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Decision-making process? >> well, voting on a health care plan without a cbo estimate hof how much it would cost is like buying a car without knowing what the price tag is. it is absolutely ridiculous to make such serious decisions based on a lack of knowledge. and, in fact, we do have 20 million people who are now covered through the affordable care act. so the cbo was actually pretty accurate on that. >> the accusation is that the cbo estimate was not right on the money compared to many of the...

Get that. trey? >> today hundreds of u.s. marines were deployed to syria. so im wondering how involved was the president in that decision-making process and is this part of his wider anti-isis strategy? >> obviously, the president was made aware of that. this was something done in consultation. he understands the regional issues that need to be addressed there and i would refer you back to the department of defense on that. >> sean, thank you. i have a follow-up to hallies first set of questions...

It. its, one, to provide early warning to the united states so we dont have another 9/11. its for our policy-makers to be able to make better decisions, and its to be able to protect our troops in the field. thats why we spend, in many cases, up to $80 billion of money each other to get and receive and analyze intelligence, because its the life-blood of our national security decision-making process. so, to the degree that the central intelligence agencies efforts overseas have been compromised b...

>> reporter: today, hundreds of u.s. marines were deployed to syria. im wondering how involved with the president in that decision-making process and is this part of have his wider antiracist strategy is being done? >> press secretary spicer: obviously, the president was aware and it was done in consultation. he understands the regional issues and i again refer you back to the department of defense. >> reporter: i have a follow-up question to haileys first set of questions on wikileaks. >> press...

Get that. >> thanks. today, hundreds of u.s. marines were deployed to syria. im wondering how involved was the prede in that decision making process and is this part of his wider anti-isis strategy? >> obviously, the president was made aware of that. this was done in consultation. he understands the regional issues that need to be addressed there, and again, i refer you back to the department of defense. >> sean, i have a follow-up question to the first set of questions on wikileaks. my question...

You can see steve bannon of breitbart, before the president left for florida, peter, what from your reporting happened in the oval office? >> well, two things. first that conspiratorial rant, what is important there it basically started in conservative media outlets. its not clear even in our conversations with white house officials here that the president has any better information than the information he has read about those claims. separately as to that conversation as it was described to me,...

With national security flynn. we know theres stuff going on, one way to put it. dana bentay will take over. one of the two men will be overseeing them and ultimately making any prosecutorial decisions if there are any to make. >> at this point, the attorney general, by recusal, wont know anything about the investigation. or will he be briefed on it and not involved in the decision-making process? >> the recusal means hes not involved, no updating and no charging decision, which is very important...

Appointed by james comey who was then the deputy attorney general. recusal would meaning he would be in the dark on this investigation. he wouldnt be briefed on it. he would be a complete stranger to it, wouldnt be making decisions. thats how recusal is supposed to work. there are justice department guidelines that guide this decision-making process on when to recuse, when there is a potential conflict, when it would be in the public interest and so forth. but it is going to have to be his decis...

Intelligence requires quick action and at any time you can make that decision making process quicker, faster, and the hands of somebody is trustworthy absent mattis, i think this is good leadership. this shows good leadership on the part of donald trump. >> harris: as we fight to take the western part of muzzle, which is where you got three quarters of a million people trapped, they are a man had metastasizing battlefield fighter. youve already learned so much more about isis. who wouldnt vote i...

Call when they needed help. was that, in fact, happening in harris count why i? was that part of your decision-making process? >> it was part of the decision-making process. over the course of last year, through the election and here in my first month and a half, ive noticed that theres been a lot of fear and concern in the community. i could feel that. i could see that and obviously with everything thats going on at the national level, it really concerns me to see that kind of fear happening in...