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call and start saving today. all right thats gonna do it comcast business. powering possibilities. for me tonight. alex wagner will be here tomorrow. now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell good evening lawrence. good evening rachel and wish me luck sleeping tonight after listening to james acton talking about that nuclear power plant situation. you know it i did when i bought the one house that i bought in this world? i kind of drove around the neighborhood looking for n...

Is part of the concern why russia is getting aggressive and china getting very aggressive around the globe. not just their region. >> benjamin: a lot of haggling over the bill. president biden got one of the things he wanted. the nord stream 2 sanctions were removed. he didnt get funds to close guantanamo. you have given evidence and testimony. you dont believe it should happen. explain why its important to keep guantanamo open at the moment. >> the reality is our adversaries dont think the war ...

Announcement comes as welcome news to this white house. >> what i can tell you is what president obamas approach has been and its simply abide by an extraordinarily high standard. and even going to great lengths to avoid any appearance of a potential conflict of interest. >> president-elect trump has spoken of how he would look to keep the prison facility at guantanamo open. >> conversations have included a discussion helping him understand the policy that we have pursued. its a policy that we w...

His guests into a great story line. and how that affected his policies. >> wanted to came to immigration, thats when the president got no points for being a unifier. >> he couldve been a little more careful about the ms-13 part come about explaining that not everyone coming from south of the border is necessarily ms-13. >> michiganders were hoping to her plans about investing in crumbling infrastructure, glad to hear pans about combating opioid addiction. and of course an estate payments for str...

This tone deaf. this is the only presidency whose national security adviser committed a crime and has confessed and plead guilty to that crime in his first week in office and this first state of the union says this president promises to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the american people. thats what robert mueller is doing. >> in this speech, the president also said he had just signed an executive order to keep guantanamo open. that is -- and that was an applause ...

Good to see you today. this is not the only formerly detained terror suspect at gitmo who has returned to terror. >> thats right. in this case, sadly he became a suicide bomber, but we have a huge rate where these released detainees rejoin the ranks of terrorists and in most cases they become leaders in their various movements. these guys once theyre released from guantanamo are rock stars in the jihadi world. my own personal experience in afghanistan, a man released to the afghan government and...

Thats a good rule for life though. >> one of the things that i deeply respect about president obama, he has been welling to set aside his own political differences with donald trump to put the best interest of the country first. so the point is, i cant spend the whole briefing criticizing the president-elect. >> good afternoon, everybody. >> donald trump said that he was going to be stepping away from business to focus on running the country. i was wondering if that announcement comes as -- welc...

>> one of the things that i deeply respect about president obama, he has been welling to set aside his own political differences with donald trump to put the best interest of the country first. so the point is, i cant spend the whole briefing criticizing the president-elect. >> good afternoon, everybody. >> donald trump said that he was going to be stepping away from business to focus on running the country. i was wondering if that announcement comes as -- [ indiscernible question ] >> what i ca...

Gloria, is there a trump doctrine that is emerging in weve seen over the past eight years, an obama doctrine. the trump doctrine seems so far a bit murky. >> it is a bit murky. first what we know is that it is not obama. that would be one way to describe it. we dont have a secretary of state yet. but what weve seen from donald trump is mixed messages on the question of torture, for example. we do know he wants to keep guantanamo open which is something the president said today that you cannot do...

Last week its unconstitutional. the ruling was the end of last week. by the end of this week, congress has to vote on whether or not to reauthorize that program. thats a pressing matter. weve also got to vote this week on the big defense appropriations bill. they will be studiously ignoring the question whether or not the war against isis in iraq and syria is an authorized war. actually takes active work to keep ignoring that question. while also authorizing this years pentagon spending and as t...