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be amongst the gop if in fact they were to take back control of the house. >> i think it would be considerable for exactly the reasons that they laid out their. and it doesn't really matter what kevin mccarthy is saying right now about impeachment. the aid of the party, the burning energy, is this perpetual outrage machine, personified by marjorie taylor greene, and they will absolutely demand this and in fact, they will demand many things, like endless investigations into hunter biden. they'll make a litmus test out of a refusal to cooperate in any way with the biden administration, bipartisan compromises will be e, you know, furiously opposed. those will also be the kind of litmus tests that you will see, so kevin mccarthy may be sitting in his office thinking, okay, how do we avoid overreaching like newt gingrich did after the 1994 election?
problems but these ain't one. >> look at you throwing a little jay-z and there. let's talk about one of the major issues that has been unresolved. and it is when i was just talking about. the situation in yemen. and our relationships with saudi arabia and other gulf countries. why has that been such a dismal failure? >> such a failure. i completely agree with you by the way. i think that they are -- listen, they are trying to figure this out. the problem is. you don't have time to figure it out when you are president. i said the same thing when president trump came to office. you don't have time to figure it out. you are the president of the united states, right? and he has a team that is a well seasoned team in foreign policy. they went into office thinking that they could fundamentally change how foreign policy is pursued in washington. and i think that was the right goal. putting human rights at the center. putting corruption at the center of foreign policy. they certainly seem to have been pursuing that when it comes to china. right? but when it comes to everywhere
civilian jetliner being suspected of being hijacked. the whole idea of you lose lives in the air, you don't lose them on the ground. >> right. those were the choices that were being contemplated. >> what president ever enters office thinking i may have to do this? and it's unclear whether the president gave his thumbs-up before cheney passed it on or whether it was after. the president agreed either way. that flight was already nose down into shanksville. >> now we have been seeing some heartfelt tributes to those who lost their lives in those attacks. but one man's tribute to his firefighter brother literally has been a journey of several hundred miles that ended on saturday in lower manhattan as jason carroll now explains. >> reporter: one might say that with every step frank siller takes, he comes one step closer to honoring the memory of his brother stephen. >> everyone thought he was their
o'grady and columnist and manhattan institute senior fellow jason riley. mary, you were down there that day. we ran into each other in the office in fact before i headed uptown for a meeting. tell us about your recollections and kind of -- and what you take away from it. >> thanks, paul. well, yeah, i did see you that morning, and when the first plane hit and i saw the big gash in the side of the building and all these papers flying out and black smoke, i actually ran down to your office thinking i would find you and tell you, and it turned out that i was by myself at that point, and when the second plane hit, i did leave, but security told me to go back up stairs because our building had not been hit, and when the second plane hit, it was much louder, much closer to me. i heard the sound of the jet coming in, and it was literally right in front of my office. you know, paul, when i look back
accounted for, and today, that situation is for the worse, not better. >> much worse. nixon handed over the tapes, but there was a catch. >> i was in the white house, things were fairly quiet, and i got a call to go to ron ziegler's office. i go up to ron's office thinking something routine, and ziegler's ziegler's rattling the coffee cup, and that's when we learned about the gaps in the tapes. we had been told just about three days earlier that the worst is behind us, and suddenly, there was an 18.5 minute gap in the tapes, and all hell broke lose again. >> conversation in question took place just three days after the watergate burglars were caught and watergate prosecutor thought it important. >> we know that the gap was a conversation about watergate because it was withal president, and he was a meticulous note taker, and he took notes. >> the president's personal secretary was recalled to
legacy, his funeral, the impact it had on everyone sitting there watching it, are people in office thinking about what their message is, what their legacy will be what they did at a time like this? >> john mccain was such a hero. and to see the president of the united states demean somebody who was captured and a p.o.w. is just something that is insulting to our country. they just shake their head. how can somebody do that? that along with the book brings everything back to saying how can we let this guy continue. i think change is coming. >> we'll soon find out. all right, we're going to leave it there. when we come back, another tv giant. another one has fallen. this time, over at cbs. after more allegations of sexual misconduct sur fashioned against chairman and ceo les moonves. but some very big questions remain, including whether or not he's going to be taking home a
that the justice department is supposed to work, in his view. i think he came into office thinking that the justice department was going to be his own arm of enforcement and, an agency that was going to be able to carry out political retribution. that's the type of language that he used along the campaign, where he wanted to say, people will be prosecuted. someone will be locked up. this is the vision that he has, and unfortunately, he hasn't amended or updated or learned or gained more respect for how the independent justice system is supposed to work since he's been in office. >> john, shan just said, it's amazing that the president hasn't fired jeff sessions when he continually publicly denigrates him. well, the public just commented on that. here's this moment. >> jeff sessions recused himself, which he shouldn't have done. or he should have told me. even my enemies say that jeff
two leaders. >> do you sometimes sit in your office thinking of how badly u.s. relations are going and regretting the day that donald trump was elected? >> translator: what we see is merely the anti-russian hysteria and, yes, i regret it. it's a pity. acting together, we are more able to solve the acute problems that exist in the world. >> reporter: a year on from trump's inauguration, the grand celebrations held in moscow as he was sworn in. that dream of a u.s./russian partnership seems more distant than ever. george, there's no sense in which it's getting closer, either, that dream. the u.s. congress is expects to consider ratcheting up the economic sanctions against russia. that could plunge the difficult relationship between the two countries into a deeper crisis.
asia. but then he also has his base that's over there, that put him into office thinking that he was going to usher in this new era where american manufacturing was going to have new life breathed into it. so i think there are a couple different things going on there. >> christopher dickey, it's kind of interesting. i've been looking at different pictures today, and obviously there's a lot of support. there are plenty of people in south korea who do want to see a stronger stance so they can feel safer than they do. i also saw protesters out there with signs, signs that said things like president trump, please stop tweeting. please stop instigating this. please stop escalating this situation with north korea. are you surprised to see that? >> no, i'm not surprised to see that because the south koreans feel that their lives are on the line. that if there is military action with north korea, that there will be hundreds of thousands of casualties in south korea. so they're obviously worried, and if they think that their
genuinely believed was sitting in that office thinking about what is best for the 300 million people, whether they were right or wrong in my eyes, i genuinely believe that. this man is driven by what is best for him in that moment. >> but donni, he doesn't know what's best for him at this point. what he's doing is hurting his interests, hurting his political interests, hurting his political standing, hurting his white house. >> personality disorder. >> that's what i'm saying. hurting his country and in many cases hurting the world, and he doesn't know any better. there is not a sane, rational human being that would have tweeted what he tweeted yesterday knowing that the supreme court was sitting there and watching and reading and listening and knowing what everybody else in the white house knew the second he started those tweets, that it was against his own interest.