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>> political satire. crazy characters. sketches. it was anything that was fun, that you wanted to try, that a network would never put on. >> i would like to welcome my first guest, jessica chastain. >> jessica chastain. >> with "between two ferns" you had a program that its a send-up of talk shows so, its a satire of talk shows. >> were interested in the work youve been doing down in haiti. tell us a little bit about that. is there a six flags down there? >> theres not, no. >> we can move on. >>...

Over the country who look at it and say see once again the president is right and everybody out here is fake media and everybody in this room is trying to do their job. >> i disagree completely. if anything has been inflamed, it is the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media. >> charlie pierce was a vicarious and thrilling moment for every journalist in america. >> it absolutely was. and the better part of it for me was watching sarah huckabee sanders flub dub her way in the general ...

Incidentally collect ed so ther are certain things that have to be met into foreign intelligence products. if something else happens -- it appears there were things that maybe they didnt meet the minimum qualifies. there are things to me that dont reach the level of foreign intelligence value. and if thats the case, you have to ask yourself why did those end up in reports? >> just to clarify, this is not intentional spying on donald trump or anybody in his -- >> i have no idea. we wont know that...

And so theres certain thresholds that have to be met to make it into foreign intelligence products. if something else happened where it looked -- it appears to me like there were things that maybe they didnt meet the minimum qualifications, i dont know. but there are things to me that dont meet the level of foreign intelligence value. if thats the case, you have to ask yourself, why did those end up in reports? >> just to clarify, this is not intentional spying on donald trump or anybody in his ...

To wait until that unfolds. this is not the first time a foreign government has attempted to influence american elections, beginning in the 19th century, but we saw the iranians, for example, hold off release of the hostages, until president reagan was inaugurated, obviously, trying to send their own message. so, if we sit back and presume, in a naive way, that foreign countries dont want to influence the united states, dont want to influence events in their favor, and dont want to pursue their ...

Rided, they have called for recounts they have threatened the electoral college people. they have blamed russia. they have blamed fake news. now they are trying to disrupt the inauguration. shouldnt you guys start focusing on winning instead of whining? >> well, thats a nice send up but its not -- >> -- thank you. >> what im observing. here in washington, what im observing is senator tammy baldwin of wisconsin, senator sherrod brown of ohio, senator tab no senator stf michigan signing letters to...

He is good at finding them. he had a show all about it. >> matt and jason, thank you so much. when i was looking at previous appointments, even president obama selected a billionaire entrepreneur as secretary of commerce. >> a lot of rich people who end up serving in government right now. not sure its so uncharacteristic. >> i dont know if america cares or not. i dont know. well see. by the way, the effort to clean up that presidential election not taking a holiday, jill stein joins us next to...

Relying on trying to target senior members of the organization to try to disrupt it and degrade it. we saw one of the major propaganda voices of the organization and in the past several months going after the chief finacier of the organization. unless youre going after it on the ground, it seems right now that the air strike has done little to deter isis. >> you reported on the region for years. youve been around the sort of terrain there. is there way to imagine an effective military campaign t...

Some of these vacuums. for now the u.s. has been relying on trying to target senior members of the organization to try to disrupt it and degrade it. we saw one of the major propaganda voices of the organization and in the past several months going after the chief finacier of the organization. unless youre going after it on the ground, it seems right now that the air strike has done little to deter isis. >> you reported on the region for years. youve been around the sort of terrain there. is ther...

>> correct. >> and did you have any trouble in the initial arrangements for this foster care? >> no. once we were able to get legally married, we were able to obtain a foster care license. and that has been really smooth and easy. >> and april, what about in your neighborhood. were your neighbors hostile at all towards you about this? >> oh, no, not at all. weve never had any sort of hostility or discrimination in our neighborhood. this is the first time. >> and becky, why did this end up in cou...