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>> senator from texas. >> shannon: their home state senator offering this praise. >> these will be the the 11th and 12th court of appeals nominees that we will have confirmed this year. a modern-day record. >> shannon: don willet, a finalist for the supreme court see if to neil gorsuch, has long attracted attention, especially for his off-brand reputation as a so-called twitter laureate. during the campaign, his social media posts including tweaking and candidate trump. quoting the imaginary dar...

>> senator from texas. >> shannon: their home state senator offering this praise. >> these will be the the 11th and 12th court of appeals nominees that we will have confirmed this year. a modern-day record. >> shannon: don willet, a finalist for the supreme court see if to neil gorsuch, has long attracted attention, especially for his off-brand reputation as a so-called twitter laureate. during the campaign, his social media posts including tweaking and candidate trump. quoting the imaginary dar...

Arrest but soldiers who seized control of the state broadcaster have said the couple is safe the military has also blockaded parliament and taken up positions around the capital in what it calls a process to restore democracy. over a dozen people have been killed by flash floods in greece following a night of heavy rain. the prime minister has declared a period of national mourning for the victims. a swiss aid worker who was kidnapped over a month ago in sudans war torn region of darfur has been...

A month ago in sudans war torn region of darfur has been freed the local government has said she was rescued in an operation by security forces but has not named those responsible for the kidnapping. german chancellor angela merkel is hoping her conservatives can strike a compromise with the free democrats and the greens before ending exploratory coalition talks on thursday and moving on to formal negotiations. immigration has been one of the hot button issues with sides divided over whether to ...

We now know the meddling in u.s. politics by russia continued after novembers election. there is no reason to believe its still not happening right now. pamela. >> fascinating, fascinating report. our thanks to drew griffin. im not going to bring in and ran the agencies operations in russia. he is also a cnn security analysts, steve, just to want get your reaction, the russians using social media to try make racial tensions worse, does this fit in with your experience dealing with russia. the le...

His job, traditionally you may see that. i think what a lot of republican members of congress are realizing as establishment members is this is not a legislative presidency. this is a cultural presidency. this is a president for better or worse, whatever you think of him, this is a president who sees it as his mission to go out and change the culture of the country. he loves to get into it with the nfl. he loves to get into it on the cultural hot-button issues. if he interested in calling the le...

This. i have to say their strategy is pretty sophisticated. so they targeted hot button issues, and hopefully well get to the bottom of this and find out if someone if the united states or someone associated with the trump campaign worked with the russians to help make that strategy more effective. i hope bill is right that mueller is getting to his conclusion sooner rather than later. even beyond the politics of what happens to trump and sean spicer, this is an incredibly important national sec...

And now were going to get to the bottom of this. i have to say their strategy is pretty significantly. going to districts to target what sort of hot button issues, to hoy light, to whom. and were going to find out if someone in the united states or potentially someone associate would the trump campaign worked with the russians to help that be more effective. and i think hope that mueller is getting to his conclusion sooner rather than later. because even in politics, this is an important nationa...

Publicly or privately say, mr. president, youve got to cool it. >> carol, last week you had that reporting about rex tillerson and how he felt about the president. as bob corker said, a lot of people think it is a good could be/bad cop on the way. i know he has hurt us as it relates it negotiations under way by tweeting things out. do you know what negotiations senator corker might have been referring to? >> i dont think we know exactly what he is referring to but you can surmise on that, there ...

For some sort of leeway by using political and sort of national hot button issues right now and a national tragedy which makes his apology pretty deplorable. he also quoted jay-z. he was sort of trying everything he could there in the apology to get sympathy and i think, again, you know, this is an industry that coined the term casting couch. this stuff has been going on for decades and decades in hollywood. and, you know, i was actually happy to see this story come out yesterday because it mean...