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Who are like minded. >> if you read the interview, he said he will have an iq test for the secretary of state. he boasts with a dose of hyperbole that any student of fdr or barack obama could under cut, i had just about the most legislation passed who ever served. over bills passed. im not talking about executive bills only, im talking about bills. they are important actually. in terms of major legislation, that is delusional at best. what were the three trump promises. replace obamacare. not ha...

A good job, he would be out of a job right now as secretary of state. you have to look behind the scenes, jake, at the relationship that these two have and how theyre trying to navigate some really big problems the world. and i think, at least thus far, the president has the trust of rex tillerson. and rex has that of the president. you know, you hear the "forbes" article that you referenced and president trump talking about having a better iq or higher iq than tillerson. hes joking. youve got t...

>> kimberly, i have described senator corker on this broadcast as a work horse and not a show horse, a man not normally given to hyperbole. so, having, having said that, what do you think is in it for him? do you think he views this as a straight-up act of patriotism? >> well, what did janice joplin, freedom is another word for nothing left to lose. since he announced he is not running for reelection, he has a lot more freedom to speak very frankly about how he sees this white house. and youre r...

An inconceivable tale risk. but it didnt seem like corker was joking when he said that. >> senator corker is not someone that engages in hyperbole. throughout his career, even though i disagreed with him on many issue, he is not someone that flame throws. so when he uses that term, it should catch americans energy and eyes. and we need to put a stop to this erratic behavior of the president. >> concretely, what do you mean by that? article i branch of the u.s. constitution has tremendous powers....

Doing now, which is speaking up against the president. let me say when the chair of the foreign relations committee says he is worried the president could start world war iii, americans need to listen. donald trumps reckless threats against north korea are dangerous. estimates of any war with north korea could range to 2.1 million dead, 7.7 million people injured. and i call on all republicans in congress to speak up like senator corker, otherwise theyre enabling trumps dangerous behavior. >> yo...

From chaos. and i support them very much. >> and bob corker is not someone thats prone to hyperbole. hes usually pretty measured in his comments. so when he suggested that secretary tillerson and james mattis are the only ones keeping the country from chaos and implicating if the president was left to his own devices there would be trouble. the president himself, who anyone followed his career at all, even as a business person, knows he is willing to fight back. and thats exactly what he did tod...

Was a reference to the military, since he said it initially while doing a photo op with members of the military, but i dont want to go too far inside the presidents head at speculating exactly what he was trying to say, but it seems to be of a peace of this idea he wants to keep people off balance, he wants to suggest hes got some plans that hes ready to unleash at any moment that hes unwilling to share in advance. but the similarity between that statement and what we were talking about before w...

Prize, that honors the legacy of my dad that promotes geothinking with a transcending moral purpose. think about needing that now more than ever. this years recipient was joe biden, a former vice president spoke of how the world today still very much needs my fathers voice and message. >> i am deeply honored to receive this recognition and i only wish like all of you that big was still with us here, not just at the pleasure of his company this evening, but because the foreign policy battles we a...

Done profiles of mass killers and sure, its helpful to know why it happened, but the amount of publicity about this man and i dont mean his name, everyone knows his name, is a little excessive. in terms of the reporting the cup stant talking about it being the largest, the record number of victims killed, would it be any less tragic if it werent a record? i think we sometimes -- >> but its a fact. >> hyperbole. >> it is a fact. how many times do we have to hear that fact? >> are you going to be ...

That are not true or is it just a marketers way of talking? >> well, you know, i use the phrase in the art of the deal, truthful hyperbole to explain why he was saying that werent true and truthful hyperbole of course is nonsense. there is no such thing. hyperbole is a lie. i actually think the question that actually this book raises a number of its essays by psychiatrists is trump crazy look a fox or is he just crazy. and i think the overwhelming weight of evidence suggests that hes just crazy....