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But told had other commitments. flew to air force base to meet the president, prime minister and mrs. abe to fly with them. first opportunity to spend time with the first lady. all will be together for the weekend at mar-a-largo and have a full itinerary. i dont see it as big deal. what do you make of this? >> i dont think its a big deal mrs. obama, michelle obama was gracious and welcoming to mrs. abe before and escorted her around washington and laura bush exceptionally gracious hostess when f...

Former intelligence officials say, according to that transcript, flynn may have indicated the trump team would release those sanctions months in office. >> if they were talking about that, i say they will be a violent reaction in the congress. >> ranking democrats have called for the white house to immediately suspend national security advisor flynn and revoke access to classified information until the situation is fully investigated. sources close to flynn told me moments ago that he does not r...

Very forth right i believe in all his discussions with members on both sides of the aisle. and he has a strong record of having that faith and following the law. and so i think hes going to do a good job in his confirmation hearings and he will be fine. >> heather: let me ask you about two pieces of legislation that you have introduced. one has to do with families and women. and if we can ask for information about how much money we make in the work force. and then the second one is a tax credit ...

Former intelligence officials say, according to that transcript, flynn may have indicated the trump team would release those sanctions months in office. >> if they were talking about that, i say they will be a violent reaction in the congress. >> ranking democrats have called for the white house to immediately suspend national security advisor flynn and revoke access to classified information until the situation is fully investigated. sources close to flynn told me moments ago that he does not r...

Do we have any indication that, a., he would go or, b., they can get three republicans and not two republicans and make it interesting? >> i dont see any indication whatsoever. there is no sort of organized protest. and theres not really -- >> yet. >> yet. and theres not the incentive that a democratic grounds swell against a nominee for congress position as there would be for secretary of education. >> and to jeffs point earlier, you would not be seeing this vote unfold. we think its going to t...

And ask what was the trump administration trying to do. we have to recognize this was a populist movement. a political insurgency that captured the white house. we havent had this happen before in our history. i think what they wanted to do in this first week or two is through the executive orders, roll out a set of policies that were consistent with the program on which they campaigned to send the message to those who supported the administration that they were true to their word and they reall...

Business will be done differently and send a message to those who rallied to mr. trumps cause that they are true to the commitments and the issues that he raised during the campaign. >> madeline, lots been said about the bans. let me ask you about the next big one strikes me as the idea of putting iran on notice. i was always taught in graduate school, two things are very expensive in international relations, threats when they fail and promises when they succeed. if you put iran on notice, what ...

Former secretary of state and jot chairman, colin powell >> they described the fight as a long twilight struggle. are we in a long twilight struggle against radical forces? >> we have been very, very careful about getting into major commitments abroad that require a large american military presence there for years. we never thought we would be in iraq for going on 14 years or afghanistan for misdemeanor 15 years. we cant keep it up forever. >> coming up, the man who helped change almost everythi...

And i hope that whats going on in american civil society now is affecting the white house in that very central dimension. >> we were talking about rhetoric, iran was firing the missile was out of his control. the dust up with australia for example was something the president could control. when the president says every country in the world is taking advantage of us. how can he mean australia? theyre our biggest military partner in the fight against isis. its unnerving for people to see and hear ...

We have a tremendous amount of respect for the people of australia. it was a follow up on the call. were going to continue to work through this. were going to honor the commitments that weve made in some way. meaning that we are going to vet these people in accordance with the agreement that happened and well continue to have further updates as we do. john roberts. >> last night about the sett settlemen settlements, theres been a shift in u.s. policy. you didnt think they were helpful to achievi...