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Tweet about human rights causes this abrupt break in diplomatic relations. these are irrational, hot-headed actions, and if you look at that in that context, then the murder of jamal is just another in this sequence of unthinkable hot-headed actions. >> well, maybe hold out a glimmer of hope yet this evening and everyone ask for the evidence one way or the other. lawrence, thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. >> that you know for something me. >> thanks so much. forecast for the midterms,...

Terrorism and has surveillance and has analysts looking at this problem from every angle such that the people i talked to do not think al qaeda could carry out a similar attack. it would be detected. youve seen that in other areas, perhaps the russia intervention in our politics. so its still an issue in terms of intelligence failure, but on terrorism it seems like, you know, we dont know what we dont know. when i talk to officials privately, they say look, weve made huge progress on this. weve ...

Its a story about china including something you just talked about. which is the president of the united states at that point, richard nixon sitting down with a legal pad, with his advisors and saying what do we want? what do they want? what are the areas of agreement? that kind of analysis is particularly point. as was the case with the chinese, a party that we really dont understand that well. >> do you feel as though when you look at those negotiations, part of it was people like nixon and kis...

Pertains to going up to the line and sometimes stepping over the line. roger ailes with glenn beck knew when it was time to pull glen el bakraoui and also knew when it was time to send glen backpacking. and thats one of the questions im sure fox is grappling with. coming up, president trump was no fan of jeff sessions decision to recuse himself from the russia probe. now the attorney general made another move that may set off his boss. thats ahead on "morning joe." and we want to mention our...

Going to pay for it? is united states marine corps. >> he didnt do that one after a week of seclusion. president trump hitting the trail to talk specifically, specifically about infrastructure. and also row san and tv ratings and fake news. sanne and tv rat and fake news. rose ann donny deutsche is with us. elise jordan is here. president of the counsel on foreign relations and author of the book a world in disarray, richard haas. prize winning columnist, eugene robinson is with us. and national...

State literally being fired on twitter. i think this is very disheartening, but a lot of the people i know in the intelligence community and in the fbi, they started to tone all these things off. they know they have an enemy to fight. they know terrorism or russia or whatever, they are focusing on that, focusing on doing the right thing. they take their oath to protect the united states against all enemies, for and domestic very seriously. frankly theyre toning their commander-in-chief off. its ...

That tragedy, 9/11, is the subject of the pulitzer prize-winning book, "the looming tower" and a brand-new hulu web series of the same name. the books author, lawrence wright, is one of the kpeexecut producers on the show and he joins me now and one of the main characters in this true story is this guy, ali soufan. im glad youre both here. i think im up to date on whats going on. but larry, you where this book and its one of the most comprehensive books on what led to the destruction of the -- w...

Our country. and i hope that series will make the american people realize what happened, what are the events that led to 9/11? so we can have some kind of closure. only then we can have some kind of closure and turn the page and understand a lot of these threats thats going around us and know how to deal with it in a logical and systemic matter. >> "the looming tower" you can watch it on hulu, ali and lawrence wright, author of "the looming tower: al qaeda and the road to 9/11." you have to read...

>> and, karen, one last thing. when george w. bush scored his big win in libya and got gadhafi to turn over his weapons, it was secret. it took two or three years to get the weapons out and destroyed. have you heard anything about a plan to actually verify denuclearization for kim jong-un to promise it? >> they didnt even have a plan for how to set up this meeting. it was something donald trump decided spur of the moment. it came as a great surprise to his own team. the most likely answer to thi...

Up to 9/11, he had not been a good leader. he had, you know, his egyptian islamic jihad which he had run into the ground. he was not charismatic. he was sort on of the opposite. but he has proved to be elusive. and he has managed to keep the organization together. amazingly a disbursed period after 9/11, he was able to bring it back into coherence. and to propagate different chapters around the world. i have to give him credit for keeping not only that organization alive but bringing it back to ...