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Mimts. you look at this tax cut proposal, of course its debt finance. it adds a trillion and a half dollars to the national debt, something that all these members have did he cried over recent years. it hurts middle class folks. for example, if you have to deduct medical expenses or deduct your student loan interest, your taxes are going up on this. so its just a small bore proposal. and i think thats borne out of years and years and years of degradation and really the collapse of the intellectu...

Medical expenses or student loan interest, your taxes are going up on this. its just a small board proposal and i think thats born out of years and years and years of degradation and collapse of the report structures around the republican party and the conservative movement. how it had become the party of ideas. and we have moved 180 degrees from that on a policy level thats mostly nonsense. and this would fall deeply and neatly into that category. >> you wrote an op-ed that both are stuck in cr...

The obama flood protection rule so we dont build critical in a infrastructure -- kill that. its not like were ever going to have a flood again. president obama played a key role in getting the deal between the five members of u.n. security council plplus germany and eu to limit irans nuclear program. everybody else is still on board. trump today started to pull us out from that. although republican congress has now given up on trying to repeal and replace the affordable care act, trump last nigh...

Covered by health insurance, kill that. the obama flood protection rule so we dont build critical infrastructure -- kill that. its not like were ever going to have a flood again. president obama played a key role in getting the deal between the five members of u.n. plus germany and eu to limit irans nuclear program. everybody else is still on board. trump today started to pull us out from that. although republican congress has now given up on trying to repeal and replace the affordable care act,...

At a policy level. what i want to know, though, is have we ever had a president who pursued nothing of his own legislatively? nothing. have we ever had a president -- whether or not they had complete control of congress -- have we ever had a president whose only action as president for the first ten months was only to try to undo everything done by the previous president? is that also an unprecedented thing about the trump era. joining us now is michael beschloss. its great to have you with us, ...

>> cant bring you the prominent person or the person involved who changes their mind about it. its just an amazing thing. >> there was a man trying to murder a dozen republican members of congress several months ago and there was no -- i mean, they were on the -- they were there. they were on the receiving end of this, almost murdered. one of the prominent republicans in congress and nothing like that. and the thing that keeler said thats key here, also, is one of the most perverse notions in th...

Campaign staffer and all he could talk about was the access hollywood tape. >> its not clear how widely the intelligence about russia was shared in 2014 and whether it reached a policy level. >> bill: thank you, catherine herridge in washington. the justice department wants to know whos visiting an anti-trump website. ordering the web hosting service for the site to turnover data. the company fighting the order the concerns distruptj20.org. says the search warrant cannot survive first amendment ...

Intelligence committee were dismissed by the obama administration because it was apparently eager to reset its relationship with moscow. you will probably or member this march 2009 photo op where then secretary of state clinton presented her russian counterpart with a makeshift reset button to highlight the effort. traveling overseas and reached by phone today, nunez stood by this recent public statement. >> weve known russia is a very sophisticated bad actor in the cyber realm, many members of ...

Became more brazen with and following its military moves against ukraine beginning in 2014." at a recent security conference, the former cia director went even further. >> people have criticized us and the obama administration for not coming out and saying it. president obama will say the russians are trying to get mr. trump elected. i dont think that would have went over well. he is the head of the democratic party. >> for some context here, what is not clear from our reporting is how widely ci...

Out. >> at dinner with a clinton campaign staffer and all he could talk about was the access hollywood tape. >> its not clear how widely the intelligence about russia was shared in 2014 and whether it reached a policy level. >> bill: thank you, catherine herridge in washington. the justice department wants to know whos visiting an anti-trump website. ordering the web hosting service for the site to turnover data. the company fighting the order the concerns distruptj20.org. says the search warran...