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Financial pieces are to this puzzle. we also have a situation much like putins interference with our election, where the president has said, well, putin told me he didnt do it, and the crown prince has told me he didnt do it, so i guess he didnt do it. look, we all value a relationship with saudi arabia. every administration has valued that relationship. they are an important partner in the region, but one does have to walk and chew gum. and we arent using any of the leverage we have. saudi arab...

I mean, whether its because he values saudi arabia as an ally so much or because his son-in-law is such good pals with the saudi leader or because of some other leverage the saudis have over our president that we do not yet understand, whatever it, it does seem fair to expect that if the cia report comes out tomorrow, and it does say that the leader of saudi arabia, the crown prince ordered that killing, it seems reasonable to expect that the president will continue to ignore the findings of his...

In place against the 17 saudis, but you have to look at the sanctions we should see against the leader of this if in fact the crown prince was the one that ordered this execution. then you also have to look at our ultimate leverage which is arms sales is. i have voted against these arm sales and concerned about what was going on in yemen and asking for it to stop. when people dont think we have leverage, we have leverage and that is arms sales. >> senator amy cloimy choeklobu for being with us. ...

Country in these congressional districts to realize its about policies and curtailing your campaign message to exactly what the voters in your area want. >> i want to ask about the fight for the speakers gavel, joe. there are now 18 democrats who have said they will oppose nancy pelosi for speaker. but every day that goes by without an actual challenger against nancy pelosi for the speakers gavel, does this -- is this anything more than a statement of protest then? if theres no one to challenge ...

Move forward together in order not to be divided not to be played against each other because theres the russians and the chinese luring everybody is happy to sell arms to to saudi arabia the position of the u.k. is not very clear here but we have to admit that the u.k. where the first with the united states to impose this entry ban as modest a measure of punishment as it may look so that the european stick together they do have some leverage on the arabian peninsula much has been made of an alle...

Water is an increasingly precious resource here too in the town of us on cape in the southeast of turkey and the consequences can be dire this ancient village is now threatened with destruction thats because in an effort to harness the tigris and euphrates rivers the massive elusive down project is set to plunge haasan cave deep beneath the waters or ever neighboring iraq is sharply criticized the project that country receives about seventy percent of its water from across the border from turkey...

Democrats are better at it than republicans, we thought we would learn. other thing in close races, we lost some good people, we have this missing 4 to 5, so-called deplorable, trump base, whatever, they were there but now there is going to be a great discussion, where do you pick up the missing 5% that would have won you some good senate seats, does it appeal to av machine african-american community, say, trump might top consider, that say -- might want to consider, that going to inner-city, i ...

Democrats are better at it than republicans, we thought we would learn. other thing in close races, we lost some good people, we have this missing 4 to 5, so-called deplorable, trump base, whatever, they were there but now there is going to be a great discussion, where do you pick up the missing 5% that would have won you some good senate seats, does it appeal to av machine african-american community, say, trump might top consider, that say -- might want to consider, that going to inner-city, i ...

I will call them the young turks for lack of a better word, there is 20 who have committed to vote against her and as you say they dont have a candidate, but the question is how does this play out? she does really have to get virtually all of her caucus, she can only afford to lose a small number to get through this process. how do you see this finally playing out? >> steve, i think right now she can only afford to lose about 14 votes or something and it is said that as you say they are around 1...

Would you vote for that funding bill to shut down the government if there is not something attached to protect the special counsel? >> well, kasie, were definitely seeing the equivalent of a saturday night massacre. the situation is such that sessions was fired because he wasnt willing to stop the mueller investigation and now the president has put someone in who has no other qualifications other than in the presidents eyes, hes attacked the mueller investigation as unworthy, unfounded, unaccept...