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And i think thats what people admire, whether its sitting at the correspondents dinner and have someone just intentionally try to destroy her, she maintained dignity and grace or whether its at the podium where people try to accuse her of all sorts of things, and try to take her podium away from her, she never lets that happen, but does it in a calm way, doesnt escalate the tension, but knows how to just say were not going there. mark: as her father, and your wife as her mother, it must give you...

Admire, whether its sitting at the correspondents dinner and have someone just intentionally try to destroy her, she maintained dignity and grace or whether its at the podium where people try to accuse her of all sorts of things, and try to take her podium away from her, she never lets that happen, but does it in a calm way, doesnt escalate the tension, but knows how to just say were not going there. mark: as her father, and your wife as her mother, it must give you great pains to watch this. >>...

Authority or majority. i think in the house, its going to be historic. typically throughout history when a president wins one party, the other party takes over. 30 seats or more. i think its looking less likely than that. the democrats problem, theyre the party of social sort of small percentage -- sort of victim groups spread out throughout society but they have lost track of being for the working man. the general working man not part of some sort of special class or special group, victim group...

Tariffs on virtually every agricultural import that they bring from america, where do we go from here? >> well, as distinct to the president and the president clearly doesnt understand the chinese very well. the chinese are probably the most strategic long-term planning least willing to take anything lying down country that there is. so they are -- they are certainly not going to concede in just say, okay, youre right. and this president has, i think, if hes trying to play with china, i do not s...

Film. concrete blocks are in place. quebec city has seen demonstrations before in the summit of the americas. 30,000 to 50,000 protesters with damages in the millions and hundreds arrested. this time the meets are 88 miles northea northeast. its an easier location to protect with one road in and out. miles of fencing have been corrected and a red zone created sealing off the world leaders and entourages. >> were going to apply some techniques, like i say, to make sure that it doesnt escalate. we...

We are closer to a war than we have ever been. russia has the relationship with both the israelis and iranians to make sure this doesnt escalate. >> russia can be involved. but the question is why did they fall in the golan heights. warren, thank you very much for the reporting. be safe. john mccain calling on senators to reject the nomination of gina haspel to be the next cia director. he cites her refusal to call torture immoral at wednesdays confirmation hearing saying that should disqualif...

Damascus wakes up is their view on just how successful this military action was. i think its significant that we did not here from either chairman dunford or secretary mattis that this was a successful military operation. they gave us the legal justification. they gave us the rationale. they gave us the targets. they gave us the intent. the intent was deterrence. but we still dont know how successful it was in hitting the targets. well get all that tomorrow when we get something called a bda, ba...

That there is real conversations about military action, because the feeling among many in the administration is that it is better to have a conventional war than to risk a nuclear north korea where they can proliferate all over the globe. and thats extremely real, and they have some support from people like tom cotton on capitol hill. >> if you can maintain that to be a conventional war that doesnt escalate. the big difference that kim jong-un has, and you heard a little bit of this from john ki...

>> jon: i suppose a part of the danger of the strategy is that any reaction may be disproportionate. the united states could launch a limited strike and the north koreans could launch what they consider a limited strike that would result in potentially thousands of deaths. >> you are right, there is a risk of that escalation getting out of control. it is also a risk that the north may not interpret a strike as limited. it may see the strike coming and think this is it, this is an all-out strike....

I think the professor talked about the fact that a lot of great things have been happening. thats true. the mattis doctrine of making sure they understood we had the right military not only personnel but capability in the region to do bad things that oh, by the way, kim jong-un, if you try anything, your regime comes to an end. youre gone. thats the right message. but that is a calibrated message delivered in a way that doesnt escalate. and it gives kim jong-un a way out. what my concern is, the...