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Trump administration sees that as good and helping them and as fuel for this policy and encouragement to double down. in that environment, when outrage is what they want, what is likely to work? because on so many other issues it has been the courts, should we expect that on this issue it could be the courts as well. joining us now is dolly lithwick from slate.com. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> what do you make of the chances of this policy being blocked or alters in court? >> well, i think that aclu suit that you just described, that was a surprising language. we sh...

News h.r. mcmaster was fired to be replaced by former u.n. ambassador john bolton, fred cap lynn's take at slate.com serves pretty well, i think. caplin's reaction to the news tonight is this, quote, it's time to panic now. john bolton's rise to power puts us on a path to war and since trump appointed him while knowing bolton's views, it means trump wants to be on that path. i saw that actually and wondered if mr. kaplan might be taking this worse than your average bear but i saw the take was retweeted by former u.s. ambassador to russia. that got me thinking, ambassador mcfaul joins us live. ...

Election? it is now undeniable and and an article on slate.com, a lesson in russian strategic deception. with a good morning to you both, i'll reach out to you first, john. you say the mueller indictment shows how russians used our biases against us. they tried to change behavior. were they able to do it? >> well, what's interesting about this, this is part of russian intelligence doctrine, this idea of information warfare and they call active measures and has several parts. we've seen some of those parts. one of the parts is disinformation, putting information out there to sew chaos and confu...

Do you think republicans still buy that? you have the stormy daniels situation, access hollywood tape, past sexual misconduct allegations all leveled against the president. or do you think the republicans are like we're done caring about this? >> i mixture of both. i think they believe it and done caring. they accept the fact that this is the leader of the party at the moment and he's who they are forced to work with. all of the allegations that continue to come out and stories whether they believe them or not, it doesn't matter politically, they have to focus on the agenda. what is very inter...

Slate.com -- in march 2017, the fbi still had the matter under investigation. federal investigators and computer scientists continue to examine whether there was a connection between the so if that report from cnn was accurate, that means the fbi looked into the ultra bank trump servers communications. they looked at it for month. they treated it as a counterintelligent issue and was likely still ongoing in the fbi when robert mueller was appointed special counsel to take over the entirety of the russia investigation just a couple of months later. now, as part of the controversies around tho...