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Yet. so we will be going to her in just a moment. we also, though, have congressman adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee standing by. well talk to him in just a moment as well. and in order to do that, i want to show you some impassioned comments from senator john mccain, which he spoke on the senate floor in late july. watch. >> my friends, the united states of america needs to send a strong message to vladimir putin and any other aggressor that we will not tolera...

Senate floor in late july. watch. >> my friends, the united states of america needs to send a strong message to vladimir putin and any other aggressor that we will not tolerate attacks on our democracy. thats what this bill is all about. >> john mccain speaking in the senate in late july. it is rare for a bill of much significance to get anything approaching blanket support in congress. but this summer, a bill to punish russia for attacking our election got approved in the senate 98-2. in the ho...

Getting to mars by 2018 or in the next eight years under that scenario. >> i dont think that has anything to do with trump or anything else. the mars thing wasnt going to happen in either direction. but adam, in our hands now -- and i stole that off of poppys -- >> im glad youre trying to make sense of that. >> theres a 12-page document that the white house just put out trying to frame the first 100 days. of course, president trump has called the idea of trying to grade an administrations first ...

Government shutdown by missing the deadline for the stop-gap funding bill. you indicated no one had a stomach for drama. is that still the case on the hill? >> reporter: at this point, craig. whats going on this morning is senator joe manchin of west virginia has been calling his colleagues. hes trying to get the democratic senators to hang together and oppose the funding resolution because it only includes about four months of funding for pensions, for coal miners. thats important in the state ...

Message on that cell phone is, we are off, we are starting. who did they write that message to? we dont know. but thats another clue of interest here. and finally, they talked about how they got to the raid this morning. someone tipped them off. someone called local authorities here and said, as keir was just reporting, that the alleged linchpin, mastermind, behind the attack was here in the outskirts of paris. on that tip, they ended up at that apartment building in saint denn denn -- san denny...

Had any cards to play there. the other thing about north korea is that they dont really need us. the only people they actually need actively are the chinese. and theyve had a sort of blanket support from beijing for years and theyve been able to play off of that. syria is a slightly different situation. we were in charge and had an opportunity to run that to the extent that such things can be run and we gave it up. what the administration is trying to do now, after all the debacle over red lines...

>> all right. time for "the mix." >> having a good time. national strawberry shortcake day. i am giddy over this. >> you are giddy. delicious. fathers day. dont get the tie. couple wacky idea. actually 30 in the huffington post. we selected three. this first one is blanket support. check that out. >> dads get hot feet. >> apparently the device raises the blanket enough to make your feet happy. keep the blanket on your shoulders. if your feet get hot. cant get comfortable. raises it on the feet. ...

Loan. he is worried that his children wont have a good future. thats why hes out. now, the protests and the twitter and all the social networking stuff helps. it helps inspire people, coordinate, but thats not why they are out. they are out because of mismanagement and a system that is really gotten so far away from its people. and many egyptians believe the reason that mubarak and other regimes in the arab world are going to go on that route have been able to become so separate from their peopl...

Relationship with president karzai. how do you define good? certainly president karzai liked it, and many people, even in the afghan government, saw general mcchrystal as defending president karzai and president karzai often went on almost hysterical rampages cristicizing the united states, threatening to join the taliban. so they had a close relationship, but was it necessarily productive and good? now you have general petraeus coming in and he is a heavier -- a bigger hitter. hes known to have...

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