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Question worth exploring down a little on because my sense is that there were two different perspectives on this. one was, well, we cant do anything until we get the word from the white house to do something. and the white house, as was already mentioned, was preoccupied on other things. and then caught up and said why havent you done this? and i think its a lack of understanding given the preparation that we already knew should have been in place that no one really appreciated, we really do hav...

Trump, campaigned on this all the time that he was going to be a nonconventionalist. is this a shift that were seeing where donald trump is becoming more of a traditional republican hawk? >> reporter: yeah, i think based on our reporting, the president campaigned on his america first foreign policy. that said, i think those outside the administration might want to see more points of evidence before connecting those dots. in this particular situation, as you heard courtney talk about, this is som...

Obviously he did. >> did we get any clarity from the white house whether russia was complicit in the chemical weapons attack? >> reporter: the white house is saying there is no consensus that russia knew ahead of the attack, but what they were clear on is that russia essentially tried to cover up for syria, they tried to cover up for al assad and for his cruelty, so theyre beginning to put pressure on russia to warn russia that you are basically in bed with the wrong partner on this. it was inte...

You are confronted with those horrific pictures of chemical attacks on civilian and you, as the president of the united states, have the ability to do something about it, obviously he did. >> did we get any further clarity from the white house today as to whether or not russia was, in fact, complicit in the chemical weapons attack? >> reporter: we did not get a good answer on that. the administration is basically saying there was no consensus within the intelligence community that russia knew ah...

Wont fight isis. and at the same time, allow some kind of way forward here for sunni to at least begin to put back the building blocks in that region. radicalization is not in europe or our interest either. >> were just getting word from our senior white house correspondent from jeff zeleny. he had a briefing at the white house. senior administration official telling him and im quoting this official now, i think its clear the russians are trying to cover up what happened there. we do think that ...

To cover up a chemical attack here. now, this u.s. official speaking on background did stop short of saying that russia had to, quote, foreknowledge or knew in advance of the chemical attack a week ago to set off the series of events that led to the military strikes last thursday. they do believe russia has been engaging in a cover up of chemical weapons overall here over the last couple of years. let me read directly from the senior administration officials who said i think its clear that the r...

Purchasing power, a lot of questions about the 35 to 45% border tax that the president-elect is doing a fair amount of tweeting about. could you tell the american people what products would be subject to this tax, and im not interested now in all the complicated theories about the dollar. i think its a question worth talking about and the like, but americans want to know what products would be subject to it? working class people want to know, is gas going to be part of this? give me your respons...

>> you said you were here to help the citizens of the county. that help ended when a peaceful protest became an armed occupation. its time for you to lee our community, go home to your families and end this peacefully. >> with these protesters vowing to stay for the long haul, law enforcement should just wait them out. others beg to differ. they say it would be a different story if the occupiers were muslims, african-americans. great to see you, welcome. >> thanks a lot, brooke, great to be with...

Mohammed ali, bill russell, john carlos, tommy smith, a few of the professional athletes who famously used their sports platform to speak out on important political movements and issues of their day, including civil rights. fast forward a few decades and weve seen a black man elected to the white house. and a black attorney general leading the justice department. weve also seen eric garner, michael brown, tamir rice and other unarmed black men killed by police. and weve watched as thousands of a...

Are saying to one another on the house floor, man, that was a great recitation of "green eggs and ham"? >> if i was his child and had to listen to him tell a bedtime story like that, forget it. id be in therapy my entire life. >> youd be trying to liberate yourself. >> exactly. >> the problem with guys like enzi is the fact that, you know, you ever have somebody whos trying to date a really hot girl but they got to get through the family first. you show up at the door and suck it up to everybody...