and the pelt court level. thats an unusually high number. its in part because the obama administration fought so hard with senate republicans. thats where he might be able to make his mark with appointees. think abou...