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And i think that while the white house does feel confident about impeachment, there are some problems for president trump on the horizon in the election. mainly, that there are a lot of suburban voters who turned away from president trump during the 2018 midterms. and we have yet to see that support swing back to the republican party. and then really, the trump campaign is very focused on just a handful of battleground states. pennsylvania. ohio. wisconsin among them. and they really are looking...

Every day to crack cases. were not sure what that means going forward. heres what eric holder had to say in an op-ed today. bill barr has made a series of statements that are so ideological, nakedly partisan and so deeply inappropriate for americas chief law enforcement official that they demand a response from someone who held the same office. i now fear his conduct will wreak lasting damage. >> its sbret taking. you dont usually hear one of the predecessors of a sitting attorney general make c...

Every single american to ensure that our government of the people, for the people, and by the people shall not perish from the earth. mr. chairman, i yield back. >> the gentleman yields back. ms. dean. >> as members of congress, we are entrusted with a generational duty, a duty to ensure that we leave our grandchildren with a constitution as strong or even stronger than our predecessors gave us. i want to tell you about a conversation that took place the week of july 25th, but its not the one yo...

Six hundred interviews that were never intended to be made public. they begin in the early stages of the war "we didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were undertaking." like his predecessors, the secretary of defense cites continuing progress. >> the security forces have stepped up. weve seen an improvement in their performance when it comes to actions against them. to speak of the war has cost enormous sums, under a trillion dollars. he reports as it was with the headquarters in afghanista...

Remains at war in afghanistan. now a three year "washington post" investigation based on documents obtained through freedom of information requests finds "the american people have constantly been lied to." that from john, head of the office of special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction, who conducted most of the 600 interviews that were never intended to be made public. the distortions began in the early stages of the war, "we didnt have the foggiest notion of what we were undertak...

President clinton, ken starr politician or politician very interviewed white house staff. witness or lawyer versus witness, and we got today in the president clinton also provided written responses to 81 impeachment process to lawyer interrogatories from the house versus lawyer. let me show you the highlights. judiciary committee. judiciary committee staff questioning those intelligence unlike his predecessors, committee lawyers, which led to president trump has even some strange moments. catego...

Kelly urged him to use hard lines in the white house, secure lines when he went back to the residence at night and made phone calls. and he did this for a while. but when he realized that john kelly was then able to track logs of the presidents calls and who he was speaking with, trump got annoyed and discontinued the practice and went back with a cellphone. so its not just his disregard for the security protocols that almost all of his predecessors in the office have adhered to, its that he app...

Visit our allies and partners out there. thats my faux couples im not just looking at -- faux couples ifocus.im not just looking atm looking at all these places where i can free up troops where i can either bring them home to allow them to rest, refit and retrain and real locate them to the -- re-allocate them to the indo pacific. >> you say the pentagons top priorities are china and russia. is there a point where the continued deployment of forces in the middle east prevents that by t vote? >> ...

The dows doing well. wages respect moving up at the same rate. neil: well, 16 straight months 3% plus wage growth, thats not off the charts, but its off the charts historically as a record run of wage gains. thats something the president could point to because predecessors were not stacking that kind of achievement up. >> yeah. and i think when it comes to wages too, we just had a really strong jobs report that came out, and wages were lighter than everyone wanted to see -- neil: but there wasnt...

And who he was speaking with, trump got annoyed and discontinued the practice and went back with a cellphone. so its not just his disregard for the security protocols that almost all of his predecessors in the office have adhered to, its that he appears to be trying to hide much of his communications from his own staff, from his own people. >> this is a problem, rick stengel. you have spent much of your life as a journalist. we use phones a lot, we talk to a lot of people. its probably a hard ha...