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Many cases because of russia. >> thats exactly right. i think theres a lot of concern about the aggressiveness of russia. i dont think anybody really has any illusions about the desire of vladimir pugh it continue to rebuild the russian empire, not necessarily the soviet empire but the russia empire, and that threatens all the states in what hes called the near abroad. and those states need and want the protection of europe if not of nato. so all of that is still in play. ukraine is still a very...

Subpoena for documents. in his testimony tuesday, director of national intelligence dan coats refused to comment on reports that president trump asked him to publicly deny allegations of collusion between his campaign and russia. and the president himself has reportedly retained the services of new york attorney mark cass wits to help him navigate the probe. were back with dan henninger, mary kissel and bill mcgurn. one other detail, mary, jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law, white house ai...

Subpoena for documents. in his testimony tuesday, director of national intelligence dan coats refused to comment on reports that president trump asked him to publicly deny allegations of collusion between his campaign and russia. and the president himself has reportedly retained the services of new york attorney mark cass wits to help him navigate the probe. were back with dan henninger, mary kissel and bill mcgurn. one other detail, mary, jared kushner, the presidents son-in-law, white house ai...

That as long as one person, in this case donald trump, agrees to the taping that it can be taped. some states require both parties to know and to allow for the taping in which case it would then become illegal if donald trump is having phone calls across state lines into states that would require every party being notified and that -- and if hes actually taping them. he does have a very long history of taping calls back when he was a ceo of his own corporation, his private secretaries talked oft...

The bad guy vladimir putin is. he would like to negotiate peace before thermonuclear war. >> that raises questions. >> you dont attack somebody. you have to sit down and negotiate world peace. >> the president attacks people he has to sit down with on a regular basis. you know that. it is part of his style. not putin. >> i dont think he has any illusions of the russian goulag or the system they have where they oppress gays and women ands christians. i dont think right in front of the negotiation...

That is not true. here is the point. >> you dont think russia was behind? >> no. julian assange does not work for the russians. >> a 17 agencies? >> all headed by political appointees which are holdovers from bahamobama. these with people who said we were trafficking p.o.w.s. th these are the people who said there was an attack on benghazi. >> you believe there is a 17 agency, i guess, conspiracy, to mislead the american people of the source of the hacking? >> i believe our intelligence agencies...

Commitment to helping there. >> the american administration, of course our review and the president and his staff in the white house say we are under no illusions about the challenges associated with this mission. 2017 is going to be another tough year for the afghan security forces and the international troops who stood and will continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with afghanistan against terrorism. >> jenna: for more on this, we are joined by the former advisor. good to have gone a program ...

Bad things may be in afghanistan right now. what are the low lights? >> the inspector general for afghan reconstruction issued his quarterly report and it states in no uncertain terms the casualty rates in afghanistan are "shockingly high" in the first six weeks of 2017. 807 afghan soldiers were killed by the taliban. doesnt include an incident that left 140 afghan soldiers dead in a single attack traded 11,000 were killed by the taliban last year, according to the u.n. "dangerous and stubborn i...

Right now. what are the low lights? >> the inspector general for afghan reconstruction issued his quarterly report and it states in no uncertain terms the casualty rates in afghanistan are "shockingly high" in the first six weeks of 2017. 807 afghan soldiers were killed by the taliban. doesnt include an incident that left 140 afghan soldiers dead in a single attack traded 11,000 were killed by the taliban last year, according to the u.n. "dangerous and stubborn insurgency controls or exerts infl...

Mulls requests for more troops in what is already americas longest war. >> secretary of defense mattis arrived on monday in kabul. >> i would say we are under no illusions about the challenges associated with this mission. 2017 is going to be another tough year. >> afghan soldiers continue to do the bulk of the fighting but despite billions of dollars in american support, the afghan army is far from a capable military. the taliban are gaining ground three days ago, they carried out the deadliest...