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There must be therein an impulse to speak out, to harry the president criticize longstanding members of the government, people who filled these jobs in civil service and the security side of things. yet is he holding back there? >> taking a step back and the way he responded both on this issue and also with the mueller investigation, it has been to defer to that institution, to tkoeps, the congressional investigations. certainly the last couple of weeks we have seen vice president biden perhaps ...

$2.5 billion. so, to get up to 3.6 billion more dollars is a big, big deal. we think it could push us almost up to 500 miles of new wall next year. we are really accelerating the expansion of the wall effort in part because now we have more dollars available. we also, by the way, brian, have gotten some private property rights through imminent domain and through negotiation that have allowed us to finally break ground. instead of a two year progress to break down. brian: we are talking about nor...

China, trade deal is -- or lack of is a problem. the chinese, you know, keep cheating. keep lying, keep switching positions and all that. so if they did that on trade, how can we deal with them on military issues? >> you raise an interesting question, neil. theyve been doing the same thing on the security side with these islands in the south china sea, rapid modernization. one of the things this president is doing, which is very clever, hes crossed the two electric currents of trade policy and s...

Technical election security side, if you dont have a president committed to nation state deterrence to communicating to other countries that they cant do this, then theres very little that you can do sort of below the presidential level to defend yourself if you dont have that deterrent. >> the report says there was no evidence that actual votes were changed in 2016, but today the director of cyber security at the department of homeland security issued this warning. listen to this. >> to be clea...

Set you on a path to get you in front of an immigration judge. thousands ignored that notice and you are out there. hundreds of thousands of families have come to the border since last december. it is important to close these loopholes. if congress doesnt act in the sense of using asylum laws to protect people and give them relief instead of having them abuse the system by coming into the country and being released and never being heard from again this is a way for the administration itself to c...

Conditions that we just saw on the reports, it is terrible. when youre more than 100% overcapacity in a holding facility that is only designed for people to come in and for the booking process, you take their fingerprints and biographic information and then move them through the system. the system is overwhelmed at every level. >> the -- the president tweeted moments ago these people are living far better now than where they came from and in far safer conditions but when you hear the eyewitness ...

Stage and highlighting what appeared to be a close relationship, building relationship there, and then youve got the close relationship with xi jinping, so im wondering is abe trying to just make sure, hey, dont forget about us, dont forget about me. >> absolutely. thats part of it. and so on the security side, talking about north korea, the potential reunification of the koreas, which is something that both the south right now, the relationship with the south koreans and the japanese is not in ...

The middle of some very awkward situations, both on the economic and the security side, and so its an alliance, but its a very vulnerable one, and so one question is does a public love affair of the sort that president trump seems to like to have, does that trump national interest. and right now the japanese are worried that in a way their prime ministers courting of the president has not produced material gains. president trump is extremely unpopular in japan, not as much as in some european co...

Five years. and ronald reagan finally said make it happen. the votes are not there today. the bottom line here we want security, they want, basically, more access. and until you have some comprehensive plan, youre not going to get that. charles: this is not going to go on forever. handy cam how -- handicap how we come to a solution. >> a lot of things need to happen. the only problem with daca is you create a system in which you let the young people in but their parents dont get the right of cit...

Inspector general and the state department who noted that people in both the security side and the record-keeping side of the state department raised legitimate questions that were essentially brushed away by her inner circle. i am certain that as this goes forward were going to probably hear of similar questions being raised and in the executive branch more generally. to phils point about whether were seeing risk to classified information, but also just alluding and evading the basic record kee...