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neil: democratic congressman henry cuellar in the last hour talking about revelations that were shocking and released late on a friday night. thats what happens with a lot of information that could be very embarrassing to authorities, but in this particular case extremely embarrassing anybody for everyone in this country. 251,000 plus migrant encounters at the border last month. we have never seen that, forget about in any december, in any month in our history like ever, ever, ever. gr...

Midterm elections and not doing anything to disrupt that and maybe not trying to get the justice department too riled up for fear that they would have another situation like they had with donald trump. so much we dont know. im just wondering what do you make of that 68-day gap? >> it is a remarkable gap, to my mind, neil. look, i think you put your finger on it. the biden administration made a conscious decision not to reveal the fact that they documents in places. and we the american people kno...

Autocracy in russia. a lot of people are speculating about civil war in the united states. its interesting i think that americans because youve had that horrific experience in your history, that you frame things frequently in terms of civil war. thats certainly a risk, widespread violence certainly is a risk in part because the american public is so heavily armed with some 400 million firearms in civilian hands in the country. but i think the real risk is ultimately less internal violence, which...

Concern is the development of a right wing as i say dictatorship, a hard autocracy in the country that would take some time to consolidate and might be a drip, drip, drip process that could take a decade or more to consolidate. >> so you paint this picture in very stark terms both in your op-ed and tonight on this show. question, do you believe the both sides american media is taking this threat seriously enough? >> i think its been a sea change just in the last few weeks actually. in part becau...

But youre saying because this new news is so stark, you think actually senators voting to not have witnesses might actually become an important part of the record. >> history shows us that stonewalls can leak. this is a drip, drip, drip process. its step by step. i dont know what the ultimate outcome will be, but this makes a vote, at least on the motion to consider a motion for witnesses, much more likely. >> tim naftali, thank you so much. please stand by. will they address this blockbuster ...

President obama, leon panetta and former chief of staff for president bill clinton. thank you, appreciate your time. what is your reaction to the latest development? >> well, its part of this drip, drip process of finding out exactly what kind of inner relationship there was between various individuals in the trump campaign with russia. you know, its been something that obviously bob mueller focused on. the committees in congress focused on it. whats of concern is that we are going through this ...

Get things out because if they try to rush things out then you have the sbel agencies im agreeing with mike theres going to be the drip, drip, drip process and along with that you find out some of these got into google and other very public servers. >> of all the e-mails thats come out, what have we actually learned that somehow changes what hillary clinton did or didnt do? what did we actually learn? >> its not republicans.

For that final slot. i think almost any way you slice it. who knows, could get late surprises. we may have one or two national polls come out. the process is fairly opaque as to which exactly theyre using and how theyre going to weight the form l.a. theyre so close at the bottom of the pack. kasich and perry, especially perry, he is trying to take a mulligan on his race in 2012 and its the debate stage that screwed him up. >> yeah. it really is. i dont know if he needs it or should stay away fro...

>> i would. >> would you? >> i would. i dont think there is any doubt that the united states should use any intervention available including military intervention to keep iran from developing a nuclear weapon. >> are you concerned? a lot of people are concerned about the 24-day waiting period for inspections. it zptdoesnt make a lot of sense to people from the outside. what have you learned in this process that gives you more comfort that thats not a deal breaker? >> well both from secretary mun...

Option thats are currently available to us to intervene in iran militarily as you said earlier in the show if in fact iran either cheats or at the end of the agreement decides to violate the terms of the nonproliferation treaty and move toward the weaponization of nuclear weapons. >> do you feel we have the option to attack them militarily if they end up breaking the agreement with us? >> i think we have stronger standing to use that tool because we would have given diplomacy a chance and in ord...