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The same used in the bombing of the world trade center in new york. >> his mission is to blow up one of the terminals at l.a.x. los angeles airport. and he gets stopped. >> even though the authorities appear to have gotten their man, the threat may not yet can be over. >> we ended the decade with a clear perception now that we were engaged with a terrorist organization that had declared war on us and was determined to carry out more attacks. >> his interest is in achieving a large body count. th...

Bring taliban representatives much. >> thank you. >> nice to be with us on an here under the circumstances and in his view cutting out the important day. close call. afghan government. and when you have the national security adviser in the white what can the close win mean? house believing that a stay with us right here on msnbc. fundamental strategy, policy , priority of the presidents is we really pride ourselves on making it easy for you the wrong way to go, and then to get your windshield ...

Rules for legal immigration and as ken cuccinelli said at the briefing at the white house yesterday its all about trying to make sure immigrants who come here to live in the united states can stand on their own two feet. those are his words. so theyre casting judgment based on who is poor, whos sick, who needs help, who would rely on federal programs. and it does feed into part of the campaign strategy although it is not explicitly a campaign move because of course this has been a policy priorit...

Suspect part of the reason you put a loyal person in this job at this time is the presidents campaign apparatus will be doing a lot of communications work, if you will. and that always happens. and theres sometimes tensions between the work of government and the work of campaign. is it easier at this moment to do this? is that the right word? >> the communications department has been shrinking in the last year and a half significantly. so it has -- its now full of the presidents most loyal, most...

But there is also the legal argument against this. talk to us about that. does your legal argument mirror what we just heard from the california ag? >> well, its very similar. first, the statute, the national emergencies act does not allow this, because this is not an emergency as defined in the act. if this is an emergency, the situation at the border, the illegal immigration issue, then just about anything could be an emergency, any policy priority of any president could be an emergency, and t...

Does your legal argument mirror what we just heard from the california a.g.? >> well, its very similar. first, the statute, the national emergencies act, does not allow this because this is not an emergency as defined in the act. if this is an emergency, the situation at the border, the illegal immigration issue, then just about anything could be an emergency, any policy priority of any president could be an emergency, and thats not the meaning of the word emergency within the act. second, if th...

Presidents announcement. richard, id like to begin with you. theres the moral and kind of emotional argument against this, and for it, i have to say. but there is also the legal argument against this. talk to us about that. does your legal argument mirror what we just heard from the california ag? >> well, its very similar. first, the statute, the national emergencies act does not allow this, because this is not an emergency as defined in the act. if this is an emergency, the situation at the bo...

The world trade center in new york. >> his mission is to blow up one of the terminals at l.a.x. los angeles airport. and he gets stopped. >> even though the authorities appear to have gotten their man, the threat may not yet can be over. >> we ended the decade with the clear perception now that we were engaged with a terrorist organization that had declared war on us and was determined to carry out more attacks. >> his interest is in achieving a large body count. that is the reality of todays te...

Christmas is all about. look at that picture. that is magnificent. >> thats beautiful. what a sensitive santa, to know how to approach matthew. >> lets be honest, thif there one guy that knows everything -- >> its santa, youre right. >> all aspects of his public life. cnn "newsroom" starts right now. all right. good monday morning, everyone. im poppy harlow. >> and im jim sciutto. make no mistake, president trump is approaching the half mark of his presidency with a wide array of investigation...

Would eventually need him in one of those roles. a source close to steve mnuchin told me as well this morning that mnuchin has never expressed interest in becoming the next white house chief of staff. im told mnuchin feels he can best serve as the treasury secretary. an interesting answer, though, over the weekend as it remlated to the presidents top trade representative. listen here. >> has anyone at the white house talked to you about chief of staff? >> no. >> what im hearing from you is youre...