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His base could still stick with him. that could still happen. >> people willing to burn their lives down in order to have what, what are people getting in exchange for having their own economic lives destroyed? >> well, mine, its exactly right. for example, not to keep going to numbers, but theres a 15% cut in department of agriculture. theyre not just cutting food stamps but cutting conservation programs, crop subsidies at the same time the same people are suffering his reckless and irrational ...

U.s. intelligence have an official outline of what sort of chemical weapon was used that will give us an indication that the team is out of syria and the severity of the likely response. we been talking about it all day, ali we what we hearing here is proportional, deterrence, and sending a clear message. this is not about regime change. no one is talking about that here a the pentagon. they are talking about proportional responses to deter future use of chemical weapons. >> lets he a talk about...

Ago. >> yeah, john, this is something that is really fascinating to me and, in fact, i did a little survey last night and watched the other channels other than cnn. and every military analyst or national security analyst i said -- i watched said that a military response will not solve this problem. because thats what ive been saying for the last couple of years, working for cnn. it cant just be a military response. it has to be a full court press, using all elements of national power. most milit...

>> kristen, in terms of end goals is it for donald trump to stay in the pot light every moment of everyday because of the fact that we are going through every minute of what they could be doing in terms of transition seems a lot. >> reporter: well, he likes to build up the drama. we saw this with his vice president pick. hes doing that again with some of his cabinet choices and look at the way the process is playing out. the fact that we have seen these folks entered trump tower last weekend pla...

Conditions for peace talks, namely that the taliban renounce al qaeda, abandon teror and treat women better. this last aband has been a deal breaker and a contradiction to the half-baked u.s. line about respecting foreign cultures. a state department employee explained to reporters that these conditions are now thought of, as, quote, end goals, face saving is important in the grand game. the talks in doha which have been held semi-secretly for two years, became tantalizing in a proposal for swap...

But questions remain about whether its over-arching goal can be achievable, ever be achiev achieved. yoin joining us live today is melissa harris-perry, professor of political science at tulane. melissa, i understand, in your upcoming column youre going to address this and you were skeptical about this movement and its effectiveness but now theyve gone global. what do you think now? >> i am going to be talking about this a bit in my next nation piece trying to think about models of leadership an...

Its an an obama thing. but everybody kind of miss represents this to the average american. we always say well put up the necessary trade barriers to do that. in the end the american worker and the american consumer, although they are the same person, have different end goals. >> absolutely. and if you -- lets say you close the economy completely and global trade goes away, well, you either run into an inflation problem, trade war and actually put people out of work. so there are more intelligent...