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Joining us now with his assessment, brit hume is in florida this evening. now, first of all, do you think trump is being too soft on putin? >> yeah, i think he probably is. look vladimir putin is a bad actor. two prior presidents, two of trumps immediate predecessors try to make common cause with him. it didnt work in either case. i think trump will eventually figure this out. buts, so far, i think he nurses this notion that he, by virtue of his personality and his way, will be able to stand sho...

Opportunity overseer. now over the years ive asked quite a few executive nominees, both republican and democrat to make commitments to respond to oversight. you said you would, but in my experience nominees are usually pretty receptive to oversight requests during these type of hearings, but after theyve been confirmed, oversight doesnt seem to be a high priority for them. as i told you when we met privately in my office, sometimes i think nominees should go ahead and be a little more straightfo...

Three-pointer in front of u.s. troops in kuwait just a few months before being elected president handedly over john mccain. he has a lot of gray hair and scars in his eight years of office but he prepares to enter this part of his presidency, this last few days of his presidency with higher approval ratings than most of his predecessors could hope for. hes not quite at the high raise of roof beams when he won in 2008 but hes at 56% approval as he leaves office, which is big and it is considerabl...

Three-pointer in front of u.s. troops in kuwait just a few months before being elected president handedly over john mccain. he has a lot of gray hair and scars in his eight years of office but he prepares to enter this part of his presidency, this last few days of his presidency with higher approval ratings than most of his predecessors could hope for. hes not quite at the high raise of roof beams when he won in 2008 but hes at 56% approval as he leaves office, which is big and it is considerabl...

Press, which is almost nonstop. joining us now with his assessment, brit hume is in florida this evening. now, first of all, do you think trump is being too soft on putin? >> yeah, i think he probably is. look vladimir putin is a bad actor. two prior presidents, two of trumps immediate predecessors try to make common cause with him. it didnt work in either case. i think trump will eventually figure this out. buts, so far, i think he nurses this notion that he, by virtue of his personality and hi...

One, but ill make one eventually. cheers cheers. [ cheers ] >> i think thats all i should do. huh? >> candidate barack obama effortlessly dreaming a three-pointer in front of u.s. troops in kuwait just a few months before being elected president handedly over john mccain. he has a lot of gray hair and scars in his eight years of office but he prepares to enter this part of his presidency, this last few days of his presidency with higher approval ratings than most of his predecessors could hope f...

And not enter veenld when it did not feel appropriate. my responsibility would be to ensure that there is no discriminatory problems with a voting rights act of a state. if there is, if it violates the voting rights act or the constitution, i think the attorney general may well have a responsibility and a duty to intervene. you cannot allow improper erosion of the right of americans to vote. >> well, we know that since the supreme courts decision that did away with major parts of the voting righ...

Happen. this means trump is going to be, you know, this relationship with putin, i dont see that. i think thats a faster way of looking at this. chris: this isnt the first president who has come in thinking that hes going to get along and tame the russian there, clinton did it, george w. bush did it and looked into putins eyes, obama with the reset, what do you think of the chances that they can turn a corner and in the end will it all come to ashes as it did with predecessors. >> we want to sta...

It doesnt mean it didnt happen. this means trump is going to be, you know, this relationship with putin, i dont see that. i think thats a faster way of looking at this. chris: this isnt the first president who has come in thinking that hes going to get along and tame the russian there, clinton did it, george w. bush did it and looked into putins eyes, obama with the reset, what do you think of the chances that they can turn a corner and in the end will it all come to ashes as it did with predece...

Then. that was then and now is now. >> has it made your job harder? >> for the russian behavior in syria has certainly made the ends of the syrian civil war there harder. >> would the russians be there if the united states had forced the read line? >> i cant say that. i think the russians saw an opportunity there to play a role which could have been fine because what they said they were going to do which they could uniquely do is help assad move aside gently, bring the moderate opposition into t...