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That was kentucky senator rand paul last night blasting his own party's flip-flop on deficit spending. abandoning fiscal responsibility is just part of the republican party's evolution away from what they were once had as its core values. washington "washington post" columnist jennifer ruben writes today the core mission of the gop is now to defend abusers noting that the gop at every turn enabled and encouraged trump by refusing to exercise oversight. joining in the disinformation campaign, declining to censure him and or attacking the media just as john kelly says rob porter is a man of grea...

Oversight for the armed services commit tear or for the government oversight committee. yes, we are supposed to exercise oversight, but that oversight is determine facts, to learn what happened, to figure out how to prevent thing like this from happening in the future, but that's not what they are doing. they are desperate to find something to embarrass the president. the only problem there is nothing there, and millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours later, that is abundantly apparent. there is nothing there. on benghazi, it was i think well over a year ago that even the republican-led...

That we didn't do in the initial intelligence reform bill, and that is provide the director of national intelligence the authority to match his responsibility. he's getting a lot of responsibility and high expectation, but he doesn't have the authority. jenna: sir, why -- >> go ahead. jenna: i apologize for interrupt you. want to get this final point in. why do you think congress can help streamline this area better than the intelligence community that's really working on all of these different operations to keep our country safe? >> first, the intelligence piece did not pass the bill, i did n...

George w. bush was governor before he became president. bill clinton was a governor before he became president. senator obama, before he became president, here is something he said to wolf blitzer, an obama presidency you'll see there will be a sufficient respect for law and co-equal branches of government that i hope we won't find ourselves in a situation in which we would be having aides being subpoenaed for what i think everybody acknowledges is some troublesome information this was a question of bush aides back in those days. senator obama said co-equal branches of government, not going to...