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What ive done i have absolute right to do what i want to do with the justice department. but for purposes of hopefully thinking im going to be treated fairly ive stayed uninvolved with this particular matter. he also moved on to the congressional agenda claiming democrats could have gotten a better deal with republicans had they negotiated and engaged on the issue and tweeted and discussed daca, those brought to the united states illegally as children. he says the democrats arent going to contin...

France, 14%. this is a president who is batting zero when it comes to our european allies. >> clearly these stats wont be in the folder he gets every day. that point is well taken. when you have your 36-year-old daughter and son-in-law as your conciliatories speaking on your behalf and they have zero foreign policy knowledge, when you look at his cabinet, i like you, lets make you a cabinet member. these are people who have no experience whatsoever. this is a really dangerous position. this is a...

To talk to. and his aides contradict each other, and that compounds this problem in terms of the lack of basic knowledge of issues. >> alberto, thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. >> lets bring in jonathan and christina. there was a poll that talked about confidence in the united states president, trump versus obama. it isnt close in germany. 11% expressing confidence in trump. france, 14%. this is a president who is batting zero when it comes to our european allies. >> clearly thes...

Again today china is very much the economic life line to north korea. so while nothing is easy, if they want to solve the north korean problem, they will. the question has always been where is chinas line. china does not want to stabilize the regime. they do not want a unified korea. so wheres the line for china i think is the question that president trump is trying to answer. president obama tried to answer. president george w. bush tried to answer. president clinton tried to answer. >> not man...

Between a president and a national security adviser. the president has a lot of latitude in making such a decision because there is no senate confirmation for this person. so, the abrupt exit of michael flynn, who was also a general, after his failure to be fully forthcoming with the vice president and others, that turbulent period for the white house, to a degree, is now over because we can now say that will is a new choice. the presidents made a decision. he conducted his interviews. and now a...

Taiwanese president is the kind of loose cannon behavior that has gotten the world on very, very shaky. the only people around him are political operatives and not policy people. and he needs to get some policy people, some very, very experienced, savvy people, or hes going to make some critical mistakes. >> that was kentucky congressman, john yarmuth,eact to go donald trumps diplomatic miss step. the phone call with taiwans leader prompting some to raise questions about the president-elects for...

Whom are tremendously qualified. i think some of the criticisms of rudy giuliani are unfounded. hes someone who certainly proved his loyalty both to president-elect trump and to the party. and has a vast array of foreign policy knowledge. but thats it. the three other candidates are, good, too. donald trump is in a position of taking and weighing the opinions of a lot of people and doing what hes supposed to be doing, despite the belief he wouldnt be acting this way before he was elected. >> why...

Something goes wrong, you cant have the secretary of state take a walk. they must be with you shoulder to shoulder especially in public. in private they can clash all they want. rudy is the other side of that. rudy is extremely loyal and has foreign policy knowledge and in a world of terrorism, he understands the core issues and will help protect america. does rudy have the desire for the job and have the desire to travel around the world in whats a thankless painful job with ridiculous long hou...

To put it simply. >> why? >> because when you deliberately lie and put that out as a story, or you do shabby investigation and say we have investigated and we cant find anything, i mean, is that an acceptable standard? >> this week carson got into a media mess of his own making. its no secret hes been sinking in the polls. amid questions about his foreign policy knowledge. on wednesday morning he invited a reporter to his home to say he was unhappy with his campaign staffers, some whom he said w...

To put it simply. >> why? >> because when you deliberately lie and put that out as a story or you do shabby investigations and you say, we have investigated and we cannot find...i mean, is that an acceptable standard? >> but there week ben carson got into a media mess of his own making. it is no secret he has been sinking in the polls over questions of his foreign policy knowledge. on wednesday morning, he invited "washington post" reporter to his maryland home to say he was unhappy with his cam...