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May 10, 2017
Sergey lavrov talking at the russian embassy. >> on the whole territory of the syrian republic and this step will help us to come to the political solution on the basis of the resolution of the united nations security council. we agreed to continue work into gaza whereas the united states is present as observer and also in the framework of the geneva process, it should be renewed. i believe that all of the participants of those talks were constructive and put in the opposition groups and they al...
May 10, 2017
Remember that james comey in the eyes of the democrats was a v y very -- it was funny to watch mitch mcconnell on the floor of the senate in his way saying this is a man, chuck schumer and others said that should not be in this job. and i think any objective observer would look at him the last 18 months and say he seemed not to be in his traces. a horse phrase. he was out in his own terms. i was very disappointed early on. the i investigates, the justice department prosecutes. you dont see the f...
May 10, 2017
From st. louis. anyway, they could put somebody in like that and steady the fbi, or they may just try to plow ahead and get control, even greater control than they just have statutorily. that seems to be what is going on in sessions mind. >> that, i think, is precisely the question. it gets to this, which to me is the sort of the takeaway here from you as someone who is at the center of a genuine constitutional crisis. you said this doesnt quite rise to the saturday night massacre, and in my ind...
May 10, 2017
Constitutional crisis. you said this doesnt quite rise to the saturday night massacre, and in my independent judgment, i would agree. but where has there ever been anything that rose to this level other than the saturday night massacre in the time youve been an observer of american politics? >> i cant think of it. when sessions was removed, it was for very good reason, from the fbi. >> william sessions, the fbi director that was fired by bill clinton. >> right. and we dont have any parallels. in...
May 9, 2017
By the way, she was confirmed by a wide bipartisan majority. shes not a partisan person. shes a person who does the right thing by the book. that i think came through in her testimony today. >> watching this as an observer, im not a lawyer or have any insidenformation about the working of the department of juice, but it seemed to me she was trying to underscore the gravity and the rarity and the seriousness of this visit to the white house, that a senior career justice department official and th...
May 9, 2017
Shes not a partisan person. by the way, she was confirmed by a wide bipartisan majority. shes not a partisan person. shes a person who does the right thing by the book. and she plays it straight down the middle. i think that came through in her testimony today. >> watching this as an observer, im not a lawyer or have any inside information about the working of the department of justice, but it seemed to me she was trying to underscore the gravity and the rarity and the seriousness of this visit ...
May 6, 2017
Cyberdimension of our, you know, in our democracies. >> christine is also very keen observer of u.s. politics. at this hour, our american viewers are joining us. theyre going to see this and think, well, the same thing happened to us. there was a hack of hillary clintons campaign e-mails and those became a very prominent part of the campaign narrative. there are many parallels between these elections. le pen claims a relationship to donald trump and are we seeing what we saw in u.s. playing out ...
May 6, 2017
With mr. murdock is deeper and more enduring than most in his life, which is -- thats intense thing, almost maybe a little sad and the two plot strategies according to people close to both. >> the interesting thing is that trump and murdock werent always close in the 80s and 90s. murdock looked down on trump even though he was a central player in "the new york post" daily but the real relationship is between murdock and kushner. when kushner holds an enormous amount of power in this administrati...
May 6, 2017
Life, which is -- thats intense thing, almost maybe a little sad and the two plot strategies according to people close to both. >> the interesting thing is that trump and murdock werent always close in the 80s and 90s. murdock looked down on trump even though he was a central player in "the new york post" daily but the real relationship is between murdock and kushner. when kushner holds an enormous amount of power in this administrationnd when he bought the new york observer he reached out to mu...
May 4, 2017
Scene for you first here, stephanie, up in this direction here gop members have just broken up from their conference meeting where they heard a presentation from leaders. you see them, a mob of reporters all around them and back down the hall behind me you also see them coming out of the room. obviously a lot of interest here, the republican leaders made their presentation about an hour from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. here in washington, telling the rank and file that they are going to go forward. ...