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They have already showed a willingness to spend and listen. correct? >> yes and no. you still have a situation where 23 of the 28 are not paying 2% of the budget on defense as required to be a member of nato. they said correctively 40% increase. still most nations are going to be below 2% threshold almost all still it remains a problem. trump was right to point it out. he should keep his foot on the gas and make 28 out of 28 pay their fair share. brian: obsolete dont know americas role right now...

Much. >> sandra: something weve talked about on the scotch many times, you find out there on a watch list, they are interviewed by the fbi, but they let them go because there was no illegal activity, there was nothing that they could hook them on. >> harris: the other thing is really difficult is keeping up with everybody. you wont haul them all in because we dont have guantanamo light on our soil, but you cant watch thousands of people. you have 500 or so, can you imagine the backlash political...

The congressional budget office released its report on the health care bill passed by the house earlier this month. lets get to nbcs kasie hunt who we just cant quit on capitol hill. >> reporter: hi, nicolle. we do have breaking news with the cbo report as expected late this afternoon. so the initial top line, weve been talking about whether or not the house may have made some errors in this bill and would need to have another dramatic floor vote. that is not the case based on this cbo score. th...

Area where republicans defenders of president trump are going to seize on in the hearings why didnt james comey raise this earlier either in hearings or in private or even in classified briefings with the senate intelligence committee leaders? he did not do that. why not thats going to be -- whether you guys mention how you expect him to address it. but does he pass the threshold of believability and credibility? how do the voters view it? how doo are do sloughers senators. >> if he didnt view i...

Been used a wide variety of implements in various different settings we had an officer stabbed here in the u.s. recently someone who appears to be a white supremacist, weve got car attacks and truck attacks. theres a logistical threshold to put together explosives like this, am i right? >> youre absolutely correct. you know, explosive bombing attack outside using rudimentary explosives like pipe bombs and black powder type devices. that is another dimension of terrorism. i think youve seen, over...

If it feels like media coverage of the donald trump presidency has been creatively incredibly, there are numbers to back it up. researchers at harvard have put it in writing. fox news media kurtz has the sp. >> good evening. the barrage of criticism is inescapable. >> donald trump now sits at the threshold of impeachment. >> we need to be clear. if anyone else in the government disclosed information like this to the russians as described, it would be a crime, and a person would go to jail. >> no...

Appropriate purpose. >> at the time when we covered this hearing, it didnt seem like a important or dramatic exchange. now that we know director comey took these memos documenting his meetings with the president, that exchange really goes to the heart of the central question, were there conversations that amounted to an attempt to influence and if that was the case, if it crossed a legal threshold no thank you, catherine. more ahead on the russian meddling. ill speak with a reporter that might b...

But that has to continue to cur. but the way hes approaching these problems and the way hes moving in the direction of obama and bush rather than candidate trump is encouraging to me. >> would you agree with that, the maturing and this is the potential repositioning of a platform of a president trump and his administration and their outlook? >> he certainly does need a reset. i think we can all agree with that, particularly given the relationship with the russians and how thats been dominating d...

Yourself. weve got to be very careful about assessing what the threshold would be for criminal prosecution or impeachment or anything like that. what we know for sure is that the president has not helped himself at all. we saw it in the campaign after the hacking that became known. and the fact that russia was likely behind it, then the candidate, mr. trump, didnt do anything to distance himself from this problem. in fact, he made it worse by continuing to praise putin. weve seen the same kind o...

Associates and potentially himself. it doesnt even matter right now what the underlying investigation is. the fact that he fired comey for the reason he stated is obstruction of justice and that is a federal crime. >> if that is a federal crime, does that meet the threshold of high crimes and misdemeanors as laid out in the constitution of the united states? >> the first article of impeachment for president fixon was obstruction of justice. i sit on the house judiciary committee. if there were t...