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North korea you might know staged a second test of an intercontinental ballistic missile friday and the would us response included flying b-1 bombers over the korean peninsula. as well as testing an american missile defense system based in alaska. with the muscle flex came a blunt critique of china. the president on twitter. im very disappointed in china. our foolish past leaders allowed them to make hundreds of billions in trade yet they do nothing with us with north korea. just talk. we will n...

Know, scrutinizing this e-mail exchange, this meeting at trump tower, and this is all going to be part of that. >> sounds like they may want more records than don jr. released yesterday. >> thats right. >> thank you very much. joining me now, joaquin castro of texas, member of both the intelligence and foreign affairs committees. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me, jim. >> congressman, president trump defended his son today by saying his lawyer wasnt working for this -- ...

Beautifully making is that that tweet did not defend him against any of the charges that were being discussed. it really just slapped around a woman based on her appearance. he wasnt defending himself. he was just swiping at her. if he wants to defend himself against the criticisms of "morning joe" or whomever, do that substantively. do it through your white house, your spokespeople. dont go on twitter like a 16-year-old bully in someones basement and take a swap at someones cosmetic surgery rum...

>> as senator. >> he was a career politician. the definition basically of a career politician. the fact that hes now serving in the trump administration doesnt necessarily change that. so this is a guy who has been under fire the last few weeks from within the white house, from within the administration, and from without after the comey testimony last weekend, and what a conventional politician would do under these circumstance, if they feel they have nothing to hide is go out and try to clear t...

More substantively, brexit itself is now in question, as is a lot else in british and european politics because of what ended up being a political fiasco for the conservative party. theresa may is holding on as prime minister now, but by a thumbnail the whole point of this election was to get clarity and to give her a mandate for britain moving forward and brexit leaving the european union. instead, her governmen is weaker and me divided than it was before by a large margin. she said if her part...

Being. nigel farage resigned as the head of ukip less than two weeks after the brexit vote. after the successful brexit vote he pushed for his entire political life. he responded to that great success by quitting. and that was unusual. i should tell you, though in last nights bizarre and interesting national election in the united kingdom, ukip lost every single one of its seats. as of now, nigel farages party, ukips representation in parliament is zero. this follows the vote for brexit, which i...

Going after the mayor of london following the terrorist attacks in that city. now attacking the justice department as well for the revised travel ban that signed calling it watered down politically correct. what do these actions tell you about this president? >> im not so sure it tells you as much substantively as it does about where his head is. he is full of grievance right now. he is full of complaint. he is angry. he is watching morning television and he is complaining. and he is taking the ...

Right? and so theres that to consider. but look, substantively, this could be, you know, a very significant moment where we see what the former fbi directors account really almost recorded in realtime is of multiple, not just one, but multiple conversations with president trump in which he appeared from what the reporting has been to raise explicitly the russia issue in connection with -- asking for the loyalty of his fbi director in which he appeared to ask for lenience of the fbi in the invest...

That theyve taken when it comes to folks like paul manafort or carter page, who are substantively, actual targets, not just people of interest, but targets of this investigation, they say -- they try to minimize the role. manafort played a limited role for a limited amount of time. whether you believe that or not -- i tend not to -- but you cant use that excuse with jared kushner. now, as to this bigger point about, like, the range of explanations for this, i find almost every time when youre lo...

Here, right, the reason that that is true is because they cant put more money in because they want to repeal all the taxes. and if -- >> and they wont replace that. >> and they dont want to play it with new taxes. if it doesnt reduce the deficit, the whole thing is shot, because they need cbo to say it reduces the deficit. >> correct. you of skinny down the subsidies for individuals and that makes it unaffordable for the low income, older people in high cost places. >> how disruptive would this ...