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This week? >> on the 10% tax cuts does not exist. there are aids that were holding a briefing of background where their names will not be on the record because it was background briefing and they essentially said well, the president is the one in the administration who is talking about this. there is only so much they could do and it is really not a change overtime. the president has tweeted policies when the policy was not in place yet. he teased things that are coming where apparently no one else knows that they are coming. this is pretty standard for the president. i think one thing we are ...

You don't take overt action that might influence an investigation. but that doesn't mean every fbi agent out there looks at the calendar and says i need to finish my investigation for an lebron james [tab] 3. that's just pure nonsense. >> let me stay with you, former fbi saw the news with john brennan and the white house revoking his security clearance. we have gotten a response to all of this from michael haden, former nsa and cia director. here's what he says. if i were to lose my clearance, it would have a marginal impact on the work i do. for example, i'm on the proxy board of an american ...

And they are shooting their own people down in the streets. the naive person is nancy pelosi. if you think this has been a good deal, go ask the iranian people how well that has worked out for them. go ask israel how well, it's working out for them. go ask everybody in the mideast whether or not iran is a good member of the family of nations. >> shannon: so background briefing by an official, they say one purpose is to negotiate the deal and the other is to change the government's behavior. you spent the weekend having golf and having dinner, does he really want to renegotiate this deal? >> he...

Of it, shooting their own people down in the streets, the knife person is nancy pelosi. if you think this has been a good deal ask the iranian people how will it has worked out for them, ask israel how well it is working out for them, ask everybody in the middle east whether or not iran is a good member of the family of nations. >> background briefing by an administration official, one purpose is to renegotiate the deal and the other is to change the government's behavior, you spent the weekend with the president playing golf having dinner, does he really once to renegotiate this deal? >> he w...

Guam to north korea. >> you said it yesterday, military exercises, that was the big thing given to north korea. the thing that's unclear, who knew the president would make that announcement. according to u.s. forces in south korea telling "new york times" we received no updated guidance on execution or cessation of training exercises to include this clause. exercises they add. we will with current military posture until we receive updated guidance. they're not even saying they're cancelling the exercises. >> waiting to hear from jim mattis. >> we heard from the pentagon on a background briefin...