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And the list is getting extremely long. reporting on the immigration priorities that are fairly hard lines, sort of steven millersing that the white house wants to get done. >> halle jackson and garrett hague. guys, thank you very much. i'm joined by washington post columnist david ignatious and carol lee. thank you for joining me. david, bob corker told the "new york times" that president lies in his tweets. and everyone knows this. everyone knows he he does it. he does tend to lie a lot. is this what normalization looks like? >> true. i know what you say when you say normalization. i think...

Feels that president is, you know, potentially setting the country on a path to world war iii. he says there are examples that lead him to that conclusion. which adds more hest to just what otherwise might be rhetoric. i think one. questions to ask when you're talking about whether other republicans come out and say this and not just republican lawmakers, also the foreign policy establishment types, is whether it helps people like secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, for them to talk about them in a way that, you know, so-called standing in between chaos. so i think that's part of the calcul...

Separate. we live in a world of united states values, institutions we shaped after 1945. a world that i think has thrived in that era of the liberal international order. trump and steve bannon and others regard it as essentially the inmy aenemy and want to tak apart. i think the democracy promotion and devaluing human rights is an issue. all part of this campaign and i think makes us weaker by the month. the standing united states and world's eyes has plummeted since january. the numbers are striking. and in the end that means that our strength, our security as a country is diminished by the l...

What makes us different as americans. we're not just about prosperity. we're about values. democracy. how do we get to prosperity. we do it through democracy. every man and woman, one vote, et cetera. >> and david, what i find so striking about this is that a mission statement of the state department is kind of like a party platform. no one ever reads it or thinks about it. it never crossed my mind before until someone in the trump state department has come along and said, oh, i have an idea. let's take out the idea we want to support and promote democracy around the world. >> i worry that thi...

Military exercise has been planned for months and is not seen as a response to the u.s. sanctions bill necessarily. today at the state department secretary of state rex tillerson said this about the united states and russia. >> the relationship as you know in russia is under considerable stress. by action by congress to put the sanctions in place and the way they did. neither the president nor i are happy about that. we were clear that we didn't think it was going to be helpful to our efforts. but that's the decision they made. they made it very overwhelming way. i think the president accepts ...