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Responsible for the moab, the mother of all bombs in afghanistan, the man who is the president of the united states in times of crises. thats what the white house is portraying. >> thats not unique to donald trump by the way. lots of presidents do things for political theatre, but to phils point, you have to always remember the seminole experience of the last decade and a half of donald trumps life is as a reality tv show producer and star. so yes, the idea of 100 senators getting in buses and c...

Against him during the election season. >> joining us is phil mud and steve hall. phil, the fact that the dossier was part of the justification to approval to monitor carter page, what does that say? >> it doesnt tell me much. if you want to go to a judge with a fisa package, thats one of the most intrusive. remember what we got. we have a british agent, former british agent talking presumably to a source in moscow who might be talking to a subsource. in this game of telephone, were taking anoth...

Level. you have to convince a judge -- its probable cause. its a technical matter. you cant just go in with some unconfirmed dossier like the steele report is and say how about it? you have to have more than that. theres been times in my career when i said, come on, we to get some sort of coverage on x, y or z. the judges go, not so fast. we have a threshold here. you have to get by it before we can allow this. >> phil, even if the fbi had corroborating information about some things in the dossi...

Unverified information? >> not some sort of. im saying this could at best be supporting to a fisa package that had much greater specificity about who the source of the information was and got much closer to the target than three or four steps away from moscow. you cant use that as primary evidence in a fisa package. >> do you agree the fbi would have had to have fully verified what the dossier said about page? could they have verified -- i guess they could have verified part of it and still cite...

Former british intelligence officer. he has written an interesting document. one thing thats making it difficult for journalists and others is that he has written for what we call source protection. he has gone to great lengths to try to disguise who he got this information from, probably because a lot of them are in russia and stand to get into a lot of trouble or worse, end up dead, if people find out who they are. which makes it difficult for the legal system and for journalists as well. as a...

I think the president wanted to take a pop because of chemical weapons and now we are trying to make sure he takes a u-turn in syria. i dont think so. >> all right. i know what you think of phil mud. stand by. >> president trump travels to wisconsin to sign a buy american hire american order. could that back fire on american consumers? cnn will ripley tells us about the 11th trip to north korea where kim jong-uns regime put on an extraordinary and ominous display of military might. regardless of...

Particularly disappointed by the way this damages u.s. relations but i dont think it will lead to an inreversible situation. that was from the foreign minister clearly leaving the door open to an improvement with the united states. and obviously he can discuss that further when rex tillerson secretary of state comes to moscow in the middle of next week. back to you. >> interesting dynamic evolving, russia to stand down, the united states to stand up. the question, did president trump have the ri...

Ground were surprised at the airstrike, happy at the airstrikes but now also afraid because they dont know how the syrian government and syrian army is going to respond. for example will they retaliate in a major way against these opposition group os on the grou and thats what people are afraid of over the next 24-48 hours. we have david gregory, phil mud, and retired general spider marks. david we have heard after the strikes from secretary of state rex tillerson who basically used the strong...

Priebus, who are taking this administration in that direction. >> theres so many critically important issues unfolding right now. phil mud, i want to make the turn to syria. we have seen these horrific pictures of these people gas, sarin gas, we think was used by the assad regime including all these little kids who were killed. this administration has to come up with a new policy to deal with that. >> they do. what we saw today is not that helpful where we have the spokesman suggesting that pres...

And let the investigation work. i would agree with gloria. >> phil, you agree? >> not only do i agree, but lets be clear. the democrats a week ago were saying the republicans should never have gone to the white house to talk to president trump. that shows bias. then we have a democrat coming out saying excuse me, before the investigation gets under way, i have determined that people will be in jail. these people ought to shut up and do the investigation. how clear can this be? >> everybody stand...