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>> anthony: how many years have you guys worked together? >> eric: actually a long time. from day one of my career to when i left for america. >> maurice: a very long time. >> anthony: why did you go to america and leave your ancestral homeland? >> eric: robuchon sent me to america. i wanted to go to brazil. and he looked at me and smiled and said, "i cant send you to brazil. youre not going to cook anything there." actually, robuchon helped me come to america, he found me the job. >> anthony: w...

This south korean envoy was in the west wing. he was meeting with general mcmaster and others, and he summoned him to the oval office. gathered his top aides around him and when mr. chung, the south korean, told him kim jong-un wanted to meet on the spot, the president said lets do it. and then he asked mr. chung to go out and tell the white house press corps. and that set off this very panicked kind of huddle among the presidents aides about how you actually do that. i mean, this gentleman is a...

Something like that. this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. this is not the last school shooting. there will be others. guaranteed. the question is where and when. unless we do something, it will not change. >> it has been one every three days. you can see brand new investigators arriving here at the scene behind us. a heavy law enforcement presence as you would imagine. charles, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >> christine, back to you in new york. dave, than...

Im dave briggs live in parkland, florida. following overnight developments in the high school shooting that killed 17 people. this is the ninth deadliest in school history. >> so far, gun rights advocates, dave, have been silent. two republicans are taking a familiar fallback position if you will. including senator marco rubio. >> some of the coal llleagues ie senate have been trying to make this about policy and about gun control. is this the appropriate time to being doing that? >> it is not. ...

Homeland? >> eric: robuchon sent me to america. i wanted to go to brazil. and he looked at me and smiled and said, "i cant send you to brazil. youre not going to cook anything there." actually, robuchon helped me come to america, he found me the job. >> anthony: what would you have been if youd failed as an aspiring chef? what was your fallback position? >> eric: i wanted to be a forest ranger. >> anthony: forest ranger? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: why? you like nature or something? >> eric: yeah...

This early on, the thought with was that thats maybe where the special prosecutor was going, manafort maybe had liquidity and financial problems and thought being appoint as trump campaign manager might get him out of the woods here. could leave you with a scenario, where trump is going to go eventually, there are going to be more indictments down the road, hes going to say i didnt know anything about this. thats going to be his fallback defense in the end. even if my campaign officials, my camp...

Actually, robuchon helped me come to america, he found me the job. >> anthony: what would you have been if youd failed as an aspiring chef? what was your fallback position? >> eric: i wanted to be a forest ranger. >> anthony: forest ranger? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: why? you like nature or something? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: what was it, the uniform? you like the uniform? the shorts -- they get shorts and a little hat like smokey the bear. >> anthony: but youre not an outdoorsmen at all. you ...

Actually, robuchon helped me come to america, he found me the job. >> anthony: what would you have been if youd failed as an aspiring chef? what was your fallback position? >> eric: i wanted to be a forest ranger. >> anthony: forest ranger? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: why? you like nature or something? >> eric: yeah. >> anthony: what was it, the uniform? you like the uniform? the shorts -- they get shorts and a little hat like smokey the bear. >> anthony: but youre not an outdoorsmen at all. you ...

Went into a flooded highway underpass. more news after the interview. mr. secretary, thanks for the time. >> great to be here. >> bret: do the hurricanes and the extra spending make it tougher on tax reform and not busting the budget? >> i dont think so. first of all, these two hurricanes, these were back-to-back. this is a horrible situation, and our number one focus is to make sure we get the money to the states to rebuild. >> bret: house ways and means committee chairman kevin brady said toda...

Obamacare light. not having that supported means they are in the position of trying to hang the repeal sign on anything they do. david and i were talking before we came on this morning, in in quiet period you dont want to count anything out from being accomplished. it seems a very difficult road. i think what is additionally difficult, i should say, is their fallback position is if they work with democrats to get something, i dont think democrats are going to participate as long as it is under t...