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along can kellyanne conway jessica and greg gutfeld. this is "the five." california governor gavin newsom taking a swing at republicans while discussing his states problems. growing concern california is reverting back to its old ways after spending billions to clean up for the ap ec summit. taking to late night tv and blaming the gop for amplifying the issues. >> they have been on a doom loop since nancy pelosi became speaker. tenth in american recovery and value is a stark contrast, ...

Happenstance . Yes, absolutely. The irony of roger stone rejecting a conspiracy theory. And so today, april 13th, 2017, was the day that america woke up to the sudden knowledge that bombs have mothers. That all of the conventional nonnuclear bombs in the American Military arsenal have one big beautiful mother. And there she is. The bombs official name for Bookkeeping Purposes in the military is the gbu43. The letters on the side of the bomb describe its function, what you can expect from it. Mas...

Retreat will prove to be as damaging to the president as liberals think. the presidents cruelty made it easy to oppose his policy, but in that delighted the administrations latest missteps, democrats may be walking into a trap. the larger question is surely, should the country enforce its immigration laws, or if circumvented, should we just give up? according to a u.n. report, last year the united states became the worlds leading destination for asylum seekers with a 44% increase of central amer...

Wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> boy, that wikileaks has done a job on her, hasnt it? >> this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> joining us now, malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. and david frump, senior editor. i want to talk about the massive bomb that was dropped today and your interpretation of its use and what you think it might have been able to achieve in that usage. >> wel...

Often abetted by state actors like russia. >> and here is what his boss, the president of the united states has had to say about wikileaks. >> now this just came out. this just came out. wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> boy, that wikileaks has done a job on her, hasnt it? >> this wikileaks is like a treasure trove. >> joining us now, malcolm nance, msnbc counterterrorism and intelligence analyst. david corn, washington bureau chief for mother jones and an msnbc political analyst. and david frump,...

On this vote, the ayes are 54. the nays are 45. the nomination of neil m. gorsuch of colorado to be an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states is confirmed. >> the supreme court seat stolen from president obama with 14 months left in his term was awarded to donald trumps nominee, neil gorsuch, on friday. after mitch mcconnell and senate republicans responded to the democrats filibuster by invoking the so-called nuclear option. gorsuch will be sworn in on monday. and joining m...

Rhetoric has gone too far. >> listen, im a big fan of donald trumps, but im not a fan of government registries of american citizens. the first amendment protects religious liberty. >> you talk about closing mosques, you talk about registering people, and thats just wrong. i dont care about campaigns. its manipulating peoples angst and their fears. thats not strength. thats weakness. >> joining me now, david frump, senior editor at "the atlantic" and former george w. bush economic speech writer a...

A madness where theres solutions in search of a problem. there are real problems out there, but the bills being proposed and the idea of a database -- i mean, poor donald trump, my goodness, a reporter tricked him into saying something he really didnt mean? thats not very presidential of him. what does he mean? what does he want to create? he needs to be clear about that. so, i think this is going to get worse before it gets better. i never thought i would say i miss george w. bush, but i do a l...

Alcohol. we should make a real effort to keep pretty kid. the only harm this drug does to anybody is to developing adolescent brain. right now it is easy to get. a really good regulatory machine for legal marijuana will keep kid safe. >> lets me bring in cnn political commentator david frump. do you think kids will be targeted? >> i agree completely with what hill harper just said about the importance of keeping people out of prison. but of course the emerging marijuana industry, and it will be ...

Handy craft industry. it is not. there are huge economies of scale. big profits. it is going to be a gigantic industry. its going to look like the tobacco industry of the past. >> whats wrong with that, david? >> of course it is going to target kids. andrew except for 2 out of the 100 people who might use it for medical reasons for a short period of time, the profit, the value will be getting people to start when theyre 17 and continue through life. >> why cant we regulate appeals to kids throug...