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What i think is a reasonably coherent strategy. the administration had a win over the weekend at the u.n. by getting the chinese and the russians to sign on to very tough sanctions resolution. now with this new war of words, weve pushed off of that strategy seems to me and tried to go back to threats, which are only going to get the north koreans to pursue their weapons programs and missile program more aggressively. so i think we should lower the temperature a bit and get back to what the secre...

And while the gop is fractured, congressional democrats appeared fully united in their opposition. >> well, trumpcare is here and you are going to hate it. this is a dumpster fire of of a bill that was written on the back of a napkin behind closed doors. >> the american hospital association says it can not support the bill in its current form. the very powerful aarp is complaining the bill includes an age tax that will cost older fr thats the ad theyre running and even steve bannons old haunt br...

Ivanka to the full scope of laws, including financial conflict, ethics laws, financial disclosure. many of the things that he himself is not doing. eye vonkae full pan noply that is subjecte to every other person. and so if the president himself set acetone, and we will get an announcement as soon as this week what le do, and no hahe wi half measures is allowed, frances. and he needs to sell his stuff through an independent trustee, and the blind trust. im going the to t ting to focu country and...

That he was going to hand over the management of the trump organization to his children. but that doesnt change his ownership or the fact that his name is emblazoned on all of these hotels and resorts. i think that, really, the devils in the details. it was very interesting to see the normally stayed office of governmental ethics sort of overtaken by a strange tweet storm yesterday, suggesting that he needed to divest himself of all of his holdings, which i think were very unlikely to see. >> so...

Unlock, even unto this day. >> very scary. law makers are taking a hard look at the strategy against isis. ash carter assuring the senate armed services committee that the u.s. is not interested in half measures. >> the reality is, were at war. thats how our troops feel about it because they are taking the fight to isil every day. >> the senior corspopdant peter barnes has more. peter? >> reporter: well, jon, carter announced new efforts to escalate the fight against isis in iraq after acknowl...

Standing after all these months of air power? >> its reminiscing to the vietnam war. this incrementalism and targets that have to be approved at the highest levels of government. its a classic kpmexample of wh happened in the vietnam war. all these should read the papers and of course, targets have not been hit and of course, you have to get the highest level of approval. of course they return to base without having dropped their weapons. i think its wonderful but its not going, more of the same...

Before they kill americans coming here? >> youve been very vocal and saying you dont think we do. last week when president obama came out and announced 50 special ops forces will be boots on the ground in syria, you said possibly too little, too late. so im really interested in what youd like to see from this administration. >> yeah, well, i think everyone in congress, republicans and democrats, would like to see a strategy that shows some promise of pushing back against isil, you know, slowing ...

He was planning a photo shoot. it was just him in the falls. he is trying to get a good angle. >> werent the desks manifestos of hate? >> it was like a 24/hour text. >> and then they would get it and you would be like, oh yeah? it was all hatred and -- >> the margins of every notebook is -- i am not kidding when we say to destroy the school. we dent have the hate messages. >> you went out pushing cows over, right? >> of course. >> tipping cows and smashing mailboxes with baseball bats. >> im tel...

Recommendation of panetta, clinton and petraeus to arm the syrians. we we wound up in libya with stalemate for four months because the president used half-measures in application of air power. we pulled out of iraq in 2011. also we did not keep surge forces in afghanistan and pulled them out over the objections of general petraeus. and also after benghazi, the fatal flaw is that we did not track down and kill these terrorists the way we had post-9/11. bill: all that leads to such a dramatic reve...

The bored are the, jordanian, contract contractors coming in training these people up. you will see some pathetic guns but syrians have jet fighters and helicopters and money and hezbollah and were giving these people aks and pickup trucks. >> i dont know if maybe we dont have access to history books or something. it seems like we keep making the same mistakes over and over again and you make them and say, well never do that again as the soviets did, well never do that again. here we go again. >...