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Isn't that the meaning of the tweet this morning? >> and the question is whether the president really wants to solve immigration. he's used it again and again as a rallying cry for his base. whenever he has a problem, he riles up the base. keeping immigration alive as an issue that he can continue to lead, build the wall chance, helps him politically. i think that's part of his base political instinct, to derail anything actually happening on a policy front. >> absolutely right, that is his reflex, especially when he gets to a crossroads and there is a debate. the president trusts his instinct...

Hadn't been backed in the past. that has not happened. why is it there has been so little action, no action whatsoever in the months as soon as th-- since that last shootin as we look ahead to more after this one? >> we should have already acted since the last incident when we had when the president joined the conversation and assured the american people that there was going to be more gun regulation. >> you'll admit i'm sure you probably said the same thing after that shooting in parkland. the rhetoric is the same time and time again. >> it is. i agree with you. we need to work harder and fin...

Best of the men and women of the central intel jejs agency. on a policy front, i want to ask you about u.s./china relations. for decades american foreign policy with china has been rooted on the belief that if they prospered, they would embrace the global rule of law. that consensus, by all accounts has been catastrophicicly wrong. today china has under -- is undertaking a comprehensive effort to subplant the united states and to undermine us and they've benefitted from the greatest transfer of wealth in history through the theft and forced transfer of intellectual property. they use unfair tr...

Your qualifications but because i want a young c.i.a. trainee or case officer. i want today's operational officers and want today's station chiefs and today's -- all of these professionals to know that they, too, can one day be sitting where you're sitting today and have the opportunity to lead this agency. and i would ask if someone like you with your history and record of service and sacrifice and excellence, if someone like you cannot be confirmed to head this agency, who can? if someone like you is smeared in this process, what message are we sending to the young men and women who today ar...

Intelligence agency. on a policy front i want to ask you about u.s./china relations. for decades american foreign policy towards china has been rooted in the belief that as they prospered economically they would embrace dros, they would embrace the global rule of law. that consensus by all accounts has been catastrophically wrong. today china is undertaking a comprehensive effort to sue plant the soouts united states and to undermine us and they have benefited from the greatest transfers of wealth in history through the theft and forced transfer of intellectual property, they use unfair trade ...