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Home and im so glad that he did. im super excited that shes free and able to spend the time with her family. >> that was the brother of paul whelan on with my colleague andrea mitchell earlier today on msnbc. talking about his brother, who is still being held in russia. we have also in this program covered the plight of marc fogel, hes a teacher, he -- he too is still detained. to kevins point, so are a lot of americans around the world. youve been part of these efforts to free americans, it is ...

Recertify or scrap it or come up with another solution, and he was really angry, and they rewrote the talking points, did it late in the day. its a midnight deadline. its always been a state department function since the deal was agreed to, and he basically said were taking it away. then this compromise was come up with reluctantly. theyre going to throw it up to congress. congress does not want to deal with this other than tom cotton and a few others. they will have 60 days to do something. the...

Casey cas case i am the leader. trump is not reliable. trump is invited to bastille day the following week. there are tensions there. >> we dont have an ambassador in germany. we will see if that happens or not this week. not having a house is emblematic in the different way of grenfell tower being emblematic. that is a state department function. >> if you cannot fill the positions, you cannot influence policy. those are the nuts and bolts abroad. >> so, nicky woolf, i wont try to explain it. it...

Legally. they sent a message. they dont care in the white house. they think that any time the media hyperconvenient at this lats and the democrats weanies complain about it. the more is the better. >> you dont have to hyperconvenient at this late. this is all calm. it smacks of a very authoritarian outlook toward government. kellyanne conway says hey, why arent you firing people who said bad things about donald trump and predicted he would lose in the media. you have this attorney general doesnt...

The team is that assistant secretary level a counter-terrorism security group at the white house, those options are discussed. at that convening of the csg, that decision is recommended or not recommended to the deputies committee. it is not solely a state department function or authority to launch the foreign emergency support team even though we are one part of it. >> i thank the gentleman. we now go to the gentleman from oklahoma. >> thank you. more hicks, when you arrived in july, did the fa...

There. thats a state department function, not cia. when the thing went bad we had this am bass do, bilingual in arabic, he shouldnt have been there. that was the problem. but -- characterized the mob was minutiae for good next sakes. libya is a mess. theres no government, no army. its not a success. probably better than having that monster gadhafi and his family in charge of it. but thats the problem. they have to get their eyesight up. weve got a war in afghanistan going thats running us $6 bil...

Completely enough that there will not be significant loss of life in the face of this huge storm. in addition to the winds, the storm could bring as much as a foot and a half or more of rainfall in some areas. so this is a big one. the other thing we are keyed into this friday night is that i have just had my first interview ever with hillary clinton. the democratic presidential front-runner. i should confess that i did shake her hand once and i said hello once at a state department function yea...

Rainfall in some areas. so this is a big one. the other thing we are keyed into this friday night is that i have just had my first interview ever with hillary clinton. the democratic presidential front-runner. i should confess that i did shake her hand once and i said hello once at a state department function years ago where i had no idea what i was doing there. but apart from that "hello, madam secretary" and shaking her hand today was the first time that i have ever met secretary clinton and i...