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>> neil: you think they're desperate? they got tens of billions -- they might not be as desperate as you think. >> apparently it's biting not just economically but politically. they're feeling the effects. that's something that was intended. we want them to actually stop their march towards nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them through ballistic missiles. that's what we and the europeans and other gulf state countries ought to be pushing them to do, to reconsider their very aggressive actions in the region. they're the number 1 state sponsor of terrorism in the world based on the state...

Every day, doing policy by tweets is really a shake-up for us, because there's no justification presented. there's no state department analysis. there's no nothing. and now there's a reluctance to respond to questions submitted by democrats, even the democratic ranking member, for example, if i were to write a letter as ranking member of judiciary to the white house, and ask some questions, not controversial, they don't necessarily have to answer me. >> yes. >> that's never existed before, regardless of party. >> senator dianne feinstein, thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. ...

Every day, doing policy by tweets is really a shake-up for us, because there's no justification presented. there's no state department analysis. there's no nothing. and now there's a reluctance to respond to questions submitted by democrats, even the democratic ranking member, for example, if i were to write a letter as ranking member of judiciary to the white house, and ask some questions, not controversial, they don't necessarily have to answer me. >> yes. >> that's never existed before, regardless of party. >> senator dianne feinstein, thank you so much for joining us. >> you're welcome. ...

Jobs for the american workers and move us greater towards energy independence. >> on his first day on the job, press secretary sean spicer put us on full alert that not everything he says from that podium is going to be true. that caution has remained necessary throughout the week. take what he said today on the keystone pipeline, the divisive infrastructure project that would transport dirt y car bonn pollution laden tar sands oil from canada across the u.s. it's a well-worn talking point that building keystone xl will create tens of thousands of new jobs. a state department analysis for 2014...

Create tens of thousands of new jobs. a state department analysis for 2014 found that while building the pipeline will require bringing in more than 10,000 workers, the total number of permanent jobs created by keystone would be about 35 permanent employees. turns out, once you build a pipeline it doesn't require a lot of people to make it work. also worth pointing out, assisting a foreign oil company in transporting foreign oil on to a global market does not, as sean spicer said, move our country closer to energy independence. keystone is one of many alternative facts that may have gone mostl...