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Yelling kidnapper. its out of hand. you have members of congress -- theyre going to dig their heels in and yell and scream and vote against anybody the president picks. theres eight states where democrats are running for the u.s. senate where president trump won by between 20 and 40 points. so if they want to yell and scream and say they hit everything about trump and theyre not going to do anything and not listen to anything republicans have to say, their voters might think otherwise in novembe...

Want to get your reaction to something secretary of state mike pompeo said earlier today. lets listen to this. >> im not going to get into any of the details of the discussions weve had to date. i can only say this. we are prepared to take what will be secured assurances than has been provided necessary. we think this is necessary and appropriate. >> security a urns shoulds that are unique that have been provided that america has been willing to provide previously. ambassador hill, what does tha...

Tell him said that today. all these documents are relevant because they go to what his relationship was with the russians, what his relationship was with turkey. did they vet for the highest security position. we dont know. >> reporter: at the white house, spokesman sean spicer said the obama administration was to blame for providing the security clearance for flynn in 2016 and pushed back in coming attacks. >> all of that clearance was made by the obama administration and apparently with knowle...

Those calls or having those conversations that would have been a first grave error if he crossed lines and lying to the vice president if thats what happened and allowing the vice president to defend you on the sunday shows and other places. here is what senate armed services committee chair senator john mccain has to say this morning. general flynns resignation is a troubling ind indication of the reflection on the security apparatus. >> the commander is responsible for everything his troops do...

All lobbyists off the transition team. mike rogers, whos a former fbi agent and house intel committee chairman was thought to be near the top of the list for security position like cia director, but he announced he was handing off his duties. sources tell nbc news rogers departure was part of a stalinesque purge aimed at ousting christie and his allies. emerging fiefdoms have complicated things, then concerns about rudy giuliani. politico reports he was paid to do consulting work for foreign gov...

Woman was driving a car that contained a gas canister that israeli officials believed was an attempted explosive device, perhaps an improvised explosive device. so there is no doubt that over the course of the last several weeks and days theres been a steady increase of pressure. what weve seen on the ground today as a result of the israeli government security position is that they wanted to beef up security. they have for the first time in my recent recollection -- ive been covering this confli...

Theyre tearing through everything hes got. theyre looking at social media and includes. my gut feeling is that unless we adopted a security position that we just really wasnt to sustain, then we wouldnt have stopped this. theres a trade-off. you have to find that point on the spectrum between civil liberties, privacy. were facing more and more threats as a result of rise of isis and capture of actual physical manifestation of caliphate. that is the primary reason why were seeing increase in thei...

This weened and they want to sneak a nuclear weapon over the southern border of this country so you cant take that lightly -- >> the president right now with loretta lynch in the white house is talking about a lot of these provisions. the president coming up with a back-up plan. monitoring closely how to deal with that. do you think rand paul has put us in a compromised security position as a result? >> well hopefully rand paul wont prevail, that the senate will do what it must do which is to ke...

Parts of the west bank of jewish settlers from there, too, but it wasnt that sharon was really focused on making quick peace with the palestinians. he was much more concerned with israels security. and he believed that to guarantee israels security in the future, they were going to have to make what he called painful concessions, which is a phrase that israeli prime ministers after him kept using. he kept saying painful concessio concessions. what sharon would have done, he would have moved out ...

Tehran. thats why they have been trying for four and a half years to negotiate with it. i think its going to leave the united states and our friends like israel and the middle east in a gravely weakened security position. >> success, yes or no? >> no success from the american point of view. i think in iran, theyre getting ready for the victory parade. >> u.s. ambassador john bolton. 48 hours and the talks begin. as always, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. we have some extreme weather to...