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To pamake it look like he wasn fired after the strong russia criticism. and thats why for all the intrigue and who is up, who is down, white house personnel reporting there has been in washington all week long and the president appears to enjoy stoking, what really stands out here that the white house has not really had to answer for at all is that in addition to firing rex tillerson on tuesday morning, later on the day tuesday they went on to fire another senior official from the state departme...

Think mark made this point early this morning, theyve only exacerbated their problems. this is now -- they have made the situation infiniteely worse, in terms of the level of tension on this, level of scrutiny. number of people whose reputations are at stake, number of republicans who eventually will feel that they cant go on with this anymore purely out of tribal loyalty. this is a precipitating moment. i dont know if youre right, that this will bring the whole thing crashing down. if it does, ...

E wi . we are back with breaking news. pentagon officials are saying 20 missiles were destroyed. we are joined by our attorney general jim jones, hes a formal national security adviser to president obama, nato supreme, thank you for coming in. >> hi, wolf. >> do you think president trump have learned from the experiences of president obama in failing to live up of that red line threat? >> i think so. if nothing else, that is moment of clarity for the first time and several years of i think th...

Is going to be muslims. you know who also sees it as a muslim ban? the muslim world. you say that donald trump wants to make us safe. donald trump is making us less safe. donald trump is targeting -- having us be targeted. if you look at the jihadi web sites, they are celebrating. we are not, though. >> i would argue differently. >> he picks these seven countries. >> obama picked these seven countries. >> the seven countries have been picked, but obama didnt ban people from those seven countries...

>> no, whether theyre high schools or elementary schools, they are a target. and theres a good reason. you have a lot of sheep. you have limited protection. theyre going to be immediately overwhelmed by something like this. thats why these ticking time bombs and we will find that this person is a ticking time bomb, thats why when he had a precipitating moment, thats why we have to find out what was the straw that broke the camels back here. he had a plan to hurt as many people as possible and it...

>> no, whether theyre high schools or elementary schools, they are a target. and theres a good reason. you have a lot of sheep. you have limited protection. theyre going to be immediately overwhelmed by something like this. thats why these ticking time bombs and we will find that this person is a ticking time bomb, thats why when he had a precipitating moment, thats why we have to find out what was the straw that broke the camels back here. he had a plan to hurt as many people as possible and it...

Seen an ark in him pr he talked about a civil rights movement. thats not the man we heard last august. hes learned he has to know the community to police it. i think the way he spoke about the shooting reflects real growth. he assumed if they were pulling guns on his officers, as this it person allegedly did, that they werent protesters because he see what is protesters do, they protest. >> do people accept the police version of what happened there of why this happened and why the guy had the gu...

They will get or keep on these? >> well, this is an interesting question, because if his role is as significant as the government is said then quite a lot will have been confiscated, and im hearing in the last few hours, his role of the coordinator or the wrangler of the hostages may have been the more precipitating factor in this. >> and that is how his wife, umm sayyaf, was captured, and sources are telling our evan perez that he and his wife have deep knowledge of the hostage holdings. >> yes...

Monitoring. they just dont want to do it. >> mary, you heard in andrews piece, you said its generally not just one thing that causes a crash here. lets talk about the weather, though. obviously this was some pretty severe weather. the pilot had asked for permission to climb to 38,000 feet because it was so bad. but what else could have contributed to this? >> well the weather might have been a precipitating or caused a cascading effect. in other crashes that ive worked heres how the sequence wen...

Down to these prices that comes to a dead halt. >> some of the big boys, arco and chevron, can absorb this. im more worried in the macro, without getting too arcane and wonky, this presages something else. maybe a global slowdown, china is coughing, india is hiccupping. >> this happened before when we had low oil prices. this could be precipitating something even bigger. short term, everybody is very happy about this but we have to focus on the long term, energy independence, getting the economy...