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Something the president said shouldn't happen, people using sources, but so it goes, this is just another partisan attack by democrats. i want to push back on that. it's a familiar response from any white house when questioned like this. but did the democrats make jeff sessions say no when he was asked at his committee hearing if he had any contact with the russians? >> as mel brooks would say that's authentic frontier gibberish. they didn't put a name on it so i can attack the unnamed person. the bottom line here is there's a fact set. so we're talking about messaging and pivoting and states ...

Mattis was at a meeting with defense ministers. he defended support for the alliance, but members must be willing to pull their weight. >> a fair demanded that all who benefit from the best defense in the world carry their share of the necessary cost to defend freedom. we should never forget ultimately it is freedom that we defend here at nato. >> the nato secretary-general says the message from the secretary of defense is on target and completely fair. they need to do a better job of burden sharing. let's get a check on cnn money stream this morning. looks like all turmoil in washington is ...

The reason people sit down in the briefing room every day is because both sides get something out of it. i don't think that's the case coming in here. i think that will -- the second is, while we might use a strange spin in some cases, traditionally for the last 50 years, we've operated on the same basic fact set. ari and nicole will look at the facts and i will look at them and we will have a great argument about who is right and who is wrong. we're really in a place where -- we haven't seen this i think since the '60s with nixon where they use -- they create their own facts. somewhat or well...

Intent. you will lose a lot of people of your own, you'll face international pressure and it's not clear what you could achieve. having said that, there is a different situation than existed before. before you had tunnels from egypt that provided constant material and constant smuggling, which allowed hamas to build up this rocket capability. egyptians today have choked off those tunnels. that wasn't the case before. if you can in fact set back the rocket-producing capability, their storage capability, which is something that the israelis are trying to do right now, then if you bring this to a...

My focus is equally important on the process. on the fisa court itself, how is it selected? right now it's only by the chief justice of the united states supreme court, john roberts, acting alone without any kind of review. >> just so folks are clear here, the foreign surveillance intelligence act set up this secret court. the court itself is secret, the judges are appointed by john roberts in secret. there is no adversarial process. it's simply a government lawyer coming before this secretly appointed judge with no one on the other side. >> that's right, and that's the second important elemen...