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Is there any there there? >> i think that people are by and large moving on from the issue of whether or not russia interfered with the election because like the election itself, this is largely settled. people understand that russia had involvement in hacking into the dnc. people understand that they wanted donald trump to winners have us hillary clinton whom they saw as more adversarial and beyond that this becomes more background noise into what is going to be an extremely busy period of acti...

Gesture, if he will, to try to make a point na he is trying to at least scale back any potential conflicts. >> absolutely. i any it is a very important point to make in fairness to donald trump, which is that there is no legal obligation for him to divest anything, even control, much less ownership. it is not a legal requirement. there is this issue with the emoluments clause. it is very much a side issue. this is all about appearances. it is not about legal obligations. when you are president o...

Legislation but whats his answer to the pay disparity problem in this country? how is he going to focus on -- im serious. >> the answer is kate upton on the back of a convertible eating a cheeseburger. >> there was a report recently that this is where -- >> donny likes it. >> soi depending on how much influence, maybe she can do good. >> thats where her role needs to be key. she needs to focus on those things. that has to be important. her team and everything she does on that issue, it cant be a...

Ill. we do a lot on this show. >> you think we should have a gun-free zone on a military base, chris is this. >> thats not my call. they did it for a reason. >> whats the reason. >> they have operational security issues they have main tennan an maintenance of firearms. thats something of a side issue. >> when i see gun-free zone, thats a flag for the wackos to come in and start shooting people. thats what i see. >> we have plenty of guns in the country. we have more guns than we do people. its n...

Public officials can say look, we have a large fire in 63-story hotel, well suspend the fireworks so firefighters can do their work, please go home. they had to make calculations. im sure theyll give their reasons. they might have got through with it with nobody else got hurt and it may be a side issue. the major issue, can they get this fire put out without any loss of life? i think thats yet to be seen. >> stay with us. back out to dubai. joining us on the phone is margaret bashir, reporter fo...

Thats the difference. they dont want to deal with that. they want to racialize it and say were the same as one global community. >> and, you know, it reminds me of the syrian refugees is kind of like the side issue and, you know, were not focussed on the reality. let me ask you, doctor. youre a military man, why brussels? what is going on in brussels? is it so easy to hide there be under the radar or dont people care? >> well, its bottom line there are areas in europe in which the government has...

Thats a side issue. its a distraction on a cul-de-sac. the real issue, the failure of the policy against radical islam. >> on the refugee issue, 47 democrats voted on this house bill. thats potential problem for the president. especially if they attach it to the continuing resolution. which funds the government. which runs out december 11th. there, its a potential problem that hes going to be the one thats forcing the government shutdown on this issue of getting syrian refugees into the country....

Answering the question, say that one of the problems with the deal is that it doesnt address chinese manipulation of its currency. the u.n. he says that the u.n. is between 15% and 40% undervalued against the u.s. dollar. this is really an outdated talking point. in the past couple years the chinese have let the currency float a little bit more and it has appreciated against the dollar. the international monetary fund says its basically fairly valued. >> its also important to say that in the tpp...

Holding. they are hoping it does. >> it is so deceiving because it looks like such a beautiful sunny day there, but certainly the threat isnt over. thank you very much. now to one of the biggest political fights right now in washington. who will lead the republican majority? kevin mccarthy is expected to win thursdays gop nomination for house speaker but in the wings are two more candidates for the speakership, specifically jason chaffetz, who has admitted hes unlikely to win the nomination. t...

And worry about that later. as if its a side issue. the point of the obama inviting in the russians first time in half a century, a complete revolution in our position on the russians staying out of the middle east was on the premise theyre going to join a coalition against isis. i was saying last night, the russians have no interest in fighting isis. their only interest is supporting assad. keeping him in place and the reason they are hitting homs, is because its the center of resistance from t...