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Cr, they can vote it down. so its weird. youve got a situation inhich youve got almost a functioning kwauzy majority in the house of democrats because of the way the freedom caucus has acted towards this stuff. >> absolutely. and you remember when they sliced off a bit of the bush tax cuts. remember the first deal was, all right, well take everything but a million dollars enough, we still have to have it. the freedom caucus said, no way, no way. guess what, that number came down to $650,000. so ...

Want to stoke or bring it to collapse. but when you look at the other options, you are looking at sanctions, diplomacy, you are looking at some other tools that we have. they look a lot like the options that we have already used in the past. if that is that a challenge. >> jon: the president is leaning on china to help, but north korea has thumbed its nose at china in the past, right? >> two problems they are. china worries about instability on the korean peninsula even the possibility of war wi...

Something to heed. >> ive definitely learned to put an end to any postings on any internet sites. because who knows how people are going to take it. >> sexton was arrested two weeks earlier as posting what prosecutors say was a threatening statement on the internet. and attending a reds versus dodgers game in violation of a ban from the park. and a grand jury just indicted him on felony burglary and facing the prospect of three years in prison if found guilty. sexton says he and his family are g...

Put an end to any postings on any internet sites. because who knows how people are going to take it. >> sexton was arrested two weeks earlier after posting what prosecutors say was a threatening message on the internet, then attending a reds versus dodgers game and receiving a lifetime ban from the park. and a grand jury just indicted him on felony burglary and facing the prospect of three years in prison if found guilty. sexton says he and his family are getting serious about what kind of lawye...

Russia relations going forward. and secondly, it answers questions about what do we think, where is tillerson in terms of putin ovladimir putin t is tillersons role. is he in the loop, how much weight does he carry. those are open questions. >> were getting closer and closer to that 100 day marki an its clear that administration is aware of that. and they have had some blunders, the travel ban, failing youres ev of the travel ban. failure of replacing obamacare. but they have had some success. l...

Way. thats a good role. that you understand why president trump would trust him to be that. but then it does beg the question is, so, is that different from what rex tillerson will be saying to iraq? >> you had john mccain on. he said hes not sure there is a trump doctrine when it comes to foreign policy. if you want a test case projecting forward of why jared kushner might matter, lets put north korea on the table. what is the chain of command? is rex tillerson in the loop? is jared kushner? wh...

President. not as if this is just keeping democrats out of the loop, that would be one thing but none of the committee members have seen this, none of us, democrats or republicans know exactly who he met with or what he saw, we only have his representation. you just cant conduct an investigation that way. we certainly want to get back to the business of serious investigation. we have never stopped our work, not through this, but were not going to stop our work. i do think its important, as i sai...

It is tempting to feel like that investigation is dead and sevd should just pivot away from it and instead rest their hopes on the senate investigation. one person im sure who doesnt believe that, congressman schiff. thank you for joining us. appreciate you being here. >> good to be here. >> what can you do updating us on the status of your committee, the question everybody has on their mind whether or not this investigation is still live in the house of representatives? >> heres the situation a...

Schiff. thank you for joining us. appreciate you being here. >> good to be here. >> what can you do updating us on the status of your committee, the question everybody has on their mind whether or not this investigation is still live in the house of representatives? >> heres the situation and you certainly introduced interest the right way, we cant have a credible investigation if one of the members let alone the chairman is freelancing and cant have an investigation where the chair goes to look...

All of this, its about, okay, will the nsa deliver documents to you as they said you expect them to, and will the democrats on the committee be able to look at these documents. if they can, its still a partisan issue with the house of representatives. not quite like the senate where youre going to get more of a modicum of independence from your party. but if democrats can look at this, they can -- and nunes is right, they can spin it. hes had a lot more to go on. keep in mind he did brief house ...