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Measure of thinning forest. why is the president talking about this? it means he doesnt have to talk about climate change, and also some environmentalists say hes using that as a pretext to push for more logging. you see the president shaking hands. next to him is kevin mccarthy, the new house majority leader, and in the next congress will become the next how minority leader. we expect the president to spend a decent amount of the day here before he heads back to the white house. >> scott cohn, ...

Chairmanship, he promises hell continue these investigations. but i think its going to go much further than this. i think were going to see some indictments. i think things will come to the surface within the doj. we still dont know what john has been investigating. i think its going to end for the president, but i think after that its not going to end for hillary clinton and the rest of them at the fbi. >> the takeaway from your book that i remember is that there was collusion but it wasnt from...

Both democrat and republican. the president and trump administration have been locked in this extension fight with california over issues such as the environment, immigration and, yes, climate change. today when the president was leaving the south lawn on his way to california, he brought up again this issue of forest management on his own when talking to reporters, the president suggesting that was a contributing cause to these wildfires, even as experts and firefighter groups have said repeate...

Things as a professor matter? >> i think it would be unusual if the facts as reported are true. as i said, there has already been a very careful vetting of the validity of the turkish governments request, and this is maybe not even a second bite of the apple, but a third or fourth bite of the apple. so it appears they are trying to create a pretext under some sort of facts to eject mr. gulen out of the united states in order to play indicate the erdogan regime, to soothe the current hostility to...

House to reverse the decisions, reverse the views of career officials who work on these things as a professional matter? >> it would be unusual if the facts as reported are true. theres been a careful vetting of the validity of the turkish governments ". this is not even a second bite of the apple, but a third or fourth. it appears theyre trying to create a pretext under some sort of facts to reject him out of the united states to placate the erdogan regime to soothe its current hostility toward...

The point there, but he referenced finland and said finland has lots of forests but they dont have destructive fires like this and suggested that california needs to do a better job when it comes to thinning its forests. but, look, his experts have pointed out the devastating, the deadly fires that weve seen ravage the california coast have nothing to do with issues of forest management. it has to do with an historic drought and with heavy winds. by talking about this issue of forest management,...

And the crucial question of whether or not one of the two candidates in that election, mr. trump was in on that foreign intelligence cooperation, whether he aware of it, played a part in it. it was not publicly reported before americans voted in that election, but it came to be known soon thereafter, and when president trump found out about the fbi running that investigation into what russia did and the possible involvement of him and his campaign, the president fired the head of the fbi. he fir...

Campaign. it was not publicly reported before americans voted in that election, but it came to be known soon thereafter, and when president trump found out about the fbi running that investigation into what russia did and the possible involvement of him and his campaign, the president fired the head of the fbi. he fired james comey. presidents, of course, are allowed to fire the fbi director or any other presidential appointee. but theyre not allowed to do it for the corrupt purpose of stopping ...

Management. come to socal and learn the facts and help the victims. so the president is showing gross mismanagement of the fires, and is fire thinning has nothing to do with it. these fires have been fueled by historic drought and heavy winds. despite the presidents attempt to pin the blame on california officials, state records make clear that the majority of the largest fires across california over the past 20 years have happened on federally managed land. so why is the president saying all of...

Unfolds. were talking about a country that may have 30 to 60 nuclear bombs. >> and the president keeps saying the sanctions will stay in place and the north koreans are saying you have to start easing sanctions before we take some steps. >> and they stopped fighting in 1953. that would remove some. pretext for international sanctions. russia and china who border north korea are complicating process. they believe north korea should be rewarded for having agreed to give up its program, even though...