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Pristine valleys and forests. they wore matching red ties and dark jackets. and in a move that left close followers of u.s./chinese relations a gape, they used matching language. president xi urged the united states to expand cooperative areas and achieve win/win results. tillerson agreed. the u.s. side is ready to develop relation was china based on the principal of no conflict, no confron "trading nation," mutual respect and win/win cooperation. a lay observer might have blinked and missed it....

For me in terms of national security worries in this white house is a scoop about jared kushner. and it arrives right in the middle of a story about rex tillerson screwing something up. heres the story. it starts on page 290 of ronans book. quote, during tillersons first trip to china as secretary of state, he and president xi jinping sat in matching taupe leather armchairs in front of a mural of chinese pastoral beauty, cranes soaring over pristine valleys and forests. they wore matching red ti...

For the u.s. supreme court to hear argument over president trumps travel ban. it appears all of the more conservative justices and swing vote justice anthony kennedy may be siding with the president. this is justice samuel alito over whether a reasonable observer would consider the policy a, quote unquote, muslim ban. >> i think there are 50 predominantly muslim countries in the world, five predominantly muslim countries are on this list. the population of the predominantly muslim countries on t...

Countries with the most muslims, exactly one, iran, would be on that list of the top ten. so would a reasonable observer think this was a muslim ban? >> interesting to hear. theres the conservative perspective. the key line is at the beginning, would any reasonable observer reading this proclamation, without taking into statements. if you just push the trump campaign aside, would you think it was a muslim ban? >> it sounds like he was taking trump seriously but not literally. this case wraps up ...

Take you back inside, a rare chance to go back inside the supreme court chamber today, arguments about the presidents travel ban, we played you democratic appointed justice kagan voicing skepticism. heres conservative justice alito saying it sounds okay to him. >> any reasonable observer reading this proclamation, without taking into account statements, think that this was a muslim ban? there are -- i think there are 50 predominantly muslim countries in the world. five muslim countries are on th...

Them -- those whore wating nce the campaign map very nervous and i think weve talked about this before but its worth repeating. senator mitch mcconnell very keen observer of these things, been working on campaigns a long time does not believe the senate is safe in a wave. its no given that republicans who have the best map in the senate since 1938 can hold the senate either in a 51-49. and of course people are looking at the house and thinking its more than 50%, maybe 60% that the house flips to...

>> weve been speaking to a lot of people here, bill. that role is significant. you have to look at what south korean president moon has been doing. he has been talking about talks from the very beginning. also after firing off all those missiles and setting off all those nukes north koreaan leader kim speaking dovish a bit as well. listen to what long-time observer mike breen says about trumps importance. take a listen. >> no previous american president has issued a credible military threat to n...

Impacts mostly muslim countries. the justices voted in december to let the policy take full effect until they come to a conclusion in the courts. and they took the rare step of making an audio recording of todays proceedings, the arguments that were going on available immediately. same day relief. here is associate u.s. supreme court justice samuel elite toe, watch. >> i think there are 50 predominantly muslim countries in the world. five predominantly muslim countries are on this list. the popu...

Inside the court today it seemed to them that the justices maybe were leaning more in favor of upholding this ban than they could have been for the past versions of the ban. and walking a way from this idea that is a muslim ban and trying to make it more focused on the countries themselves. are you concerned that your argument not going to be as strong with these justices as it would have been for the others? >> we cited too supreme court precedent that each members this court looked to where th...

Muslim ban. who are we fooling? the reasonable observer watching this proclamation seeing the history of the statements, of the president, understands that this is exactly what he promised us. its a muslim ban. 150 million muslims affected by it. 90 plus, 90 to 99% of the individuals affected by the ban are muslim. you can throw in venezuela just for good measure and just to gussy it up and the people of north korea which theres also a handful of people, at its core, its a muslim ban and runs af...