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With the nation, the cornerstone of stability in the middle east and american-led order in the middle east and we have to preserve it and continue to work with them. shannon: there has been bipartisan backlash to this whole thing. kristin fisher mentioned the tweet, this is unbelievable this explanation. senator tunes saying saudi arabia, our shared interests should not require us to abandon our values including a commitment to the free press, human rights and the rule of law. >> one of the thin...

Correspondent yun power cut is standing by hes the bureau chief for germany germanys public broadcaster a or d. . first of all tell us why the polish law on forced retirement of judges is so controversial well its controversial because it effects so much the highest caught so the highest level of appealing in poland forcing around one third of the judges there more experience judges of course to leave and as we heard the way the newly appointed judges that would replace them are appointed has al...

Bar none. why? there was a drug war raging there in part to satisfy the appetite for illegal drugs in this country, in part due to our prohibitionary incarceration first policy that had created such a premium on crossing those drugs that kids were literally willing to die or to kill one another for the privilege of crossing something here into the united states. i thought we owed ourselves, as a country, our sister city of ciudad juarez, a conversation on the best way forward. now, that resoluti...

Getting from the professionals? and i guess the intelligence community can only do so much. if the boss wants to ignore the briefer, then thats a problem. >> i think what national security professionals are saying is that saudi arabia is a cornerstone of american foreign policy objectives in the middle east and its also possible for something else to be true, which is that this heinous murder was conducted with the blessing and knowledge of the highest levels of the saudi government. both statem...

America? why is this happening? and to you i guess given your resume and experience what kind of advice do you think hes getting from the professionals? and i guess the intelligence community can only do so much. if the boss wants to ignore the briefer, then thats a problem. >> i think what national security professionals are saying is that saudi arabia is a cornerstone of american foreign policy objectives in the middle east and its also possible for something else to be true, which is that thi...

Getting from the professionals? and i guess the intelligence community can only do so much. if the boss wants to ignore the briefer, then thats a problem. >> i think what national security professionals are saying is that saudi arabia is a cornerstone of american foreign policy objectives in the middle east and its also possible for something else to be true, which is that this heinous murder was conducted with the blessing and knowledge of the highest levels of the saudi government. both statem...

Equation of trump and money? >> probably quite a bit of it. the president has not been shy. he actually was noting about pointing out the major financial interests that the u.s. has in having a close relationship with the saudis, with these major arms sales that the president says creates all kinds of jobs in the united states. but i also think that we have to realize that while the reaction to this kind of transactional approach of the president in washington has been pretty universally terribl...

First policy that had created such a premium on crossing those drugs that kids were literally willing to die or t kill one another for the privilege of crossing something here into the united states. i thought we owed ourselves, as a country, our sister city of ciudad juarez, a conversation on the best way forward. now, that resolution or that amendment that i offered was inartful at best. what i was trying to get to was marijuana, the cornerstone of the drug trade economy, and to clarify the po...

Experience, having worked in the white house, having participated in some of these really high-level decisions. because this is a huge one. to break with saudi arabia, which has been a cornerstone of u.s. policy and strategy in the middle east for decades, that is -- >> a huge cornerstone under this trump administration. >> more than ever. >> a significant relationship. >> yes. >> its a bromance, isnt it? >> yes. >> a bromance between a very small cohort of advisors to donald trump. one being hi...

Saying? >> reporter: republican national committee pointed out that the report did not address the association of american law school directories in which warren listed herself as having native heritage in 1986. we did reach out to senator warren. we have yet to hear back on it. but the back and forth could become a cornerstone for a 2020 run for warren. this morning she tweeted, quote, i took this test and released the results for anyone who cares because i have got nothing to hide. what are yo...