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Capabilities, youre talking about allies in the region, south korea, for example, and certainly others in the pacific rim. so theres a lot more at stake here that could impact that hot rhetoric. but for the base, its like -- its what they like to hear. the question is, are they prepared to deal with the consequences if action is taken. >> ron, the presidents remarks reportedly took a number of folks by surprise. not just his advisers, but members of his own party. defense secretary mattis, he is...

Host of his show on cnn. what do you make of his tweets? >> i thought it was excellent. i particularly like the point about timing. i look at the president on twitter before i go in the radio. yesterdays 6:00 a.m. hour, seven different tweets. my list may not even be complete. what he does is set the stage for programs like yours and alisyns on television, mine on radio and the entire news cycle of the day. its almost as if were playing catchup from the get-go and hes set the tone. one other obs...

Material support remedy that is available is particularly important to try to prevent attacks as opposed to playing catchup after attacks have occurred. >> thank you. one last quick question. will you commit to informing this committee if you witness or learn of any efforts to interfere with the work of special counsel mueller? >> assuming that i can do it legally and appropriately, absolutely. im very committed to supporting director mueller in the special counsel investigation in whatever way ...

Could. its crazy to think that, you know. this whole thing has been all unprecedented ground, right? every single day something new happens thats unprecedented. its like how do we deal with that, and everything is playing catchup if you know what i mean. but for our show, i mean, it is -- like i said, its make believe, and these things happen, and hopefully it will be a fun escape for people to step away from the real life politics. >> thats michael kelly, a really good guy. plays a bad guy of c...

Now you have your state department, your national security team sort of playing catchup which is never a good thing. two, from what we understand, theyre going to be background conversations to sort of dial this back as quickly as possible because the president cannot afford to be yet again associated with a dictator and bad guy who has not worked in the best interests of the united states but more importantly worked in the best interests of his own people. >> what is this affinity for strong me...

Snowfall expected. we could see an additional foot of snow across northern areas in northern new england throughout tonight into tomorrow morning. boston, only expected to get a little bit more because like we mentioned, that is still changing over. even though the snow is winding down, we are still dealing with windy, windy conditions. 26 mile per hour winds in new york city right now. 35 mile per hour winds in boston. and as this continues to make its exit, well still get the snowfall across t...

Entire white house off balance. he didnt clear it with anybody. theyre playing catchup to the conspiracy theory essentially the president was adopting and they could only talk about it so much before punting it back to him and saying were not going to talk about this anymore even though well kind of talk about it every day and make the i intimation he has access to information hes not talking about that might pro this thing that nobody believes is true. >> how do you get a wire tap? >> domestica...

In months. >> timing can be every with a novelty business. being first in seattle positioned puzzle break to get the most buzz. >> we were enormously lucky with the time. we got the first groups and a ton of free press. what the heck is this. cant wait to write a story. >> the landscape of trendy business can offer huge rewards. also very adisrupt declines in rev. >> we know exactly what our next step is going to be at all times so no matter what happens, trend of escape rooms or entertainment w...

Were driving this and the rest of the administration across the agencies were playing catchup. general kelly said he was unaware of an order, but certainly wasnt regularly briefed on the details, and said he was relying on what the news media was reporting to hear the latest. were only a week and a half into this, right, but already pretty clear theres a group of advisers at the white house that want to do things quickly, they want to do this flurry of executive orders and dont entirely trust ye...

Her head what she wanted to do but at times it did not come out. that rationale was not the centerpiece and nucleus of the public communication from the campaign. >> michael steele, republicans have done this for years. you listen to talk radio. they go to conservative blogs. talking about candidates. they watch fox news. they never get out of their bubble and wonder why we lost five out of the last six elections in the popular vote. you have to get out of your bubble and if youre a republican, ...