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Hill for skprjohn conyers to ta this kind of a step. i think it's expected that this retirement will take place today. there was speculation that he will simply announce that he is not planning to run for reelection and that we would see him as a member of congress, perhaps, through the end of next year. that clearly not the case. and this has been something of a damaging episode for nancy pelosi, the democratic leader. she, of course, went on with chuck todd. talked about. and she seems to defend him on that basis. she backtracked pretty quickly when asked about the backlash and said conyers ...

Berating them on issues related to russia. politico now describing trump calling republican senator bob corker to yell at him and complain to him about a russia sanctions bill that corker had sponsored and supported. politico also describes the president dialing up senator tom tillas, calling him on august 7th to complain about a bill he was working on, that was designed to prevent trump from firing the special counsel robert mueller who is looking into the russia matter. and it's kind of interesting, the two different levels to look at this. all this reporting about the president, you know, c...

Pacifist culture. they're basically abandoning that. they're building blue water naval capabilities in the face of a rising and more powerful china in the region. so look, he's going to be advised by the people who have been advising him all along on the campaign. but no, the official mechanisms of government are not yet party to briefing him on conversations like this. >> is it a positive or a negative that in terms of tradition, the way president-elect donald trump has been handling himself, you know, dialing up vladimir putin, hey, it's donald. let's check in, people wanted change. they wan...

The top democrat on the committee, talking about the practical cost and the cost for communities of color. the emphasis is on dialing down prison terms overall, but it does expand mandatory minimums for terror-related crimes. >> so it's not an across-the-board, let's lower all mandatory sentences. there's some things in there that republicans would probably want as well? >> that's right. there's a dialing up of mandatory minimums in certain other areas and with regard to basically violence related to weaponry, guns, and terrorism. it was interesting also moments ago, i was listening to the hea...

Field to change. it knows the solar field that comes out of the sun has now stopped. it knows it's almost into intercellar space but not quite there. maybe a couple more months until it gets out of the solar system. >> what's it doing? >> sending back stuff. >> really, even with that little storage capacity? >> it's so far away now, it takes 17 hours. once it sends the signal, it takes 17 hours to get to the earth. >> like dialing up -- hey, mom, i'm on the internet, get off the phone. what kind of condition? >> fine, power lasts until 2020, good seven more years. hey, what's that doing out th...