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He shows he has sided with irans enemies and is going to make things difficult. trumps visit to saudi arabias hag gone down like a lead balloon here. theres a sense of foreboding hes made a $110 billion arms deal with the saudi arabians. iranians see that as an aggressive move towards iran. they dont see any other reason for them to be selling so many arms to saudi arabia when saudi arabia is obviously very aggressive towards iran. the leadership here has tried to be a little more soft and sayin...

One by the republican-led senate, one by the republican-led house and one by the career professionals at the federal bureau of investigation. it was only that last investigation, the one that comey was heading up, that had both the resources and the criminal prosecution power. those other two investigations dont have those things. only comey had those tools to really put the clamps on trumps inner circle and try to figure out whether there was any ties between his team and the russian federation...

Serve their country? some members of congress do. it is going like a lead balloon with vets. a video of an autistic boy handcuffed and taken away from his mother ask dee taped a night. is that legal? >> i didnt know i was going to get arrested like this. >> neither did i. neither did i. we came in for testing. >> please dont touch me. chnoloy gave us the power to turn this enemy into an ally? microsoft and its partners are using smart traps to capture mosquitoes and sequence their dna to fight d...

Broadly in terms of what you are hoping for and expecting from this president tonight, are you thinking there are going to be things he could say tonight that could have you and your democratic colleagues applauding him? feeling like youre pulling in the same direction with this new president? >> i guess anything is theoretically possible. first off, i would hope he did not write this speech because he has trouble enough with 140 characters. i think the fpitfalls if he wroe the whole thing would...

The anticipated arrival of the mexican president, we would like to see that. when you look at some of the contects of that 20% tariff a lot of that is taking it out of context. its really more about a boarder adjustment tax. >> who is going to pay for it? . i cannot imagine your caucus like the idea of running up pt debt. where is this money coming from? buffet of 20% tax. that went over like a lead balloon. where are we going to find this money? >> i think on that, youre right its $15 billion s...

And i think back to the time i was at the agency on december 30th, 2009, when we lost darryn and harold and jennifer and liz and scott and dane and an officer named jeremy. seven officers killed in eastern afghanistan working on a counterterrorism operation when the worst days for the agency in its history. i went to many of their funerals and they are there in that book of honor and their stars are there on the wall. and to stand there and talk about, you know, crowd sizes and how many times yo...

To work with people in the middle east. and theyre just going to say in return, hey, you guys invented isis, so your president said, youre going to come back and take our oil, its going to make our job a lot harder. second, as you noted, this is hallowed ground. and i think back to the time when i was at the agency on december 30th, 2009, when we lost darren and harold and jennifer and liz and scott and dane and an officer named jeremy. seven officers killed in eastern afghanistan working on a c...

And take their oil again. and thats really dangerous. because we have intelligence officers who are going out trying to recruit assets, trying to work with people in the middle east. and theyre just going to say in return, hey, you guys invented isis, so your president said, youre going to come back and take our oil, its going to make our job a lot harder. second, as you noted, this is hallowed ground. and i think back to the time when i was at the agency on december 30th, 2009, when we lost dar...

>> why did he reference america first? >> the folks at the cia are more in their outlook like state department people. they are globalists. this went over like a lead balloon out there. in the first year of the boelgs, we lost seven cia as far as on december 30th, 2009. those seven were out based in eastern afghanistan trying to recruit an asset to penetrate

I went to many of their funerals. and they are there in that book of honor. and their stars are there on the wall. and to stand there and talk about crowd sizes and how many times youve been on the cover of "time" magazine i think really went over like a lead balloon. >> indeed. theyre represented by stars because in so many cases their names cant be used because they served in silence. but those stars also represent the two men killed at benghazi. they represent the first american who died in a...