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Certainly welcome to have a position with respect to this law. i think hes wrong. i think that this ban actually makes our country less safe, but whats really shocking is to hear the attorney general of the united states show such an utter lack of respect for the federal judiciary. its really hard -- its hard to fathom that he would take that position and when you then take a step back and realize that hes talking about -- hes talking about a different version of an effort that was ruled unconst...

Howie: jonah goldberg has been a fierce critic of donald trump since the campaign and hes still feeling the backlash. he writes every day im criticized because of my coverage of president trump even if i provide context. you say your criticism of trump has changed your position at fox. jonah: im fine with the position of fierce critic, but praised him when i thought it was his due. when i started criticizing donald trump when he got more popular on the right. what was discouraging is how many pe...

Howie: jonah goldberg has been a fierce critic of donald trump since the campaign and hes still feeling the backlash. he writes every day im criticized because of my coverage of president trump even if i provide context. you say your criticism of trump has changed your position at fox. jonah: im fine with the position of fierce critic, but praised him when i thought it was his due. when i started criticizing donald trump when he got more popular on the right. what was discouraging is how many pe...

Howie: jonah goldberg has been a fierce critic of donald trump since the campaign and hes still feeling the backlash. he writes every day im criticized because of my coverage of president trump even if i provide context. you say your criticism of trump has changed your position at fox. jonah: im fine with the position of fierce critic, but praised him when i thought it was his due. when i started criticizing donald trump when he got more popular on the right. what was discouraging is how many pe...

Community, communities that make contributions to the world. >> homeland has been criticized for how muslims are portrayed? >> yes, it is and we have taken the responsibility and particularly in season six we tried to be part of the cure and not the problem. a different story line where we are helping these people and this year and this season that maybe its -- maybe that it is the white men in government and the military establishment that are the bad guyses, not the muslim community. abby: tha...

Important positions? >> thanks, john. on the first part, as you know -- ill give you the same answer on executive orders. we dont comment on personnel decisions until theyre made-finalized. nothing for that. on the second part, what i would say, the president is confident that we have a deep bench of folks that during the transition we talked about this a number of people that have expressed a huge interest in joining the president in fulfilling this agenda. that list is robust and long. however...

The nominees he wants for some very important positions? >> well, thanks, john. id say, on the first part, as you know, and ill give you the same answer we give executive orders, we dont comment on personnel decisions until theyre made, until theyre finalized, so ive got nothing for that. on the second part, what i would say is the president is very confident we have a deep bench of folks who during the transition we talked about this, a number of people who have expressed a huge interest in joi...

Is to be an actress, because you get the most exposure. so i think that is a great part of my wanting to act. i also had a very subjective feeling that in each part i would find part of myself which would make me feel better about myself. >> one of the reasons that i think that they perhaps had disagreement is because he was a little bit discouraging of her doing acting. i think thatp perhaps he didnt think as high of an art as she was capable of. >> you know, he wrote me a letter and he said, d...

>> we are, in fact, hopeful. hope has to have an empirical basis. the president-elects victory speech was a hopeful sign. his appointments will be telling. the presence of steve bannon in the mix is discouraging in terms of his association with the alt right. were willing to work with the administration. to the extent the president-elect standing with the constitution, with american civil rights agenda, were willing to stand beside him. to the extent he does not, we will stand against him and op...

U.s. election. just before the break, you saw johns conversation with "the new york times" national correspondent, mr. david sanger, that was filmed for our showtime documentary series, the circus, filmed in conjunction with bloomberg politics. were joined by david sanger, hes in "the times" d.c. news room. and on the set, technology reporter and editor of back channel. thank you both for coming. update us on what your latest sense of the u.s. governments posture is towards trying to retaliate a...