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Right? and thats the counter argument here, and you made the good point when you look back at the microsoft probe, with the states, it really hebbed, you know, give leverage, helped, you know, give leverage to the feds in that one, that the states investigation helped on that one and to jims point, i just wonder if were at a point where the definition of anti-trust has to change, at your alma mater, yale, there was a big paper that got a lot of attention, the anti-trust paradox, by lena kahn and...

Including speaker pelosi, they worry it will distract -- give the president leverage in terms of saying theyre out to get me, it will convince the american people that the democrats arent there to do things for them. what do you make of it all? >> i think what youre seeing from the proimpeachment democrats, theyre shifting their message versus the mueller report which didnt land with the public, didnt sway public opinion, the report was long and complex. they think they have a better story here ...

That killed 12 people including one american soldier. the body of an american soldier returns home sergeant at least body to ortiz was the 16th u.s. service member killed in afghanistan this year one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb exploded on thursday near the u.s. embassy in kabul. died inspired president trump to tweet an unexpected announcement . the major taliban leaders and the president of afghanistan were going to secretly meet with me on sunday on fortunately in order...

U.s. cant trust the taliban in the first place. >> i have respect for secretary pompeo, in terms of what the presidents goals are here, you cant trust the taliban, you cant trust al-qaeda, if they can have a certain, verified regime, im open today that, when you see an attack to gain leverage you know theyre not serious about it, look, we are not thinking a lot about terrorism lately because we havent had thank god a major attack on the united states but that is coming at cost to have presence i...

Just like they did before 9/11. and we are back where we were 18 years ago. >> they can host terrorist organizations and fight the afghan government. they can run the drug smuggling and even illegal weapons and all the criminal networks. that are ran out of their part of the country. if the united states is going to leave anyway, i think can we get anything, anything in exchange for our withdrawal? the president by making so clear he wants to get out, in essence handed leveraged to the taliban. ...

Service member killed in the past for the night alone. president trump said he called off peace negotiations tweeting unbeknownst to almost everyone the major taliban leaders and separately the president of afghanistan would secretly meet with me at camp david sunday coming to the u.s. tonight. unfortunately in order to build false leverage that admitted to an attack in kabul that killed one of our great soldiers and 11 other people. i immediately canceled the meeting, called off peace negotiati...

Have come through that place and peace negotiations. >> trying to gain leverage by carrying outerror attacks in afghanistan such as suicide car bombing that killed people including american soldier, for its part the taliban is warning more violence will come as a result of president trumps decision, saying in a statement, this will lead to more losses to the u.s., its credibility will be affected, antipeace stance exposed to the world, losses to lives and assets will increase, so for right now t...

>> bill: iran you just mentioned, time is on our side with regard to iran. >> time is on our side. our economy is in a great place right now. we dont need middle east oil, we have our own. in iran the economy is on the ropes. inflation high, high unemployment and because of the sanctions they arent getting their oil to market. i think we just wait them out. things will get worse for iran and only better for us. >> heather: amy klobuchar referenced north korea. >> thats the tricky one. when i was...

First place where there could be other ways of dealing with these situation that is allow them to be with their families. >> robin, youre addressing this on the bail issue. tell me what your group is doing. >> so were a national not for profit. what were attempting to do is stop mass incarceration before it begins. you cant talk about mass incarceration or ending it without stopping the mass bail system. as a result of unaffordable cash bail being set on peoples cases that they dont have enough ...

Whats going to happen i think here is we are going to use this impeachment procedure to try to get some show trials going and try to use this as leverage to get politically damaging for the president events to occur, witnesses to come in. but the notion that given how short the legislative calendar is for the rest of the year which is one of the most stunning things we learned a week ago. to a full scale impeachment before an election year i think is maybe a tiny tick above zero but not much. >>...