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of experts to explore this further. in london, a geopolitical analyst and author. he serves as the cofounder of economic partners. and in beirut today but actually based in london at the school of economics. an expert on terrorism and the co-author of isis: the state of terr terror. and peter bergen joins us from washington. he is a vice president at new america. peter, let me ask you, does this strike you as terrorists adapting yet again? because what is interesting about this to me is it s in many ways very low tech. a van going into crowds, people brandishing knives and using them as weapons. of course, guns are very hard to get in britain. maybe i m just trying to look for a silver lining here. all of that means they re finding it hard to do big bombs at symbolic locations and that kind of thing, and what they are reduced to is driving vans and using knives, which is, of course, terrible and tragic, but you can only kill so many people, particularly if the police respond ....
of the trump campaign. just to state the obvious that we all know, the president shoots from the hip. i m not sure there was a ton of fore thought into what he said about sessions. i think he was honest and blunt about his feelings at that moment in time. they are feelings that he has had on and off for some time now. the russian investigation as we all know kind of won t go away as a story line partly because there s an open investigation but also because the president is preoccupied with it and he brings it up all the time, in private conversations and apparently in public ones. i think there s a real concern in terms of the comments he s made obviously because they also seem to indicate that, you know, first he wants loyalty from comey, now he wants loyalty or allegiance from attorney general, like he s wanting to run this the way he runs his business, which is not the way the government works and certainly not the way the justice department works, which is an independent i ....
reporter: yeah, wolf. as you said. this is going to be a campaign-style rally here in phoenix. one of several the president has held since the inauguration. it s actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president, and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. the vice president, mike pence. his chief of staff, john kelly. it s also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. arizona s two republican senators. both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that press conference in trump tower one week ago. and the president didn t hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. he took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a non-factor in the senate. and praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. kelly ward. it s unclear whether or not dr. the ....
contact us by the disgust he felt watching media coverage of the russia story. not only were most reporters getting it wrong, they were getting it backward. the russians were in fact deeply involved in american politics, but the real story had almost nothing to do with the 2016 presidential campaign. intrigued, we agreed to meet with at source today. he just left our offices here in washington a couple of hours ago. the story he told us is astonishing. we will be following up on it, confirming more of it and bringing you details about it this week and after. at first, here s an overview of what he told us. media reports describe paul manafort as a central figure in the russia investigation due to the several months he spent as donald trump s campaign chairman. according to our source, that s only half true. he is indeed at the center of this investigation, but not because of his ties to trump. in fact, paul manafort spent years working with the podesta group on behalf of russian g ....
who is our person of the week. good evening and it s great to have you with us on a friday night. we end the week with the breaking headline from the white house. president trump demanding the resignation of tom price, the secretary of health and human services is out. he ll be replaced at midnight tonight comes after spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money on luxury jets and that list of cabinet members under fire for spending is growing. epa chief scott pruitt. treasury secretary steve mnuchin, interior secretary ryan zinke and top republicans are demanding an investigation and mary bruce on how much of your money taxpayer dollars has been spent and the questions now mounting tonight. reporter: as he boarded air force one tonight, it sounded like the president had made up his mind about health secretary tom price. i m disappointed in him. he s a good man, but i m disappointed in him. reporter: just minutes before, abc s jon karl asked the president if p ....