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Disbelieved. >> neil: and the first gulf war, we had to have support. if you go it alone, thats not -- >> thats why in my view and im not a military person but i can tell them the law. in my view, a pin prick attack on offensive weaponry used to shoot down the drones would be the most legally sound. politically i dont know. is this a pretext for war? is this a pretext because they want a regime change? the iranian government is horrific but its the government their people have chosen. the presid...

What america stands for. we were founded on the principle of religious freedom. in china chinese commonest party has been hostile to religion from the foundation. shannon: will the president bring this up when he sits down with president xi jinping? >> we have been clear what we expect, we expect china to play by the rules and the rules are simple, treat citizens with respect, respect fundamental human rights and dont abuse counterterrorism as a pretext for oppressing religious minorities. shann...

Antithetical to what america stands for. we were founded on the principle of religious freedom in the chinese communist party has been unremittingly hostile to religion from its very foundation. >> shannon: while the president bring this up when he sits down with the president at the g20? speak of the secretary and the u.s. government have been very clear about what we expect from china. we expect china to play by the rules and the rules are very simple. treat your citizens with respect, respect...

Most consequential issues the courts tackling. >> right. were reaching the end of this term. as soon as monday, we could hear whether the supreme court is going to take up a case about daca. thats that obama-era protection. that trump administration moved to terminate it. that was blocked by the lower courts. we could hear monday whether theyll take that up for next term. also, were waiting for opinions. one of the biggest cases of the term is that census case. whether or not the trump administr...

For years now. if thats the bar -- but thats been going on for years. >> and the saudis are indiscriminately killing civilians and precipitating a famine in yemen. by the way, when you look at what is happening in this region the saudis might want the war. maybe, you know, they might want to try to provoke it as well. do the american people want to go to war over the fact that two tankers blew up in the middle of the gulf of oman? do the american people want to go to war on behalf of saudi arabi...

With a mine. they said the crew saw some kind of flying object strike the ship. joined now by msnbc political contributor ben rhodes former deputy security adviser to president barack obama. this is a frustrating situation as a journalist and a citizen. we dont see the intelligence and i am a, you know, grew up during the iraq war. i am skeptical. youve worked with the white house, dealt with iranians. what is your read on all this? >> well, my read is in this part of the world all kinds of acto...

A whole bunch of proxy forces in the region including the huety rebels in yemen and then are we going to go to war with half of the -- on behalf of the saudis being able to ship oil? >> this is the key point, right? for the last year theyve been expanding the basis under which they can take an action against iran. what youve seen is them provoke iran, pull out a of a deal iran was complying with, throw sanctions at them. designate the guard as a terrorist organization. one provocation from us af...

The justice department siding with the treasury secretarys refusal to hand over the presidents taxes to the house, ways and means committee. decision that spruzed absolutely no one. michael is the author of "the truth about trump." good evening to you. renauldo, im going to start with you. the d o, j stating the democrats wanting to make the documents public is not a legitimate purpose. would you agree with that? >> if you read it carefully its reasonable to conclude this is a mere pretext. in o...

Side. the big debate here between justice and congress is that justice and treasury has said that this is a pretext. this request for the tax returns is not really part of congresss legislative oversight responsibilities. congress responds and says to the contemporarrary, it is very part of what we are endeavoring to do, to look at federal tax laws as it relates to political candidates and the existing president of the united states and thats the heart of the debate. is it pretext or is it legit...

>> yeah and the saudis are killing civilians and precipitating a famine and by the way, when you are looking at whats happening in the region. the saudis and iranians might want the war and might want to provoke the iranians as well. do the american people want to go to war over the fact that two tankers blue up in the gulf of oman and behalf of saudi arabia, a country led biry a murderous dictator? no. they want to create a situation where iran is forced into something we can use as a pretext. ...