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But at the end of the day, it seems like he is in power. what we need to worry about and focus on is our ally israel and were focused on iran. the question is do we just push them off and use leverage to push them off the israeli border or get them out of syria which is what im hearing ambassador bolton is pushing for. from our perspective we need to be sure that president trump is pushing for a drawdown, but we have to do it responsibly so that isis doesnt return and the question in my mind is ...

Exact more leverage to get results. >> if you have your own hit or miss tweet it to us, that is it for this we show, thanks to all of you for watching. see you right here. >> fox news alert, special counsel robert muellers team reach researching out to an ongoing witness in his in best litigation -- investigation, with close ties to donald trump. welcome to a brand-new hour of americas news headquarters. >> new developments unfold, the president is responding to a new revelation, michael cohen s...

As dni. neil: but also dan coats apparently didnt know about this follow-up invite to vladimir putin to come to the united states. >> the interview with andrea mitchell but again note well. dan coats is still indiana his position as dn: neil: as long as theyre not fired? >> but it tells us, neil that the president has a solid working relationship with these very wise intelligent people in whom he puts his trust and we can put our trust in him and in them. the president is building our leverage e...

It, and i think we have to account for the fact that there are other additive elements on top of this. on one extreme, you have the theory, which i think is still a bit outlandish that he is a manchurian candidate, that he has for years been a recruited asset of the russians and now this is all coming to the fore. but on the other extreme, something i think is much more likely if not probable is the fact that donald trump wants to leave office, wants to leave the presidency in good graces with v...

Corner, but look this is very concerning. trump seems to ignore history with russia, vladimir putin had a chance 18 years ago to reset the soviet union, but he is not going to chance. she a kbg agent, the president raised him up, the russian economy is very small. we have all of the leverage in the world, but he went and made america look very weak. it has been a remarkable weak. what he said about montenegro, and turning over american ambassador to the kgb, it is just appalling. >> and you know...

Hon it russian market for years. so whether its man churian candidate or this financial conflict of interest, the end result is the same, vladimir putin has leverage over donald trump and hes going to exact that in any way he can. >> youre in touch on a daily basis with your former colleagues. youre out there at this conference with the entire national intelligence community, some of them in exile admittedly. what is morale like hin tratd of intelligence? >> well, its a good question. because i ...

Is maria butina? >> clearly the russians seem to think shes a tremendous as eight. it is interesting that the russian foreign minister raised her in the conversation with secretary mike pompeo. if she were just a russian citizen, you wouldnt see the russians going to such great lengths and i think the russians are making the department of justices case that she was acting as an agent of russian government by raising her case so prominently and such an important channel as phone call with secreta...

Russias foreign ministry began a campaign for the release of maria butina. shes been charged for being unregistered russian agent in the united states. lets bring i think steven mulroy for legal analysis here. steve, welcome to you. youve got russian government saying they very much want the release of maria butina. would bob mueller be able to leverage this into an exchange for russian agents he has indicted and he would like to extradite, those 12 notable announced a week and a half ago? >> th...

Russia, but they are by your own national defense strategy named russia as our number one adversary just ahead of china. recognize the fact of the matter is russia is a bad actor. they took over crimea and parts of georgia. russia is buzzing our ships with aircraft all of the time. russia is threatening us with their unusu-- their nuclear weld say none of assassin ating people left, right and center and to destroy the unit of the european union and nato and the allies and frankly, mr. president,...

Board? >> its really hard to know. it seems like its more the latter than the former but we dont have enough information right now. the crime itself acting as a russian agent without registering is one thing. what all was she doing? who was she speaking to and about what? theres a lot of unanswered questions here. >> she is the first russian indicted on measure soil. do you see significance to, that steven? does it signal the mueller investigation is now in a new phase? >> i think so. i think th...