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Of staff a fellow by the name of fred fleitz who used to work at the cia and so forth, and a variety of muslim organizations including cair attacks every one of the appointments, they demand flights be removed. they worked over congress on pompeo. they have a special distain for bolton. whats that all about? >> i have to tell you, i was seeing patient in my office and somebody was watching c-span and senator murphy talk about how upset he was pompeo was nominated. murphy from the floor of the se...

Can think through all the intricacies and threats here, right? great staff, top-level folks. joining us now is dion nissenbaum, national reporter for the "wall street journal." his story in the journey paints this troublesome picture about fred fleits who is the new choice to be chief of staff at the national security council. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> mr. fleitz has worked with john bolton before. in that sense hes not much of a surprise in terms of somebody who j...

Trump administration on this is they basically characterized this as a smear campaign against fred fleitz, but what we did is to read through what he said and read through this study where he lays out these views, paints this very dark vision of islam, says that 80% of the mosques in america are these dens of subversion or violence. it talks about banning al jazeera. it suggests stripping citizenship from people that promote some conservative views of islam. it lays out a lot of policy prescript...

He did. and if thats the case, he is in a lot of trouble. >> martha: fred fleitz, great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> martha: president trump slaption what he calls unprecedented sanctions on the north koreans, upping the pressure, while send ago new emissary to south korea. then guess who is back. governor john kasich. word is that he thinks there is a real possibility that trump wont run again. and that this could possibly be his time. >> trump got, you know, $1.8 billion worth of f...

Director brennan do you know who commissioned this steele dossier? >> i dont. >> do you know if the bureau ever relied on the steele dossier as any -- as part of any court filings? applications? petitions? pleadings? >> i have no awareness. >> martha: i have no awareness. here now fred fleitz former cia analyst and senior vice president for security for policy. >> good to be here. >> martha: let me draw your attention to this from exclusive report in real clear investigations, it says several ca...

Our law enforcement team needs to proceed as it normally would by the book with regards to the trump investigation of russia. then, this is senator graham talking about the letter that he wrote asking her about this on this show back in february. watch. i think thats odd and disturbing because we know that the investigation regarding the trump campaign was anything but by the book. >> so tonight, her lawyer is responding to the questions that were raised about why she would have written this ema...

Statements will come from the white house and at this point in time, we are just going to be in a watch and wait mode. it is notable that they used bombers in a small bombing raids last week because the ones that are capable of carrying bombs but they are not nuclear-capable now as important as they dont want to escalate the situation. abby: a great update from jennifer griffin. thank you so much. trend or lets get it over to pete for panel discussion. tragedy is successfully conducted a test of...

Upset about it and i hope there are already talks underway between the u.s. and china on how we can increase the pressure. pete: i sure do as well. anthony ruggiero and fred fleitz, thank you your time. more on our other top story overnight. hes been feeling the effects of harvey. griff jenkins live on the scene. >> good morning. new evacuations a week after the storm had cut in just over an hour. weve got that torre coming out. yeah, my dad says our insurance doesnt have that. what?! you can le...

This, and for to you sit here and try to argue against that means that youre going against everything that youve ever been trained to know. neither you nor i would ever allow ourselves to be put in that position and to say that this 39-year-old man is an amateur. he had the former director of defense intelligence agency on his staff as an adviser. so for the most part, i think making that argument is specious, doesnt take the seriousness of this situation into account and discredits and disgrace...

Closed communication facilities so that we can talk without a u.s. intelligence hearing, why would he do that? >> first of all looks like were changing the subject. youre conceding that theres nothing here. >> no, there is, this is the crux of it. >> jared kushner said about this separate line of communications i dont know why he did that. theres obvious theres some trouble with setting up a separate line of communications with a government of an adversary. >> but you dont think theres a problem...