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Who would be able to bare arms in our school. but i think that there is no one solution to creating safety. >> ivanka trump, senior adviser to the president, says she thinks it is a subject worthy of discussion. thats different than saying that a teacher would have shot the hell out of the shooter. >> yeah. you know, i think it was nice to hear ivanka trump come out and give an honest answer to a question that was put to her, which was i dont know. particularly on an issue that is so fraught wit...

Breitbart. chris, you want to say something? >> i think thats a really savvy lead on things, frankly. i think what you have in donald trump, particularly go back to june 2015, what you had is a candidate who didnt really know -- he had some basic ideas, some thoughts, but had no policy structure around them. breitbart and steve bannon helped provide the meat on to those bones to give it -- heres -- donald trump has a sentiment. what can it be turned into from a policy perspective? so i actually ...

Nutter, and the former republican governor of north carolina, path mccory. thank you for joining us. both sides of the aisle represented. governor mccory, governor christie was a vocal supporter of the president. hes not alone. you had senator bob corker question the presidents competence, his stability. he questioned the presidents moral authority yesterday saying it was compromised by his comments regarding charlottesville. does the president need to apologize for his handling of charlottesvil...

Crucial votes just in the last two weeks against repealing obamacare. so i think theres a little tension between senator collins and the president, and a lot of other people, but -- >> shes not along among republicans. >> shes not alone but, again, tonight is an opportunity for the president to not only talk about domestic security and calling people out who need to be called out, but we also need to start focusing. weve got korea. weve got iran. weve got syria. weve got some major issues, and t...

Public is not ready to embrace a surge of numbers like we saw -- >> tens of thousands. >> thats not going to happen. so how do you take what you have, which is certainly less than half a load, and try to make the best out of it so that you can give the afghans an opportunity to stand up on their own? it is the same. its the entire argument that exists before, but its the solution that we go forward or we completely walk away. >> we saw the dangers of that in iraq when president obama pulled the ...

Credibility and the only way that you can say things that are close to sane is when youre speaking from a teleprompter, then that doesnt tell me that you have it actually in your heart. >> you mentioned those questions there. president trump already signaling that he wants to run for re-election in 2020. hes held rallies. theres another one tomorrow in phoenix, but a republican senator, susan collins, said something remarkable. she said shes not convinced that trump will be on the republican tic...

Believe had a theyre hearing from the president. when youre sending young men and women into combat, in some ways many of them might not come home, thats a lot to ask. and at the same time, jim, when we look globally when were talking to our allies, there is a question about whether our allies can trust donald trump as well given some of the things that have happened over the set of months that hes been in office. >> yeah, theres no time when trust is more important than when a leader asks citiz...

Government is trying to do, and also lets be frank, the taliban owns more of afghanistan than it did before 9/11 so there are elements of work that need to be done. >> not to be skeptical -- >> be skeptical. >> -- i know there are a lot of smart people working on this with a lot of battlefield experience. ive covered iraq and afghanistan. ive been there a dozen times in each place. ive heard this argument, local forces are standing up, theyre better now, we need fewer of us, its, et cetera, but ...

Jeanne moos, a little less than overwhelmed by the most anticipated event in america today. >> is that it? >> yeah. what do you mean, thats it? its so cool. maybe be worried...really, really, really worried. uh...do you want me to go back and look for it? i will. i mean a lot of bad things could happen. you need to call the bank. i dont know how else to tell you, you need to shut that card off-- [woman 1] its off. [woman 2] what? [woman 1] i can turn it on and off in my wells fargo app. [woman 2...

Power to the cabinet secretaries and get this debate off stat. >> on that statement about calling out domestic terrorists, i imagine thats a statement you would welcome, mayor nutter? >> its one of the statements. i think as the governor said, certainly the president should apologize. theres no indication so far the last even two years that weve closely watched donald trump that he has any ability to actually apologize for anything because hes never apologized for anything. he didnt apologize fo...