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That britadrinking was a big th for brett kavanagh if you look at his yearbook, he was a member of what they called the 100 keg club, and the object was to drink 100 kegs of beer during their senior year. i just wanted to say in terms of how this issue of whether it matters or not, i think its a hard one, i think that we all know that people do stupid things in high school and they grow up and regret them. but i think whats important here or may become important is that brett kavanagh is not say...

The pathological liar in the white house driveway lied about paul manafort. >> you know, paul manafort worked for me for a very short period of time. he worked for ronald reagan, bob dole, john mccain, he worked for many other republicans. he worked for me for what, 49 days or something? a very short period of time. >> pay attention to this. whenever donald trump uses a number, hes lying about the number. paul manafort did not work for the trump campaign for 49 days. paul manafort worked for the...

All trump enterprises it was a revolving door people were getting fired for among ore things incompetence and replaced by more incompetence. in the case of paul manafort, a criminal -- or an accused criminal who a federal judge believes is so probably likely to have committed the crime of witness tampering and is so probably likely to commit that crime again if he was allowed to go home tonight with his ankle bracelets and his cell phone that the federal judge sent paul manafort to jail tonight....

Whenever donald trump uses a number, hes lying about the number. paul manafort worked for the trump campaign for 144 days. so basically triple the amount of time that donald trump now says that paul manafort worked for his campaign. steve bannon and kellyanne conway worked for the trump campaign for only 84 days like all trump enterprises it was a revolving door people were getting fired for among ore things incompetence and replaced by more incompetence. in the case of paul manafort, a criminal...

Line is going to be and to keep enough of -- its two-thirds in the senate to convict. think thats what hes playing to. >> in other words, hes aware of the fact that the chance of being impeached is very low. >> the chance of being impeached is high, ict, ifhe democrats take the house. the chance of being convicted is very low under any circumstances. but when chris christie says cause hes generally speaking a reality based character says hed never self-pardon because that would cause impeachment...

So i think thats what hes playing to. >> in other words, hes aware of the fact that the chance of being impeached is very low. >> the chance of being impeached is high, in fact, if the democrats take the house. the chance of being convicted is very low under any circumstances. but when chris christie says because hes generally speaking a reality based character says hed never self-pardon because that would cause impeachment. im not sure that would. but these ore things, the constitutional challe...

Protection issues where they could be the subject of terrorist attacks, maybe not directly from the syrian government, but from hezbollah, for example, or the iranian revolutionary guards, which are active in syria, as well. >> of global importance is what does this mean for u.s./russian relations, colonel? >> these relations between russia and the united states are basically put in the icebox, at least for a bit. were going to see some very frosty exchanges. weve seen president putins statement...

Troops? there are troops in esyria who are working to fight back isis. advising our coalition partners on fighting isis. what duoes it mean for that figt against isis and american troops? >> it could be several different things. one of the things that will probably happen, christine, they are going to have much more difficult interangctions with t russians. theyre not supposed to have direct interaction with the syrian armed forces with assad. but they have to have some degree of koocoordination...

We know you have chemical weapons stored on this base. the fact that you have the chemical weapons on this base means that you are violating agreements that we have made with you and with russia and quite frankly with international law. and that becomes a real problem for the u.s. and thats the way the trump administration has decided to deal with it, is basically send that message to them at that base. >> what kinds of options could general mattis presented to the president? he was huddled with...

This war. he fully intends to continue pursuing this war. we dont know whether his calculations change after this missile attack. but he is not by any stretch of the imagination, talking about peace talks or anything. he thinks he can win. he has powerful backers in iran and russia. the really interesting step forward now is to see whether anybodys political calculations will be shifted by the chemical attack and by the u.s. response. its important that this is happening as president trump is ho...