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Pinned a medal on two people and the dates, et cetera. it is a different thing to say when you are talking about honoring the bravery or the sacrifice or what other people went through and the essence of it is absolutely true. the fact that i said i was vice president. in one case, i was vice president elect. the other case i was a senator. i dont know that thats relevant. i dont know in one against if thats wrong. >> joining us now from "washington post." the former vice president comfortable t...

In 30 rock second week in a row. its great to have you all here. thank you. whoa, again. so the republicans this week were attacking democratic congresswoman-elect alexandria ocasio-cortez, and in their defense, they do that every week. i dont know why. she drives them nuts for some reason. this week they were attacking her because she went after an institution that has become kind of sacred, i think, to republicans, and thats the electoral college. aocs argument was basically that the electoral...

Challenges in the snowden -- with the snowden revelations, and mike was very effective, sort of our unofficial public spokesman. i thought i should follow that, that model. i will say this is a very individual personal decision. what jim did is circumspect as he has been, is classic jim mattis. and ill never forget the scene when he and the president elect were standing on the doorstep there at bedminster and i had two thoughts. thank god that jim is going to take this job on as secretary of def...

Briefing needed to be one on one so comey could present salacious information in the most discrete and least embarrassing way. at the same time we were told they did not want the president elect to receive a 1-on-1 briefing to hold information on him but that reference the first director of the fbi, j edgar hoover, secret files and willingness to blackmail political leaders. lets bring in byron york and former trump campaign aide carter page. welcome to you both. byron, you have written extensiv...

Relationship with the black community. he said the bad news is that i have a long record, but the good news is that i have a long record. people know me or at least they think they know me after all this time. they have a sense of who my character is and who i am, warts and all. how do you think hes trying to position himself here? what was the purpose of this? >> it was an interesting ming. they convened black journalists in washington as a series of round tables. this is an interesting moment ...

That we have lost for 30 years, allowing china to grow unfairly, using unfair trade practices from currency manipulation to stealing our intellectual property and the like. he needs a fire side chat, rally the american people. ironically there are some democrats who support his new trade policy and the fact that hes doing it now. it is a now or never moment. if we are not successful at rebalancing our situation with china in this administration, then i fear we never will. >> cenk? >> yeah, so, l...

Trump loans, very late in the game in terms of his political career. so, i mean, that obviously would be absolutely flummoxing, but i dont know, im going to now sit and watch your show. >> it would -- it would test the trump theory that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and his supporters would still be with him. >> yeah, man. seriously. thats the financial equivalent of that. >> it is. >> thanks, lawrence. >> thank you, rachel. well, the presidency hasnt changed trump, he is changing the p...

Helped elect some of the people in congress, in the senate who we hear defending donald trump. stuart stephens knows these people and he says they are not telling the truth when they defend donald trump, they dont believe that stuff. stuart stephens will join us at the end of the hour on a day when congress got a big step closer to obtaining donald trumps tax returns, on a day when we learned that the money in trump world is flowing in every possible direction. the attorney general of the united...

Environmentalist, he probably could see that pressure, but in the past few days weve seen the pressure, with activists and leaders voicing their outrage. 1,000-year-old trees are burning an ecosim is falling apart. weve been doing this for 30 years. that pressure has had an effect with where were seeing him deploy the military, firefighters, and we need to keep up that pressure. this problem is not going to go away. >> paul, realistically, what can our viewers do? if people seeing these pictures...

For millions of americans, this is not a policy issue. this is an urgency. and for those who have not been directly affected, they are tired of living in a country where their kid goes to school to learn reading wrighting and arithmetic and learning how to deal with an active shooter. this is what im tired of, all people have to offer is thoughts and prayers, and in my faith, people say faith without works is dead. and we will find a way. the reason we have a problem right now is we have let the...