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Part of the benghazi raids that was captured i think on october 30th and may have led to some potential kinetic strikes. but truthfully this incident in new york city occurred just a few days ago. if the military is striking targets, they are striking every one that they have intelligence on. its very difficult to ramp things up. because, frankly, whenever you have intelligence that leads to targeting youll hit it. so im not sure where this ten times harder is coming from. i think its primarily ...

that. >> sean: this is not hyperbole. i am not misstating the case, we are are at a major crisis point in america tonight. do we have equal justice under the flaw this country today. if you or i or anybody in this room with knee now or watching tv with you, if we ever did anything close to what the clintons, the dnc, and others did, we would be rotting in a jail cell tonight hoping our friends would send us a cake that had a file. the only difference between trump/russia collusion is that we ...

Self-persecution, right? he believes he is getting a raw deal from everybody, from the media, from the political establishment, and you know, theres some truth to that, theres some hyperbole there, but thats where hes coming from here. >> the president during the campaign, hes a self-admitted whiner and he whines to get his way and get out of things and hes said that before, so this is in keeping with that behavior. but jeremy, in regards to the interview you have with ty cobb in "the new york t...

Controversial sale of uranium mining company, now for our t viewers this goes back seven or eight years during the obama term, hillary clinton as secretary of state, this is his reaction on that. >> told me last week you thought that the uranium sale to russia was one of the big stories of the decade. three congressional committees are now looking at that and we havent heard you comment on it since those investigations were launched. >> well, i think the uranium sale to russia and the way it was...

President trump regarding that -- the controversial sale of uranium mining company, now for our viewers this goes back seven or eight years during the obama term, hillary clinton as secretary of state, this is his reaction on that. >> told me last week you thought that the uranium sale to russia was one of the big stories of the decade. three congressional committees are now looking at that and we havent heard you comment on it since those investigations were launched. >> well, i think the urani...

>> i think it may be more pronounced in arizona but its not unique. my colleagues are finding that as well. its really changed, the type of politics that we are expected to engage in. >> yeah. not even sure we would call it politics. normalizing behavior we shouldnt be normalizing. last week, we had a senator on, talking about health care. i couldnt get a straight answer and i said has the president ever lied? he said the president doesnt lie, that the president speaks in hyperbole. is that what...

Did that to jimmy carter because he didnt like the seats he gave him at the inauguration and tip oneill wrote about it in his biography. >> you are wright, more publicly, i would say the flipside of what you are saying the president learned in business that you could mess with somebody but then as the next deal comes around, its a good deal for both sides, they will come back to the table. thats not how it is in mr. clintons from thats having a short memory. >> it works in business, it does not ...

Of junior high fights and have more discussion about how we go to the next level despite what the president is saying. >> thats where a lot of people, particularly the republicans in congress share a lot of responsibility. >> i agree. >>. >> theyre unwilling to take him in on most of the policies, and the american people get it. >> and unwilling to stand up for whats right. when the president is lying, the president is lying. hes not speaking in hyperbole. you cant explain it. he just lying, sim...

>> reporter: tony swartz, co-author of trumps art of the deal, has a name for this. >> i came up with this phrase truthful hyperbole, which is, you know, i called it an innocent form of exaggeration. now, i can call something that i actually sold for $2 million, i can say $10 million and that becomes truthful hyperbole. the problem is that there is no such thing as truthful hyperbole. the truth is the truth. hyperbole is a lie. they dont go together. >> reporter: and they didnt go together durin...

To shut down the third on opening day because both humiliating and financially disastrous. it was only done because he doesnt have an organization in depth. >> reporter: that wasnt the story trump told. >> something could go bad, like the opening of the taj, and he would say, it is because we had so much business here that this happened. not that the systems broke down, not that we didnt know what we were doing, we had so much business it broke down. truly he would just lie about everything. >> ...