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To spin it into a sort of hilariously transparent fashion. >> yeah. i mean, i think the things that i -- i do feel confident about now is that the power dynamics have changed from where they were early on in this administration and part of that is because, listen, in the early days of the white house it was like "home alone." they had no cabinet secretaries. it was bannon, priebus. now we have cabinet secretaries. we have gary cohen, the head of the n.e.c. we have dena powell who's now taking on a foreign policy and security role. so to some extent, yes, the power that rested in bannon and pri...

Advisors, susan rice, was the one that authorized the unmasking which included the president's associates, maybe the president himself. >> neil: she dances around the subject that it wasn't for political intent. if she did that, is that illegal in her security role that she had with barack obama? >> unmasking in an of itself is not illegal. you can unmask to a procedure. it would -- >> neil: unless you had compelling reason. >> even if you had the authority to do it. there's a statute that says it was unlawful to mask, you can't put it to the commerce, you can't put it out there to be leaked. ...

To coast guard would actually happen since it has such an important security role. >> talk about skepticism, maybe not that the cuts will happen but that they will help anything. thank you renee, i really appreciate it. joining me now is republican congressman from california, duncan hunter, thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having me. >> you've written about this. you call the idea of cuts to the coast guard budget appalling. your team even called it a joke. why? >> because the entire operating budget of the u.s. coast guard is $9 billion. let's put that in perspective. a department of defe...

Abe and the positioning, one thing i was waiting for that didn't happen is abe's biggest goal, private goal in japan, is repeal or gutted what they call article 9 in japan's constitution of the famous no-war clause. one time i put out a tweet saying i can imagine donald trump saying japan is weak. japan is limiting. japan is not playing the security role in the region it could because of article 9. that would be a huge gift to abe from donald trump that would change the domestic politics and make it very volatile in japan but change the domestic political scene. that didn't happen here. it was...

Company. they're saying they're not trained for these new security measures. this is stretching them too far. they don't believe they're adequately able to fulfill this new security role that malaysian airlines has asked them to do, and are wondering why the airline isn't providing air marshals, security to people who are trained to do the function they're being requested to do. the airline is saying it is instituting security procedures, aircraft procedures, that are familiar across many airlines around the world. so the airlines say they are taking the right measure and the right steps. so t...