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Dwight eisenhower, no radical of heat, a five-star general, two-term republican president. he had one chance to tell the american people as he was riding off into the sunset, and he said the greatest danger we face is democracy is this faction of military and industrial power unelected but permanently exhorting power. there becoming more powerful and all of us a sudden it does matr what choices we as american citizens make. i think actually in the election what you saw was this kind of framework...

That this unelected faction in washington will undermine and subvert his presidency before he has even been inaugurated. i think what youre seeing is actually quite dangerous. there really is its at this point, obvious warfare against this unelected but very powerful faction that resides in washington and sees presidents go on the one hand, and the american democracy who is supposed to be its chief executive. there is clearly extreme conflict and a lot of subversion taking place. >> tucker: so y...

Well known to the public, nor to politicians. a lot of them are very wealthy people. there are a lot of questions about transparency and whether they have completed these ethics inquiries about finances and so forth. you never know whats going to pop up at one of these things. the bottom line, though, is that t because of the structure of the congress, its likely they will pass, but the question is will the democrats try to slow this process down or try to shape the agenda for the trump administ...

Campaign, turn it into a kill box under the justification of were fighting jihad. putin said today, were going after pandits. reminds me of what he said in 1999 when he was prime minister putin and came to power on the back of going after chechen jihadists who he alleged had blown up moscow apartment buildings. this is when he thrives the most, gets tough, pounds his chest and says the russian federation is going to get tough on terror. now, remember, when turkey shot down that russian fighter j...

Its a proxy war and russia is winning. assad recently declared his biggest victory yet when he saw his forces retake aleppo, syrias largest city. the civil war began about six years ago. killed around half a million people and forced millions more from their homes. connor powell in our mideast bu bureau tonight. >> after a week of chaotic efforts, turkish and russian officials say more than 37,000 people have been evacuated from the war torn city and many more are expected to be evacuated the ne...

Syrian civil war relate attack. i think turkeys now seeing fallout of the war in syria which is next door and its involvement in that war. we saw in the past attacks by a kurdish group ppk in turkey including twin suicide bomb attacks in front of a soccer stadium that killed dozens of people. this was by a turkish kurdish group. the way i see it, it was retaliatory against turkeys recent gains against syrian kurds which are allied with the ppk and now were seeing one more fallout effect the syri...

Critical condition with injury asks dehydration. survivors describe chaos on the evacuation buses. a man told ap, children were screaming some people fainted. evacuates in these nearby shiite villages. gunmen torched several buses on the way to the villages yesterday. they were supposed to take hundreds of sick and wounded people to safety. the fall of aleppo into the hands of bashar al-assad forces who are backed by russia and iran is his biggest in the american proxy war there and the civil ...

>> theres a thing building here and it has been for years, ab, the russians went into crimea and took -- the russians are accuse ode of shooting down or at least their weapons accused of shooting down a passenger jet that killed some 300 people. and nothing happened. the russians then are involved with bashar al assad in the murder of hundreds of thousands of people in a proxy war with the united states, and the rebels on site, and the incoming president of the united states seems to be backing ...

Other. tell us how this will affect relations, especially as these are big players in the fight against isis. >> russia and turkey have had really difficult relations since the syrian civil war. turkey backs the rebels, russia backs the assad regime. they were locked in a proxy war and that came to an end when they decided to normalize relation. and we saw russia and turkey coming to a convergence relating to most issues on syria. east aleppo is about to fall into the hands of pro-russian regime...

Murder of 58 civilians at the hands -- and this is the important distinction. we talk about the assad regime or the syrian arab army. in truth there is very little left of the assad regime. this is a proxy war being fought chief baby iran and iranian built militias on the ground including imported afghan and pakistani shia death squads, including iraqi shia militias that are technically now part of the iraqi state security establishment that is said to be an ally and treated as an ally buy the u...