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Stooping to the level of personal attacks on the appearance of women and -- its just -- this is not the sort of thing an american president shou when we face such significant challenges, a trade war with china and the aggressiveness of russia towards our allies, and this significant impasse in our relations with saudi arabia, for president trump to personally attack stormy daniels and the repeated attacks on twitter against a porn star with whom he had some sort of relationship, eits distracting...

Perhaps in the presidents mind or some of his advisers, in a practical sense -- lets say what happened with the lebanese prime minister who was brought into saudi arabia and forced to resign, maybe thats what they wanted to do, put pressure here to interrogate khashoggi and perhaps bring him into saudi arabia, and maybe the administration was going to say, look, we will go along with all of that, and here you have gone too far so now we have love rid -- leverage against you in some areas instead...

That hes mischaracterizing who has the leverage. heres how the president phrased it to "fox business" last night. >> they made the largest order in the history of our country for outside -- outside of our country -- for weapons. $110 billion theyre purchasing. its 500,000 jobs, american jobs. everythings made here. okay. so now people say, well, we want to have you end that order. well, arent we just hurting our own country? because heres whats going to happen -- theyre going to say, hey, americ...

Talking meat germany as germany is talking but politics also gets in the way we know that there have been reports that the turkish president richard tell your pair to one that he is following a policy of holding german workers journalists almost as hostages and using them as leverage to get you to what he wants out of the european union or to germany i mean are you hearing those accusations of it is that something thats on your radar when youre talking about the risks to european journalists i t...

A very very powerful public. so that was helping to. but of course. talking meet germany has germany starkey but politics also gets in the way we know that there have been reports that the turkish president richard tell your bear to one that he is following a policy of. holding german turkish journalists almost as hostages and using them as leverage to get you to what he wants out of the european union or the germany i mean are you hearing those accusations i mean is that something thats on your...

Talking meat germany as a german is talking but politics often gets in the way we know that there have been reports that the turkish president richard tell your bear to one that he is following a policy of holding german workers journalists almost as hostages and using them as leverage to get you to what he wants out of the european union or to germany i mean are you hearing those accusations of it is that something thats on your radar when youre talking about the risks to european journalists i...

You may be the chair of the intel committee, a committee that didnt do what it was supposed to do in the russia investigation, in the investigation into russian involvement into the election. there are a lot of americans that are hoping at least that committee will get something done. >> and we will. and i think among the most important business that hasnt been done at all, an investigation that hasnt been done at all is the issue of were the russians laundering money through the trump organizat...

Saudis. >> yes, theres also of course a long-standing tradition of saudi government spending tens of millions of dollars in washington, lobbying senators, congressmen and cabinet figures to pursue saudi interests in the united states. look, i mean, i dont see why the president has to feel guilty about this. help was in the real estate business. he should feel comfortable to come out and say this. the fact hes not comfortable is what rouses suspicions. why would he want to deny what he has himsel...

Technology. it doesnt work like that. this business, this idea that the saudis have leverage over the united states is complete nonsense. it is the united states that enjoys enormous leverage. just look at how the saudis responded to just this past week a little bit of pressure from the u.s. a few senators calling for an investigation. a few american businessmen dropping out of a big event in saudi arabia. and theyve done their story around almost completely. we know nothing to we may know somet...

>> its like you looked at our rundown, because were talking about that in about 20 minutes, john. >> no, i didnt look at your rundown, but the point is they need us to buy their oil, they need our spare parts for their military. they need us more than we need them. theres a lot of leverage there. >> when i talk to sources at the white house, they say this is a diplomatic led effort. some in the republican party are saying, whatever, this relationship with mbs should be in the back seat at this m...