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Alive. i -p wonder if you could tell us where do we go next in syria? >> well, first of all i want to be claire, dana, the president as commander of chief deserves a lot of credit for destroying isis as a country. its not destroyed as a movement. its grown as cross world. we have received testimony today of isis growth from 2013 to 2018. thats point one. point two, we cant be as effective a far as having a small footprint on the ground. the strategy is by with and through. we have to be with our...

Laws and under the rule of law were supposed to enforce them and donald trumps only sin is that he is enforcing the law for the first time in 15, 20, 30 years. >> bill: yesterday you had a meeting with the nominee to be the next attorney general bill barr. did you ask him about the emergency declaration that may possibly happen on the 15th of february? >> i did not. we talked about other subjects. i knew what his answer would be on the national emergency issue. >> bill: what is his answer? >> bi...

I agree there should be physical barriers where it makes sense. i dont think the parties are engaged in that conversationrs right now. point two, the problems are note border crossings. the real problems are visa overstays, as we just talked about, and the second is employers.s. undocumented immigrants stay here is because of employers. if republicans, and i think democrats should be here, as well, if they are so serious about this problem, why is it that they do things that will upset the busin...

Point two, the document from the special counsel makes clear, at least according to michael cohen, that there were a lot more contacts between cohen as a representative of the trump organization and the trump campaign and russians than we had known previously, more opportunities for collusion, some of them, according to the document, including candidate trump himself, that candidate trump was involved in this outreach to the russians during the campaign. very significant. third, the special coun...

Who might be looking to reign him in or tamp him down. he is content to do things on his own timetable, in his own way, and he didnt feel the need to put a whole bunch of information into the public square in this memo, so i think both of those inferences are fairly drawn from these documents. >> matt, my first question for you is procedural. i just heard myself again using that word "backchannel to russia." thats inaccurate. what they were trying to set up, i believe, was a workaround. backchan...

It was put in at the height of bad relations to keep things from boiling over. this was not that. and this was not a thing. this would have been something extraordinary that kushner was talking about. thats point one. point two, in your view, why should, to cynthias point, the trump administration be so worried about this guy, general? >> i think on point one, the best way to think about what they were doing, they were trying to establish a secret channel with russia that no one in the u.s. gove...

Of a sudden get in front of an acting attorney general whitaker who might be looking to rein him in or tamp him down. he is content to do things on his own timetable, in his own way, and he didnt feel the need to put a whole bunch of information into the public square in this memo, so i think both of those inferences are fairly drawn from these documents. >> matt, my first question for you is procedural. i just heard myself again using that word "backchannel to russia." thats inaccurate. what th...

Walked back by the lawyers, they keep lucying the football, moving it and moving it. hes sitting down and writing it. whats the significance? >> one, its clear they do not want the president to sit down with mueller or anyone from his team. he would be a truly disastrous witness. i know mimi has dealt with witnesses like this, i have as well. its the mr. i alone can fix it. it might work well at a republican convention but it doesnt work well as a witness. so thats point one. point two is that t...

Whats the significance? >> one, its clear they do not want the president to sit down with mueller or anyone from his team. he would be a truly disastrous witness. i know mimi has dealt with witnesses like this, i have as well. its the mr. i alone can fix it. it might work well at a republican convention but it doesnt work well as a witness. so thats point one. point two is that they dont -- you know, he -- i lost my train of thought. the -- >> hold on one second. ill come back to you. i want to ...

Trump confidant roger stone. but theres something new, e-mails and texts that raise questions. we will test the man to questions. point two, in four days something big is going to happen with these elections and its down to two voices, obama versus trump. the president now wants a strong comparison to the past president. he said that should be the voters measure. so we have a deep dive for you how the two size-up. and a republican is here tonight who refuses to stay silent on what the president ...