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Completely contrary to ethics and contrary to the directions he received to use proportional self-defense. walking it back today is admitting what the military officers told him, that he is not only preposterous but it is wrong. >> he walked it back denying he was implying they should shoot the people with rocks. now he is saying they will just arrest people. but the presidents words matter, whether he walks them back or not. you heard nigerias army, an organization that massacred innocent civil...

The military says the protesters threw stones and they fired in self-defense. today the nigerian army posted video of president trumps speech on its twitter feed saying we released the video saying if president trump can say rock are is as good as a rifle, who is amnesty international? joining us now, jack reed. i spoke to him earlier this even. senator, i wonder what went through your mind when you heard the president earlier trying to walk back his suggestion that the military should shoot bac...

Or intimidate the entire investigation to undermine the mueller investigation, and think we ought to stop calling it the mueller investigation. weal ought to be calling it the russia investigation and we shouldnt allow the president to determine the words we use. he used the word collusion. word is conspiracy. conspiracy to commit a crime, and collusion is simply a s synonym for that. if the best argument he has is a semantic one, hes going to lose. >> what about rudy jewgiuliani comments? walki...

It can be so clean cut. i dont think this bothers the pope at all. as far as the vatican walking it back, note they didnt really say the essence of the conversation wasnt true. they said some direct quotes cannot be attributed to the pope because there wasnt a tape recorder, and scalfari did not take notes. thats okay. it doesnt mean what the pope said about hell as a separation from god isnt true. it means that sometimes the way we cheapen that operation is not helpful to but there is a whole s...

Comment that he believes some of the dreamers, some of the 7 700,000 dreamers, were too lazy to sign up for protection from deportation. if you talk to many of them, they would say just the opposite. >> jim acosta, appreciate that. two views from dee cortez, former trump campaign adviser, and democratic strategist cordova. walking it back, too busy sitting on the couch, is that an improvement? >> no absolutely not. it underscores the offensive manner in which general kelley sees immigrants. it w...

7th strike. so from that weve gone forward and were trying to figure out just how close they might be towards an attack and the last couple hours, craig, it seems like officials here are walking it back, saying this is a warning, this isnt a declaration of intent by the united states military to hit the assad regime. but they clearly want to put them and as nikki haley was saying the russians on notice. >> first we had that statement via twitter from sean spicer, then the tweet by ambassador hai...

>> mary, as a former inspector general, what do you make of all of this? >> well, i think a lot of the response now is kind of a cya, you know, for example, there is a public outcry. how could you possibly clear 239 people other than the pilot and the co-pilot, of course, you know in such a short span of time. and now theyre walking it back, particularly since the fbi released their data, saying we didnt find anything about the pilot or the co-pilot, theyre not mass murderers. if they were so cl...

Issues. i think for herman cain, hes going to have a real problem out there. hes riding high in the polls now. but he articulated a real pro-choice view earlier in the week last week and hes going to have a real problem trying to walk back from that. >> now, dana, he certainly -- in very clear language, stated that it was someones choice, the parents choice. hes walking it back, which gives him a problem with this crowd who, as nia said and youve concurred deals with these kind of issues. the ot...

Of the ones taken last night when this happened. the bus had 24 passengers, going as far as fort pierce, authorities looking for a person who opened fire with the best description they have of that suv. back to you. jenna: well stay on it harris, back to you. gregg: secretary of defense gates says he plans to retire sometime in 2001. mr. gates, who has served seven american presidents says he will likely leave the pentagon sometime next year. bret baier, anchor of "special report" joins us. he m...