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Issue. this issue as you said, only the fifth time in our 96 years that we have devoted front to back every page to a single topic and thats really because of the urgency of the problem. you know, as you mentioned, my predecessors at "time" had thes which wisdom 30 years ago to be the sounding of the alarm because we had an impending problem. we have acted, al gore and others point out we have made progress. the problem becomes urgent and harder to solve the longer we wait. >> but from 1989 unti...

Charge. the president is firing people on twitter. and all that makes it very difficult for the united states to lead. so its a lot of chaos and confusion. its something that the president doesnt seem to mind so much, but certainly folks on the hill and elsewhere are very concerned about it. >> terrific point, where netanyahu is concerned. one of the stories that did get by today. hey, jeremy, newspaper reporters love the expression, "being mentioned for the job." who is being mentioned for the ...

Bolton this morning on twitter writing, quote, i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions, as did others in the administration, and therefore i asked john for his resignation, which was given to me this morning. i thank john very much for his service. i will be naming a new national security adviser next week. minutes later bolton responded with a post of his own. quote, i offered to resign last n...

Difficult for the united states to lead. so its a lot of chaos and confusion. its something that the president doesnt seem to mind so much, but certainly folks on the hill and elsewhere are very concerned about it. >> terrific point where netanyahu is concerned. one of the stories that did get by today. hey, jeremy, newspaper reporters love the expression "being mentioned for the job." who is being mentioned for the job? i think ive read 10 to 12 names today. who wants this job, phil? >> well, i...

Bolton this morning on twitter writing, "i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house. i disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration, and, therefore, i asked john for his resignation which was given to me this morning. i thank john very much for his service. i will be naming a new national security adviser next week." minutes later bolton responded with a post of his own. "i offered to resign last night and pr...

Overseas wars. and theres this fundamental conflict in there between those two sort of elements of his political persona. john bolton played the one side but not the other. his predecessors were trying to restrain him against being too hostile toward the outside world, against being hostile toward our allies. john bolton, on the other hand, was trying to restrain him in a different way. he was trying to restrain him from making what he saw, anyway, as bad agreements with the likes of north korea...

Difficult for the united states to lead. so its a lot of chaos and confusion. its something that the president doesnt seem to mind so much, but certainly folks on the hill and elsewhere are very concerned about it. >> terrific point, where netanyahu is concerned. one of the stories that did get by today. hey, jeremy, newspaper reporters love the expression, "being mentioned for the job." who is being mentioned for the job? i think ive read 10 to 12 names today. who wants this job, phil? >> well,...

Objectives, and theyve held these objectives for years. and that is, a, to get the united states and other nato contingents out of afghanistan, and having accomplished that and looked like they were on their way to do that, the next thing of course was to get rid of the current afghan government, which we have supported, and its predecessors for 18 years and poured a lot of money into the country trying to support that government. so the notion that we could -- were going to rely on them to abid...

Sessions of negotiations by our former ambassador there is simply window dressing for getting out of dodge city. and if anyone believes -- you know, theres no reason for anyone to believe the taliban or to trust them any further than you or i could throw a grand piano. the taliban have had two objectives, and theyve held these objectives for years. and that is, a, to get the united states and other nato contingents out of afghanistan, and having accomplished that and looked like they were on the...

>> president trump: i like the idea of meeting. ive met with a lot of bad people and a lot of good people during the course of the last almost three years. and i think meeting is a great thing. we hadti a meeting scheduled. it was my idea. and it was my idea to terminate it.i didnt discuss it with anyy else when i heard, very simply, that they killed one of our soldiers and 12 other innocent people, i said, theres no way i meeting on that basis. theres no way i meeting. >> sean: the president ha...