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Of the house to be speaker. so, i dont know. the rock. >> the house is broken as it is. they cant figure out the chaplain, and other stuff, why not. >> i like chuck. >> doesnt have to be a member of congress. >> in this day and age where any group of 20 people can essentially hold something hostage and now there is almost an incentive structure via social media to do this, i have a feeling were going to have a series of very weak speakers. >> keep an eye out for the younger guns in the house on ...

>> but they are also agreeing to denuclearize and take away their nuclear weapons and give them up. >> they are agreeing to talk about it, and thats a very, very long way from actually denuclearizing, and as gordon said there should be a lot of skepticism they will follow through on some of these things. they have managed to get trump to come to the table and i think thats a very good thing. diplomacy is better and should be done more cleverly, the iranians are saying hold on, iran didnt have a ...

Intelligence committee was he was tired of the cia giving him all this information. he didnt want to have it in his head, all this stuff going on around the world. you dont want to know it all. he p you it in the hands of a bipartisan committee so there could be some kind of check on what the intelligence agencies were doing. nancy pelosi, the other day, said if theres going to be impeachment, its got to be bipartisan. theyve got to work together. >> there have been some republicans, a few, who ...

Cia giving him all of this information. he didnt want to have it in his head. he put it in the hands of a bipartisan committee so there could be some kind of check on what the intelligence agencies were doing without giving it what e. but to be bipartisan about it. nancy pelosi the other day, i just said, theres going to be impeachment, its got to be bipartisan. theyve got to work together. >> and there have been some republicans, a few, who have used the word impeachment in saying, if the presi...

Individuals? because while i get your point that i should know more about my privacy than facebook does, i dont know that we fully understood or weve accepted the deal that we made in exchange for all of the free and interesting and often very positive stuff that facebook has given us, that we traded our data for all of that. >> that is exactly the problem. which is the product is really fantastic. and i say this as somebody who believed in from the beginning, i love facebook as a product. what ...

May investigate things. i think part of the problem is, there are no adults in the room. on the executive side or on the legislative side. so theres no one be really putting the feet to the fire to make the republicans in the house real follow through in these committees. the democrats are trying. i think were not going to see any movement till actually after the midterms. and if the democrats take over the house, really forward movement with these committees to have some sort of success with al...

Mandated by the constitution. so a lot of committees are either giving the public the run around and theyre saying they may investigate things. i think part of the problem is, there are no adults in the room. on the executive side or on the legislative side. so theres no one be really putting the feet to the fire to make the republicans in the house real follow through in these committees. the democrats are trying. i think were not going to see any movement till actually after the midterms. and ...

Its just that their incentive structure is such they have no incentive to pursue this white house whatsoever. this is the same dynamic why every single republican elected official who is not resigning was not going to buck donald trump. and in fact, the most surprising thing to me in this drama involving this committee is that trey gowdy felt like he had to perform like he was going to provide oversight. right? there was a day or two where i was like i wonder what his angle is? it turns out just...

What was said. ure reaction? >> this is the incentive structure for his staff. im sure hogan is a mid level staffer, and got a high five from the president for saying that. whether they are unwitting or witting they are being tools of the russian propaganda machine because they have an audience of one in trump and future career prospects at fox news and that is what is driving this. it all goes back to the president because this is what he wants from his staff. these are the kind of staff he wan...

. because thats the incentive structure that the president created. 85% continue to -- your phone lines will burn up in your offices and staffers will be hearing from each other all day long. >> and profiles in courage. >> the last point ill make about stroez acsupported reopening the investigation is he days into the e-mails before the election we have a procedure. thats what an inspector general is for. and shouldnt you wait to release text messages? why dont you act like an investigative over...