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Intelligence committee, of course, former special counsel robert mueller is set to testify in front of members of congress now next week. what is your confidence level that mueller will show? the negotiations of mueller and deputies are on the right track? . >> i feel confident about it. they were scheduled for this wednesday. now they are being pushed back one week. it is not going to be viewed by a super sized audience, hallie. i think most people, with even a passing interest in his particula...

Arthel: we are showing pictures of the residents helping with the sandbags. and we showed pictures of grocery store shelves that were completely empty. so folks did get supplies for what they would neat the next few days in case of a power outage. whats your confidence level the power will stay on there in baton rouge? >> we are pretty confident that the power will stay on. we had our representative from entergy speak at our most of recent press conference. they are prepared to assist with us du...

Knock off trump. down to 57% in this poll. the only other candidate who took a hit like that was beto orourke. the others saw their assessment by democratic voters increase by double digits so i think he leads as the default option that the democrats are going to give you when they say most electable. but i think there are concerns coming out of the debate that werent there before. i think that confidence level if you throw him on the stage with donald trump he just wins i think that took a bit ...

Just between the u.s. and iran. i think that will help. and look. at the end of the day, its going to be difficult, but i think we have to initiate secret diplomacy and try to patch up the nuclear accord. perhaps with face saving measures on each side that will allow everybody to claim triumph. at the end of the day, president trump is successful in tactics that created pain. they havent harnessed strategy. aside from inflicting pain on iran, theyve simply pushed iran closer to nuclear program. ...

Iran, theyve simply pushed iran closer to nuclear program. theyve antagonized allies. theyve created more insecurity. what we need is a strategy to be attached to the tactics. >> in the year everything thats coming out and that were learning through the reporting about the decision making process yesterday in the president, apparently being of two minds. alternate times on this. whats your confidence level that he has landed in a position hes going to stick with now versus the possibility that a...

A big deal. the ability to return illegal immigrants to mexico while their asylum claims are processed is good. getting mexico to commit to actually policeing its southern border in a more serious fashion is necessary. we need to see mexico do more. we need to create mexico a safe third country where all claims can be processed in mexico before the folks come to our southern border. >> shannon: what is your confidence level that mexico will follow through on what has been agreed to? >> the presi...

California state history, seniors at paradise high school took to the football field to graduate. most of the town was destroyed in what is called the camp fire. about 900 of the schools 980 students lost their homes. nonetheless, the high school itself sustained minimal damage and continued on with its graduation. what a celebration. hundreds of volunteers worked on getting that football field ready so the seniors could graduate on their home campus. good for them. congratulations to all. the n...

Recession. we got revision on the first quarter gdp number came in better than wall street anticipated. everything was strong. what was interesting even though consumer spending its -- it was less than it had been in recent quarters but i think thats just a responsible consumer in this country. the residual effects of the great recession when people spend a lot of money. ive been seeing it a lot. a couple strong quarters and they pull back. theyre doing that on their own. the confidence level is...

U.s. gdp. the reading was delayed because of the government shutdown. got up this morning, the economy through 2.6%. that brings the total gdp annual growth for 2018 to 2.9%, while the quarter expectation was better than expected. >> for the year, thats right. the fourth quarter was better than expected. a couple of notes here, this is the initial reading. it may very well change. it probably will, but it is better than expected. when you go through the numbers, youve got fourth-quarter business...

About trying to work towards denuclearizing the korean peninsula. theres a lot of work ahead. the administration and the president supporters will say hes already accomplished quite a bit, that there has been a real low in any real testing there. others will say that satellite imagery and intel shows that north korea still moving ahead with the nuclear program. so what can we expect out of this second meeting? we can expect probably it will be incremental at most. so lets bring in for advice, fo...