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Throughout history have always failed. that last clip you showed right before i came on about hes white and hes a nationalist. so was alexander hamilton. so was abraham lincoln. so was teddy roosevelt. ive encountered this in the early reaction to my book that there are people on the left as you know if theyre not accusing somebody else of bigotry they would be rendered practically mute. >> laura: rich, people in your own magazine, "national review" have written about nationalism in a very negat...

Turkeys autocrat is causing chaos and slaughter. and its given an anticipated victory to four american adversaries, russia, iran, syrian government and islamic state. who could have seen this coming? basically anyone who was paying attention, except, apparently, president trump. and so, faced with the realtime consequences of his actions, hes defaulting to its comfort zone. a parent of disinformation. trumps initial tweet storm may have gotten the faithful, but not brent mcguirk. mr. president, ...

Immigration. they want to talk about gun control. are those issues going to get lost in all that impeachment talks? >> in my town hall meeting, i made sure, and every democrat across this country, we want the american people to know we, the democrats in the house, have passed legislation for immigration for the dream act. we have passed legislation for reauthorizing violence against women. we have passed gun control laws for background checks, and theyre sitting in mitch mcconnells graveyard. li...

>> that sentence that you pointed out, alisyn, legal adviser is a term, and the legal advisor is a high ranking person within the state department and thats a job that is always filled and so the fact that the acting legal adviser who is a high-ranking official initiated this process, you know, suggests that it is of some moment, but again, what it is, i -- i dont want to speculate. >> thats helpful context, thank you, jeffrey. >> can i also say it is the fact of his mission to congress that int...

Department loses here. i think even a blanket statement of we got em, were going to look at it, cooperate, would be helpful. >> elena, at the center of this is rudy giuliani. you spoke to him yesterday. is it clear to you what his strategy is assuming he has one? >> well, this is why rudy giuliani and trump make such a great pair. complementary pair in many ways. i can discern no media strategy whatsoever. a as the "washington post" reported earlier this evening, rudy giuliani was to speak at a ...

Everything down. either way, i think the state department loses here. i think even just a blanket statement of, hey, we got them. were going to look at it. were going to cooperate with be very helpful. >> the center of much of this i rudy giuliani. you spoke to him yesterday. is it clear to you what his strategy is assuming he has one? >> well, anderson, this is why rudy giuliani and trump make such a great pair, complementary pair in many ways. i can discern no media strategy whatsoever. as "th...

Activists on the ground, thousands of people that are descending on des moines, but this is no ordinary political season here in iowa. and all of these candidates are going to be talking from the stage, and i think that well be paying attention through the afternoon to see whether the message you just heard from joe biden is a similar message that theyre delivering to the thousands of folks here in iowa. >> yeah, listen, vaughn it was extraordinary, the president -- i mean, the vice president, r...

Deceit? survey says 83% says a benign misstatement of facts with more than 8,000 votes tallied. i think thats the right answer. there was no puffer ri on his part to make himself look better. quickly from social media what do we have? >> smerconish you criticize trump for every misstatement but then have a so-called expert on the make excuses for biden. youre an ass. theres a difference between willful deceit in certain instances, im not saying a blanket statement. and this particular case. he w...

Policy. >> right. and also trying to change the narrative of the intention of the crossing of the border involving so many children by this blanket statement of, you know, child smuggling. all right. jim acosta, thank you so much. >> thats right. all right. with me now is vali nassar, a professor at the school for advanced international studies at johns hopkins university, also an expert on iran and the middle east. good to see you. i want to talk to you mostly about this surprise visit of ira...

Are affecting all of these major world leaders. stephen miller even acknowledged to us that these migration issues did not really come up here at the summit but yet he was anxious to talk about this very controversial policy that the trump administration is pursuing down on the border. fredricka? >> and with that intentional use of the words, child smuggling, as in a blanket statement of all children being brought across the border. very fascinating. jim acosta, thank you so much. >> thats right...