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I used to say i went to the white house, served as governor, went as president and came out mayor. what i meant by that is i found then still find it profoundly alien that public rhetoric is divorced from the real lives of real people. mayor emanuel is here. you know, he came to the white house with me and he took on much more circuitous route. he went to the white house and he went to congress and president obama took him back to the white house. he finally found his way home to chicago and sanity as mayor, where if you listen to him he is solely responsible for breaking the world series jinx...

Males, leaders, generals. these are people who aren't going to see, oh, okay, we'll go get the oil because you told us to. they are not doing it. >> also what we have seen as far as foreign policy goes, sometimes it takes a circuitous route. but donald trump when it comes to foreign policy, his first idea was an awful idea. we ended up with mattis. his first idea, gut in extinct for isn't of state awful. his gut instinct for department of homeland security, awful. he didn't go with that. he waited. he sifted through everything. we actually -- again, we end up -- of course, we had to get rid of...

It looked like a scene from a movie. there were about three dozen firefighters that came out of nowhere and blocked the streets for vehicle traffic. still, there were onlookers everywhere. they weren't telling people to -- they were trying to ask what was going on, what did they see. then there was a drip, drip, drip of information. somebody said this was a shooting. okay, there's a shooting. but that's -- somebody says, no, more than one person got shot, and it was a machine gun. and he's still out there. then you realize that there's a machine gun and he's in the neighborhood, and that's whe...

Hanging on to the city about an hour's drive west of the iraqi capital. series of air strikes on thursday apparently succeeded in slowing isis advance into ramadi. a city official that we spoken to there this morning says isis continues to hold on to positions in the east of that embattled city. he says the iraqi security forces that are holding on to the center and government compound and the center of the city are exhausted and tired and they could fold if they don't get reinforcements. there are about 40 humvees of troops that arrived in the last 24 hours. he says that is not enough. we hav...

But rather the beginning. the launch of a process, the process that is the best opportunity for the opposition to achieve the goals of the syrian people and the revolution. and the political solution to this terrible conflict that has taken many, many, many too many lives. we will continue to push in the meantime for vital access for humanitarian assistance. i talked yesterday with russian federation foreign minister lavrov in an effort to push still harder for access to some areas where the regime played games with the convoys, taking them around a circuitous route, instead of directly in the...