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1,100 pages between midnight and now. not one member has read this. what happened to the promise that were going to let the american people see whats in this bill for 48 hours? but nope. we dont have time to do that. >> the decisions that he was making to save the economy were all politically toxic. he had no illusions about that. >> still, obama thought he could pry loose some republican votes. instead of the usual step of inviting them to the white house, he went to capitol hill. >> it was a v...

Trouble that chuck schumer was alluding to? >> well, i dont think anybody should be under any illusions that there are elements of the intelligence community, as there are cultures in a lot of departments of government, that i think are fundamentally hostile to the trump world view. >> neil: would they be so small to say he called into question our intelligence, quite literally, and now were going to go back at him? >> well, look, i think its possible some people could have done that. i do, and ...

>> when we see them speaking about so many issues that are polarizing and that divide americans, people might have had a really difficult and it did have difficult personal lives but it was kind of the aleutian -- olivia said, acting is all illusion. its a game of illusions. there is something to that, a little mystery is nice to have because when youre seeing someone act a role on screen, you dont want think oh gosh, she was doing that rant at the golden globes. you just want to think wow it, s...

About so many issues that are polarizing and that divide americans, people might have had a really difficult and itha did have difficult personal lives but it was kind of the illusion -- olivia said, acting isl all illusion. its a game of illusions. there is something to that, a little mystery is nice to have because when youre seeing someone act a role on screen, you dont want think oh gosh, she was doing that rant at the golden globes. you just want to think wow it, she was great. it kind of d...

Hopelessly complex. >> i dont know how you could read all these pages between midnight and now. what happened to the promise that were going to let the people see whats in this bill for 48 hours. no, we dont have time to do that. >> the decisions he was making to save the economy were all politically toxic. he had no illusions about that. >> still, obama thought he could get some of the votes. he went to capitol hill. >> a very dramatic gesture on the part of the president as you know. >> to tal...

>> they said it was too rushed and hopelessly complex. >> i dont know how you could read 1100 pages between midnight and now. not one member has read this. what happened to the promise that were going to let the american people see whats in this bill for 48 hours. nope, we dont have time to do that. >> the decisions that he was making to save the economy were all politically toxic. he had no illusions about that. >> still, obama thought he could pry loose some republican votes. instead of the us...

Follow. the democrats, you heard dana bashs report, their motivation is to effectively protest though they are under no illusions that theyll have the votes to actually block these nominees. is that right? >> yeah, thats right. theyll try to use whatever clout that they have at the moment to drag this process on. i mean, time is particularly in the senate and in the house are not unlimited. so, for every additional day that they can add to the process of confirming one of trumps nominees, they c...

Except for campaigns against isis and other groups they designate as tear risks. muhammad lila covers the story from istanbul, turkey. russian president vladimir putin announce add cease-fire and described it as very fragile. >> reporter: yes, jim. >> your thoughts? >> reporter: i dont know anyone on the ground is under any illusions this was going to be an easy process. in fact, its proving to be the opposite. very difficult to monitor and enforce the cease-fire when there is so many different ...

>> reporter: well, it does seem different, but you know, i dont think anyones under any illusions at how difficult this process is going to be. everybody has said even before the cease-fire began that this was going to be very fragile and very difficult to monitor. there are so many different groups on the ground. you have groups that are designated as terrorist groups by the u.n., then other sort of quote, moderate rebel groups. then you have weird alliances between all of them. its very diffic...

In his view were primarily responsible for the absence of progress, which frankly im not even so sure the secretary believes, given his fraught relationship in negotiations with the palestinians. so this was the kerry -- theerp were the kerry parameters, not the obama parameters. and i suspect that is the way this particular legacy will be defined. >> you can almost hear hit the his wording. i actually almost remember in the speech where he id i pushed this and president obama signed on. >> and ...