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Not like some of the behaviors by the trump administration. hes the head of national intelligence. he was caught off guard at the aspen institute and he did not know of this purging. coats is expendable unlike mattis, who i think would be a disaster if he left. i think its time. >> stand by. well talk more about clearances. when we come back, no sign of a verdict from jury in the paul manafort try. the first trial to come out of mueller investigation. the president is already trying to defend hi...

Nothing less than a loud mouth, partisan, political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country. the president did not spell out what mistakes he was referring to or why he thought brennan would go down as the worst cia direct ner history. brennan is fighting back, however. >> hes drunk on power. he really is, and i think hes abusing the powers of that office. >> dozens of brennans former colleagues have hit back this weekend, and theyre taking the unprecedented step of speaking o...

Political speech there. a leaked proposal outlines a detailed plan to take over the internet by regulating digital platforms and purging content they deem harmful or inaccurate. in other words, information they dont like. they would require social media users to be tracked and labeled according to how reasonable their content is deemed to be. democrat senator chris murphy even hinted at this yesterday, tweeting, info wars is the tip of the giant iceberg of hate and lies that uses facebook and yo...

All media people. you dont have that when you are 17. you stand up in class and say whatever you want. when we were all teenagers there was no -- >> it wasnt acceptable for us -- >> where did these people grow up? in an environment where they werent exposed to differences of opinion? peoples opinions change when they meet other types of people in the world maybe i had this wrong. maybe my group of friends was wrong about this? >> a major lesson. you have to be very careful about what you say. >>...

Together. this is the group. in the back is president trump walking next to turkish president erdogan, authoritarian dictator, accused of all sorts of violations, trying to change turkeys constitution, giving himself vast powers, arresting political opponents and purging them from their jobs. jailing dozens of journalists, could go on and on. was that purposeful message to choose to walk with erdogan? >> likely yes. i think thats trumps comfort level, to be around what he perceives as strong men...

Anything. thats disturbing because you can imagine how this can be applied in other areas. this seems to be a rubber stamp supreme court when it comes to the presidents most odious and ugly discriminatory impulses. >> theres something else this court has done which it has struck down lower courts block rarejudicial redistricting plans including in the texas case. theyve also upheld ohios purging of people from the voter rolls. again, those were similar people on both sides of those issues in ter...

This is about values, not about a change in policies. >> i was ablazed at this purging. fdr didnt defend joseph stalin on the purges and that kind of stuff. this guy is purging people in his own party. he punched mark sanford the other night and said youre out and it worked. >> president trump was always about a cultive personality. people arent scared about president trump as much as his voters which are having massive amounts of people, millions of people who voted for trump because they saw t...

Despite that no one was ever charged, and in fact one union member connected to the cheating appears to be still employed by the faa. michael pearson is a former air traffic controller, hes an tion surunding the faaolved in hiring practices. he joins us tonight. michael pearson, thanks for coming on. this is such a strong allegation, how do you know that its absolutely true. >> i have been involved in this sense it actually began compass as i with the purging of the folks that were watching your...

And leaflets darn near forever. >> thats right. this is a big meeting for president trump. this is a huge meeting for the north korean leader. they completely control internal commations information. they started putting out information about the united states meeting with pompeos second trip to north korea, and now theyre constructing the narrative. and the narrative is, as rachel said, the world coming to meet the north korean leader because he is now a nuclear weapons state. and that is the d...

They are working together on a joint statement of understanding of some sort. now whether or not that statement actually happens between the two sides and whether or not president trump sticks brecides to walk away from it like he did the statement of the g-7 summit in canada is still up in the air. >> kaitlin collins in singapore. thank you. shell be back litter. will ripley is also in singapore and been to north korea 18 times over the past few years and he knows the country better than almo...