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Happening in our country. other than that, i wish everybody a very merry christmas. >> im joined by john harwood and congressman david jolly back with me. john, lets start out in a normal place. if you are a normal person and you are living your life and doing christmas and in and out of the news, you heard the government shutdown, you heard the markets are up and down, but you as our cnbc gurue, how real is this? how long term is the shutdown? is the president to be taken at his word at this wh...

Deal with him is through strength. i just felt like the presidents comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. >> bolten said the administration wants to maintain discussions with the russian government on strategic stability, disarmament and regional conflict. the president may meet with putin next month in paris for cannot memration of the 100th anniversary of the ends of the first world war. shin on? >> shannon: thank you,vich. media commentators ripped on president trumps meeting...

They made us look as a nation more like a push over. >> reporter: bolton said the administration wants to maintain discussions with the russian government on strategic stability, disarmament and regional conflicts. >> the two in paris for the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the first world war. shannon: richardson at the state department, thank you. media commentators ripped on donald trumps last meeting with vladimir putin in helsinki arguing he is compromised by the former kgb spymas...

>> shannon: democrats acknowledged they dont have many options, if any, when it comes to blocking about a new supreme court justice before the midterms. thats not what some partisan media commentators want to hear. there appears to be a meltdown happening on air, on capitol hill, social media, and within the dnc. trace gallagher is tracking the backlash freshly today. hey, trey spiezio as excited, reaction from the left at justice kennedys retirement announcement was fast, prevalenc tests day sa...

>> shannon: democrats acknowledged they dont have >> democrats acknowledge they dont have many options of any when it comes to blocking a vote on a new supreme court justice before the midterms but that is not with the media commentators want to hear. there is a meltdown happening on the air on capitol hill, on social media and we are tracking the backlash. >> is expected reaction from the left to justice kennedys retirement announcement was fast, prevalent and pessimistic. we dont have time for...

Establishment experts of think tanks many media commentators very doubtful about the motives of north korea they fear that north korea might play a game of bait and switch and that donald trump is pretty badly prepared for a meeting in just a few weeks times with kim jong il and that is maybe why the press secretary of the white house or huckabee send us as you just said in your discussion with. the colleague from the free university she walked back some of the things that were said yesterday ap...

Human health unsurprisingly the three companies that funded it had a vested interest b.m.w. di miller and v.w. . when the tests became public the outcry was grace with members of the german government various media commentators and even fox martins boss united this week in their condemnation. but the researchers behind the study are suggesting that the response has been disproportionate pointing out that the study posed no risk to subjects health. when view mention when we expose humans to harmf...

>> thats a very half hearted apology because not only in the original tweet did he call the president of the united states a piece of -- using a four letter word but an embarrassment to human kind. he hosts a show on cnn which doesnt take any action. he isnt really an employee, kathy griffin appears once a year and never appropriate to use this kind of language. were seeing the normalizing of extreme rhetoric from media commentators against this president. >> bill: the normalizing. >> kathy grif...

Donald trump, but also at potus, the official presidential twitter account. was it appropriate for the president to be defending his daughter, commercial enterprise, if you will, officially as president of the united states? >> i think the overwhelming reaction from experts and media commentators has been no, its not appropriate. you have spicer at the podium saying this is a direct attack on the presidents polices. i think this relates to this administrations allergy to criticism. theyre not th...

Discrimination is neither a christian nor an american value. robertson is just the latest high profile person to run afoul of gay rights activists. actor alec baldwin lost his msnbc show last month after allegedly using a home phobic slur. indiana pacers basketball star roy hibbert was signed $75,000 for an anti-gay comment. yunel escobar was suspended for a similar infraction. it all has some media commentators saying witch hunt. >> i find it patently hilarious that a & e is shock that its hand...