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Presumption that general kelly was somehow better than what weve seen in the white house already. Hes had a terrible, very bad month, but then again, most of this administration has been a series of unfortunate and absolutely avoidable mistakes. I think the greatest problem that we saw with the attack on the member of congress is, this was not a tit for tat, this was not a back and forth. This was a member of congress expressing her concerns about how the president spoke to a constituent of hers...

With everybody in california but the vast majority. id say 55, 60%. we are a divided country. were also a divided state. but there is a strong majority that agree maybe not everything but the vast majority of what gavin newsom has been doing. >> there is something important people need to be aware of right now that larry elder is doing. he is trying to basically set the table for some sort of voter fraud here. again, with no evidence. no basis at all for this. he is saying, quote, i believe that...

Its really stunning because up here, republicans are waiting on pins and needles to see what the president would sign into law so they can do something that would satisfy him. hes asked for $5 billion in wall funding. the white house has said hell accept $1.6 billion in wall funding. really, all over the place in a way that weve never seen before just days before trump loses control of all republican washington. its unlike anything ive personally seen in a decade covering this stuff, a president...

Shut down. before you believe mitch mcconnell, he believes its mostly irrelevant at this point. >> it doesnt make big headlines, but we funded 75% of the government for the first time in 20 years. this 25% remaining and in that, it includes this ongoing discussion over voter security. in the end, he and schumer and pelosi have to decide what they are going to do. even though this is a republican government, the democrats are not irrelevant. they are a part of the governing process. >> the he kno...

Demand a retraction from donald trump as a condition for dealing with him. and if they dont, the truth will suffer once again and the future of governance in this country will take yet another turn for the worse. it is against most professional politicians nature to be confrontational in these situations. they are compromisers by nature, especially in the congressional leadership, and especially when the rationale for compromise is for the good of the country, as it always is when trying to avoi...

To gain short term advantage. disrespect for science and other important values and blowing up norms of governance. and we tried to send out warning signals. most elected republicans were very unhappy with us. some who are not in office were delighted that we were trying to bring their party back to a governing process. and we saw the seeds for a trump like figure emerging. frankly though its been even worse than we thought it could be. as we see a party now that has no interest in investigating...

Stability and afghanistan. secretary tillerson travels tomorrow to talk with senior afghan he leaders. they have denied safe haven to terrorist groups. he added that there are still moderates are among the taliban, he wants the u.s. to reach out to the moderate elements to be involved in any type of peace process, perhaps a governing process moving forward in afghanistan. this is as though trump administration has announced that it will increase the u.s. troop presence in afghanistan, a country ...

Things. theres so many opportunities for this to be derailed, thomas. >> how influential, kasie, is the tethering of a chief of staff kelly for donald trump at such a pivotal time when we know that doing something in tax reform is a big deal for him? >> i think general kelly -- you know, i think the question is going to be does he move beyond this in a way that allows him to continue to play the role that many on capitol hill had come to understand him playing. he essentially has been acting as ...

Something? because it looks like hes going to get nothing. >> chris, you and i come from a tradition where the people we work for -- and when i was in the congress, there was a willingness of both republicans and democrats, tip oneill, bob michael, willing to work together to try to find solution to the problems facing this country. the biggest challenge for president trump is that he does not seem to have the ability to understand what goes into the governing process. and the ability to sit dow...

Peaceful town kim jong uns summer residence is also the countrys most important military staging area. from an outsiders view it seems rather unbalanced to launch missiles from a place being developed for tourism purposes but its working for kim jong uns governing process. john young is spending billions to turn the bay into a tourist area and the one son special tourist zone foreign investors have already plowed around one and a half billion dollars into an area covering around four hundred squ...