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Anything thats coursed, hell pay a price greater than the benefits. he does not get all of what he wants. we cant offer that but he gets enough of what he wants and that is quote on quote "safe." >> it seems that many in the administration and across washington believe that an invasion may happen the next two or three weeks. are you hearing that? >> i dont know, joe, why anyone would have the confidence to make that assessment and capabilities is one thing and we can measure that. intentions are...

But more corpses are already on the way. at the end of the day, we meet the body collectors again. another nine bodies found in this tour alone. and its unlikely theyll be the last. fred pleitgen, cnn, bucha, ukraine. lets bring in senior fellow in urban security at the international institute for strategic studies. thank you for being with us. the word siren genocide is often overused. here in ukraine, though, there appears to be intent. there are actions and there are dead bodies. many showi...

And jared kushner. >> how can a secretary of state conduct diplomacy? >> well, again, i was part of a decision making system. i teach about it now at georgetown. its very hard to explain. were not a new country. we know how to make decisions. we know what to do when people disagree. its essential to have some kind of notes about what goes on. and everything sounds completely nutty and very hard i think for people to figure out how to deal with this under these circumstances. and to know who is i...

Worse off for trying. now one week later there are signs that maybe things are worse off. >> we dont know what the north koreans have in mind. its a one-person decision-making system there. it could be simply for leverage, it could be that they do intend to resume testing. either way, lets get real. were not going to get their complete denuclearization, theyre not going to give up all their missiles pftd t their mixes. the real question for the united states is are we willing to settle for less ...

Comment? how rare is it for a general to openly criticize the commander in chief? >> general tony thomas is one of our finest wartime commanders. used to be head of the joint special operations command. i had the chance to travel with him several times, including in a secret trip into syria and iraq about a year and a half ago. he knows what hes talking about. i take his comments seriously. i would say this. when i talked to our intelligence and military leaders over the last few days, what i fi...

Democracy that we respect disseptembering views. we do not live in an authoritarian system where you have to agree or get out. i cannot believe that kind of a statement was made and perhaps it would be useful if people read the constitution. >> when we think about the way this white house is structured now, you have a controversial national security adviser mike flynn retired general, but now it seems from all the reporting that steve bannon, steve miller, who coauthored the inaugural address, a...

Order. >> kevin before you step up, let me kind of frame it a little bit. we did know the e.o. was coming. we had people involved in the general drafting of it. you know, clearly it was, this whole approach was part of what then candidate trump talked about for a year or two. so we knew all that was coming. as i said, we had high levels of government lawyers from across the inner agency to include homeland security that were involved in the drafting of it, so we knew it was coming. it wasnt a su...

Seven years of naval experience but certainly not a foreign policy expert, an ideolog by all accounts, former head of breitbart news, how unusual is it for him to have a seat at table at every principals committee meeting and chairman of the joint chiefs and dni of intelligence to be there by invitation only when its the subject pertinent to their fields? >> let me say every president can have a national security system that reflects how he wants to operate. that is something we have to note. i ...

No difference between the parties. >> well, you know, people took it -- >> he just proved my point! >> people took it very -- you know, another way in which weve cleaned it up and made it better is that politicians are not killing themselves, each other today. remember when dick cheney shot that manhunting? >> yeah, in the face? >> well, that was an accident and he lived, but vice president aaron burr fought a dual with former treasury secretary alexander hamilton and killed him. and hamilton wa...

Today the justices, some of them, have suggested theyre having trouble with a lower court decision allowing this class-action lawsuit to proceed. in fact, justice kennedy said that hes, quote, a high court would be unsure what the unlawful policy is that walmart engaged in >>all, the simplest policies they in fact did pay women in every region of the country less than men, despite the fact they had more seniority and better performance. but they also relied on an unwritten system, a subjective d...