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Highlighting the need for strength to combat the rise of radical islamic terrorism. >> he joined the ranks of those whose mission is to guard freedom and to protect the innocent from such terror. pete: congratulations to those 936 cadets who are now on two different ranks of the military. pete: thanks, clayton. the "washington post" with a bombshell russian connection story. this tablature at kushner. russian ambassador told moscow that kushner won it a secret channel but the kremlin. if that is really a crime, why did so many past administrations also do it? theater breakdown this example is ...

Jared kushner stuff is going to dominate some of these hearings in the coming weeks and months and we knew before a lot of the stuff exploded in the mainstream that the senate intelligence committee was requesting documents from jared kushner. this something that was going on for a long time before. and we can already tell based on some of the trump tweets this morning as the first time he had gotten back, he's painting it as some of the sources might be totally ill legitimate. and fake news could be making up the narrative which is kind of out there. but, you know we kw how he's going to be h...

Broker from new york married to the president's daughter. i was saying the other night it's as if fdr's aide harry hopkins had married the president's daughter and been born into a great privilege in new york. >> right. as we all know, diplomacy is full of back channels. diplomacy is full of the great diplomatic chapters and the cuban missile crisis was reso e resolved because of conversations taking place outse the executive committee ofhe national security council in october of 1962. that was about a very complicated and essential theory of diplomacy. john kennedy in the fall of 1960 reviewe...

Robert kennedy reporting only to his brother used a soviet cutout to exchange messages outside channels at the most dangerous hour in human history. that was a back channel that was entirely about national security and avoiding armageddon. that was a case where this worked. a case where it did not work was in the middle of the 1980s when the national security council went rogue, went operational and through israelis tried to establish a secret channel to iranian moderates. we know how well that turned out. that led to iran contra. and this, however, i don't think is like the others. neither of...

This is public knowledge now. the pope sort of creates a situation in which the two countries can speak as countries, not as son-in-law. speak as countries and what their policies are. to begin to change policy over time. generally, a back channel is authorized. it utilizes united states apparatus. it doesn't go to the russians or the cubans and it involves a third party. i actually think, remember today h.r. mcmaster said, oh, back channels are happening tall time. he was being like too cute because of course back channels are being used all the time. this was not a backchannel. this was a co...