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Administration that is, offbalance with what their real political views are and potential back channels. >> trying to get things offbalance. trying to intercede. i mean, thats just what justice department counter intelligence chief david laufman told us here moments ago. thats what a former senior fbi official told the intelligence committee, as you saw there today. as the president today tells abc news that he wuould welcome any he could get from a foreign country to help him in an election. th...

Road only impeachment. he called it a thousand stabs to try to keep the president off balance. the feud is continuing because earlier today, nancy pelosi doubled down on her comments yesterday about the president engaging in a cover-up and obstructing justice. that whole thing taken according might be impeachable. listen to what she said in her weekly news conference. >> the things that he is doing is clear, in plain sight. cannot be denied. obstruction of justice. yes, these co be impeachable o...

Want. what they want is this. they tap in to our communications system and then open the kimono so everybody can see where the disagreements were and then we talk about it. now that said if you look at the cables, i think it is true that they are nervous about trump. some of that nervousness called for. i guess i would say president trump wants it to be. that he keeps them offbalance. though i will say some of these if you look at the cables, they are reacting to the same thins that lead even so...

Now you would like for me to lay out the optimal terms of the negotiation, but i think that would be inappropriate since im not the president. that said, i think any effort to incrementally improve the terms for -- from the perspective of the united states is a positive thing and thats where what the president has been doing. hes trying to keep jim cong un off balance -- kim jong-un off balance with respect to the negotiations and his counterpart, as someone who has been in negotiations before, ...

Disruptive foreign policy that could be channelled for good use, going beyond, as you said, the bureaucracies that many would say, oh, no, you cant do that mr. president. there are sometimes when that could be effective. it seems to me every step donald trump takes forward we take three or four back because of insulting tweets or attacks against institutions or attacks against allies that are just absolutely necessary for the united states to function as an international power. >> yeah. the disr...

Down amid allegations of mishandling the scandal. simon issued a statement to survivors that reads in part "i can never say enough that i am so sorry that a trusted renowned physician was really such an evil, evil person." michigan state athletic director mark hollis also resigned today saying he was not running away, but running towards comfort, compassion, and understanding for survivors. now senators from both parties are calling for a select committee to investigate usa gymnastics in the u.s...

Olympics and that could be a game changer. >> what is the -- why do you think they do that? why have an overture and then something, a provocation? >> because if the overture is not accepted immediately on north koreas terms then they think they have, you know, a justification for using force. what theyre also doing is keeping everybody else including the south koreans, including us, off balance. this really works very well for them. theyve done this now, since, you know, for 70 years. it has be...

Think they have, you know, a jufd justification for using force. what theyre also doing is keeping everybody else including the south koreans, including us, off balance. this really works very well for them. theyve done this now, since, you know, for 70 years. it has been something that we have always reacted in the way that they wanted. so theyre going to continue to do that until it no longer works. >> david gergen, i mean, what happens now? i mean, if, you know, again, rex tillerson had made ...

>> doug: in tonights "what ever happened to" segment, the enron scandal. "what happened to the employees of that energy company that virtually lost everything?" tonight, answers from correspondent casey stegall. >> started his first company from his collegesh dorm room. by the time and graduation rolled around, the young entrepreneur landed his first job with a prestigious company in texas. >> i came to enron. it was in and run north america. i went to their pipeline side. i was very fortunate t...

Differently. we are seeing with the emergence of new companies. silicon valley spending tens and tens of billions on entertainment programming. >> ruppert has managed to assemble a stellar group of assets. we are getting high quality content, global reach. >> murdoch says he insisted that iger stay on. quashing media speculation that murdochs son might be headed to disney. the justice department must approve the deal on antitrust grounds. murdochs son says its about returning to our roots. ruper...