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Plan b if this happens again and the u.s. has to strike again. look, i think the open question is when you take one dictator out, the open question is who is going to fill that vacuum. because lets say assad leaves tomorrow, the open question is who is going to fill that vacuum? it is likely iran, al qaeda, perhaps isis. so sometimes you get rid of one and you get a worse monster on your hands after that. so thats why this debate is firing now. >> bill: from overseas domestic issues at home. two...

>> did you leak the name of mike flynn? >> i leaked nothing to nobody, t never have, never would. >> tucker: the best sign that this is in fact a big story is at the establishment press has almost uniformly moved to her defense. we will have more on rice and the media in just a minute. but first, congress meant has spent years as a champion of civil liberties. he voted against the patriot act and wiretapping it against boca data collection. to far he has not commented on rices behavior. he joins...

Thank you. we wish there were better answers, but at least we are giving people the reality. all right. so what are we going to see from the white house? this is a real-time demonstration for a call for leadership. we have no tweets from the commander in chief this morning about this situation in syria. but president trump is very active in trying to deflect from his owns own political problems again, expanding the web of ties from his team and russia by peddling another fake scandal to justify ...

David drucker. this will rescind moratorium on coal mining on u.s. federal lands. this will be music to the ears of people in coal country but will it crank up the coal industry? >> this is the open question. its certainly the president fulfilling a campaign promise. for now, a white house that feels fairly battered after last week. what we saw between negotiations between white house and congress, i think they would like a win. i think they would like to show they are delivering. the coal indus...

Republicans have run for years on the idea of repeal and replarepla replace obamacare. but it was going to be done in three phases. the first phase, get rid of everything they could in the law within the limitations of senate rule. and the second phase was diminish steps that hhs health and human services secretary tom price could take and the third phase was to be everything else, all the other changes that republicans had long wanted to see to the health care law and what they want health care...

Things going forward? we dont know, i can tell you whats whats going around capitol hill g.o.p. sources, thats their biggest concern about what the president wants to do right now, put this on the floor so its an open question whether or not thats going to happen but as recently as a couple minutes ago, as of right now still scheduled for a vote. >> we will be watching closely, as soon as you hear anything thank you very much. >> james davis from freedom partners, a group linked to the coke brot...

He didnt apologize for that either. >> isnt it an abuse of power to launch those four tweets 17 days ago really smearing the former president of the united states? >> thats a good question. im not sure, there are a lot of things you can say about it. there is a way you can call it an abuse of power, sure, but it was very, very bad idea. it was a very big mistake. it was a derogatory and denigrating and, to use your word, lying, about his predecessor, which is for so many reasons a terrible thing...

American president. >> translator: in the period leading up to this visit ive always said its much, much better to talk to one another and not about one another. >> reporter: wolf, these two leaders did have a chance to talk to one another. wolf, all this was overshadowed by the president again doubling down, standing by those allegations here. wolf, a bit of confusion today at the white house. we started off this morning with the senior administration official saying that sean spicer and the na...

Going through the committees based on whats going on today. there could be scrambling going on up here as well. the vice president has been very involved. theyre trying to figure out how they get to 216 votes. i asked the house speaker whether or not he could guaranteed this could be on the floor next week. now theyre saying go talk to the majority leader, but the reality is i dont think you could expect to see this on the floor unless they know they have the votes that they need. at this point ...

Yes. p prp. >> i thought you were going to ask me an obamacare question. >> reporter: [ inaudible ]. >> well, ive already answered the question about whether or not the rapp occurred. i think devin nunez and i. but after we heard about this, we did see a number of pressure reports that made this allegation and made this suggestion. so, yeah, those brett reports -- this is something i was unaware of until we did see a few pressure point on this.