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This community stands right now. they are waiting and demanding to learn more about what happened. >> and understandably so. blake mccoy, thank you for that. alternate reality. white house press secretary sean spicers perplexing explanation of donald trump jr.s meeting with kremlin-linked officials contradicting what the presidents son said about the meeting himself. whats behind the confusion at the white house? and fit so serve? president trump has shown a preference for riding around in g...

This was part of the russian governments plan to support the candidacy, and he said "i love it." i want to say one thing in defense of donald trump jr., which may be -- >> this is breaking news. >> make sure there is a big crawl at the bottom. whoever is doing the crawl, jake, big crawl. >> hes taking a lot of heat right now, and understandably, because he was the least discreet on that e-mail thread. but do you know who is not getting the same amount of attention? jared kushner. he is the only ...

Him as one at the behest of the russian government offering hi dirt on hillary clinton and his response was id love that. susan glasser, if it crosses political lines, what does that mean for republicans? >> as you saw earlier today with senator cruz, theyre trying every which way to avoid talking about this understandably. and for democrats theres peril in talk too much about russia and not about their agenda as well. but the bottom line is theres an investigation thats going on with former fbi...

Parents believe should not be sustained. with the heaviest of hearts, but with complete conviction for charlies best interests to let charlie die with dignity. the argument to be made here is the parents know what is in their childs best interest. your thoughts on that, doug? >> again, your judgment can become clouded. understandably of course. you are cleaning to any hope possible. any experimental thing. the experiment till treatment in the u.s. was apparently covered in the hearings that i re...

Shall assume the powers and doodoot -- duties of the office as acting president. so the 25th amendment sets, understandably, quite a high bar. why do you believe, and what evidence do you see to justified exercising the 25th amendment with president trump? >> well, its not up to me or any member of congress. it says the vice president of the united states and a majority of the cabinet can review the fitness of the president, or the vice president of the united states and a majority of a body to ...

Comey isnt the target but he is the victim, to the extent that the crime of obstruction of justice, as jeffrey argued, includes the firing of comey by the president. one can easily understand how upset mueller would be by the way his friend was treated, understandably. his friend was treated terribly. so the perception of bias can affect at least the way the public sees this investigation. he can avoid this if he simply does the right thing and says that the firing by the president of comey is n...

Thats what the president is doing. hes entitled to do that. i dont think it really is going to have tennessee an impact on >> should the president be concerned about their relationship, if theyre friends, if they talk? >> i think it is a favor to the president because when youre doing a prosecution thats a political prosecution, you have to be -- you cant give the other side an appearance of injustice. comey isnt the target but he is the victim, to the extent that the crime of obstruction of jus...

There was this air of seriousness and understandably so when youre sending americans in harms way. and then you have mr. mattis, a former general, also, who has experience in afghanistan. even he acknowledges that the kinds of numbers that were talking about are not going to make a big shift there. its not as though its going to be sufficient unless theres a broader strategy. so what are they getting at here? >> its very unclear. certainly the military has wanted to put more troops in. theres a ...

That goes out? i know in ieds, the shrapnel causes a lot of pain, but its the shock wave of the force that can liquefy, pulpify organs. >> yeah, its tough to think about, but simply from a rifle energy, simple math, its the speed of the bullet that makes all the different, even more so than the size of the bullet. its the velocity. and the velocity of a bullet moving that fast can cause a blast wave that start to cause tissue energy even before the bullet gets there. and it can also cause this b...

Were already starting to see that. obviously there are going to be some changes going forward we would expect. >> yeah. you can just hear how shaken some of these members are. we spoke to congressman mo brooks of alabama, clearly shaken. rand paul shaken, understandably so. individuals, jeff blake, the senator from arizona. this is an awful, awful situation. as you can tell, representative brad winstrom told an aid that the shooting, quote, was like being in iraq again only without his weapon. h...