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While there may have been plans to do something, there is no indication the president did anything wrong. that is their claim, their spin. what i think is kind of in the big picture, most notable, is that the president himself is engaged in this, trying to undercut his lawyer -- former lawyer, michael cohen, against someone who was really his protector in many ways for a very long time. someone who would do things on behalf of the president, where the president didnt need to have fingerprints on...

Spicer but shes worse some days because with all due respect to sarah, she did enter the realm of alternative facts today. there was a panic in washington, d.c., among republican congressman who were precisely what she was asked. the reporter hallie did not say the president is an idiot. it was confusing. it was manifestly confusing to republicans who were lighting up the white house switchboard by every published report today. so to get up there and say its not confusing is a lie. and then to d...

Is a kind of process being imposed. the national security council has been around since 1947 officially. it won the cold war. not a bad recommendation for a given situation. for a given institution. and so theres a reason for process, theres a reason that foreign policy is conducted the way it is. now, the nature of a populist appeal, which is what trump obviously is selling, is that if this process were so great, if traditional foreign policy elites had it so right, why is the world in such a m...

>> and sergeant amanda pettepher has this strengthened or weakened your faith. >> strengthened my faith. god is going to take care of me no matter what comes our way. the law that theyre stating is the clergy privilege which i do not believe applies in this given situation. the reason why we are doing this it, we dont hold any animuses city toward the chief of police or toward the police department. they are very fine men and women working there who are friends. we have always worked with what w...

Afterwards, it appears that a gun had fallen and gone off while the man was running. he had dropped to the the ground. fox had to apologize for its false report. now, no one wants to go on the air and be wrong. mike tobin seems to have really, absolutely, genuinely thought he saw a man get shot. he was not making that up. this gets to a huge issue, intuitively, we tend to think that an eyewitness is our most reliable way of knowing what happened in a given situation. but social science has shown...

Wolf? >> were also hearing, brian, and youve been hearing really outside the box tactics now being reconsidered. >> thats right. in new york and elsewhere maybe bringing in a female officer or are a suspects mother to defuse a situation if possible in a given situation. new york is working on methods to keep officers egos in check to avoid confrontational scenarios. a lot are warning us tonight it will take a while. you cant just unlearn some of this behavior in a matter of weeks and months. >> ...

Which may or may not be necessary in a given situation. so what we have is were seeing black males. we dont see any other demographic being inordinately singled out for this kind of misconduct. >> i was talking to a man just the other night on our 10:00 show who is not african-american whos the man who was beaten and tased in the desert after eluding police and running and jumping on a horse. so he was not african-american and we have absolutely run that video here at cnn. heres my next question...

Rates are actually -- >> let me get back to the congresswoman -- look, i have to go back and forth in a reasonable way or were get into a stupid cable fight. im not doing that tonight. let me ask you another question, if you could have gotten a better deal to get bergdahl back, what would it have been, five, four, three, none? what would you have given the taliban, or would you have given them nothing? >> that is a question, a hypothetical, you really cant answer. >> its the question the preside...

Back, what would it have been, five, four, three, none? what would you have given the taliban, or would you have given them nothing? >> that is a question, a hypothetical, you really cant answer. >> its the question the president had to answer himself. >> right right, but chris, the deal that he took, the deal he took, you had panetta and clinton and others that already said do not do this. >> we said that on the show. what would you do? >> i dont know. you never know what youre going to do in a...

Concerned about a given situation. >> do you regret at all what you put some of the men through in that case, the guys who turned out to be innocent? >> people ask today did i apologize to george zimmerman? why would you regret standing up for someone -- >> not to george zimmerman. im talking about brawley. >> im absolutely talking about her. brawley made a claim -- bill cosby and everybody rallied around it before i did. why would i say that i should not come to the defense of someone who had m...