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>> yeah. i mean, one thing to say that you have to remember china is very different from japan because there are so many chinese. they dont have to be as productive as we are to become the worlds largest economy. so by some measures they already are. but they are also having a lot of problems. the chinese model, it really does seem to be coming apart at the seams right now. and the u.s., look, america has been, at least it is a very -- i think our openness, our openness to different pe...

With that? >> as with so many things, the devil is in the details. theres often, in these statutes, broad room for interpretation. what actually counts as an urgent concern really depends on how were looking at it, the context. i think going forward, one of the things we need to think about is the national security implications of what the whistle-blowers complaint has brought forward. at least in the view of the whistle-blower, this was enough to warrant making a complaint and taking this and e...

Did not say what we clearly heard them say. >> mr. president, did you talk to your intelligence chiefs today about the displeasure you had with their testimony? >> i did. and they said that they were totally misquoted, and it was taken out of context. what i do, i suggested you call them. they said it was fake news. >> okay. set aside for a moment the likelihood of the intelligence chiefs calling anything fake news, which we know is the presidents pet name for any coverage he deems to be negativ...

Ana. we have claims from the turks coming mostly through unofficial sources or secondhand reporting, but some claims from the turks about things like that, some details about who moved when and what they knew at the time. weve got information coming from the saudis that sound different. and we dont know who to believe here because everybody has an interest in this. former cia director mike hayden said it really well on chris cuomo the other night when he said information coming into the intellig...