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>> well, on the good side, shes a governor. she has political stature. i think what you want in those jobs is somebody that is perceived to be close to the president. shes been an executive. the down side is, foreign policy. she has no experience. when you are u.n. ambassador, you are a member of the cabinet. you have to be in the national security meetings. she has to bone up intensively. obviously, foreign trade missions that shes taking are not going to be the norm for a u.n. ambassador. she ...

>> right, so first of all the threat assessments, stock? he talks about what are the threats to the united states, what groups are planning attacks, what do we know about those attacks? then he should be getting briefed on what are u.s. operations abroad? were doing a lot of stuff all over the world, human operations, satellites, cyber operations. he should start to learn what that is. third of all its intercepted communications from world leaders. we have a lot of information on what other coun...

Policies someone has to buy into if they want to work for him. consider a mitt romney, called russia a couple years ago the geopolitical foe of the u.s. and michael flynn saying we should work with russia, particularly in syria and particularly to fight isis. >> the down side of that, you lay it out, that when you have a lot of cooks in the kitchen and some of them are making french food and some are making mexican food, what are they -- does it end up being a mish-mash of something that isnt co...

Over. with that dip, the gains over the past week and a half are simply stunning. dow jumped 5.4%. nearly 1,000 points since the election. the big surge last month came as it looked like hillary clinton would win the election. then despite an overnight freakout, the gains rolled on as trump proclaimed victory. some say it has come too far too fast. others are resetting ahead of the trump administration. the u.s. dollar hitting the highest level in years. the fed was prepared to hike rates at the...

There criticizing colleges for not using enough of their money to help middle or lower income kids defray the cost of tuition. heres the problem, not many colleges have the kind of endowments he seems to be criticizing. how many colleges do you know have billion-dollar endowments? there are probably about 100 in the u.s. so youre talking about a very limited application of what hes talking about donald trump says if the colleges do not take some of that money and use it to help poor to middle-in...

Should they be picking the specific states they must win on the narrow path that he has to 270 electoral votes and camping out there until election day? >> call me crazy. i think it is a good strategy. i think it is interesting. what youre seeing is to his offense, the clinton campaign is now defense. theyre going back into states where they shouldnt have to go. in colorado and florida and places like that that they thought would be slam-dunks for them. thats what the numbers said at the end of ...

Hes running against congress. that includes people in both parties. he is an outsider, someone who will disrupt washington. when you do that people even in your own party are uneasy. one of donald trumps greatest strengths is hes an outsider. sometimes when it comes to relationships with other republicans you have to deal with this as well. there is a down side. >> you talk about the party. your party, matt, being not unified. when you are looking at the down ballot races. >> right. >> how conce...

Conservatives wont turn out. those disagreements are about policy. this guedisagreement, whether o not this person is fit to be president of the united states and not just the right or center of the republican party arguing about this. it is the entire spectrum. >> even before this news were hearing today, the republican house speaker, the vice presidential nominee four years ago, republican house speaker paul ryan understands what its like to be on national ticket, telling the nominee youre on ...

Producing at the highest level since the 1970s. our domestic oil production has basically doubled in the past five years. a lot of that is shale but its incredible. all this oil is flooding the market plus we are waiting for iran to come onstream. on the demand side of things, demand also looks a little wobbly. globally, china is slowing, they are fwthe biggest consumer of r commodities, then there is the financial mechanics of it. oil is a commodity denominated in dollars and the fed finally ra...

Sierra including lake tahoe. some of the areas could see as much as 1-2 feet of snow across the higher elevations. thats the case across the cascades and northern rockies. you can see how unsettled it will be through at least friday of this week. we are looking at a week of unsettled weather. it will be storm system after storm system. we have one nownd a the next one arrives early on thursday. lets head over to you. >> thank you maria. >> she is getting ready . >> coming up next, why americans ...