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Capitol hill, on the street, and to fall on both coasts. the president is a racist, a, and this has been going on for 18 months, at some point they have to understand that this is a larger conversation than what the president tweeted this morning. >> bret: obviously we can play a lot of sound bites of maxine waters and people saying the stability thing, and saying what they said before, we can do that all day. we do it sometimes on the panel. matthew, and we often look through things through a p...

Kavanaugh, some of the emotion, it is a heated time in our society. there is no question about it. you can have a political dialogue without assuming that the other person is an enemy to our country. whether the other person is a bad person that would like to destroy our country. we have crossed a line, i think, where if you are on the opposite side of the political prism, the assumption is that you are actually a bad person. it didnt used to be that way. we see it played out. look at steve scal...

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Which it never really was. ♪ ♪ >> anthony: born and bred near here? >> roger: yeah, a couple hundred miles east, not far. >> anthony: thats considered close around here. >> roger: close. the forest still makes me uneasy. surrounded by trees, i get uneasy because i cant see. i cant see far enough. >> anthony: now, i guess unlike a lot of texans who take a rather romantic view of those early days, you seem to view it in a darker prism. >> roger: it is dark. the story of texas can get a little ...

Skill, any good things about my character, any good characteristics i have, all the important lessons of my life ive learned as a dishwasher or as a cook, and im always going to look at the world through that prism.

>> lets explore that and the domestic political element. were 17 days out from the midterm election, and everything is seen through the prism as we get closer to november 6th. does this conflict within the party? we heard from bob corker, from lindsey graham saying it doesnt carry water, its less than credible, and other republicans on the saudi statement. does that conflict with the president cause a big enough problem that it could interrupt or disturb the presidents narrative of immigration, ...

You can recognize saudi arabia is the central banker of oil for the world. theres a long security relationship with the united states. you have to make clear it is not all right to lure somebody, an american resident into your consulate and chop him up into pieces. that is simply not you know civilized behavior in 2018, particularly not for a government that wants to see itself as reformist. i think the president has gotten himself into a trap where he views foreign policy almost entirely throug...

Washington week on pbs. bob, what does it signal to you the senate will no longer receive intel on this case? >> it tells you this is a white house that wants to dictate its own foreign policy, manage the whole situation with saudi arabia. president trump is telling his top advisers, as we detailed in "the post" today, the u.s./saudi relationship with critical and those senators like corker from tennessee, retiring, republican, wants more information. the white house thinks theres too much on th...

To do this job as long as he wants me to do this job, rosenstein said. you serve at the pleasure of the president and theres never been ambiguity about that in my mind. but he has multiple constituencies. one obviously the president. he talks to him through the interview but the other is the justice department and like fbi directors before him, like ray, like comey, too, theyve defended their bureaucracies. theyve defended the career people. its important to view rod rosensteins comments through...

Who are our best allies, our best partners and our biggest threats. we have china, russia, north korea and iran as our biggest threats and is saudi arabia a partner to us or an enemy for us? through that prism, we had to analyze what happened in turkey but also what saudi arabias role was. >> harris: you get a lot of pushback even in your own political party, congressman wilson was on with me yesterday talking about what could possibly play if saudi arabia played a role. you know the history, ma...