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One thing that struck me early on, gags, is jimmy shut yof wci talking about the anthrax scare at nbc news. that was a time when we were acutely aware of the foreign threat. one of the things that stung us this morning is there was a suspicion of us doing that to us. you told me the main terrorists in this country are home grown. it not the way white nationalists terrorists but us doing this to ourselves in this moment of such disconnect and toxicity, it really does bring a point home, does it n...

Not invoking executive privilege was the optics. it just looks like you are scared of what comey is going to say. a lot of people on the outside, trump supporters, want to be involved in an effort to support him on thursday. they are looking for guidance from the white house. how can we help. how can we be there. theyre not getting there. theres no movement to setting up the russia war room. theyre leaving themselves a bit defenseless. >> what happened with that? david bossie was going to come i...

In this case one man sitting outside a noted religious and tourism site and attacking the police. >> john, i was personally involved for years in the matter of coordinating intelligence, especially in the aftermath of 9/11. this is at a point where its hard to coordinate any further. if somebody radicalizes themselves at a person level, doesnt share that information with anybody else, takes a weapon that you can buy at any store or cutlery shop or, you know, home supply store, and goes out and s...

Weakness and then lashes out for months after. >> the problem for him right now is hes in a whole different ball game right now. when you are talking about an fbi investigation. when youre talking about a special prosecutor and pretty robust, at least with one senate committee, pretty robust congressional investigation, it doesnt matter if you are talking about loyalty, if you see this as a sign of weakness. you are now in a pretty fraught legal game. he hasnt seemed to understand that yet. no o...

Impossible to pick up on. but it doesnt mean that we shouldnt be looking at other measures to capture the more coordinated or types of attacks that have more individuals and there are some communications that go on prior to the attack. so the problem is that with theresa may saying enough is enough or here in the u.s. the president saying weve got to stop being politically correct, all those things are good and they make us strong and tough in the face of an attack. the reality is the next step ...

This is how trump likes to communicate. everyone just needs to accept that. we also have to treat what he says on twitter as the words of the president of the united states. we cant dismiss them. in part we cant dismiss them because thats really how were hearing from the president. he did not hold a press conference on that foreign trip. >> where is the intervention on capitol hill? lets be honest. if theyre tired of it, why arent they going down to the white house today and say mr. president, p...

Leaders are really recoiling from him. shes facing election. the fact that he went after a mayor whose city was just attacked, just the optics, london, in the uk, which is involved or ally, the optics are -- >> think about the attack this country suffered on september 11th, 2001. you try to imagine anyone going after rudy giuliani at the time. and distorting his words. i think to julies point, this is a thing a lot of people worried about who opposed donald trump. given his isolationist talk at ...

A short attention span. so we have this attack or everybodys on board with more security. theyre willing to give up something on the privacy side. that doesnt last very long. or in fact, if you do get far down the road and you start to make some changes, then pretty soon the out cry is youve gone too far, youre approaching a police state. >> if i could add to that. even if we pass the laws, it takes about two years and we decide we dont want those laws, we dont want the government collecting met...

47, if youre the recipient of that hammer on top of your head its terrorism to you and it could be many other people. the french in these earlier attacks that we saw during some of the other incidents, we saw many, many french police officers who were gunned down because they werent even armed including the woman officer that was directing traffic. so if you take out a hammer and start going after people, there might not even be enough police officers in the area to prevent loss of life to the t...

Complicated. >> its complicated and sends mixed signals. its confusing to everybody, not only reporters in washington, lawmakers. an interesting point. dan scavino was celebrating. kellyanne conway saying stop paying attention to what he says. angus king sides with the democrats, but heres his take. >> this is a significant problem. for the administration to say dont mind what this man is saying, wizard of oz, dont pay attention to the man behind the curtain, that doesnt pass the straight face t...