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For the war and trump comes out and said im not sure about that. if he was not sure, he wouldnt have let john bolton escalate this for a year and then get to the brink of that war and say i dont know whats going on here. >> that point is an important one. the president has chosen advisers and also allies hes going to listen to and all of the folks are in agreement. they want military confrontation of iran. >> here is consistent on the people he picked to work for him. even general flynn. remembe...

Decades even, if its donald trump, we are in serious trou e trouble. he tore up the iran deal. one of the few things he stuck to. as a terrorist group, he escalated economic sanctions knowing what direction it leads into. im not willing to give trump a pass. he is a know nothing idiot, but we cant say its all mbs or all bolton. it is very much trump driving it. >> the president of the united states is the adviser. there is a really interesting thing happening. this intelligence, every one of my ...

He is a know nothing idiot, but we cant say its all mbs or all bolton. it is very much trump driving it. >> the president of the united states is the adviser. there is a really interesting thing happening. this intelligence, every one of my spidey senses and my skepticism goes up the way it is being couched. the drumbeat that doesnt seem to pan out. and then other stories that seem to be sending up their own flags. how do you read all of this? >> two things. first of all, john bolton has a histo...

The president has chosen advisers and also allies hes going to listen to and all of the folks are in agreement. they want military confrontation of iran. >> here is consistent on the people he picked to work for him. even general flynn. remember general flynn who had 20 days in the white house? he gave one briefing and they noticed in the first or second week. tom cotton is the adviser in the senate. lets be clear. if the only thing standing between mbs, netanyahu and john bolton and a war in ir...

Yet one wonders what communication is taking place with mbs and why this isnt being disclosed under the proper laws. >> but isnt -- arent there often communications between people in the white house and foreign officials that are not made public? dont there have to be private communications? >> well, sure. but the irony of this is that the president ran his whole presidential campaign accusing hillary clinton of having a private server and having communication, and here you have something thats ...

For u.s. viewers, robert muellers investigation could be wrapping up today. we have live cameras set up on the watch. "new day" continues right now. theyre going to be able to see the report, weigh in. im sure theyre nervous. >> theres a cautious optimism. >> not going to be a ind phooing of criminal wrong doing. >> i think more indictments are coming that will pull a lot of this together. >> the white house rejected the demand to provide any information about those trump/putin meetings. >> th...

Whatsapp for official white house business, although disputing whether, you know, they communicated with leaders like mbs through the app. whether its an app or his private e-mail, it all adds up to more scrutiny of a critical white house adviser. and lest we forget, a key part of the presidents campaign, the whole "lock her up" stuff, was premised on unsecure communication. >> yeah, look, its the latest scandal surrounding jared kushner. what abbe lowell apparently said to chairman cummings, at...

Back channel conversations with mbs, that no one else in the government knows about. we need to find out whether hes just communicating about the u.s. governments business or is he also worried about his private business, his brother has been pursuing investments in saudi arabia. there are a number of questions that are going to have to be answered. and the stonewalling that the white house has done, both in this investigation, investigations into how he got his security clearance and other inve...

Famine. were about to pass a war powers resolution in the house and senate. the question is the president going to sign it, or is he too beholden to the saudis? these are deeply important questions about our national interests. yet one wonders what communication is taking place with mbs and why this isnt being disclosed under the proper laws. >> but isnt -- arent there often communications between people in the white house and foreign officials that are not made public? dont there have to be pri...

This as elijah cummings says in a letter to the white house that the presidents son-in-law, jared kushner, uses the messaging service whatsapp to communicate with foreign leaders. in the same letter, it says that ivanka trump continues to receive e-mails related to white house business on her private account and didnt always forward them to her white house account, which would be a violation of the presidential records act. among other things, that act says that any individual creating president...