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The president. i worked in the intelligence community. what the intelligence community does is to give policy makers facts is give them their best assessment of what is happening in the world. it's really up to the policy maker to take that information, use it or don't use it, up to them -- is up to them. but the current concern that i have is if policy becomes increasingly divorced from fact, then the united states has the potential to continue to lose power, lose influence on this issue, and continue to get bad deals like we saw in singapore. >> yeah. that's why facts matter. they matter. th...

That the president set out, i may disagree with it entirely as far as epa and science and protecting human health is concerned but that's his agenda and that's going to be contraried out by whoever's the administrator. scott pruitt is an embarrassment. not just to the agency. i get it. they don't care about that, but he's an embarrassment to the administration. the ethical tone deafness is extraordinary. i can't imagine what's keeping him there. certainly he's terrible for morale. i understand they don't really care about that, but i don't get it. the president should want him gone. >> the ans...

Standard going on here. senator cornyn talked about it and cotton as well. john brennan was the policy-maker at the time of what is deemed as the controversial or the senator warner talking about the interrogateive tactics and he got a pass by senator warner himself. so people who are condemning haspel here are the ones who confirmed brennan who had more decision-making role. what she was doing had been constitutionally evaluated by the attorney and she was following orders. >> i expect she will get a vote in the committee and then on the senate floor. a lot of the confirmations are taking too...

They have gamed it before trying to come to the country in planes. shoes that explode and if it's a border with crushes of people coming at one time it's a logical place to enter and i know you're not a policy maker but when we have lawyers rushing down to mexico, to make the case for asylum for people, again -- you can't check the background on most of the people. most people are like poor people. what are you going to go to the local town hall in honduras and do a background check on every client, you're not going to be able to do that, are you? >> there are background checks and we have ver...

Seems ridiculous but there are voters out there who see this as a line to be crossed. i think the fact that the white house this week acknowledged that there's a legal matter going on keeps the story alive. >> here's what i'm sure worries the president's lawyers. if the fbi or the special counsel, robert mueller and his team decide, you know what, it's worth checking into this and asking some serious questions about the $130,000. >> that's very, very worrisome. here's why. the underlying premise of the russia collusion investigation is about the requirement that we all have in our democratic s...