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They have become a parody of themselves and exposing themselves. the american people are in tune with them and theyre doing themselves a disservice by going so negative because its so blatant and obvious to even the casual observer. >> why do you think the president actually made this trip? it wasnt to sign autographing on 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 did this because this was important...

Became a political liability for their administrations. but as you note, this is not something that is an easy under taking. its a sophisticated feat to literally sneak the president out of the white house, all the way to andrews air force base, out of washington, d.c., and all the way to a conflict zone, whether its afghanistan or iraq. i think today we saw the challenge of the modern era come into conflict with this longstanding practice of the president of the united states. it was on twitter...

People could identify with arafat, and they could see israel as the oppressor. >> while the palestinians hadnt by 1974 got the palestinian liberation that they were seeking, theyd certainly put themselves on the agenda at a very high level indeed, and this had happened fast. >> in a historic vote today, the united nations general assembly supported the palestinian claim to statehood. and a second resolution also passed that would give the palestinian liberation organization a formal place at the...

Of the united states government right now. i think thats the biggest problem the markets have. >> we should point out here that it was president trump who actually appointed jerome powell to run the fed. whats the presidents gripe with jerome powell? >> the presidents gripe with jerome powell is that he has embarked on a set of rate increases including one that he followed through on last week to try to normalize the level of interest rates in our economy. the fed has been stimulating the econom...

Mattis departure. >> the chaos, in the national security arena, and across the government in our process and so forth. if you are a foreign observer looking at the united states now, are you going to be saying to yourself, there are no principles, no policy, no process. we dont know where you stand. i think that mattiss departure takes the foreign policy, in this case, it sent just a matter of pulling out of a treaty, like the climate agreement or something like that it is about pulling back ame...

From the harvard school, john nichols. admiral, to you first here. as the president tweeted today that isis is largely defeated and now its turkeys concern. do you agree with that assessment? and if not, what do you think? >> of course i do not agree with that and vastly, more importantly, the entire intelligence community of the united states, all of our allies, any serious observer would say in an instant that the islamic state is not defeated. we still have miles to sail in that voyage to def...

National security arena but across the government in process and so forth. if youre a foreign observer looking at u.s. right now see there is no policy, no process, we dont know where you stand. mattiss departure takes trumps foreign policy to crossroads, see fully manifest what america first means. not just pulling out of treaty or agreement but pulling back american troops and abandoning allies who have worked and fought with us, to whom we owe allegiance and support. that message will reverbe...

First about how you see mattiss departure. >> well, i have never seen in 40 years of being in government service, anything approaching the chaos we have in our government now, both in the national security arena, but across the government in our process and so forth. if you you are a foreign observer looking at the united states youre going to say to yourself, theres no principles, theres no policy, theres no process. we dont know where you stand. so mattiss departure takes trumps foreign pl sy ...

And unwise. for whatever reason that got his attention and for eight months he didnt do anything, and what changed yesterday? >> now hes citing that as he is tweeting about it this morning, you know, saying this should surprise nobody because of that episode. again, nobody here on the hill or in his administration was surprised by his policy stance on this. as susan was saying, they were just taken by surprise that there was zero process involved. if you have been an observer of this administrat...

Full border security in this year end funding bill. this is not a dramatic request. this is mainstream common sense. how can you fund the government and not fund border security? >> youre a close observer to whats going on. he hasnt gotten the $5 billion for the border wall. the democrats are about to become the majority in the house of representatives. are you willing to come up with some sort of compromise right now to prevent 900,000 federal workers including 400,000 or 500,000 law enforcemen...