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It wasnt tope interpretation. he was so clear on what he was hearing that it raised all of these alarm bells. heres another piece from his opening statement that is interesting. in the spring of 2019, i became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of ukraine inconsistent with the consensus view of the interagency. this narrative was harmful to the u.s. government policy. while my interagency colleagues were becoming optimistic, this alternative narrative undermined u.s. govern...

Is lindsey grahams view there the consensus view in the republican party now? >> well, a lot of republicans at least privately are very critical of this decision. of course, few of them are actually willing to stand up and say so. and the sad part about this is the military appropriations consresswoman said usually a bill that is built through consensus. its many times the first one heard on the house floor of all 12 proelsz bills because support for investigating in military infrastructure, for...

Our bases and our ranges, and then there is sort of the strategic point, which is the pentagons budget has long been a very bipartisan thing. and i think taking this issue, taking the money away from the pentagon and putting it on a wall brings the pentagon into this political conversation in a way that is not good for the pentagon. its not good for the country. so it has a human face, but it also has a strategic kind of position its playing. >> carlos curbelo, we had that clip there from lindse...

About russia at those meetings and theyre not there. i think it would be a good thing if russia were there. >> can you respond to what the presidents saying there, please? >> not really. i feel, you know, this preoccupation with president obama, i mean, he brings him up constantly. >> its crazy. >> it makes me wonder, you know, whether somehow this is a reflection of his jealousy of president obama. i dont get it. and by the way, the russians getting booted out of the g7 was not a unilateral u.s...

Products with. between $14.00 and off it 20 percent or 6 percent the difference comes from. class 30 which our products are being categorized some experts doubt that suspending cambodia from the e.p.a. program would make much difference to the countrys economy john so powerful one says the impact would have been much greater a few years ago. there will be some negative effect. slower growth of course and some workers to be laid off but i think not be a disaster because the size of the economy an...

We had a pretty good period before that of markets not being very volatile, you get the panic and the reality is panic, panic and you bounce back the other way and then that volatility makes people still jittery, and then after a while, reality takes over. its markets like to bounce around. neil: so whats the reality now? the consensus view, you always challenge that, made a lot of money for you and your investors going ahead and challenging consensus, is that the prospect that no trade deal wit...

To have prosperity in the north. the kim family is extremely jealous. what this does, president trumps video, it talks to the north korean people saying look this is what you can have, thand that is very effective in putting kim jong-un in a difficult position. i am sure thats part of the process of thought in the state department and national security council when they thought of the idea of this video. its talking to regime elements in pyongyang saying we americans can give you a much better f...

Apparent, but also, crucially, its the way a party sets its agenda, its policy priorities, the way it finds consensus view, about what it stands and fights for. youre already seeing that part of the process at work in the democratic party right now. candidates across the spectrum of the competitors are competing with various plans to tackle the climate emergency, all of which are in the context of recent history really rather ambitious. youre also seeing this primary process play out on reproduc...

Neil: these are the bullet points. beto has that, knows his bullet points. >> not in the same way, but he doesnt have, you know, four years of having a base -- neil: you know, chris, i think republicans, though, underestimate beto at peril. >> i agree. neil: that was the consensus view, barack obama had only been a senator a couple of years, and, you know, the last guy who went on to lose a senate race and went on to win the presidential race was abraham lincoln. i am not comparing the two at al...

Of the intelligence agencies. even before he takes office, he meets with the outgoing intelligence chiefs and they present him this information about russian interference in the election, and its something he disavows, in effect, from then on and has repeatedly since then, even if at other times he says he does believe it. so i think theres been this distrust with the intelligence agencies at the beginning. whats interesting is, of course, hes characterized in the past saying, well, i didnt beli...