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Involved with that country and that when going through that core, that hub of an investigation, they found that president trump and around what he was doing, some questions. >> yes. you know, one of the really difficult aspects of this unprecedented counterintelligence investigation into a sitting president is, where does the fbi put up firewalls? by firewall whats i mean is, when we conduct sensitive investigations we have to wall off certain people. keep people on the outside of the investigat...

I actually pulled the numbers. so in 1984, the head of the uaw representing, obviously, auto workers in lansing, michigan, said, "we dont look at automation as job welimination," basically what you just said. "we look at it as a way of making cars much higher quality." lansing represented 14,500 workers.re now a little more than 5,000 inm lansing.ot other factors intervened, trade was one of them. automation was the main one. so actually, a lot of those workers didnt get better jobs, as you well...

History has shown massive disruption. i actually pulled the numbers. so in 1984, the head of the uaw representing, obviously, auto workers in lansing, michigan said, quote: we dont look at automation as job elimination, basically what you just said. we look at it as a way of making cars much higher quality. lansing represented 14,500 workers. a little more than 5,000 in lansing. other factors intervened, trade was one of them. automation was the main one. so, actually, a lot of those workers did...

Intelligence services, these kind of inquiries, were able to get as much information and how and why mueller was able to get such great documentation on the illegality of the ira and folks affiliated with that. >> interesting points. the presidents nominee, as you know, to oversee the russia investigation, william barr, hell have his confirmation hearing for attorney general of the united states next week. youve already said his nomination should be withdrawn due to a memo he wrote questioning t...

Investors, but look at the jobs market. this is probably the best job market weve had in 50 years. we have seven million more jobs today than people have filled them. we have the lowest unemployment rate. wages are finally starting to rise. >> so whats the market freaking out about then, david? >> oh. i think, yeah, by the way, the last week has been pretty good, poppy. since december 24 when we had the big sell-off on christmas eve, we have regained about 2,000 points. i think that was the best...

Whatever, so i think theres a role for me and other journalists at every available opportunity correct misinformation with accurate information. >> so daniel, that is a noble cause and obviously, in this business, i think thats the right approach, but do you worry that readers and in my case viewers are getting inundated with this constant fact checking and it kind of becomes noise? >> i think there is some of that problem. i think of it as an avalanche problem. you know, trump creates this aval...

When he berates cooperating witnesses as rats, when he praises roger stone for what some criminals call a stand-up guy, has courage, staying silent. when he pressures matt whitaker directly, keep the southern district off my case, all of this should be going into muellers memo. >> we also heard from adam schiff over the weekend. he basically made the case yesterday that no matter what, even if the president would claim executive privilege over the public release of the robert mueller final repor...

Let me bring in david ignatius for the first question, but, david, before asking the first question, let me ask you, just how big of a threat does isis remain, in your opinion based on all the sources youve spoken with? >> joe, isis is on the way to being destroyed physically, the idea that laid behind isis in syria and iraq, obviously, persists. but they in the last week, im told by the syrian kurdish commandos who is leading this fight have felt a resurgent morale. he told me when i interviewe...

Circumstance would not be so astonishing. >> we know that syria was one of the last straws for, obviously, secretary mattis and now mcgurk. mcgurk saying isis is not defeated. whats the best case, worse case scenario for what happens when the u.s. leaves there? >> i can give you the worst case, the fight against isis will slow down. its going to have to. we know that erdogan has designs on moving forces east of the euphrates to the iraqi border. he said he is going to do that. i dont know that t...

A point of of you know this this friendship and this transatlantic bond that we have had since the end of world war two. and i think it will stay strong but it really will turn on who that next person has on the branch of how about you how will they move forward now in terms of working with nato. well the thought of nato is coming to a stand so obviously there are structures in place there are ways of corporate thing on the lower level so that will continue but there are at large number of big q...