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No, youre not crazy, that was a very, very long 60 seconds. now, where were we? right. there was a time when the super secure room in the white house known as the situation room was a place where presidents did real national security stuff like manage the response of september 11th of monitor the osama bin laden operation. but in the trump administration, the situation room seems more of a kind of catch-all space. its where john kelly famously fired omarosa, not from "the apprentice," from the w...

Obama and in the trump administration, this gets you the job of attorney general. i was in the cabinet meeting we had after we got osama bin laden and president obama, who deserved a lot of credit, wasnt lauded this way. with each one of these cabinet meetings, they get more and more bizarre. >> theres a personal part of this, mona, too, the mattis move which i think did genuinely anger or upset a bunch of republicans and a not kind of lip servicey way. this is what he had to say about mattis wh...

Theres been a lot of successes on emissions and carbon. but there is a setback in a referendum that was put to the voters, which was essentially a kind of carbon fee on big oil companies. it was put directly to the voters, and it lost in a liberal state where youre popular, where these ideas are not anathema. what does that say to you about the politics of this issue still in the year 2018-2019? >> it says we need to use different tools. >> thats interesting. >> we have lot of tools in the toolb...

November to announce sanctions on iran. i guess he just thinks it look cool or likes to look at it. later on, trump had congressional leadership come to the white house for supposedly negotiation that by all accounts went nowhere as well as a briefing from homeland security secretary. durbin adding, i quote, it was preposterous. heres what happened today. heres what happens tomorrow when everything will change for this president and the country. around noon, nancy pelosi is ex. ekted to be elect...

Or whether her drinking a beer in her kitchen was sufficiently authentic. or whether because she didnt run in 2016 shes missed her moment. now as someone in the business of covering and analyzing american politics, i am genuinely sympathetic to the ways in which the insatiable demands for content means a fair amount of shallow quick takes on optics and electability, what have you, but i want to offer some advice to you, the viewer and voter and really out loud to myself as a kind of new years re...

With the white house. he wanted to come here. kind of not be necessarily be a trump foot soldier but showed he was open with working with the president on issues where they had common ground. he writes in the piece that december -- a bunch of developments in december that alarmed him. what im told is the one that most concerned him was the departure of jim mattis which i think a lot of republicans have viewed as sort of the last buffer keeping the president in line. but, yeah, i think that he --...

New reality in washington. house democrats will not be able to pass legislation into law on their own. since republicans still control the senate and the presidency. but after two years in which republicans have obstructed efforts to hold trump to account, the democratic majority will have the power to conduct real oversight. they will be ablesubpoenas, to generally investigate an administration thats largely avoided any kind of accountability from conch y kind accountability from conc congress ...