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The president. i worked in the intelligence community. what the intelligence community does is to give policy makers facts is give them their best assessment of what is happening in the world. its really up to the policy maker to take that information, use it or dont use it, up to them -- is up to them. but the current concern that i have is if policy becomes increasingly divorced from fact, then the united states has the potential to continue to lose power, lose influence on this issue, and con...

That the president set out, i may disagree with it entirely as far as epa and science and protecting human health is concerned but thats his agenda and thats going to be contraried out by whoevers the administrator. scott pruitt is an embarrassment. not just to the agency. i get it. they dont care about that, but hes an embarrassment to the administration. the ethical tone deafness is extraordinary. i cant imagine whats keeping him there. certainly hes terrible for morale. i understand they dont...

Standard going on here. senator cornyn talked about it and cotton as well. john brennan was the policy-maker at the time of what is deemed as the controversial or the senator warner talking about the interrogateive tactics and he got a pass by senator warner himself. so people who are condemning haspel here are the ones who confirmed brennan who had more decision-making role. what she was doing had been constitutionally evaluated by the attorney and she was following orders. >> i expect she will...

They have gamed it before trying to come to the country in planes. shoes that explode and if its a border with crushes of people coming at one time its a logical place to enter and i know youre not a policy maker but when we have lawyers rushing down to mexico, to make the case for asylum for people, again -- you cant check the background on most of the people. most people are like poor people. what are you going to go to the local town hall in honduras and do a background check on every client,...

Seems ridiculous but there are voters out there who see this as a line to be crossed. i think the fact that the white house this week acknowledged that theres a legal matter going on keeps the story alive. >> heres what im sure worries the presidents lawyers. if the fbi or the special counsel, robert mueller and his team decide, you know what, its worth checking into this and asking some serious questions about the $130,000. >> thats very, very worrisome. heres why. the underlying premise of the...

Rogers told senators that america has not used its full power to retaliate against russia for its information warfare in the 2016 election. rogers stressed that he is an operational commander and not a policy maker and like fbi director chris wrays testimony earlier this month rogers said he had not been given a specific directive from the trump white house. >> as i understand, you said that president trump has never ordered cyber com to take any action to defend or thwart elections meds ling th...

Backboard and a soulam dunk wit that sound bite roll you did at the pop. i dont know if you understand my metaphor, but lie like it. mike, lets talk about sarah sanders response. the trump administration has done more to stop russia, to be tough on russia in the past year than president obama did in the eight years he was in office. >> well, first of all, i understand your metaphor. it was great. >> hallie gave me a stone face. i felt like it really wasnt hitting with her at all. >> i watch a lo...

One-on-one. he is confident that his way is the best way of doing things despite having limited world experience. >> yeah. i mean, certainly from jareds perspective, he feels as though the world of real estate was a good primer, preparing him for the role that hes played now as a diplomat and as a policy maker. but, obviously, professionals who have done this for their careers have a different view. what was happening in kushners case because he was having these meetings be himself or with an ai...

Despite having limited world experience. >> he feels as though the world of real estate was a good primer preparing him for the role that he has played now as a diplomat and as a policy maker. but obviously, professionals who have done this for their careers have a different view. what was happening in kushners case because he was having these meetings be himself or with an aide in his office is that other diplomats were relying on intercepts of chinese communications in order to find out what j...

To protect. >> tucker: why have elections at all? >> because you have a policy maker. >> tucker: we elected a reality tv star who wanted to build a wall and they voted for that and he won. in washington, we are saying you dont get a wall. you dont know enough. thats not really a real democracy? >> we want our experts to protect the public and the american taxpayer. >> tucker: you are comfortable with ignoring voters? >> the voters have spoken. they elected donald trump. he is our president. >> t...