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Much easier in the house of representatives where they have a dominant majority, much tougher in the senate where its such a narrow one. i think the initial reaction from the white house is one of trying to take a bit of a victory lap and at the same time capitalize on what they believe is momentum to try to actually accomplish a few things in short order using that as, perhaps, a little lift in their sails. >> we also have our friend robert costa of "the washington post." your sources are telli...

Occasionally but repeatedly, constantly and at a high level. if that happened in any other year but 2016 you might begin to think you could forget about it but it happened in the midst of an unprecedented russian interference in the u.s. presidential election. this is happening in real time and the trump campaign is talking to russia. we dont know if there was a conclusion but even if there wasnt thats a strange time for a u.s. presidential campaign to be speaking to officials and others with an...

Plan. there even isnt work going on as best as i can tell. its impossible to tell who is in charge in this white house. in a way, the cloud on this obscures other major questions about how this white house is running but this is hardly a good place to be and there seemed to be a lack of appreciation for the fact that this is not the campaign anymore and they seem to be in campaign mode still. jock i canning for position and fighting for each other and not understanding why it is that firing your...

If we could have a good relationship with russia that would be a good thing, not a bad thing. if putin likes donald trump thats called an asset not a liability. >> putin is a killer. >> a lot of killers. we have a lot of killers. you think our country is so innocent. >> now somehow these take on a different feel in light of now it being confirmed that he was in touch with russia as well as other high level trump advisors. >> the piece thats hard to discern is why the president knew this for 14 d...

And the castro brothers have succeeded to end decades of isolation and get nothing in return. it sends a signal to the world that we can be pushed around. nine u.s. presidents stood up to fidel castro and barack obama blinked. so if youre watching this, in tehran lets say, what are you thinking? are you thinking i better get to the table and make some concessions with obama administration in the nuclear talks. no, youre thinking if the castro brothers can get something for nothing so can i. same...

Something for nothing so can i. same thing in russia. >> but these earlier presidents they stood up to the castros. but it was earlier in time. there hadnt been such a long period of time where the embargo was in place and the relations frozen and no progress being made. the obamas defense is that wasnt working. >> what wasnt changing is the castro brothers were there. the problem with the embargo isnt that the embargo wasnt squeezing the regime, unlike burma, the regime wasnt willing to negotia...

That gay marriage should be a civil right in some respects. those are not ideologically conservative things, but they are a belief in science and civil rights. im not entirely sure why he gets branded this way. >> ill tell you why. because its been his own emphasis. in politics, its what you emphasize that matters. there are times i would get too far out on the right, and it would -- im very conservative economically, and my chief of staff would walk in and tell me how it works. you know what? y...

Unique global positioning system, gps system that can fly from various points, so the tactic would be to fly, maybe one or two of the various tactics, one or two of these cruise missiles in one direction so the guns are swinging around in that direction. here comes another one from the back door and theres one coming from overhead, too. so you can take a lot of the missiles flying from different altitudes, different sides, its confusin confusing. >> can the program change while its en route? >> ...

Do we know. >> a month ago we reported that the contents of this dosser that was briefed to the president and the president elect. they had many conclusions about the content of that and then they considered it important enough to let them know about it. we learned they had begun to corroborate some of the aspects. they said we wont comment on the veracity. we just let them know. they have confirmed that some, not all, but some, specifically russia to russian contacts were corroborated by interc...