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Joining us now is the former undersecretary of state in the obama administration. and former cia chief of staff and a former director of the obama white house situation room. hes currently director of the haden center. and these are challenging nights for programs like this because we really are tonight the first draft of history, and this was a historic day. with your experience, i simply want to give you an open opportunity to react to what you saw today. >> well, i think i felt, as most have ...

The assassination of journalists, might bring up certainly the hacking of the dnc e-mails. yet, it doesnt seem like this president, who is supposed to be the great negotiator and whose white house said, the reason kim jong-un came to the table and was willing to work was that the president was so tough on him with rhetoric and calling him little rocket man, we have heard none of that directed toward vladimir putin even after robert muellers indictment of 12 russian agents. >> right. i cant say t...

About the elephants in the room. presidentes trumps theory is stampede them and we can make change. and that whats hes doing. hes moving in a way in which other people said well get to that one. five years from now, 0 years from now, like the embassy in israel. the reality is hes doing them now webs doing them simultaneously. the world hasnt been ready for someone who wants to solve big problems and do them all sooner. steve: congressman desantis, thatst a positive take of this. but that is very...

But president trump has the ability and willingness to keep things going in multiple areas and particularly in foreign-policy a lot of times what happens is people say dont say anything about the elephant in the room but president trumps theory and it is a good one, stamp them and we can make change. that is what he is doing. he is moving in a way it was other people said we get to that five years from now, ten years from now, like bmc in israel. the reality is hes doing them now and doing them ...

Today. >> what do you think putin was probing for when he had his two hours with trump all alone? >> you know, chris, that is the $64 million question. when wed already seen trump go into a meeting one on one with the north korean leader and then come out and say everybody can rest easy, north korea is no longer a nuclear power, theyre going to agree to denuclearize. and weve seen in the aftermath no progress. weve clearly seen our intelligence community still say north koreas a threat. why was ...

And so there were competing forces coming into play. >> how delighted i am we have now reached this moment when we can firmly announce the starting of a fox news channel. >> unfortunately, with cable news and the ability -- or the need to be on the air 24/7, where you try to get as many eyeballs as possible at one time, to gravitate toward those stories that are sensational, it brought us the ability to go too far. >> is the jonbenet ramsey murder investigation turning into a media circus? >> ye...

Likely to be concerned liberal commentators are trying to stop the nomination or scuff him up before he gets on the court. david: democrat senator after democrat senator before he was nominated said we are against him, we are voting no. when mitch mcconnell moves this ball forward and says in august and september we are going to be having hearings and well be voting on this, the democrats dont have much say tonight. they already said they are going to vote no no matter what the circumstances. mi...

Balm. column knit within kim dozier cnn global affairs analyst. ann, welcome. good to see you kim. the official response from the whus and the president doesnt even mention russia let alone condemn russias actions. and do you think thats strategic in some which because of the upcoming summit? >> look, trump has been denying that russia had any responsibility or any role in the election from the beginning. he denied it during the campaign even as he was asking russia for help openly. we saw him d...

Herring and we continue again through our hiring, through our cyber practices to do everything in our power to prevent it from happening again. but here is the deal. and one of your commentators said this before. when you can do it with immunity and russia did, you will try to do it again. we filed a civil suit because it was clear to mina we needed to do something to deter future misconduct. this president is not deterring future high schomisconduct.some misconduct. this president is not deterr...

Institute has a blue ribbon commission where we are working to protect pennsylvania elections. with regard to your question about what putin knows or doesnt know, i agree with the other commentators that its fair to infer that other shoes will drop. i agree with the deputy attorney general who is a good and cautious lawyer who seemed to be saying lets not conclude from what happened today that there was no collusion. lets not conclude there was collusion. he was arguing that we should all create...