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Manafort owed millions. officials were frank about their decisions. one member saying in every possible way we will avoid irritating the top american officials we shouldnt spoil relations with this administration. here to help me, juliaoff if i and david ignatius associate editor of the "washington post." david, let me start with you. back when the u.s. started selling these javelins to ukraine, something the government had been seeking for awhile which the obama administration had not done, the...

Have a good relationship with her? i want to bring in foreign a fairs expert bobby gosh and eddie glock back with me. this guys a former ambassador at large to the state department, a russia expert, said, by and large, other governments dont know whether to laugh or cry at all of this. but in russia, laughter is getting the upper hand. >> yes, i just got back yesterday from europe, from italy. hes absolutely right. theres a lot of head scratching going on all over the continent. you know, perhap...

Announcement yesterday in ohio during a speech build about infrastructure. talking about everything from north korea to roseanne ratings to this. >> let the other people take care of it now. very soon. very soon, we are going to have 100% of the caliphate, taking it all back quickly. we are going to be coming out of there real soon. >> with those words the head scratching began. nobody knew what he meant. because nobody saw it coming. even a day later, nobody knows what to make it. industrial tr...

She may not have known that day or what day or what location, but she knew. however, we were not tasked with decide if she was aof a potential attack. a little bit of head scratching there. abby, over to you. abby: thank you, pete. another teacher using the classroom as a place to share political beliefs this time slamming president trump make america great again motto. take a listen to this. >> so when my president says lets make america great again, wher when was he talking about? he must be t...

Suggests youre riding helicopter on these people. >> number one rule is investigations dont talk to witnesses, dont talk to prosecutes. and leave that alone. the president has largely disregarded that advice from his lawyers. its particularly interesting because the president got into so much trouble for trying to talk to comey and that was disclosed -- this is head scratching for a lot of people watching it. >> what does this tell us about the intensity factors in the white house in terms of th...

Other teams scratching their heads trying to work out how they are done it. talking head scratching, a fair amount of that will be going on at the ioc executive board meeting here in pyeongchang. it is where they are discussing whether or not to allow the banned russian team to transform from the neutral uniform back to using their own russian flag and russian kit for sunday evenings closing ceremony. it was put on the table as an option when the deal was struck to allow some russian athletes to...

The generjengeneral assembly in september to make a speech, and i remember her making a pitch defending the united states saying, this is an institution america helped to create, by the way, were streamlining things, were cutting the budget, were looking for efficiency. i believe this started out as her way of showing the president that there was value in the u.n. and that were also going to make sure, of course, that theyre not going to waste our money. but as you said, these came right after t...

>> sorry. i had a frog in my throat. that chart is really interesting because you have that mirror im arrange. job numbers and jobs in the stock market and the presidents approval rating. a lot of folks are saying why isnt the president-- >> it is head scratching, isnt it? 32%. all right. firefighters battles around the clock to get the upper hand on those massive wildfires burning in southern california. well have a report from ventura county next. my name is jeff sheldon,

Boils down to politics. if you look at the poll it shows president trumps approval rating is at 35%. the strategy is not about growing the number of people supporting him, its about keeping his base solid in his corner, i would imagine, keeping them happy. >> yeah, i talked to some pollsters, and its head scratching because that base is going to be with trump no matter what. they love this guy. and the pollsters say really he should try to at least build it, build it up to at least 40, bast 50. ...

Happened this week and its really only wednesday. it was blocked this week by a federal court. are we expecting the administration to push forward with this, to continue fighting? >> yes, everyone is definitely expecting the government to appeal. that being said, this legal decision is a big victory for advocates pushing for it. it comes from a well respected judge. legal experts tell me that going forward, this statement is likely to be held off and could advance significantly through the court...