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Hill for skprjohn conyers to ta this kind of a step. i think its expected that this retirement will take place today. there was speculation that he will simply announce that he is not planning to run for reelection and that we would see him as a member of congress, perhaps, through the end of next year. that clearly not the case. and this has been something of a damaging episode for nancy pelosi, the democratic leader. she, of course, went on with chuck todd. talked about. and she seems to defen...

Berating them on issues related to russia. politico now describing trump calling republican senator bob corker to yell at him and complain to him about a russia sanctions bill that corker had sponsored and supported. politico also describes the president dialing up senator tom tillas, calling him on august 7th to complain about a bill he was working on, that was designed to prevent trump from firing the special counsel robert mueller who is looking into the russia matter. and its kind of interes...

Pacifist culture. theyre basically abandoning that. theyre building blue water naval capabilities in the face of a rising and more powerful china in the region. so look, hes going to be advised by the people who have been advising him all along on the campaign. but no, the official mechanisms of government are not yet party to briefing him on conversations like this. >> is it a positive or a negative that in terms of tradition, the way president-elect donald trump has been handling himself, you ...

The top democrat on the committee, talking about the practical cost and the cost for communities of color. the emphasis is on dialing down prison terms overall, but it does expand mandatory minimums for terror-related crimes. >> so its not an across-the-board, lets lower all mandatory sentences. theres some things in there that republicans would probably want as well? >> thats right. theres a dialing up of mandatory minimums in certain other areas and with regard to basically violence related to...

Field to change. it knows the solar field that comes out of the sun has now stopped. it knows its almost into intercellar space but not quite there. maybe a couple more months until it gets out of the solar system. >> whats it doing? >> sending back stuff. >> really, even with that little storage capacity? >> its so far away now, it takes 17 hours. once it sends the signal, it takes 17 hours to get to the earth. >> like dialing up -- hey, mom, im on the internet, get off the phone. what kind of ...

Analysis should be reserved for investigative process? >> yeah, the dialing up, i think, is a dangerous thing for these officials. unless they can really come forth and talk about it, they should not be talking about it. but what i find interesting about that list, if you go down from it, its everybody that was involved with bringing the russia investigation to the president. anybody that has done that is on that list. theres also one person on there thats different from the rest. general hayden...