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Move out, what do generals want? a fourth star. he may generate some kind of appointment here and move on, but its an optics problem. doesnt look good if the national security adviser clocks out every quarter or two. >> you heard sanders say the tweet the president sent out, a lot of people interpreted it as undercutting mcmaster. the response given about russia at the conference. it was just an addendum, liked the response mcmaster gave, but doesnt it just undercut? >> of course it does. its gr...

Counsel. if hes still bringing charges, thats off, at least for now. >> i think it gives them more leverage as they try to negotiate a plea agreement with gates. i think, also, this is just the fact that more time elapsed, and the indictment is being enriched. they are getting more information from a variety of different sources. im not surprised to see this happen again later. >> lets talk about president trump and hr mcmaster, a confounding relationship. this would be, if they replaced him, wo...

>> well its just going to -- were going to have to see what is going to fly with republicans on capitol hill. theyre not doing any bills with democrats, theyre not taking into view the minority voices on these decisions so its going to be a question of what priorities conservatives have. theyre in the drivers seat. they wont let the president and the leadership do infrastructure because theyve spent too much money. >> but theres an optics problem, right? with cutting into snap and medicare or me...

Mike baker, mister baker, good to see you this morning as i want to read a partial fbi statement on the memo saying, quote, we have grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memos accuracy. in light of these comments by the fbi should this memo be made public? >> we are in strange territory. normally i would air on the side of caution and on the side of the fbi. a lot of former, current agents have a great deal of respect for them, although men and women on th...

Messages of the secret society, when you open up an investigation and you have this broad playing field and its not a narrow focus -- this is what happens. it ranges all over the place. what weve got a problem with is both sides have a hypothesis or premise that they would dearly love to prove. you cant run an investigation that way. whether its the house intel committee or anyone else, aside from the mueller investigation, theyre chasing a premise. and you cant do that. you have to build your i...

Where two civilians were also hit. right now looking live at a picture where fellow police officers are going to lead a procession for the slain officer from the hospital. now the countdown to 2018 is on. mar-a-lago is gearing up for its lavish event. the security will be tighter. the crowds will probably be bigger. and the tickets will run $750 a guest. a hike from last year. the report says theres a vip area being built on top of the stage. i want to bring in contributor howard dean, former ...

Nathan, appreciate you joining us. a big part of the republican tax plan would allow as we were talking about, corporations to repatriate money, bring it back to the united states, at a significantly lower tax rate. possibly trillions of dollars. the thinking is that would create jobs. that is not the answer the white house chief economic adviser gary cohn got from a number of ceos this week when asked how would they use the tax savings. watch this. >> if the tax reform bill goes through, do y...

Way? >> i think it would have been better to get that out up front. i think there are two things driving the attention on russia. the sessions testimony today is getting a lot of attention. i think this meeting that were obsessing over is unimportant compared to wikileaks. most people that i know think of wikileaks the way the intelligence agencies do. theyre a foreign hostile intelligence service. when you get messages from those people, were well beyond a campaign photo op. as a matter of an o...

Hearing, what were learning about with cambridge analytica? >> its like saying that firefighters are the same as the arsonists. they both show up at the scene of the crime. the trump campaign this is wuj more -- one more dot. >> one was asking -- one was looking for help in doing something illegal taking someones e-mails the other one was investigating -- >> opposition research to try to find out was donald trump compromised by the russians. he is acting like he is. >> well here, one was a simpl...

Stupidity and this is on stupidity and he lost his job over it. i think the president -- this may sound too overly simplistic the fact that the images coming out of puerto rico took so long because of the dang that was done there and it was difficult to cover from the news so it wasnt platformered all over the television until it was and then when it was he realized it was a problem. its very interesting the president seems to manage by how much coverage its getting which allowed him to do the f...