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And wrote them up for the in respect general. >> ned, give me a sense of this. wheres the bar? in your experience, what does it take necessarily for members of the intelligence community to sound the alarm on what they consider to be wrong doing by the president? >> right. so there is a cardinal rule within the intelligence community. the intelligence community is not a policy organ. the intelligence community, intelligence analysts provide to the president, provide to the other policy makers th...

>> we have been working every day to deliver for americas farmers, just as they worked every single day to deliver for us. >> todays speech followed a weekend retreat at camp david where the president huddled with his cabinet and republican leadership to chart a policy course for 2018. >> a lot of great work done for the people. >> president dragged back into the russia investigation and his fitness for office, spending time responding to the michael wolff book that he is mentally unstable. the ...

Party, yet hes determining its policy course at the moment. he introduced medicare for all the bill this week. who was there? any senator who wants to run for president. kamala harris, cory booker, kirsten gillibrand, they all came out to endorse it. it showed that hes creating space for his revolution between the democratic party. thats a pretty big deal for anybody to achieve, let alone a democrat and independent and not always well liked in the senate. >> the question i have on that is, are t...

Strategic, ill be honest with you. >> hes probably not. if this was strategy on his part, in a lot of ways it wasnt very good because his base is getting pretty mad at him. but i think schumer and pelosi come out of this with no debt ceiling fight and a possible deal for the d.r.e.a.m.ers so theres actual substance to it and this is good. >> its a win. david corn. >> i was tempted to say that paul ryan won the week. >> how dare you? he never wins anything. >> he doesnt have to deal with trump fo...

Ahead and look putin face to face. sit down with him. e he truly believes that somehow were going to change our policy course and get to be on much friendlier terms with russia under his leadership. hes been given every opportunity in favor of donald trump just giving up or at least putting aside that goal of a reset with russia. the president himself has never done so. his aids have tried over and over again to desuede him. you have republicans on capitol hill very uncomfortable in this situati...

Do you think this is a bluff or is he signaling that the united states could actually go to war? >> well, what i hope hes doing, fareed, and its hard to know exactly what hes doing. i hope hes just giving an assessment of the fact that that remains a risk, albie it hopefully not a high risk of direct conflict. he did say in the same statement that he very much hopes for a diplomatic solution. north korea is obviously one of the very toughest and pressing problems we face, and we have seen a lot ...

Military conflict with north korea. do you think this is a bluff, or is he signaling that the united states could actually go to war? >> well, what i hope hes doing, fareed, and its hard to know exactly what hes doing, i hope hes just giving an assessment of the fact that that remains a risk, albeit hopefully not a high risk of direct conflict. he did say in the same statement that he very much hopes for a diplomatic solution. north korea is obviously one of the very toughest and most pressing p...

Team as we have done throughout the course of our history. so there is no interest in undermining the president elect and new administration coming in. its our responsibility to make sure they understand exactly the dangers on the world stage so as they decide which policy course they want to pursue, they have the full benefit of the expertise, capability to experience and the intelligence that we have so that they can make the best decisions for the country. chris: you say you were offended and...

The course of our history. so there is no interest in undermining the president elect and new administration coming in. its our responsibility to make sure they understand exactly the dangers on the world stage so as they decide which policy course they want to pursue, they have the full benefit of the expertise, capability to experience and the intelligence that we have so that they can make the best decisions for the country. chris: you say you were offended and understandably so by comparison...

Team as we have done throughout the course of our history. so there is no interest in undermining the president elect and new administration coming in. its our responsibility to make sure they understand exactly the dangers on the world stage so as they decide which policy course they want to pursue, they have the full benefit of the expertise, capability to experience and the intelligence that we have so that they can make the best decisions for the country. chris: you say you were offended and...