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Clarissa we had nikki haley on, the ambassador to the u.s., one-time governor of south carolina. had a couple of important things to say. one, this is so much different than what has been decided in the past, and afghanistan and pakistan arent on the travel ban because we know enough about the people who are traveling from those countries wanting to come into the u.s. what do you make of those two notions? >> well i think lets start with the first notion. i think president trump had a really pie...

Provide a couple of areas where they can provide common ground and that would go a long way to winning over support from the people who voted for trump that had been obama supporters. those are the runs they need to reach out, to obama supporters who are now for trump. they have to start peeling some of those people back. >> ann, lets game out a biden run for a second. he would have to distance himself a bit from some of the things that president obama did. >> sure. and -- and you saw him do tha...

Assad, his father was also supported by the russians. this is a very old, deep relationship. the russians have said for a while now its not so much that theyre attached to bashar al-assad as much as they are attached to the importance of sovereignty and respecting the sovereignty of syria. but it will be very difficult to persuade them after all the money that they have spent supporting assad, after all the weaponry that they have poured in there, after all the power on the geopolitical stage th...

Those sort of democrats, moderate democrats who might come on board and who on would appreciate that. >> and i think beyond that, on gorsuchs part, it is putting his foot down for the judicial independence he hopes to have once hes on the court. i mean, he didnt -- >> once he becomes a so-called justice. >> thats right. he didnt call lindsey graham on any one of those things. he let lindsey graham make every single one of those points that yes, the president could be in potential legal jeopardy,...

Counterintelligence investigation. >> so youre saying, ken, this isnt going away any time soon. >> absolutely not. >> i want to bring in vit gemali and author of "how to catch a russian spy." good to see you. >> i agree with ken, theyre going to have to address this claim by the president that essentially there say wiret and the danger with that is as ken is saying by admitting it or denying it. theyre essentially admitting or denying that there is a larger investigation and just from a law enfo...

Do something that he had trouble, john boehner his predecessor had trouble doing, which is to help get the very unruly republican rank-and-file foeked and shame them into living. >> it would have been nice. i would not be surprised because theres constant communication between kevin mccarthy and paul ryan and donald trump, if this is something they knew he was going to do. i was told this was all djt, meaning donald trump, but i wouldnt be surprised. >> look at the speed with which things happen...

Speaker and leadership want to pass rules changes the freedom caucus doesnt like. what they have as leverage is simply their caucus vote of 40 to say if he passes these rules changes, we arent going to vote for him. they are negotiating and doing fancy footwork now in order to prevent rules changes like vacate the chair motion which was the motion that led to speaker boehners downfall. >> sounds like the type of thing we have heard before. >> posturing? what? >> harumphing. posturing. mary kathe...

Oh, no! >> theres a tradition in new hampshire presidential politics where candidates have to flip pancakes at a pancake breakfast. >> oh, no! you compare and contrast the politicians skill at flipping pancakes at this event. gary bauer was the worst ever. >> jack be nimble, jack be quick, whoa, jack fall over the bisquick. >> one of the most embarrassing moments for any politician ive seen. >> i hope your campaign platform is more solid than your footing, mr. bauer. that goes for you too, mr. d...

So the temptation of some sort of jihadist glory and the battle in syria and iraq may not be quite what it used to be these days. george? >> jihadi john, where did he come from? a former teacher calls him quiet and reserved. we went to london to find out more about the man who hid behind the mask. >> reporter: its an ordinary scene in a west london high scoop. teenage boys goofing around with a basketball. one with a backpack shows off some fancy footwork. then someone calls out the name to matc...

If they see an opportunity to attack either the united states or great britain, they would do it regardless of whether we had killed jihadi john. >> its always great to have your perspective this evening. >> good to be on the program. >> where did jihadi john come from. we went to learn more about the man behind the mask. >> teenage boys goofing around with a basketball, won wearing a backpack shows off some fancy footwork, then someone calls out the name to match the now famous face. mohammed e...