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Administration that are really anti-immigrant, anti-people of color and anti-family. when i say anti-people of color and anti-immigrant, im referring to when president trump showed his hand when he talked about s hole countries and people from africa and haiti and el salvador and saying dont we more people from norway coming to this country. its absurd. its not going to go anywhere. its dead on arrival. it should be. we need to really engage folks on both sides of the aisle and address all the e...

Or speak without acknowledging my role. >> even after that june 2016 meeting, the initial night at the bar, was it may of 2016. how significant is the revelation then? >> it is undeniable he was more than an unimportant part of the campaign and a coffee boy. there are a lot more questions that need to be answered. what i cant stop thinking about is how is this america look on the international stage, decades of state department programs around the world for good governance, democracy, election m...

Campaign. it hardly came up at all, but the attacks, and there have been a few attacks over the last month or two, and they have really brought to home how difficult and how unstable the situation in afghanistan is. you have more than 90 dead, and nine of them were afghan nationals that were working a security guards for the u.s. embassy in kabul, and as you said, 11 u.s. american contractors assigned to the embassy working on various state department programs were among the injured. so this is ...

Tricky, john. >> michelle, the secretary of state oversees traveling behalf of the state department on a day when the president says he wants to cut funding to the state department. >> reporter: right. the funding, we know that its an enormous cut to the state departments budget, its going to be like 37%. then when you look at other programs look usaid, u.n. programs are expected to be cut by 50%. this has raised a lot of consternation among all kinds of people, including members of the military...

>> in recent years there have been>> a whole bunch of state department programs where they funds ngos with the express purpose of influencing the government, the election, who forms the government. judge jeanine: interesting. but shock, shock, that we could do something like this. shaw for your service and thank you for being on "justice with judge jeanine" tonight. house intelligencenk giving the president a monday deadline for proof of wiretapping. will he explain his bombshell. >> gaightss? d...

A prime minister netanyahu in his election. >> right. in recent years theres been a whole bunch of state department programs where they fund ngos in a lot of places. israel as you noted, egypt with the express purpose of influencing the government, the election, who forms the government. judge jeanine: interesting, but shock, shock, that we would do something like this. sam, thank you for your service and thanks for being on "justice" with us tonight. >> thank you. judge jeanine: all right, and ...

On capitol hill back in 2013. >> you dont fund the state department fully, then i need to buy more ammunition ultimately. so i think its a cost benefit ratio. the more that we put into the state departments diplomacy, hopefully the less we have to put into a military budget. >> reporter: the generals and admirals ending their letter with now is not the time to retreat. >> michelle, congress ultimately is going to have to approve what the president proposes. is that likely given those numbers? >>...

Put into a military budget. >> reporter: the generals and admirals ending their letter with now is not the time to retreat. >> michelle, congress ultimately is going to have to approve what the president proposes. is that likely given those numbers? >> reporter: some republicans on the hill say they dont want to respond to this until they see detailed numbers. what came out today was a very preliminary blueprint. you could say there arent too many people on either side of the aisle who wouldnt w...

Facilities. we junction mentioned a official who tells i whenever the u.s. governments receives credible specific non -- information they have a obligation to share the information. and they have no knowledge of any direct connection to the airasia flight what. we have not heard yet is how serious this threat is. he dont know where its coming from or what the specific threat is fred. >> and what about people being discouraged from traveling to that region? is the u.s. state department going as f...

good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." you dont often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he h...