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Job many years ago, colin powell who died today as an exceptional leader in and out of government. back with us, michael sang who served as a special assistant to secretary powell. he was also a former senior director of middle east affairs at the nsc as well as managing director of the washington institute. it struck me that one of the things we heard from antony blinken was that people, his people, would walk through walls for him. you were one of his people. why? why and how did he engender s...

""meet the press" daily." "the beat with ari melber starts right now. good evening, ari. >> good evening, chuck. breaking impeachment news. as chuck just mentioned we are on the eve of history in washington and perhaps for the nation. hours away from this impeachment testimony going public for the first time on live tv. i have a lot in tonights show. let me begin with the context. president trump bracing as more bribery testimony emerges, undercutting his defense and a new preview we got moments...

The head of u.s. central command, army general joseph votel told reporters he had no guidance, no new guidance as a result of helsinki. typically the white house would brief national security officials after such a meeting or provide them at least with a written memo. meanwhile, a u.s. ambassador in europe, who has extensive experience dealing with russia, told "the new yorker" that he and other state department officials who would need to know have received no post-summit briefings or even talk...

Onjanuary 20th of 2017. and then a bombshell on the russia investigation. the president had ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller back in june of 2017. but backed off when his white house counsel threatened to quit. and january 29th, it was memo week. president went against the fbi and department of justice recommends and approved the release of a controversial republican written memo accusing the bureau of in tensionally using questionable material to obtain a wiretap of former t...

Washington, d.c., about how secure his job is? >> well, if you pay attention to how the president has responded to people that he has found troublesome and problematic, more often than not he doesnt fire them, at least that hasnt been what happened once he went to the white house. he creates an environment thats so you should have been for them that they step down and resign on their own. what will rosenstein choose to do as he has had to go up against this campaign where the presidentnd his par...

Investigations, others like republican senator lindsay graham, calling for special counsel to investigate the investigate ors and now house intelligence democrats are demanding their own memo in reaction to that memo to be released. but what is house judiciary chairman bob goodlatte here say about this but first to caroline shively on a memo raising more questions than answers and. >> dean: on a market than what we all know happened yesterday. we begin with caroline. >> hi there, neil this morni...

The reason anybody cares about these yields or these rates is because essentially the higher these rates go the moral kinds of borrowing gets expensive whether thats consumers for home loans or car loans or whether its businesses, but as more strategists point out were in a nine-year stock market bull , bull market so even if this week has been brutal for you if you have been in stocks for years, you have still made money and we just put up these levels for the past 52 weeks alone you saw them t...

But they have a memo they want released. do you think republicans should allow its release? >> absolutely. neil: the president should declassify their memo and get it all out there? >> absolutely, but remember it has to go through the same process, the very careful process that the republican memo went through where it was released so all members of congress can read it, that is being done now. ive read it, and then it needs to be carefully reviewed to make sure that there are no sources and met...

It didnt want to even give the fbi a chance to respond and thats all you really need to know. this wasnt about oversight. this is about telling a political story. >> the latest tweeted this just about 15 minutes ago. this memo totally vindicates probe but the russian witch hunt goes on and on. there was no collusion and there was no obstruction. the word now used because after one year of looking endlessly and finding nothing collusion is dead. this is an american disgrace. one other note neil c...

Have the fbi and the justice department normally at least in our minds very much kept apart from whatever partisan tensions there may be and now with this dragged front and center it does seem to be adding a little bit to the anxiety and then as many people point out listen if youre in a nine-year bull market and have a few days of selling dont cry. neil: yeah, they always say were due for a correction. of course when it happens, its never a pleasant experience. deirdre thank you very very much ...