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Adviser would need to lie or to make misleading statements about communications with foreign entities? >> i cannot think of one, nor have i experienced one. look, this was at the time the national security adviser, the last time i saw michael flynn in the white house, he was being briefed on all of the covert action programs and the special intelligence programs that were being run in pursuit around the world. this is not an unsophisticated policy maker. this is someone who had been vaulted to t...

Sides more please would the outcome. i think its important to remember much of what trump put forward, he did in part because cameras were there and something that pelosi, an experienced policy maker made clear she did not want to happen. >> thanks, eugene. erse the accused russian agent that built ties with the national rifle association and republicans has agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors. she will plead guilty of one count of conspiracy for working with as a foreign agent in the...

Listening. but i feel like this is see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, three monkeys sitting on a couch not willing to accept what the cia is trying to tell them. and quite frankly, it is so -- i was trying to think of an instance where i went up to capitol hill on a very serious security issue without the cia. i know that the republican majority would have insisted upon it because, quite frankly, theyre more interested in listening to an intelligence assessment than to a policy makers ass...

Theyre more interested in listening to an intelligence assessment than to a policy makers assessment because they think it will be more factual. and without politics, and i think thats exactly why john bolton and the president see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil. >> and, ambassador sherman, it also seems like they actively do not want to listen to it because they do not care, that there is nothing that they could possibly hear in that recording that would in any way affect their thinking ab...

And not every george w. bush paper was handed over. but because brett kavanaugh was the presidents secretary for three years, doesnt mean he was a policy maker on most of those matters. >> you mentioned 2020. i would remiss if i did not ask what are the odds you will launch a primary challenge to president trump or run as an independent and run for president yourself in 2020? >> i think the odds are a lot higher that i run for the noxious weed control board of dodge county, nebraska than that. i...

The judicial branch can never exercise the policymaking role that is reserved to the congress. admittedly speaking level of generality, tough cases, margins trying to figure out what the line is. as general proposition, important for every judge to go in with mindset of, im not the policy maker, im the interpreter of the law applier in a particular case. i think that is very important part of the federalist paper woven into the constitutional structure in article three and that judges id certain...

And shes pregnant. that is a difficult situation. i recognized and tried to understand that. as a judge, not the policy maker, i tried to understand whether the governments policy was consistent with the supreme courts precedence. i did the best i could. i said, some people disagree with those precedents and think those kinds of statutes should not be allowed. but i had -- precedent is not like a cafeteria where i can take this and not that. i had to take casey in completely. casey reaffirmed ro...

That at face value. look, as a policy maker before donald trump got elected president and all of this happened, getting to a place where we can get along better with russia is crucially important. one of the issues im working on is to try to stop nuclear proliferation, reduce odds of us stumbling into nuclear war. russia and the u.s. are the two largest nuclear powers by a large margin. us being in a better place, dialoguing better so we can avoid that would be critical. in afghanistan, syria, a...

For you on the white board. well put it on online, on my twitter feed and the shows feed if you didnt get it. how about the strategy in play? for that, weve got as good a guest as we can have. cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. lets make three quick points. first of all you say dont get too deep in the weeds of strategy. look at the president first, why? >> i love these strategy conversations. can we look at the personality of the president? repeatedly hes told us how he thinks. hes told th...

>> i bet you looked at the big letter from kim jong-un that was brought right into the oval office. today the white house said that the president now disagrees with vladimir putins offer to question ambassador mcfall and other americans and other diplomats. as a former ambassador, are you dismayed that it took the president three days to come to that conclusion? >> you know, i dont know how to answer questions like that. my focus now is on what is happening around the world. that is what i was h...