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bat told the select committee that she was "scared and nervous" about what could happen on january 6th when her former boss, mark meadows, acknowledged that things could get bad on that day. key moments from this hearing. hutchison said the president was upset, that the elapse where he was about to speak on january 6th wasnt completely full and that he did not want the secret service because he said the people some of whom were armed are not there to harm him. she also testified that t...

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United states of america and the only option you give the president is nuclear war, that just shows that you have no understanding. >> hang on, hang on. >> the option is active deterrence and diplomacy. >> weve done sanctions. >> lets move -- this is -- this is -- >> if you strike north korea with conventional weapons, ben, if you strike -- and i ask you this question, if you strike north korea with conventional weapons, you understand that the most heavily armored area of the world for artiller...

Successful? >> i just said that the failures of administrations of both parties for the last 25 years in the korean peninsula have led us to this point. the fact of the matter is, though, that when you -- >> im sorry. thats just not accurate. >> fire and fury, youre in a whole different zone. youre in a whole different zone and it requires responsibility. >> this is, again, where youre -- >> and judgment, none of which donald trump has. >> with all due respect -- >> hes sitting there saying fire...

And a deterrence frame is not threatening a preemptive strike. a deterrence frame is when weapons are deployed and used by north korea, if weapons are deployed and used by north korea, then a nuclear response is on the table but you dont lay it out there. >> youre going to wait for them to -- >> he was not talking about conventional strike. >> youre telling me that -- youre telling me the only time that the president can use the words fire and fury is literally if nuclear weapons are in the air?...

>> do you think thats a great idea. >> im going to finish. >> let ben -- rick, rick, rick. hang on. let ben have a moment. >> listen carefully, because youre having a hard time understanding this. there are other options militarily besides only nuclear options. fire and fury does not necessarily mean only push the red button for a nuclear war. it is incredibly incompetent and ignorant to imply that the only option -- >> accept the fact that south korea will -- there are millions of casualties. >...

Same page. i dont know if you guys were listening to admiral kirby a second ago on how, essentially, its been a catch-up situation as this was off the cuff, ben, so can you speak to the issue of not all being on the same page. >> i think the president was being blunt and off the cuff. it was very clear from how he said that that it was off the cuff but i think the tone was -- >> should you be off the cuff on north korea. >> i think the words that people obsessed with him saying are fire and fury...

Or tacit support from the trump administration would allow these parties to gain a more mainstream foothold in countries across europe and i think that has to make a lot of people on both sides of the atlantic very nervous. >> its also an issue of how do we want to conduct our foreign policy. >> wait. let me jump in here. let me jump in here. >> wait. let ben have a word in. then i want to get to national security. go ahead, ben. >> theres not a lot of nervousness here. this is a complete misund...

The "wall street journal" is reporting that donald trump jr. took part in talks in how to work with russia to end the crisis in syria. the younger trump reportedly in private meetings last month in paris with pro-russian politicians and business people who want to work with syrias president. bashar al assad has called trumps father, the president-elect, a quote, natural ally and trump seems to want to rewrite american policy to help him so will they have each others backs? lets talk about that. ...