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If we had known it was not accurate, we would have found other ways to constrain him. i think the secretary felt very particularly coming from the military background that he did, he felt strongly about that. look, i understand the sense of regret. if we had known what the real truth was, we wouldn't have taken the actions we did. we would have found other ways to constrain him. >> martha: i don't know if you remember your last interaction with colon powell. he pulled away from your party the last several years, voted against john mccain, voted against president trump. your thoughts on that pa...

Joe biden promised america decisive action. but ten months in, things are unravelling. and the polls reflect the disatisfaction that is finding root within the electorate. the house speaker nancy pelosi sees the drift. last night she wrote a letter to her caucus... "in order to pass both the build back better act and the back and forth between progressives and moderates is not playing well for the democrats, and their chances in next year's mid term elections. and in a new york times column charles blow warned democrats this week they are in danger.

ALEXANDRIA – Good evening and Merry Christmas (to those observing), For those who follow me on Twitter, you know I’ve been spun up about the tri-service maritime strategy. It’s 37 pages of writing for 15 pages of substance. The sad part is the substance is quite good. It’s like a lovely flower hidden in the overgrowth of an untended garden of bloviation. Journalism professors teach first-year students to “kill your darlings.” The idea is that the writer may be in love with his or her own writing, but the question is whether that clever turn of phrase or witty quote adds anything t...

ALEXANDRIA -- Good Evening, Drifters In journalism we have a thing called "the nut graf." I always try to have one in every story. It's the "so what" paragraph of your story. Here's one I wrote about a request for information about a sub-launched drone for aerial surveillance: "The Navy has been interested in sub-launched drones for some time and has been testing prototypes, but the RFI shows the service is getting serious about the idea as it adds longer-range torpedoes and anti-ship cruise missiles to the arsenal of its attack submarines." I mean, it's not Shakespeare, and it's not even a p...

The political whims of the president. if that isn't a gross abuse of power, nothing is. >> if not for this whistle-blower, we would not know about it, so what else is there? >> people got the drift, well sondland got it, he didn't want to say about it, but he did get the drift. he was deputized basically to join the three amigos and become one of them and work under giuliani in this hijacked foreign policy. and i'm impressed at the consistency of the testimony of these 13 people who have spoken to the intel committee in the scif, the private room in the capital. do you think there'll be a prob...