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Accusations is he turning this into a campaign stop. >> the president seems to have confused in some way this troop visit with a campaign rally. > griff: the liberal media in a frenzy surprise troops even going as far as to question whether signing trump hats break military law. our next guest says their reaction only shows the unfair double standard. ned ryun is a former speech writer for president george w. bush, he joining us now to explain. ned? are they breaking the law by signing a hat tha...

Troops he gave them a big pay raise and it was their first in ten years. it was not. a trip where he revealed the classified location of seal team five member of a video he tweeted and a trip where his press secretary revealed the date of mike pompeos previously unannounced trip to baghdad next month. with me is national security spokesperson and he was a special assistant to president obama. hes now an msnbc national security analyst. the panel is also back. ned, why is it so unusual for the pr...

The point i wanted to make to what ned said about were seeing the president being political. i feel like hes not being political as just yet again all about himself. he used this occasion to grandize himself. hes not outlying a republican philosophy or talking about the good of the country or his vision will make the country better. its all about let me trash comey while here in the war zone. let me talk about the wall. all these things that have nothing to do with this visit to the members of m...

Largely alone holed up in the white house tweeting out his grievances as the government remains partially shut down over funding over the border wall. joining us from the white house, nbcs hans nichols, kevin barron, ned price, former nfc spokesperson and sam stein, politics editor for the daily beast and noah rothman, for commentary magazine. ned, lets start out with you. are you surprised that donald trump finally made a trip to a combat zone, and can you talk a little bit about the preparatio...

And finally hes done what should have been perfunctory within his administration. >> hans, what are you hearing from sources about the planning and donald trumps decision to finally take a trip that he had avoided up until this point in his presidency. >> well, as ned suggests, the planning for this is usually long term. its likely the planning started even before the president made his decision on syria. in fact, the president had been hinting about this for some time. you remember that thanksg...

As it is given that we have not heard of full articulation of it is not likely to succeed. certainly not in syria and we just dont know what the future will hold for baghdad given that it now sounds like there will be an increased troop presence in iraq. >> and hopefully well hear soon an articulation of president trumps vision. hans nichols, kevin barron and ned, thank you. when we come back, before heading to iraq, the president spent much of the holiday alone in the white house stewing over...

Out of that land. we just dont know yet. theres no strategic guidance or vision for americas military interventions abroad if its going to be an ad hoc treatment like this. ned, donald trump did not meet with any iraqi officials today, which i guess that at least means that he didnt make a plea for money from the oil. but what does it mean in terms of our overall relationship that donald trump posed for a visit in the country and does not go out of his way to meet with any iraqis? >> well, it ...

V decides that the papacy has lost sight of its spiritual purpose and must return to the bones of st. peter in rome. >> urban v, a reform-minded pope, is appalled by the luxury. he was appalled by the self-indulgence in avignon. he announced to the cardinals that they could only have one course at dinner rather than their usual ten-course bafrpg wet. it had increasingly become clear that as long as the papacy was tied to the fortunes of any country, that the ability to act as a spir attual leade...

Jedediah: if had you to make a prediction how this lands, who caves? does someone cave? do they meet in the middle on a final number. >> politics is the art of come pro-mize. i think there is going to be some sort of compromise. perhaps looking at 4, 4.5 billion as deroy mentioned. there is going to be some figure where both will be able to claim some sort of victory. this is important for trump to win because, again, lets not forget, this is one of the reasons he was actually elected build the ...

Upcoming indictments. >> ned, when you look at michael cohen -- michael flynn, some have called him the most important witness so far that have worked on the investigation, yet we have that other wrinkle delaying sentencing. he has more to give? >> it could be certainly he has more to give. obviously a couple of his associates were indicted this week on business transactions and an ongoing case in the southern district of new york. the interesting thing with michael cohen is we know hes admitted...