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Even if the troops dont get involved in anything illegal theres an optics issue that they could be dragged into conflicts that would not look good on the world stage. >> why is this issue of lethal force and troops at the border such a contentious idea internally within the white house? >> its a great question. u.s. troops are not supposed to conduct any civilian law enforcement, and when the president has said that he wants troops to have broad authority on the border i think its raised concern...

Of less in tax burden. thats actually much more elegant than trying to play the game where we put a deduction for this and a special carve out for this and that, and thats the perversity of our modern tax system. were doing something so much simpler and fairer. leland: congressman, nobody is going to argue that the tax code is complex and needs to be reformed. from a optics issue, an abc poll, 67% of americans say this tax cut is going to benefit the rich. whether theyre right or not, thats how ...

Presidency as being something totally different than weve seen in the past, and i think that its only adding to this optics issue that has plagued trumps presidency since the beginning. >> thank you so much for being here this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you for having me. to london now, where police are announcing a significant arrest linked to yesterdays terror incident in a subway car. nbcs keir simmons is live with the very latest. what are you learning about this? >> reporter: well, d...

You know, photographer, turns out hes state tv. >> absolutely. >> arm of the kremlin. and all the questions and concerns he got into the oval office. how could that possibly happen? >> well, he was invited into the oval office as part of the official delegation. to michelles point earlier, this is an optics issue, this is not a security issue. >> its not? >> its not a security issue. heres why, the secret service, the white house, they have policies and procedures to allow foreign press toll co ...

Going to defy that. some people have told us they are not going to pay attention to the curfew. that they are grown and theyre going to be here. but we also know that plenty of people have said, we are not going to jail, and we are going to go home, don. >> all right, sara, dont go anywhere. stand by. nick valencia, im not sure if nick is there as well. i just want to tell our viewers, two minutes until the top of the hour. two minutes until 10:00 p.m. eastern time in baltimore, maryland, where ...

And so until we know and the administration can tell us, you know, whos registering, is there really this demand, i think it is an optics issue for the administration. >> yeah, they know how many hits but they dont know how many registrations yet, lois, shira, great to see both of you, thanks. overall the outrage of the government shutdown, this example hits home. andrea mitchell reports exclusively the government says it cannot pay military death benefits to the families of five u.s. troops k...

From joining the health care exchanges. do you think members of congress and their staff should get insurance from those exchanges? was it written into the bill that way? >> yeah. i saw that report. im not part of those conversations, chris. i dont think that members of congress or their staff should get any kind of special treatment under the law. i mean, everybody should essentially be treated like any other americans under the affordable care act and the affordable care act, i think, is going...

Landslide, the final days of the trump presidency, the latest from michael wolf. quoting from the book. the president though was digging in his heels. he remains singularly focused on the electoral challenge and had blinders onto everything else. i believe that was how everyone was rationalizing his total failure. at the same time no one in the white house was seeing this as the full on assault on the capitol and the nail in the coffin of the capitol administration. they were for another 90 minu...

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