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Writein candidacy, the New York Times is reporting this hour that two white house officials are floating a plan to get Alabama Governor Kay Ivey to immediately appoint attorney general Jeff Sessions to the senate seat if the senate votes to expel him from the chamber should he win the election next month. Its remarkable that two white house aides are speaking to the times this afternoon about removing sessions from the cabinet to solve the moore crisis. Trump is known to have soured on sessions ...

Quote, is representing something very different. Lets discuss this with bob baer, security analyst, used to be a cia agent, and david drucker, a cnn political analyst. David, if i could begin with you here. The Turkish Foreign minister says that trump is turning a blind eye to the hard facts here, to the murder, and the ties to saudi leadership to this murder. Do you agree . I dont know if hes turning a blind eye. Hes clearly making a strategic sdgz based on the u. S. Position in the middle east...

In just the last hour, a judge granted temporary order forcing the white house to restore the press credentials to cnn correspondent jim acosta. Now, the judge who made his decision its important to point out was appointed by President Trump, and it all started with this incident, acosta asking questions to the president , a white house intern tried to take the microphone away from him during that east room press conference. Now, at first the white house said it took the credential because he pl...

Committee. Why would he have to have a secret analysis of Climate Change . Why does he need it to be a secret . Lets get back to the science of it. But its not science. Youre not quoting science. Oh my. Republican congressman Thomas Massie and former secretary of state john kerry during a hearing on Climate Change. Rolling stone posted the question, was that the dumbest question in history . And to that kerry replied, its almost as if someone said congress has hit rock bottom to which massie rep...

Wikileaks was essentially working arm in glove with the russians, with russian intelligence. it was not really a transparency organization or a journalistic organization. and mike pompeo, president trumps cia director essentially called wikileaks a hostile nonstate intelligence service. thats been the view of the u.s. government for some time. in terms of how this fits into the mueller investigation, i think we shouldnt be surprised if assange is charged that he tries to cut some kind of deal wi...

Wikileaks has gotten away for quite some time with presenting itself as a transparency organization. in your view, was it ever or did it change into something else over time? >> maybe in the very beginning there were people involved with wikileaks who did see it as an organization that was trying to bring radical transparency to governments. but it was always in balance, it always focused on more free governments. the more closed a government was, the less likely it was to be targeted by wikilea...

Campaign is not just complicit in these activities, but they are in active communications and actively working with them. they didnt say everything, they didnt come back all the time, but you started seeing effects. jew assange would send an e-mail, no response would go back, but what he asked for would come into play in the campaign. >> even down to the fact that the messages that don junior released himself after the article came out, the times he responded. but even when he didnt reply back t...

Election? challenge them. you know, dont give in. why would a transparency organization want to sew chaos and create a constitutional crisis in the u.s.? >> that makes sense what youre saying and what your reporting shows. let me throw a different argument at you. you know, they say on the internet no one knows whether youre a pet dog, famous new yorker cartoon, i dont know if youve seen it. >> im a pet cat on the internet. >> no one knows youre a pet cat. the argument being, well, maybe whoever...

If they lose to challenge the election results and call them rigged? i mean, what interest does a transparency organization have in that? or that they are asking -- this was the most stunning part. that was the most stunning part but the most comical part, now that your father has been elected, can you please lean on australia and make assange the ambassador from australia to washington. what is going on there? theres no -- i think at this point theres -- i mean, theres nothing left of wikileaks...

>> what i said as i believe he believes that, and its very important for somebody to believe. i believe he feels that he and russia did not meddle in the election. as to whether i believe it or not, i am with our agencies. >> president trump added he trusts the intelligence agencies with their current leadership, the leadership he put in. while he didnt definitively say that he thinks president putin is not telling the truth when he says he did not meddle in the u.s. election, it certainly appea...