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Pontificate and ruminate about whats going on in the world -- that is at that point the man that we saw. but when a region and one of the countrys biggest foes is potentially on the brink of war and it is his job as commander in chief to stop that, that wasnt the answer that his staff intended. >> abbi, for the last -- since 2015, since donald trump came down that escalator, the idea of sowing doubt in election results has been something that democrats and reporters and the republican have not l...

0 to talk about going. were continuing to provide for defense capacities to the ukrainians. were talking about whats going on in both the baltic and the black sea, et cetera. theres a whole range of things that im sure hes trying to calculate how quickly he can do what he wants to do and what does he want to do. but i -- hes not -- hes an informed individual, and im sure -- not sure. i believe hes calculating what the immediate short-term and the near-term and the long-term consequences of russi...

Extended unemployment, folks are going to have to go back to work. thats now done. and yet, folks are not back at work. so that wasnt the answer. >> yeah, its clear that the unemployment benefits were not the main reason holding people back from going out and taking jobs. we now have several months of data from the months over the summer where just over 20 states rolled those mostly republican states, rolled those benefits back early and of course over labor day, 7 million americans lost their b...

Doesnt have an end date that im aware of. certainly national leader that have determined that as to the forces themselves, the afghan security forces, listen, we have always had problems with -- we have never said that this is a hely capable force. that im aware of. but, nonetheless, we believe we were training to be effective enough with the enablers provided to them to be able to deal with the taliban. we knew full well they couldnt defeat the taliban, we didnt have enough forces there to do t...

Investigations of benghazi. the first was done by the house intelligence committee, and it was bipartisan. and it debunked all these conspiracy theories about hillary clinton and about the security and allegations that she had interfered with it somehow. we debunked that on a bipartisan basis, as did six or seven other bipartisan committees. but that wasnt the answer that kevin mccarthy wanted. so he pushed for a select committee that would be a purely political instrument. that is not the situa...

Saying, that wasnt the answer to meeting president trump. you also mention that today. you mentioned that. that got a lot of reaction there. that was very different. i want to play this moment for our viewers. >> socialism is not the answer. i -- >> you can hear the booing there. were you surprised be they reaction? >> yeah i was surprised. not too surprised. we anticipated in that room. it was one of the most liberal parts of america, we know the republicans are trying to label us as socialists...

Columnist, what was your big take away? >> i really think that roger goodell did a pretty good job of being able to walk a tight rope between the issue of standing and the demands from the president and his constant background noise, if you can call it that, from a president of the united states, the constant noise that theyre hearing from him, and the players. and i think when he said this is unprecedented, that this is the kind of conversation thats never happened before in the nfl, briana, i ...

Down, but the bottom line is, they were wrong. and so this is going to be a huge, huge morale buster for democrats who were hoping that all of the grassroots, the marching, you name it, they have been trying to figure out how to harness and turn into actual votes at the polls whatever they did here, this wasnt the answer. and they havent figured out how to win against a republican in the trump era. even though this has been a republican district, he only won by about 1% in this district in 2016....

The cia director is not my job to say its collusion but it is my job to pass it to the fbi and he was making clear repeated contacts, conversations, et cetera, that he passed on, right? >> its probably the biggest insight weve gotten to how this fbi investigation. its been known that john brennan was convinced that russia was interfering in the election. here he was saying not that he had definitive proof but that he had some evidence that either americans, u.s. persons, were cooperating, collud...

>> beyond the sexual harassment. you were not just a woman at fox news. that was the culture. roger ruled with an iron fist. so men also were intimidated. men also were scared. it is different. i guess i prided myself on being able to navigate through it. that showed a strong spine and navigate through it. that turns out wasnt the answer. the answer was to tape him. that is what gretchen charlarls. >> she is the hero in the story. >> this is the beginning of the domino falling. >> everyone thank...