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Its a dangerous -- >> he has evolved on many other issues, why can he not evolve on this? talk about whats going on. in a few days the nuclear agreement with iran the deadline will hit, end of the month, tuesday, i believe. shouldnt we be walking away from this deal right now? isnt iran a major threat were kind of down-playing right now? >> yeah. were not facing the evidence that iran continues to sponsor terrorists and continue to finance terrorism around the world. they continue to be the numb...

Thing, but he was making the wrong choice, the kimmel show was going to be unseemly. this is -- if its not a down playing in a war zone where we are dealing with russia. if its not whats going on between the israelis and the palestinians, in addition to border crisis, when would he cancel these kinds of events? >> you know, john, last week when he went up to new york and did the fundraiser. he was also making phone calls to world leaders on this flight 17. we dont see that we are not on air forc...

With an opposition that includes them. >> clayton: lets talk oil, number three on the list. and an act of sabotage on the oil infrastructure? >> absolutely, everyone focuses on the tension between israel and iran, but the tension between iran and saudi arabia and other arab countries is just as intense and there was a dramatic escalation in the property war between iran and saudi arabia and iranians most people believe was behind cyber attacks on the saudi oil infrastructure. now thats on the ta...

Right who tried to make something that was basically a pep talk for america become political but now that we are having this conversation, it becomes clearer than ever that you have two very different competing visions for this country, one where we invest in america and one where we say, as robert just said, hey, let the market work it out. it will all be okay and ultimately voters in november are going to have to choose between those two competing visions. >> robert, when we talk about this an...

He had been stripped of some of his duties last november. daleys tenure was supposed to last at least through the 2012 election. he will return to chicago where he will co-chair the presidents re-election team and hell be replaced by budget director jack lutz. the white house getting grilled over that lavish hollywood style alice in wonderland halloween party detailed in the new book that comes out today. yesterday, press secretary jay carney tried to deny any down playing of that event. >> if i...

It in and drinking it in their milk and has led to a thyroid epidemic in the ukraine, belarus and western russia because the soviet government was busy down playing, covering up, not distribute, potassium iodide pills. in poland as soon as they discovered the chernobyl disaster and the swedish government and nuclear association announced it to the word, they distributed the iodide and prevented the epidemic that still persists today in the soviet union. >> neil: 25 years later. thank you very mu...

World segment? what got my attention was iran, which seems as assertive and confrontational as ever. take a look at this week alone. iran held its second set of war games in a month, a display of military might meant to scare off its enemies. and then there was president mahmoud ahmadinejad, given a platform to speak to the world at the united nations this week, he ranted and raised. iranian president spent most of his 35-minute speech berating the u.s. as the worlds only "nuclear criminal" whil...

Of a case of obstruction of justice. >> the president is undergoing scrutiny after he sent out a tweet offering a new reason behind why he fired michael flynn. the president tweeting this yesterday. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. today the white house is playing damage control down-playing that tweet saying it was written by an attorney for the president. lets begin with the news that a senate investigation is developing a case on obstruction of ju...

With syria, informed at least, to some degree by what the united states intentions are. >> angela, i want to ask you about something the secretary of state said yesterday because it gets to the notion that you brought up before that now the entire administration is on the same page. well see, rex tillerson with nato ministers and the french foreign minister said, explain to me why ukraine matters to american taxpayers. what kind of message does that send to the rest of the world and to the peopl...

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