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Came to power in 1990, a rebel himself, he trained at gadhafis school of revolutionaries, these are well trained caddian troops, they have seen a lot of conflict through the the spire region. you the need partners. one quick note, officials here saying the french partnership is very strong and everyone want toss highlight how well u.s. and french counter terrorism forces are working. >> do you hear that head scratching of chad being on the list? >> i would say yes an no, you need partners, thats...

Manipulation of these social media platforms, you know, by the people conducting that attack, i think, you know, some of the rules that they have tried to stand by can be -- >> but each of them, twitter and facebook, have rules about their users. and twitser is prepared to kick you off if you say certain things on twitter. and facebook says you must disclose who you are. they dont want people to have fake accounts on facebook. >> but these were fake accounts. they were impostor accounts. they ac...

Fake accounts on facebook. >> but these were fake accounts. they were impostor accounts. they acknowledged that. so it is a bit head scratching why theyve stuck to this refusal to publicly disclose. they say its the governments obligation to do so. and there are questions about why are the intelligence agencies or the fbi or the state department or others werent onto this earlier. we have, what, a $7 billion intelligence budget, and yet nobody saw this coming? nobody in the u.s. government under...

>> martha: the strategy here, and counselor to the president, kellyanne conway. a lot of head scratching among the g.o.p. leadership. i spoke with paul ryan about this tonight. there has been a lot a backlash. >> i saw speakers >> grants coo you too. he agrees it was smart to act in a bipartisan fashion to clear the decks and lead our way. its going to be a very busy fault legislative agenda. the crowning touch of that is tax reform, which speaker ryan will be very important helping to pass. you...

Tout russians rather than really focussing on trying to make sure they had the nomination and what the campaign would look like, it is more than a coincidence. there are so many instances of contacts, outreach to russians. and like many americans, im relying upon robert mueller and his cracker jack team to really get to the bottom of this. and see what is there. its head scratching and concerning. >> so what do you suspect as far as these meetings are concerned? >> we dont know. the public does ...

Clear state of play greeted guests of a wedding saturday at bedminsters clubhouse, all this time on the course -- >> president trump for the birdie. >> reporter: head scratching considering trump constantly hammered president obama for golfing. >> everything is executive order. because he doesnt have enough time because hes playing so much golf. im going to be working for you. im not going to have time to play golf. he played more golf than tiger woods. i love golf. im not going to be playing ...

Guests of a wedding saturday at bedministers clubhouse, all this time on the course -- >> president trump for the birdie. >> reporter: head scratching considering trump constantly hammered president obama for golfing. >> everything is executive order because he doesnt have enough time because hes playing so much golf. im going to be working for you. im not going to have time to go play golf. he played more golf last year than tiger woods. i love golf i think its one of the greats but i dont aver...

From a political perspective, what kind of damage do you think has been done. is this head scratching to you, the way this has been unfurled? >> its all political damage. the problem is it destroys the credibility of destroys the cre of the administration. an administration must have credibility if they want to get anything done, particularly legislatively. im convinced the russians did this, they used a cutout, its an intermediary. what concerns me is this may to the be the only incidence in wh...

Murkowski, it gives them a very clear out here. so you dont get the benefit of the sort of good news of the cbo report and the bad news of the cbo report really impacts the people you need the most to get the picture. >> im not sure the people on the right are going to be that much, either. >> right, they feel it goes too far even now. >> and its hard to find the silver lining in this because you can go to a voter who can say theyve been bashing the affordable care act for seven years, and after...

Never going to happen. to a certain extent this is a classic kind of strategic move to say hey, we really need to finish this really soon with the reality being that if they blow through this deadline maybe theyll at least get it done by august. because if they set the august rece recess deadline, who knows. it could keep going and going. if youre mitch mcconnell you want to be able to say you did something on health care, its better than doing nothing. youve been promising americans if seven, e...