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Meaningful but essentially meaningless new activity." nixons secret manual was exposed during the watergate hearings and later outlawed but oznos reports that the tactic of maroons civil servants in obscure assignments persists today. its called being sent to the turkey farm. and the idea is to encourage the ones who arent sufficiently loyal to trump to resign out of sheer boredom or shame. oznos reports that in a kind of revival of nixons technique the trump administration has consigned hundred...

Exposed during the watergate hearings and later outlawed but osnos reports that the tactic of maroons civil servants in obscure assignments persists today. its called being sent to the turkey farm. and the idea is to encourage the ones who arent sufficiently loyal to trump to resign out of sheer boredom or shame. osnos reports that in a kind of revival of nixons technique the trump administration has consigned hundreds of people to the turkey farm, banishing them to a bizarre form of purgatory. ...

Steve: the memorial is beautiful. you have already got the land. its going to be to the east of the white house. tell us a little bit about this because this piece of art has never been done before. this is not the actual memorial. this is just a depiction of what its going to look like. >> this is an idea what it will become. looking at a bronze wall that will eventually be created 65 feet in length. 11 feet high. with 38 figures. all marching towards the future. which is that image of world wa...

Believed. thats the goal. >> so these rank and file people in the fbi that the president paid tribute to and sessions does all the time as you should, theyve served the country, to say that they are doing their job and then to say but there shouldnt have been any surveillance of this guy carter page who is dealing back and forth with the russians. how can he have it both ways? >> your previous guest chuck rosenburg laid this out. its the rank and file that helped compile this information. >> thi...

Believed. thats the goal. >> so these rank and file people in the fbi that the president paid tribute to and sessions does all the time as you should, theyve served the country, to say that they are doing their job and then to say but there shouldnt have been any surveillance of this guy carter page who is dealing back and forth with the russians. how can he have it both ways? your. >> previous guest chuck rosenburg laid this out. its the rank and file that helped compile this information. >> th...

State? >> i do have confidence in rex tillerson as secretary of state. hes doing something most secretaries of states and most people who walk into a bureaucracy wouldnt do, thats trying to restructure it. restructuring any federal agency is hard grunt work and is difficult to do and takes a lot of time. and hes taking it on. im proud of him for taking it on because it should have been done a long time ago. its much needed for our international diplomacy to make sure were more efficient in that ...

>> donald trump has never taken responsibility for anything that has happened in his administration. its always somebody elses fault. so the failure to pass the repeal and replacement of obamacare, its the republicans in congresss fault. and he is always whining about something and never been his responsibility. we would actually be better as a caucus -- what -- the clip you played of paul ryan shows how divided republicans are look at the health care deeblt. different factions talking about dif...

Different things when you have such a division you need strong leadership from the white house. the president hasnt done that. views president as ceo and congress as middle managers and vp he is doing the grunt work. he comes in for grunt work. >> what does it make jared. >> one lucky internal. >> jonathan. >> no naes actually an dpenlt description. president trump has evan says being takes responsibility for nothing. lets take the health care situation for example. the house passes a -- passes ...

We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like g.d.p. but how much of us have a role we find meaningful? we should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas. brian: what about is that universal income? is that a new idea you think that will help? >> i think thats wealth redistribution is what he is talking about. taking other peoples money and giving it to someone else so we all balance out. i think its ...

Mothers day, were not coming after the white house announced on friday the king would be there. look. they dont trust the president. they dont think we lead anymore. theyve been unhappy for several years. they asked for some kind of defense shield some kind of agreement we would protect them from the iranians and their feeling is very clear that the president just wants to use them as a prop for his iranian -- the iranian nuclear deal which, frankly, neil i dont get after your last guest after w...