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Every two years the british capital attracts military delegations from around the world they come to the london docklands to attend a d s e i arms fact their countries may be at war with each other but here they can bury the hatchet while they buy new weapons. one of the biggest stands at the trade fam belongs to ryan metar germanys leading arms manufacturer would just hold off base company sells three billion euros worth of military equipment tanks cannons simulation systems guns and ammunition...

Government shutdown stretches into its fourth week. so, what is it going to take to try and bring the standoff to an end? david hawkins, editor-in-chief of the firewall. you are longtime observer. you seen your share of stalemates and filibusters did nothing like this. what you think it will take? >> thats right. quite literally nothing like this. i was around for what is now the second longest shutdown in 95, 96. i will point to the shutdown. its a basic political calculus. which is politicians...

A way out of a box canyon hes in now. if he assumes a crisis or emergency declaration would be stopped by the courts, its a way out for him. he can say to his base i tried really hard. if you compare the make believe of the genesis of this crisis with the real effect its having right now on hundreds of thousands of families and on businesses and on science and on air traffic control and on the securities and exchange commission, i dont recall anything in my long repertoirial experience where a s...

Do what you can do, be the adult in the room, and say "you know what question argue no im fighting for the border wall more than anybody, but at the same time, we cant put the nation in the position where the dea cant even do its job." kennedy is right, most of those illegal drugs are coming through ports of entry. which means we do need more people at those ports of entry. >> kennedy: or to take a different approach to the technology. >> harris: technology, whatever it is. but i think there is ...

Johnson, welcome back. >> you used to be a neighborhood, we have a nice fence between us at the bureau and the homeland security -- >> the parking lot at homeland security is empty. it is closed for business. >> all right, you have been through shut downs, you have been through fights about it, youre an observer and what do you say. >> as a concerned member of the public, what i see is an emerging security crisis. were taking the people that we depend on. those that screen for explosives, guns, ...

Because he was in prison, we had no news for him. you couldnt set up an altar. you just hoped that he was alive. 10, 12, 15, your friends are going out doing things. you would just have this weight on you that your father is somewhere in prison or in the jungles. and that stuff stayed with me for 40 years in my mind. i dont know how many vietnamese have that kind of experience. at the same time i come back to hue, my hometown, my familys hometown, and im glad people are alive, people are living,...

Ultras who are saying lets crash out. theres a further middle group who is saying lets have some kind of soft landing with the safe harbor and the norway option. and there is a fourth group, including myself not just as an observer, but as a participant, for saying look, the deal promised for brexit in 2016 is not on our front. and just as when you buy a house you do a survey and youre not bound to buy the house until the results of the survey come through, so when you decide to leave the europe...

Is this her experience with what the tea party represented and the freedom caucus, and mark d mead meadows and the speaker boehner? >> well, she is going to have the challenges, but nobody is up to the challenges more than nancy pelosi. she has been through the rodeo before and she knows how to operate and work the body. she has always said know your power, and she knows how the wield it and use it, and she has demonstrated that. elijah did hit the nail on the head here as well there. is an oppo...

Yourself to the walls and then its a fantastic. you know see well one thing that is quite clear to any observer of your concerts is how you bring in mens joy to them and there are scientific findings that music is there appear to take makes everyone feel good so lets take a closer look at a report on this theory here were going to. music gets us moving. it brings a smile to our faces. and it touches our emotions in short music makes us happy. and dutch neuropsychologist eric shanteau knows why h...

They have become a parity of themselves. they are exposing themselves. the american people are in tune with it. theyre doing themselves a disservice by going to negative but an its so blatant and obvious to the casual observer. >> jason: youre very close to the president. why do you think the president actually made this trip? it wasnt to sign autographs and make america great again hats. >> i know why he made it, jason. i called the white house. i spoke with the white house on christmas eve. he...