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A isis fighter in iraq. reused to rank for posing with the fighters dead body. president trump signed an order on friday restoring his rank. have you heard about mattel trying to take the politics out of your thanksgiving gathering. the company releasing a nonpartisan version of the card game uno without the red or blue cards. the toy maker says no red or blue cards means no taking sides. instead they will be orange and purple. 40% admit that opposing political views cause problems for their fam...

To white house press secretary sara sanders on the very basic question, is michael cohen still president trumps attorney. >> i know that the president is working with him as a personal attorney. beyond that i dont have anything else to add. >> about the development -- >> how could there not be an answer to that question? that seems basic. >> let me answer it for you or play sara sanders. how could you remain the personal lawyer for the president of the united states when you are under criminal i...

Of people. we dont know exactly how many and that, again, is the purpose of the investigation. we keep getting material thats redacted that has names in it that are blocked out and we need that material unredacted so we can find out the extent of what was going on in 2016 when the fbi in an astonishing manner conducted one investigation with regard to one presidential candidate, and bent over backwards not to prosecute her, and then launched another investigation where they definitely were leani...

Was a break in the two sentences. the president talked about the threat. he paused and then he talked about the fire and fury. people will hear what they want to hear. i didnt see it as a red line. i saw it as a strong message to the regime in pyongyang that they dont want to pick a fight with the united states because it will end badly for them. thats an important message to send. its more than we saw from the last administration on this. >> fascinating. thank you very much. appreciate it. i do...

The divisiveness started not now. it started probably around 1994, quite frankly. those of us who have been in washington a long time. >> im going to start with slavery. you can start there but well probably start with divisiveness around slavery. >> thats when the discord in washington became really bad. theres two big changes. one is because of social media, everybody now owns a tv station. they can distribute their message very wide ranging. thats one big change. the other big change we have ...

Arch rival in the region. we saw that last month when president trump visited saudi arabia and talked about this coalition against iran. kuwait is trying to mediate this rift, trying to bring the two sides together, also u.s. diplomats not wanting to be seen taking sides, also offered their support to help mediate this rift, christine. >> thank you so much for that again. >> the death toll nearly doubling from last weeks suicide plast in afghanistan t. countrys president says more than 150 peopl...

>> look, the mayor has been accused of taking sides, certainly. the politics arent wild about him. thats what im reading all the time. thats what people are saying and that they think -- he turned their back on him. people come out showing support for the police. thats a protest. maybe the american people understand we appreciate what the police officers do. why in the world would you put a lid on that? why would you even wait for that if the people want to speak favorably to these police office...

Im hoping they will turn the volume down. >> im hoping that -- look, the mayors been accused of taking sides, the police arent wild about him, thats what im reading all the time. i am wondering if by no protests, he doesnt want prayer vigil. why in the world would you put a lid on that? why even wait for that if people want to speak favorably about the police officers. >> i think hes really talking about the protests of the eric garner case more than anything else. but not trying to defend the m...

Factions can try to form a coalition, a ruling coalition, and you can see where some of the kurds, some sunnies and some of the splinter shiite groups could get together and try to kick maliki out. but they tried that before and he is a tough guy to have stayed in power that long in that country, says something about him. >> do you wonder if we will be seep, given the action taken by the white house and beyond, if well be seen as siding with the shiites in the middle of this, that sunnies and ot...

Sort of assess whether or not the training that we gave the iraqi military for eight years has taken hold, if they can effectively function as a military service. the problem with that, it seems to me as the mission, is it will be seen by the sunnis as our taking sides against them in a sectarian conflict, something which others on your show have already spoken to earlier today and in other days. >> so what advice would you give in. >> the extent to which were in there at all, it should be stric...