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Really was the exclamation point on the week that sort of left people inside the white house scratching their heads. and so i think were starting to see a theme with this president that does have advisers inside the white house. you know, feeling despond ent. with russia in particular, people argued though theres calls to resign and there were with charlottesville, they dont have real policy implications necessarily and the people in charge of policy like john bolton and pompeo say why would we ...

States saying right there in the cabinet meeting saying that, no, russia is not still a threat. to me, its essentially perhaps in a kinder way but not taking the advice or the information from his own intelligence community. so well see if the dni has a response to all of this and certainly, john, i think that sarah sanders at the first white house briefing in a long time will be asked about that specific question today because all the evidence here in washington from both sides suggests that ru...

Effect that due process does not require seeing a judge. all right. thats building on the presidents tweets from the other day in a way that really does have constitutional policy implications. >> smerconish, we happen to have a lawyer with us, michael, what do you make of that, the due process argument? >> if youre here youre entitled to due process regardless of whether youre a united states citizen. thats the view from the supreme court of the united states, thats the view from the legal inte...

As a clerical error but its a significant editing error that has policy implications. can you state what the white house believes is the current state of irans pursuit of a nuclear weapon and if its in full compliance? >> we think the biggest mistake was the obama administration ever entering the deal that you referenced in the first place. the typo was noticed and immediately corrected. >> but you astasert what that says, that there is no current program in iran and its in compliance with the d...

Implications. can you state what the white house believes is the current state of irans nuclear weapons. and if its in compliance? >> we think the biggest mistake made was entering the deal in the first place. the typo you referenced was noticed, immediately corrected. and we are focussed on moving forward on the safety and security of our country. >> but you assert what that says, that there is no current program in iran, and that it is in compliance with the deal at least as its negotiated? >>...

Want to say on nuclear, lets present the framework. it is better than the north korea type of situation. >> phil, may 13th is the deadline looming to certify the deal. everyone is betting on names of the royal baby. what are your betting odds that the trump whisperer can talk donald trump to stay in the iran deal? >> we talk about macron and trump because this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship and that relationship is going to have very significant policy implications. more than any oth...

Does the president understand the nature of cameron terrorism. >> im not sure he does. i think the fact is in the case of a sudden withdrawal from syria, which actually caught -- appears to me to have caught everyone by surprise when he made that pronouncement. first of all the first point is the fighting isnt over yet. isis still has territory left. and the important -- and the hard phase comes after the fighting, when you have to stabilize and restore order and restore services, like food, wat...

Hard phase comes after the fighting, when you have to stabilize and restore order and restore services, like food, water, electricity and get the people to come back and set up some form of government -- governance which hopefully will be a lot less brutal than they endured under isis. there are huge policy implications here from the standpoint of withdrawal in terms of ceding the syria to a inks request of the kurds, russian as turks. he leaves the kurds who have been doing heavy lifting on the...

Heading north towards the southern border to act for easter asylum according to the center for immigration daddies which is tracking their movements. there may soon be a real-time test of the trump administrations ability or willingness to stop illegal immigrants from walking into this country in places where there is no border wall. democratic critics are focused on the longer-term policy implications the president was hinting at. a virginia congressman john bier, democratic says this on twitte...

>> right. >> bolten was accused of being a quote, serial abuser at the state department in terms of the way he treated his people. item not going to say that managerment is everything, but the way he manage that staff has to be the number one concern we have here. we know he has trumps policy ideas. one of thing mcmaster was able to do was put together an effective national security team. boltens going to take all that down. >> when we talk about the policy implications for this. david sanger ha...