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>> this is an obama-like decision. i hope i am wrong and i dont think i am and i have no understanding why we are doing this. is an ill-conceived idea that -- the downside is really great and the upside is pretty small. >> the warnings are dire that russia and iran and hezbollah, those guys are celebrating today and bizarre also too. >> my colleagues call this an obama like decision. i couldnt disagree more and couldnt agree more with the presidents decision. by definition this is the opposite o...

I hope im wrong, but i dont think i am, to me, it is an ill ill-conceived idea, the upside is pretty small. >> the warnings are dire. what do you make of it? >> they call this an obama-like decision, i couldnt agree more with the presidents decision. this is the opposite of an obama decision. trump has gotten involved. congress has never declared war, we shouldnt be there anyway. >> president obama got in a lot of heat, a lot of criticism, for telegraphing when we were going to leave, what that ...

Interest of the united states, one of the concerns i had from the outset with syria, federal officials with the obama administration could never give me a straight answer, what is our objective. are we trying to oust assad? what is our objective there? they couldnt answer that, and congress never authorized it. thats why i applaud president trumps decision. >> shannon: do think we have fully defeated isis? >> if the president said that, i believe it. he has more access to intel. i think you made...

What they call relevant conduct. and theres a lot of bad relevant conduct. the judge is saying wait a minute, he didnt get charged with turkey and all of these other offenses. he got a sweetheart deal over here. theres all of this relevant conduct where i can do an upward departure where typically what we would do -- in fact im doing it now in federal court is ask for an 11c1 plea which says judge this is the recommendation the prosecution and defense agree to, if you accept the plea, you cant g...

Is the possibility the lesson to be learned is, you dont have to be one of the people mentioned years in advance. you can roll in at the last minute and have a lot of buzz and actually beat everybody else. >> and leah, when you look at polling, there was so much in o introspection, so much reev reevaluation of the way we poll. what do numbers like this mean? what is that telegraphing to you, other scholars and public policy about the contours of this race? >> so, there are a couple of different ...

House. they only need a simple majority. you can have every democrat in the house now vote against it and it still passes. >> lisa: the republican caucus a split on this and -- >> jason: they already passed it. >> marie: you can criticize her for a lot of things, she does that count votes. doesnt make claims about will also say, she isnt worried about the speakership. it is should be. shes not there yet. >> marie: im telling you, she is much less -- >> jason: we will see on january 3rd. >> harri...

>> for those playing the parlor game, the president saying hes going to announce his new chief of staff in a couple of days it could be on an interim basis. you dont often have to wonder what the president is thinking because he tells us. he rarely uses extra words when he doesnt need to. if hes telegraphing something perhaps theres a reason and to think about that. alison will be asking about th that. one name that we have not heard in the past week or so as part of the staff shakeup is kierste...

The chinese said a deal could be in the works here. what looked like a horrific month for the dow before wednesdays big turn-around with the federal reserve move to hint that interest rates could stay where they are for a while, removing that uncertainty. the dow was up 600 and added to that since that time. all the averages finishing up on the month and notice positive for the year. a lot of this is telegraphing optimism might take place tomorrow night. you never know. in alaska, theyre not too...

Stone, are being brave to stand up to mueller. we interviewed corsi, hes telling the special counsel "stick it." he was offered a plea deal to plead guilty to lying to the fbi and hes saying i didnt lie and you can prosecute me, you can put me jail. >> you think, though, that donald trump saying theyre brave is more than just an opinion about their personal courage? >> it could be a signal to hang in there, dont cooperate, dont plead guilty and, yes, be on my team and jerome corsi is telegraphin...

It is certainly true that one of the issues the republicans would not allow us to investigate when they were running the committee, and i dont think congress has looked into this at all and i dont know that bob mueller has, is whether the russians had been laundering money through the presidents businesses and this is the financial hold the russians may have. we need to get an answer and tell the american people, yes, its true, no, its not. the american people deserve to know that the president ...