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Bradley and former first lady hillary clinton. the traditional advice for the big stars of the freshman class of the senate is to stay quiet at the beginning. try to convince your fellow senators that youre there to do the work of the senate, not just there seeking more attention. mitt romney is the most famous freshman senator weve seen in a while. he is the first freshman senator in history who was the nominee for of his party in a presidential campaign. important footnote here, i know youre a...

Knee-jerk need to show that nobody can push him around, my friend vladimir putin and so forth, trying to show kind of a commodore with vladimir putin. that hasnt helped him. in terms of actual evidence, i agree with kim, but i also think that he could have done more to draw a very straight line in the sand to show that he is not in any way aligned with -- paul: those things did happen, they exist, the steel dossier exists, they havent gone anywhere. >> thats right. >> we should add as footnote, ...

Some extent is what happened this time where senate republicans are trying to move forward on something they were told the president would support and all of a sudden the rug was pulled fraught them, so what were seeing right now is a continuation of the same old reindeer games that we see in politics that is real frustrating the american public right now, whether youre conservative or republican. things just arent getting done the way they should. >> this is a republican saying that this is, ag...

Billion, the president dodged the direct question three times. >> both chambers are expected to gavel in today. no votes are scheduled. president trump said he would be proud to own the shutdown. punting president blame now and pointing the finger at soon-to-speaker nancy pelosi. >> we have a problem with the democrats because nancy pelosi is calling the shots, not chuck. chuck wants to have this done. i really believe that. shes calling the shots and shes calls them because she wants the votes....

Shall report submitted to the justice department, is there any scenario in which the public wont get an opportunity to find out the details of that report? >> that is the key question, so let me break it down so that people understand the process and i, myself, had to go through a couple of things to look at it. the report goes to the new acting attorney matt whittaker and prior to that it would have be rose enstein, because sessions recused himself, but now, whitaker, and first footnote, if bil...

>> this man is remorseless. >> the electric chair flashed in front of my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs with the truth forward. >> i know that 85 or 90% of this country want to move on from peace to social justice at home so that we finally end the terrible pockmarks that have made america recite a pledge of allegiance to her flag for two centuries if with a footnote that says this is what we wish we were instead of what we are. >> my father al onestein was a political activists. >> he w...

Being picked up specifically by flynns lawyers got this judge a little worked up. >> you know, the judiciary takes its independence incredibly seriously. and theres no doubt that theyve been under attack by this administration. created rulings, done it in an independent way that honors the tradition of following the law in this country. if decision at the end of the day was granted an assess many of the law and the sentencing are regime on this particular case. he didnt play into the hands of th...

>> mike, i hate to say this, bring this up, but donald trump actually told me that he couldnt pick petraeus as his secretary of state because all the other generals told him that he had voiled a sacred trust he is been given. just a little footnote to this question. but go ahead. >> did you get the sense that judge sullivan is angry about sentencing disparity here? >> im not sure if its disparity so much as its this idea ooh abuse of a position of trust. thats a concept thats baked into the guid...

Criticizing, effectively, the fbi for the way they conducted that interview and for this -- the personnel that were involved in contacting flynn around this matter, naming fbi officials who have since left the bureau under circumstances that brought a lot of public opprobrium on them, it strikes me that were getting a bunch of new information about the contact between the fbi and flynn, again, during which he lied, but weve got all these quotes in terms of how the fbi agents themselves approache...

Statement before, during, or after the interview. this is a new material claim in the flynn defense. he is having this fbi interview under friendly circumstances with fbi personnel with whom he had reason to believe he was having a sort of cordial or collegial discussion with. they did not warn him at any time, according to flynns defense counsel that if he lied to the fbi, even in jocular circumstances like that, he would be committing a crime. this is an interesting new claim. okay. back to th...