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President is seriously considering a drawdown of u.s. troops in afghanistan, and that will leave afghan forces behind that the u.s. had pledged to support. so, that is part of the reason you see the construct of mattis letter. you see him make a strong case for alliances. you see him make a strong case that you have to push back against countries like russia and china, and mattis knows that the terrorism fight is far from over, that russia and iran are bad actors in this, and that isis and the t...

Morning morning. >> well, kasie, thank you so much, and kristen, as well. thank you for leading us off. you will be with us throughout the hour as things will develop, as they will. and joining me from capitol hill is chris van hollen and, senator, thank you for joining us, a member of the house appropriations committee. and obvious ly, mitch mcconnell does not go to the senate floor with something this imp pornt right before christmas without thinking that the president would sign off on it. >>...

Into these systems, not just via facebook, twitter, your cell phone, your home nest machine, whatever, theyre everywhere. thats the question who has control over this data and what should happen to sit a good yes for regulators. >> the other thing i have here, we talk about the trust they think has been lost by the president and particularly his legal team with how far theyve gone to spin russia development. every one of them gets debunked and suddenly if you apply the same standard to social me...

Justice reform, he believes, is going to be addressed next week. but when youve got zinke, youve got mick muscle vlvaney temporary chief of staff. you look at the positions he has to fill. he has to fill a full-time chief of staff, first of all. he has an interior secretary, obviously, who just left. a u.n. ambassador and attorney general, both need to be confirmed yet. so those essentially are still misplaced as well. is there a gauge, julian, of what this president about functionally get done,...

>> reporter: you can take cues that the democrats came out of the meeting feeling empowered. what they are offering right now is maintaining the current level of funding on border security. the president has made clear he wants $5 billion. the things i heard repeatedly from republicans and democrats yesterday, the game is to blame the other side for the shut down. it would be his fault that he would take the blame for it. it is considered a rhetorical win for democrats. obviously, senator schume...

Important they are to him, and this is quite a fall from grace for someone who was so close to candidate donald trump and worked for year s fs for the tr organization, and mimi rocah, as we are watching the doorway here, and any moment, michael cohen is going to be coming out, and we dont know whether he is going to spook or his lawyer will speak for him. obvious ly, nypd is there and this is an extraordinary personal fall for someone who had worked for so long with donald trump. we will see if ...

What should we expect on that front today? >> this is where i was looking at comments, this is what i think might have been in his mind because on the left, obviously -- well, on all sides, especially on the left there is concern about the human rights pieces in china. on the right, there is that plus the notion of saying, hey, google -- kind of funny. you dropped out of the pentagon contract to provide ai to the pentagon. so youre abandoning the u.s., but now you are cozying up to china. i thin...

The administration. so, that implies not just contact, coordination, but were talking all the way through may of this year now. >> yep. absolutely. i mean, look, between the lies and the coordination, manafort is now essentially in a cell of his own making. he had an opportunity to cooperate. he threw it away. the only way out of this, really, would be a pardon. >> and april, when you take both of these filings together, where are we as it pertains the president of the united states whos looking...

Years and the timing might be actually because the executives of huawei stopped traveling to the u.s. after it was made clear that there were these kind of suspicions and that there was an investigation into the company. so there have been some visits to trade shows in the u.s., but by lower ranking officials. but the senior management stopped visiting the u.s. so it was just the first opportunity where she could actually be arrested, you know, in a country that is friendly with the u.s. obvious...

Drop the ashes. party hard. >> jesse: no flyover for you? >> greg: a drone thats dropping airline bottles of rum. this is pretty intense. >> juan: what would you think if you are a former president and yesterday are sitting in the national cathedral in your thinking i think they are going to do this for me. wow. >> martha: i also think he probably planned it to a certain extent for his own personal journey. thinking how do i want to leave this earth? i want to be sent to washington obviously and...