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Speaking about himself, his career in the senate was probably over anyway. he was speaking to his colleagues and really imploring them not to hide behind bob corker or him but to speak out more and to think about what they want the republican party to be. and in that sense, i thought that speech was pretty extraordina extraordinary. >> i agree with you, eli, let me bring you into this, i have also heard that some of the luster has come off of general kelly. it was pointed out to me over the week...

>> biann, the congresswoman, congresswoman skbinls nwilson a number of other democrats are lining up saying, this is trumps benghazi. now, we dont foknow, but i wonr if you think the wifes outcry this morning adds to that? it was largely the families of cedar steve ambassador stevens and the four americans families who added to the uproar over benghazi. >> it definitely adds to it. the president is not only having to answer questions from a pentagon standpoint, but also a personal standpoint, vi...

Countries to include the united states to inspiration or direction, 39 times in the last two and a half years. and they are still a growing organization outside of syria and iraq, that is why you do not have people in the administration beating their chests, because i know that radical islam in general, jon, the private organization expanding around the globe. >> jon: many analysts have said if you can push them out of raqqa, or iraq, which was accomplished sometime ago. that they would sort of ...

Because for all the bluster about president trumps policies being too radical, too extreme, too right wing, president trump hasnt actually accomplished anything thats really out of the realm of possibility that you might have expected any other republican president to achieve with the possibility exception of the travel ban. a lot of his big policies, his big plans have been tied up in the courts, tied up in congress. he hasnt been able to get them through. president trump is able to push those ...

He made about general kellys son and perhaps made to the widow in florida tonight that we havent confirmed yet, there is this pattern, this difficulty the president has in expressing empathy and identifying emp pathically with people going through a difficult time. theres been no mention of mccains illness and this president going back over a month has expressed grievance on health care. and mccain stepping up really and speaking his mind unlike most of his colleagues in the senabout about this ...

This is something that is baked into him from the naval academy on. its in his blood from his family members, who have all been military heroes. he was trying to bring the party and perhaps even the president back to sort of a more stable and more reliable concept of patriotism, instead of the patriotism of fools, where you go around and bluster and think its a trade deal as opposed to something enduring. when he talks about the world we built, this postwar world where we kept the peace. a proli...

Families of the benghazi fallen americans, and i can tell you it was a very powerful scene to see the president and vice president trying to convey the condolences of the american people to those families and i hope that we can do the same for the families of those who have fallen in niger. i think thats really what we should be talking about. >> senator ed markey of massachusetts. thanks very much. >> youre welcome. >> coming up, one of kim jong-uns top diplomats warns that tensions with the u....

To war. why should the u.s. think that it can make these changes unilaterally and others eventually be on board? >> i think if you want it make those changes, this is the worst way it go about it. i think thats one of the biggest problems and the worst of all worlds. creating the situation of artificially generating this crisis by not certifying nuclear agreement. we alienated our european partners but at the same time we have shaken the confidence of the iranians in terms of the nuclear agreeme...

Congress. i dont think it should be. i think its dangerous for us to go down this path. we can deal with irans other behavior but to try to unwind this agreement is dangerous and i dont think its practical to expect this congress to take those steps without making the situation worse. >> you think were going to see the status quo when all of this is done? >> i think the status quo is one we have to remind ourselves, that iran is prohibited from pursuing a nuclear weapon. thats a status quo, a bi...

Doesnt get all the inside baseball. certainly talk radio and tv gets it, but its a lot of bluster. steve is talented, dont get me wrong, and the republican party will circle the wagons and pull our guns out and shoot each other, and bannon is going to have other people shooting. >> one more steve bannon cite. this is what he had to say about the fourth turning. >> this is the have had the rev the civil war, and we have had the great depression and world war ii, and this is the fourth. were going...