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White house, i always tried to think what is the simplest question i can ask and not try to be too complicated. for example, i was the one who asked president bush, do you trust this man, pointing to putin? bush was kind of flabbergasted by such a simple question. >> the president of the united states. >> dana: i will hold you there there. thank you. president trump and president sauli niinisto, marking 100 years of diplomatic relations between our two countries. lets listen in. >> president tru...

$50,000 a month no so job nothing to see here. move along. >> hunter biden receiving $50,000 a month from a ukrainian energy company, do you think that that is evidence of corrupt behavio behavior? >> no. people sit on boards and they get monetary payments and what the evidence actually shows is that the ukrainians looked into this, terminated the investigation. found nothing there. >> tucker: um-huh, yeah. thats not corrupt at all. but asking about it is an impeachable offense. is that really t...

$50,000 a month no so job nothing to see here. move along. >> hunter biden receiving $50,000 a month from a ukrainian energy company, do you think that that is evidence of corrupt behavior? >> no. people sit on boards and they get monetary payments and what the evidence actually shows is that the ukrainians looked into this, terminated the investigation. found nothing there. >> tucker: uh-huh, yeah. thats not corrupt at all. but asking about it is an impeachable offense. is that really the story...

Tease. the president has not asked the attorney general. we are going to need to parse every word of that and hear from the attorney general again as to, was there a suggestion made? as we saw on the call with ukraine, a question does not have to be explicit. you know, its hard to give the attorney general the benefit of the doubt at this point given everything we know about how the president regards the role of attorney general. and his almost skiquirrely nnsq. the president ought not to be med...

The courts to rule in. they could take this to the courts, but it could literally be months, if not years until we see what this complaint actually is. >> that seems to be part of the administrations strategy. drag it out. >> michael zeldin, simple question, but i think an important one. if you were the first reporter to get called on in the press conference today, what would you ask the president about all of this? >> what did he say to this foreign leader that may have triggered the determinat...

It is also important that we stop seeing religion used as a kind of cudgel, as god belonging to a political party, and if he did, i couldnt imagine it would be the one of the current president is supporting. >> brian: okay, lets not use it but lets just meant mention it. so what is the holy man at pete buttigieg up to lately? last week he gave a speech where he promised easy abortions for all. >> when i am president, we are going to do more than just stop policies pushing us backward, we are goi...

Pro-growth throughout the globe. and once you start hacking away at them, in many case, the supply chains took many years, decades to develop, youre going to hurt global growth. you i dont think the trade war thus far has been recessionary to the point that i can forecast any further than economists can see around the next corner. but they certainly have raised prices and hurt growth. >> jared bernstein, good to talk tao you. thanks for joining me as always. since the trade war with china is not...

Op-ed writer for "the new york times" and ben howell author of "the immoral majority: why evangelicals chose political power over christian values." welcome to both of you. thank you for being here. ben, simple question. the president says things that are provably wrong. this is just an example, the conversation i had with jared. but there are a lot of things like that. it doesnt seem to matter so some people. his base remains solid. why? why does endlessly lying about things that actually matte...

With us for the conversation. frank, simple question who wants to share information with us after this? >> this is the greatest concern is that whether he is doing in deliberately or not, the president may be dismantling our allies relationship within the five eyes. and i cannot emphasize enough, brian how essential it is to have friends in the world. friends who have our back and we have their back and understand the relationship is that we dont spy on each other in in packet of countries and w...

World intelligence community about exposure of sources and methods while potentially putting the cia on a collision course with our own justice department. the directive may impact how we work with our allies, the so-called collection of five eyes, you just heard a moment ago refers to the agreement between australia, canada, new zealand, uk and u.s. the best of friends at least they were to share intelligence. this is how one former fbi official described what information getting into the wrong...