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Consensus is not a given. It will be catastrophic if we turn down and reverse a policy announced by the president of the United States to the world. An action that was going to take place is then negated. I think it does horrendous damage to the credibility of the president of the United States. Its at least 5050 whether the house will vote down involvement in the syrian war. I know because the clarity of where all of this goes. There a lot of risks here. The downsides are great. We cannot make ...

As ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt draws scrutiny after endorsing Elon Musk's recent remarks, critics including those on ADL's advisory boards speak out.

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Colleagues? >> i think theres going to be resistance. i think theres going to be more leaks, theres going to be resentment. the intelligence community is very upset about these connections with russian intelligence. they dont look at this lightly. for them the cold war never ended, russia is the enemy. and were going to see pieces of this come out, this whole russian story, over months and months. its not going to be pretty. >> bob baer, great to see you, a lot more to learn about this. mary cat...

Street to try and take a look at things, the issue isnt so much that the president wants to produce better intelligence. as peter said, he needs to work with the intelligence community to keep us safe. the issue is, is this about making intelligence work better or is it just about the president gaining control over the work product because there are parts of the work product he doesnt like. >> what does this mean for mike pompeo, the cia director, what does it mean for dan coats, the man he nomi...

Embarrassed to have trump as president. ted cruz today here in tennessee would not take the bait and respond to trumps rhetoric against hillary clinton. cruz saying he will let donald trump speak for himself. >> thanks very much. joining us now, in "the situation room," our cnn political commentator, atlantic media contributing editor, peter beinert, s.e. cupp. cruz says hes going to let trump speak for himself. in the past trump said they have similar views. why isnt cruz calling trump out in h...

Have to be met. there is a third group where a lot of people think they have pretty good plans and they will lose out for the reasons peter and growloria are talking about. we need them in the obama care pool. youre getting down to a small percentage. a lot of people because its a big country. but at most 2 to 5%. >> but its millions of people. and the worst part is of course paul as you know, nobody wants to be surprised. when their president told them one thing and they say, okay, thats great....

And then theyre surprised and find their policies are canceled, whether theyre lousy policies or not, its bad. >> absolutely. >> those people also tend to be more politically vocal and articulate than -- this is the basic political problem with essentially economic redistribution which is what this is. its basically the people who are really benefitting tend to be poorer people getting onto medicaid for instance now or sicker and poor people. but those people are not going to have as much politi...