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With expulsions but president trump seeming reluctant to say anything against vladimir putin publicly. a point lindsey graham brought up his morning on "fox news sunday." watch? >> the problem is russias running wild. whatever were doing is not working and the president snore reason has a hard time pushing back against putin directly. >> so, molly, what do you think is behind sort of this reluctance to speak ill of vladimir putin? even though hesic kicking out russian diplomats? >> if you focus ...

Was to health care, what dodd/frank was to the banking and finance system, the clean power plan is to our power grid and energy in this country. the clean power plan that the president is advancing is all about an anti-fossil fuel strategy to shut down coal generation and fossil fuel generation and the generation of electricity. >> it is hard to imagine a worse choice to head the epa. of all of trumps troubling picks, theres the hard right ideological warriors seeming hell bent on up-ending the ...

Climate change denialist with ties to the fossil fuel industry who has sued to block president obamas climate agenda at almost every turn. >> what the affordable care act was to health care, what dodd/frank was to the banking and finance system, the clean power plan is to our power grid and energy in this country. the clean power plan that the president is advancing is all about an anti-fossil fuel strategy to shut down coal generation and fossil fuel generation and the generation of electricity...

Children when they come. its humanitarian care for these children is essential. >> what dodd now -- >> reporter: what to do now is the central of a national debate. monday from southern california to washington, d.c., rallies of support and vocal opposition to the flood of immigrants. >> the president has failed to act with urgency and competency and is required to ensure these children, as well as all immigrants, are treated humanly. >> reporter: so many of the children are arriving alone. back...

Necessary. the problem with the alternative approach from brown and vitter is that its just this very gross leverage cap where you say, well, well make the banks safe by telling them that they have to have lots of equity. and i think thats a good policy. but if you just do that and you dont also do the complicated dodd/frank approach, then the banks can stuff themselves with really risky loans, where even if you have a lot of equity, you can still have failure. so i think you need both. i have h...

Especially when it comes to the bogus, inadequate reforms in the dodd/frank bill and the bank and sovereign debt mess in europe. our specialist today is a rare breed. a longtime money manager who knows finance from the inside, who says that wall streets failings are dragging the country down. thats right. a financier with a social conscious. hes the perfect man to give our definitive "d.r. show" year-end briefing on the unfinished business of financial reform. michael lewit writes "the death of ...

Staffer, because i think a lot of this can be traced back to ending the glass-steagall separation between commercial banking and investment banking. would you agree that simply bringing back that wall, which is something dodd/frank didnt do, but would bringing back that wall that worked so well for so many decades address a lot of what youre talking about? >> it would go a long way to making sure that taxpayers arent on the hook for what are basically trading speculations, which are what these b...

Stone." >> is holbrooke there? >> yes, he will be there. >> what about that quote clown from 1985? >> right. jim jones. >> right, jim jones will be there. >> anybody met jim jones, he aint a clown. >> you know who loves general mcchrystal? >> who is that? >> tony hayward. >> right now, he does. >> do you have any sense of everyone who is talked about in the article would be presumably advising the president what dodd about mcchrystal about at this point. do you have any idea what general jones i...

For more on the politics of the wall street reform debate, lets turn now to chris hayes, the washington editor of "the nation" magazine. good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> what dodd said about daring republicans to block reform, that just plays off what i just asked dr. goolsbee. is there a scenario in which republicans can spin this enough that they really want to be on the side of wall street in the wall street versus main street debate? >> they dont be. that clip you played earlier of m...

Come again. for more on the politics of the wall street reform debate, lets turn now to chris hayes, the washington editor of "the nation" magazine. chris, good evening. >> good evening, keith. >> what dodd said about daring republicans to block reform, that just plays off what i just asked dr. goolsbee. is there a scenario in which republicans can spin this enough that they really want to be on the side of wall street in the wall street versus main street debate? >> they dont be. that clip yo...