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This, the president has not been interested in that sort of thing. at the same time, hes also made some provocative statements himself, urging iran to back down. and the kind of thing that can be unsettling. democrats also had their own briefing from former cia director john brennan and wendy sherman, former state department official for their expertise. especially when it comes to the iran nuclear deal, thissed a ming station has backed out of. to prepare them for different points of view about...

Which mayi inmessaging is imper its easy to misinterpret and miscalculate. >> david, i mean, is it safe to say that we have walked back from the edge on this? or is it too soon to say that. >> i felt to the last four or five days, the knife edge we seem to be on where there was risk of escalating conflict. what was a little duller, and there was communications, the u.s. interestingly is communicating through third countries that have historically been channels for u.s. iranian conversation like ...

Respect for their point of view. >> joining me now david ignacious foreign affairs columnist for "the washington post" and msnbc contributor. >> nancy pelosi does not stop to talk and she expressed a view that was expressed by the republican senators, as well. >> it seemed to me that nancy pelosi and vice president biden wanted to reassure the europeans that biden will be back. that this isnt the end of our alliance, but i will say those words didnt really seem to stick. i think sometimes about ...

Was the washington post estimate and loaned 280 million to jared kushner and asked have you received inquiries from the house intelligence committee from congressman adam schiff. yes, yes, we have. what do you intend to do about that? we intend to coop rerate fully with any new legal requests and we are in a new era. >> they were raided a few months ago, deutsche bank headquarters in germany. congratulations. you finished your new book. the 11th? the 11th book from david ignacious. amazing. comi...

The generals that are feeling the sting of the commander in chiefs remarks. its the men and women as david ignacious suggested. its the men and women who spend night and day defending this countrys interests in afghanistan, making sure that terror groups cant rebuild in a way that would bring another 9/11 attack to this country. they have done an extraordinary job in afghanistan. they havent failed. general mattis hasnt failed. they have been doing a stellar job. and getting tacked for mere poli...

Beast, sam stein, columnist and associate editor for "the washington post, david ig nampblts go -- david ignacious. in a few minutes, washington will look different than it has over the past two years. house democrats armed with subpoena power and new-found political capital plan to hold president trump to account. this morning it remains shut down for the 13th straight day and the standoff could last for weeks. so frame this moment for us. >> well, if you just take a snapshot of what today look...

Public life. its corrosive to our public life and it gives a lot of -- its a relief to our enemies to see it. because thats something they really havent been able to peer inside and i think that disruption of unity, you know, gives hope that they can divide us in difficult times or times of crisis. i think its very dangerous. >> david has been talking about the presidents view of syria. yesterday he said was nothing more sand and death. talk about that very ignorant reading of history and i say ...

Original roots. >> well, and david ignacious, one thing that frustrated me about mitt romney in the past, a guy who i always had tremendous respect for even if his 2012 campaign frustrated me a great deal, but the one thing that always frustrated me about mitt romney was that he was so conservative with a small c. he never got close to the guardrails. he was data driven. and never took these sort of chances. i think thats why i found the op-ed from two days ago not only remarkable but very hopef...

Strategist and msnbc political analyst susan delfrisio is us with and editor for "the washington post," david ignacious and we have jonathan kapart and host of casey d.c. on msnbc, casey hunt. and director of domestic policy studies at stanford university and research fellow at the hoover institution, lon he chen. he was a senior strategist for the 2012 mitt romney presidential campaign. and, joe, weve got day 13 of the shutdown now. how do you see things playing out? any possibility of a deal o...

And with one remark on television the president kind of swept that away and said they were right to do it. really a stunning reading of history that is just completely wrong. >> david? >> tom, i want to ask you what effect you think this has on young officers in our military. i think of the young colonel trying to destroy isis in syria. what does he tell that commander of what it must be like for a senior commander in afghanistan today listening to the president bad mouth the deployment of the f...