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Faith, but is there any rational thinking human being in the world who thinks in all these instances the president was doing anything other than trying to smear a political opponent? if thats the basis on which youre conducting foreign pol y policy, staffing of your state department, staffing of your justice department, then i think congress has a right to question whether or not that person is fit to lead. >> did you think it was a crime today when the president said on television publicly, not...

>> axios counting six candidates counting him a white supremacist but others like biden not going there. why is it shifting for some and not others. rashad, what do you think? >> its a distinction without a difference. heres the truth. who really cares if president trump is a white supremacist personally or not? what we care about is his pol y policy. is he a white supremacist in policy? is he a white nationalist in policy? its important to note that it was actually first the federal government ...

Plenty of things to attack the squad on when it comes to pol y policy. its an open book when it comes to whether were talking about their anti-semitic comments, when its about the green new deal, when it has to do with their insults of israel, when it has to do with them talking about 9/11 was something that someone today. those are valid policy political attacks that he can and should use against them and others on the left, but for him to take it to this low level and make it personal and make...

Separated children? deterrence. deterrence is the keyword. the separation policy was designed to deter people from coming into the united states. as has much of the border patrol and immigration policy over the course of the last couple decades. it causes people to go to more dangerous and deadly journeys, take more risks coming to the united states and frankly die while trying. so these latest numbers, the trump administration has been ordered by a judge to reveal how many children it separated...

Kids who havent committed crimes. 2324, largely central american boys and girls, are sleeping inside the guarded facility in rows of bunk beds in tents. teams with identical haircuts and government issued shirts and pants could be seen walking from tent to tent, flanked by staff. they walked the detainees to their meals, showers, and recreation, guarded by multiple levels of security. at night, the area around the camp, thats grown from a few dozen to more than 150 tents, it is secured and it wi...

Feeling one way and not another? >> if theyre real, its because theyre grand standing. you know what they should have done, the adult thing to do instead of acting like a bunch of spoiled premadonnas? is show up, met the president, probably for the first time and said, mr. president, may we have aeeting later in this is a celebration today, not political, but this is a celebration about philadelphia, football, the eagles. can we come back and talk pol y policy? i can guarantee you -- >> you have...

Confidence and trust of the public in their institutions. if you corrode that then you have a survival of the fittest. and its just not a viable society. thats what worries me more than tax policy or immigration pol y policy. and peggy noonan read that tweet from the lady about the deep state. thats what we have to worry about. because if people dont trust the government, it all falls apart and i dont think the president is doing it deliberately but its whats happening. >> the latest is the conf...

Got ahead of the curve but that additional sanctions are under consideration, what does that tell you? >> theres a couple of things. first, there is sort of the standard disarray that i think you often times see in this administration. one part of the administration saying one thing, the president coming out and saying another, sometimes tweeting. vis-a-vis russia thats not always necessarily a bad thing. sometimes its good to keep the russians guessing, sometimes its good for them to know preci...

They might like, might like the images of your family in the white house and how you conducted yourself in office, they dont like your ideas. who is right? >> the democrats have not acknowledged that they are to fault, blame for the election loss. they are blaming it on what happened in russia, blaming it on the clinton e-mail scandal, they are blaming it -- >> compelling economic message from the democratic candidate from the candidate might have helped. >> not having an economic message but ra...

Policy, national security, that graham has literally built his entire career about. he was an air force reserve officer for many, many years, an air force lawyer, so in the services himself. one of the only candidates running this time around who actually is a veteran and has a background in the military. hes also done this on capitol hill, taking congressional delegations, pushing really hard on all of these issues. he and john mccain in particular recently taking up the cause of arming the mod...