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North korea or on russian when it comes to sanctions. im not sure where he is engaging in china or south america and the general is struggling with that. because he has his own thoughts about that and hes trying to guide the presidents thinking on this. look, i think we should do this and here are the reasons why. but if you have an insecure person meaning the president of the united states in the senior staff whos jealous by leaks coming out of the white house, whos jealous when you have an ori...

Has been championing policies. if you look at the health care bill that right now hes trying to push through, it slashes medicaid which disproportionately benefits women. it slashes title ten, which cuts off funding to planned parentho parenthood, and it would allow insurance companies to exclude maternity care from essential health benefits which would economically kneecap a lot of women across the country. so i think the fact that he set these things is bad, but i think whats more important is...

Later in the break. ive got another nine-minute mile. now ill start going for 8:30 minute mile. we talk about it briefly. the next day i get adds and theyre still coming up. are you over 40 and can run a nine-minute mile? this, my friends is not a coinciden coincidence. its really creepy. again, i have never run before. >> did you search for running shoes? >> did you have your phone on you while you were running? >> no. i didnt have my phone on me. that ad starts popping up everywhere. can you b...

The president, they then get that on their resume. but there is definitely a sense among people right now that they have to look out for themselves and if you listen to the way that seans been defending the president, its been much less personal. much more equivocal. hes been deferring another big thing that happened in the gaggle today is hes been deferring some of these questions now to outside legal advisers. so there is definitely a sea change. >> fascinating and you are two of the most astu...

Regulations. for instance, while divisions over health care took center stage, "the washington post" reports that republicans arrived at a secret strategy to block rules requiring internet service providers to get consent before collecting and potentially selling userss browser history. thank you for rolling that back. quote, while the nation was distracted by the house pending vote to repeal obamacare, senate republicans would schedule a vote to wipe out the new privacy protections. >> can we t...

As i mentioned already, we dont say whats classified, whats not classified. what i will tell you, again, is sth that what the president shared was wholly appropriate. the story, the story combined what was leaked with other information and then insinuated about sources and methods. so i wanted to take clear to everybody that the president in no way compromised any sources or methods in the course of this conversation. >> that was h.r. mcmaster, national security adviser, three-star general in th...

Rearmament of nazi germany. orwell got in a lot of trouble with communists because he broke with stalinism, said, no, stalinism is close to fascism and im opposed to both. what im looking for today is people like them who are willing to stand out and criticize their own side. >> thomas ricks, only people like you have the ability when you go back and start writing a book that many months ago as it takes to write a book that matches the moment as yours does. thank you so much for talking to us. t...

Jacobs himself saying he grabbed gregs wrist and his aggressive behavior create add scene. joining me now a former deputy assistant secretary of defense msnbc national security analyst and tom ricks who writes the best defense and a new book called "churchill and orwell -- the fight for freedom." you said you had some thoughts. >> watching this, listening to the tape, brings me back to the 1930s, the use of political violence to subdue people and the vocabulary word today is un-american. it is u...

Gregs wrist and his aggressive behavior create add scene. joining me now a former deputy assistant secretary of defense msnbc national security analyst and tom ricks who writes the best defense and a new book called "churchill and orwell -- the fight for freedom." you said you had some thoughts. >> watching this, listening to the tape, brings me back to the 1930s, the use of political violence to subdue people and the vocabulary word today is un-american. it is un-american for a political candid...

A long time correspondent, over the past decade of war not a single army general has been relieved of duty for combat ineffectiveness. how much of a failure is that? >> i think it is a failure. if we think of military history, some people do well and some people do less well and institutions thrive and succeed only if that distinction is made. but over the last -- in the civil war, abraham lincoln was removing generals and world war ii and i they were saying this general is good and that general...