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Also a friend of the show. good to have you. >> yes, sir. >> you have always prided yourself on being very close to your constituents. you dont really walk around with these massive entourage, even walk up here to the live shot you came by yourself. are you safe enough or are law mickers perhaps too accessible to members of the public? >> i dont think you can be too accessible to members of the public. those are the people that you work for. so there is a vital tension between security on one si...

And they include raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, ending police violence, allowing all former prisoners to vote, open border immigration policies, open access to abortion and birth control, and taking away tax money that funds militarized law enforcement prisons and weapons. basically what theyre saying is they want to see fewer people harmed, more people helped. they also want to end all war. we must work together to end war and live as family around the world. which members doe...

But the president takes the bait from rush limbaugh early in the day. >> oh, my gosh. >> schumer and other democrats playing to their base. the president of the united states. >> this is silly. >> why cant you let it pass? instead a government shutdown. thats worked really well for republicans the last two times we tried i. >> the president of the united states has no discipline when it comes to restraining himself from tweeting and nobody around him has the clout to go in and tell the president...

Very department, if you will. inside the white house. george w. bush. the townsend, was quoted in the statement. speaks very highly of him. most importantly, this is a man who the trump transition insists will be in parity. people might think this is about process. it is not. as you well know, it is about the ability to not just get information flowing to the president, which both these men will have open access. but it is also how they inact with all the national security agencies around the go...

The substance of the talks? >> no, they are moved out pretty quickly. at the white house, this is a concern, as well. right now these daily briefings. daily briefings for a long, long time. it seems like rineince priebus d sean spicer -- listen, dont cling to tradition for tradition sake but both practical and symbolic reasons to have these meetings. practical you coulder with answer a lot of questions every day that are coming at the white house. >> we know they brought in people to give them a...

Meeting with japanese leaders and his indian partners and especially what happened with a phone call with argentina. from the president called him and what happened immediately the day after all of his enterprise have open access and his business deals are approved immediately. this smells of corruption and this is what we need to hold him on. >> okay, rula and barbie, stand by. when we come back, why silvio berlusconis story may be a warning sign for donald trump. go, go!

The president called him, and what happened immediately the day after, all of his enterprise have open access and his business deals are approved immediately. this smells of corruption and this is what we need to hold him on. >> okay. stand by. when we come back, why berlusconis story may be a warning sign for donald trump.

Believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. >> the americans seem to see him as somebody who could keep the prison quiet. there are 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. >> he wasnt considered from everything that we know now a high-level detainee, and he was allowed to, you know, lead prayers, he was allowed to give religious lessons. >> the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam. those inmates were jihadists or form...

Into this cauldron, one day in early 2004, a new man arrived. we know him now as abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of isis. and, yes, he was in american custody during the iraq war. al baghdadi has shown his face publicly only once. last year when he gave a sermon to his followers. but back when the u.s. had him under lock and key, he was seen as, believe it or not, a man who could be trusted. >> the americans seem to see abu bakr as someone who could keep the prison quiet. there are 24 camps wit...

There are 24 camps within the sunni side of camp bucca, he was allowed open access to all of them. >> he wasnt considered from everything that we know now a high-level detainee, and he was allowed to, you know, lead prayers, he was allowed to give religious lessons. >> the future leader of isis was giving other inmates lessons on islam. those inmates were jihadists or former baathists, henchmen of saddam, or simply common criminals. >> it most assuredly was a jihadist university. unquestionably....