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Controversial cases. the sentencing of these two oregon men to five years in prison for their involvement in causing the fire sparked outrage in the local community and ended up causing an armed stand-off with federal officials in the area. that got a lot of attention obviously at the time. a judge had originally recommended that these two men, dwight and steven hammond, cattle ranchers in the area, receive a lighter sentence because of the way the community might react. they ended up getting se...

The defense. is it fair for president trump to criticize nato members when the goal was to meet the standard by 2024? >> well, youre right. look, the pledge made in 2014 was a ten-year pledge. so near 2018, were four years into a ten-year program. my argument would be the glass is half full. that allies have stopped cuts, theyve begun to increase defense spending. president trump joins a number of his predecessors from both parties, both democrats and republicans, who have called for allies to...

Today four more. maybe they got past the barrier and needed to get extra oxygen in and maybe they figured out a way to finish the efforts today, saying they are up against the same limitations, i have to imagine the trauma of being one of the four kids and coach left under for another day, thats got to be grueling. >> yeah, theres no doubt. i mean, obviously you go back now to put a time line on this, back to june 23rd, were talking about this real time but june 23rd when they went missing. july...

Those are all republican nominees that shocked us with their liberalism. you cant think of a single democrat nominee that shot you with his or her conservatism. president trumps first obligation is to not get it wrong like several of his predecessors did. >> martha: the buzz is that its not a make on area. if we could all be surprised and she could walk into the room tonight, we just dont know. but this exchange with dianne feinstein really disturbs a lot of people because it goes to the heart o...

The summer of 2009 which he didnt have to do, vladimir putin was prime minister having side stepped the constitutional limit on two consecutive presidential terms and the russian constitution does not grant the prime minister any role in foreign and defense matters and opposition leaders urged the u.s. government not to grant putin the status he was not entitled to but president obama chose to meet with vladimir putin and he praised him for the extraordinary work he was doing on behalf of the ru...

At the end of the day there can be k not be any genuine partnership and certainly no kind of convergence of interest between a democracy and an authoritarian kleptocratic regime. its only a question of time before the current u.s. president fwiends out what his predecessors have. >> appreciate that history. there have been attempts at a russia reset as hillary clinton called it but the difference is that the previous presidents didnt seem to cultivate a sort of mentor mentee relationship with vl...

At 54, gorbachev is the youngest man to lead the soviet union since stalin. unlike his predecessors, gorbachev might feel less tied down by the burden of soviet history. >> gorbachev is a revolution in himself. he is talking about a new soviet union allowing some freedom of speech, allowing a more open society. >> gorbachev had seen the gap between how the soviet people lived and what the party said was growing wider and wider. but he is a child of the system. he did not want to destroy it. he h...

We perhaps can just finally give up the hypocrisy surrounding the rhetoric of family values in the republican party. this president is a person who seems to have no regard for what that phrase means and no regard for precedent, predecessors. in this rally, he praised vladimir putin. cant we all just get along? take kgb no big deal. were all fine. >> we had that moment. lets play it for people who vice president heard it. >> its time to retire liberal democrat jon tester. jon tester says one thin...

Administrator in the history of the agency. not only has he acted time and again in an unethical manner but he led the agency in the wrong direction." ellison barber has the latest live in new jersey down the road from the presidents golf course. ellison? >> hi, melissa. former secretary pruitts resignation is effective today. he spent months trying to explain ethical questions. theres more than a dozen federal investigations into his behavior. he came under fire for his security detail, which i...

Koreas lies and bad behavior in the fast. the one thing that donald trump is doing right is not giving them anything until they denuclearize. thats the appropriate lesson from his three predecessors. we gave them and north korea didnt give us anything in return. donald trump has the sequence of the goodies right. at the end of the day north korea wants nothing more than to have nuclear weapons. why would they give them up? the only reason to give them up if they have genuinely changed philosophy...