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Colleague jake tapper reports two minutes before that tweet. >> breaking news in our world lead now, north korea is vowing revenge against the united states after the u.n. security council led by nikki haley unanimously adopted the toughest sanctions yet against that country. >> and thats not all. at the same time, president trump was tweeting about the lack of coverage of sanctions on north korea. cnn was reporting on, thats right, u.s. sanctions against north korea. note the clock on the botto...

Craziness at evergreen state college. these things are actually happening. and they do really cast -- >> actually happening, but also young people who are first generation college students are going to college and having more opportunities than they ever would have had, but the right wing media is focussing on making a national story out of a speaker coming to campus. >> and free speech -- >> its a distortion. >> throughout the ivory league and elsewhere, and the elite schools, there are free sp...

Friend is my 1,000% enemy and monstrous human being. you see that an awful lot on college campuses to go back to what we talked about. you see this on the ground in progressive urban centers. theres a huge amount of intolerance, and people around the country see this, and reject it. theyre repulsed by it. >> but one of the things that really strikes me when we talk about college campuses and millennials is the the sort of tuning out of politics, elected politics, and it gets back to what i think...

Of being in your ivory tower and it was a republican with a pen initiation. >> i was talking about character and politics and ivy league lawsuit conservative student told me a i was an ivory tower -- >> thats the right wing talking point now. >> and youre an iraq war veteran. >> but i will say this about the college and university piece, and im sure well get to this later. nobody made up the berkeley riots, nobody made up the attacks on, you know, on charles murray at middle berry, the craziness...

See in both parties, is focussing on legislatures and governors and thinking, and not being afraid of being purged from the rolls, and that is a very effective strategy by, you know, the extreme of the right wing right now is trying to claim that there was election fraud and taking this fake commission and making it into a real fear factor for people who wont tip their toes into elected politics. >> i want to pivot to weve been talking about the problems. lets try to get some solutions. there ar...

Progressive movement, there is an enormous a. intolerance for id logical difference. its not just my 80% friend is my 80% friend, its my 80% friend is my 1,000% enemy and monstrous human being. you see that an awful lot on college campuses to go back to what we talked about. you see this on the ground in progressive urban centers. theres a huge amount of intolerance, and people around the country see this, and reject it. theyre repulsed by it. >> but one of the things that really strikes me when...

Sanders hillary clinton primary. why shake your head at this? why cant the president admit, yeah, they tried to help me? >> because there is no evidence that the president endeavored to engage the russians in helping him. >> okay. but thats not the point. he still doesnt admit they tried to help him. >> if anybody should understand fake news, i will gave brian and secretary clinton credit because if anybody should understand fake news, it would be secretary clinton because she -- she purveyed fa...

Others left high paying jobs at law firms. many have back grounds in investigating fraud and financial crimes. all told about 16 attorneys are part of this probe now. >> interesting. very interesting also that the focus seems at least in part to be on finances. so our investigators still looking into the possibility of collusion and obstruction of justice? >> very much so. the investigators and the attorneys are split up into groups. among those groups is one that is focussed on the question of ...

Releasing the sanctions. >> i think anybody looking at it objectively would know thats what a statement would respond to. it is insult to say the statement has no inaccuracies. >> its a lie. and kellyanne conway and sanders and the rest of them are lying. sanders is worse than spicer in terms of lying. its gone downhill. and the president should have nothing to do with the russian investigation. he should be focussing on his job, rather than trying to obstruct justice. >> mark, on this issue of ...

Whatnot. and instead of focussing on what jeff sessions is doing in el salvador right now, he is there to talk with law enforcement officials about combatting ms-13 gang, he was talking about other things and veering off topic and talking about the why police officers put people into cars. we need donald trump to detract from that message again and again. and like with jeff sessions, it is more of a loyalty thing. donald trump wants this loyalty and he wants people to put their reputations and t...