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Inputs into that decision, all the appropriate agencies, the perspectives, that you do this in a coherent way, that you try to anticipate problems, and most importantly, and i would say this to my staff all the time, about 30% of the job is getting the right policy decisions, about 70% of it is implementation. most importantly, do you have an implementation plan, in both of the cases you outlined, both the national security advisor -- and by the way real structural and important issues would hav...

All the perspectives. mostly about 30% of the job is getting the right policy decision, about 70% of it is implementation. most importantly that you have an implementation plan. i think in most cases you outlined, the travel ban at the beginning of the administration, and certainly a number of these decisions which have been taken with respect to china and economics, by the way, which were real important structural issues, certainly could have been implemented better and we would have had better...

Making their way through new mexico to get to the u.s. around this time of year. its not clear that the national guard will actually do much to stem that tide. and it seems like he has lashed out after watching something on fox news and thats a regular occurrence for this administration. the prosecution and defense teams in bill cosbys sexual trial have selected their jury. the jury will consistent of seven men and 5 women. widespread impact of the "me too" movement have made the selection pro...

Then when they were turned down for said loan, its possible that jared kushner advised the u.s. government to essentially apply the force of the american state against the qataris as a kind of punishment. this is like -- this is corruption not just sort of, you know, im on getting a condo deal. this is losing sight of what american interests are on behalf of whoever is paying your paycheck. >> yeah. people will die because of it. >> 100%. its corruption on an epic scale. and the scenario you jus...

The eve of the first sentencing. the special counsel robert mueller is looking into long time trump ally roger stones 2016 claim that he met with the wikileaks founder julian assange. >> theyre reporting that in august of 2016, julian assange sent an e-mail to sam nunberg who as we know was his former campaign adviser to the trump campaign. in it, the "wall street journal" says that this e-mail he said that roger stone said, i quote, i dined with julian assange. >> this is from roger stone to nu...

That there was something that was going on. what the full extent of the information he has with regards to gates and contacts with the rup russians, i think will have to be determined, either upon sentencing or as part of the mueller investigation. >> whats your reaction, mr. secretary, to president trumps decision to invite vladimir putin to come to the white house and the fact that we only learned about this invitation from the russians? >> well, i -- i have a lot of concern when the president...

Case? there was bias going on there. shrug their shoulders and say that guy is out of there right now. hes had no influence on what bob mueller is doing. you say what? >> we dont want to interfere with robert muellers investigation. we want to make sure that the fbi regains its reputation as the premier law enforcement agency of the nation and the world. we want to make sure that when we go into the 2020 election sickle, some of the things encountered in 2016 are not repeated with accusations an...

Saying a country can intervene in your election process. america, a huge country, country number with the most powerful country in the world, thats simply impossible. >> reporter: we will get at the truth of all this, but to do that, we need to go back to the final days of the country vladimir putin loved. >> i think that down deep in putin, there is this sense of extraordinary humiliation over the collapse of the soviet union. because it wasnt just the soviet union, it was the russian empire. [...

Investigation, collusion. thats not going to be found, more than likely. but you have obstruction of justice where there are some pieces that look like it could possibly be. we dont know what mueller has. if they go into those trump organization e-mails or what have you and for a lawyer to take out a home equity line of credit for $130,000, thats a lot, just before an election? this could be the last nail in the coffin. stormy daniels is causing stormy weather. and im not talking about cabin in ...

Talk to kings and emperors and tyrants regardless of whether or not they were elected with any kind of democratic process or not. so i think the president has a right to talk to putin and to obviously see if there are areas that they can agree with. i guess my concern would be that if youre talking to putin, i also think its important to be straightforward and honest with putin. he is somebody that you have to be very straight with and if you try to cater to him, he will take advantage of it. so...