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Policy objective, he invokes national security, tries to say that its a national security crisis. the difference is, is that in this public forum, the intelligence chiefs had to say under oath to the senate intelligence committee what their true assessment is of national security threats and those two things didnt marry up. >> carrie cordero, phil mudd, thank you for being with us. more breaking news next. senate investigators now know who was on the other end of the mysterious blocked phone c...

It is a request that generated concern at the pentagon and the state department. so, first to you. would this kind of a request surprise you? would it generate concern on your behalf as well? >> well, on the one hand, alex, being, you know, the white house, the national security adviser asking the pentagon to generate options in response to a particular policy objective is not unusual. and in this case, it seems like the white house wanted options to potentially respond to attacks by shia milita...

Shutdown being a week long. the president likes to always have the biggest thing. now im concerned he could keep this going. >> 22 days. >> no one has got shutdowns like me. that is a distinct possibility. the way things are going, it is hard to imagine things will kick in before january prd. >> here we go. buckle up. we are following a lot of news this morning, so lets get to it. >> were no longer the suckers, folks. our presence in syria was never intended to be permanent. >> he used it as a...

I think it should have come much sooner. in part, because im glad he finally did it. and better late than never. i think its totally appropriate for a president to go to war theater and extend to the troops the heartfelt wishes and prayers, frankly, of the american people. but i think what is deeply disappointing is that when he went to iraq, he used it as an occasion to advance his specific policy objective as new policy to withdraw from syria. and i think thats highly inappropriate use of a vi...

Crushed and they could not use anymore. im going to put you on the spot. yes or no answers. has north korea, kim jong-un, have accepted and agreed to international inspectors of every site? >> no. eric: has north korea agreed to open up their labs to us? >> no. eric: has north korea agreed to allow un inspectors to verify their production facilities and turn it over and do what qaddafi did and send it to the department of energy to put in storage? >> great question, not like qaddafi, there is a ...

Single income group in the united states. democrats couldnt support it to begin and now they spent every day since then saying if they get power, they want to repeal the tax cuts. they think its a winning message. lets look at the history here. democrats lost almost 1,000 different seats in state, federal and local elections because they gave that exact same message, which is that they want to take money away from americans and spend it themselves. its not worked at the polls and has not worked ...

He is not someone worthive congratulating and donald trump says all the time, wouldnt it be great to get along with russia? well, yes, if that is a tactic behind a larger policy objective. what does that mean? does it mean pressing them on what theyve done in ukraine? that they can tend mess theyre making in syria? getting along for getting alongs sake hasnt gotten us anything but a mess. >> it is also the case, and correct me if im wrong. it is not like the u.s. is getting we know what russia. ...

Interests. >> all right. thank you for your time tonight. >> good to be with you. congressman swalwell, member of the house intelligence committee. the that president obama did congratulate putin in 2012. it was his first election back after medvedev. whats the big zmeel. >> that he cleared the field of his points. he also just speaking of elections, interfered in ours. he is not someone worthive congratulating and donald trump says all the time, wouldnt it be great to get along with russia? wel...

Dollar unless you have a specific policy objective that youre trying to achieve. number two, what the fed does with interest rates. you want to leave the fed independent and number three, make too much out of stock market moves. the dow has risen 280% since the march 9th low in 2009. its gone up considerably since the bottom of the recession, so the presidents had a good run since the election, but the market was up considerably before that. you really cannot ascribe to one individual the moves ...

You and i have talked a lot about this. is the presidents strategy to go after them, is it working? >> ive made a point saying the president sometimes goes too far and he says things on twitter that hurt him. i dont think this was one of those cases. i think the president -- put yourself in his shoes. if you know you did not collude but you are under an fbi investigation, of course you will want to speak out, you will lash out. even if you are the president of the united states. there is a polic...