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If the u.s. military is like in on it now, and has no compunction about going along with the scheme, when they know how weird it is, and they know the c-17s flying to kuwait have never done anything like this before, that tells us that one of the red lines we thought we would have in terms of accountability and people blowing the whistle, one of the red lines is also implicated here. joining us now is natasha bertrand, national security correspondent for politico, who broke the story with brian bender. natasha, i appreciate you being here on short notice tonight. this story just broke out. >> ...

Incredible scoop with coauthor brian bender, air force crew made an odd stop on a routine trip, trump's scottish resort. just remarkable reporting. thanks for hustling to the studio to help us understand. >> thank you so much, rachel. >> it is just incredible. >> in terms of thinking about the geography, glasgow, one of the major cities in scotland, there is a main glasgow airport which is right next to the city of glasgow, this other airport that we're talking about is called glasgow prestwick, it's actually, like, 30 miles outside town. it's easy to understand why that airport, which is sort...

I think that rand paul is in tune with today's republican party, what i call the putin republicans, because there's been a sea change that donald trump has brought about which you can see in one poll number from -- that came out just about a month ago from gallop. in 20 14, about 20% of republicans thought russia was our spend or ally. today ooit's 40% despite everything russia has done to us including interfering if h our election. >> don't we have a russian ambassador? is. >> we do. what this reminds me of is the attempt by jared kushner after the 2016 election to establish a back channel to...

Florida. and p.j. crowley, and state department spokesma and also brian bender, the national security writer and editor for politico and finally last but not least, a former ambassador to a number of countries including syria, iraq and afghanistan. and i'm sorry, finally, john finer, form he chief of staff for secretary of state john kerry. we have a lot of great minds with us today and i appreciate you all being with us. let me start with kelly. how is the u.s. preparing to respond to north korea? i mention that had we got this reporting about a possible preemptive move. what are you hearing?...

Entertainment to these cards. officials say the employees, both civilian and military, have been disciplined and insist that the federal government in no way paid for the credit charges since the employees paid for their own bills. joining me is brian bender from president clinton dough which i say -- politico, to which i say, really? this report is going to be made public in a couple of weeks. how many employees are we talking about here? did they break any laws doing this? >> this is a defense department inspector general report that we will see a public version of shortly. it's apparently h...