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>> literally tilting at windmills. >> it comes as his legal team decides its best defense in his civil rape trial. no defense at all? another deadly mass shooting in america. the latest, a medical center in atlanta, prompting an impassioned plea from georgia senator raphael warnock. also, new reporting on the deep financial ties between supreme court justice clarence thomas and a texas billionaire. >> keep getting deeper. >> it keeps getting worse. on capitol hill, there is no off-ramp when it comes to a deal on the debt ceiling. we'll have the latest on the contentious negotia...

Are still at loggerheads. >> i want to ask about one other thing secretary blinken said yesterday, which is that if the ukrainians can push back the line and get some strategic advantage, the united states would welcome chinese efforts to try to mediate this conflict. >> yup. >> i want to ask mr. president biden himself would support that, would view some kind of parallel effort with china to get this conflict to adjust to peace. >> president biden would support any credible and sustainable effort at driving toward a peace in ukraine. if that can be done through china, as secretary blinken sai...

End, we will win. our troops will fight to win. we will fight to win. >> secretary of state rex tillerson seems to be downplaying some of those expectations. here's what he told reporters this afternoon. >> i think the president was clear, this entire effort is intended to put pressure on the taliban to have the taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory. we may not win one, but neither will you. so at some point, we have to come to the negotiating table and find a way to bring this to an end. >> let's go back to the panel. do you see daylight between the president and his secre...

International news come and they want to make sure their voices are heard. that's one thing secretary rex tillerson pointed out. maybe this is evidence some of our pressure is working because they are trying to make a show. thank you so much. appreciate it. leland: as a brett baier noted earlier, the president ought as they reset the narrative. the narrative will ship back to domestic issues and former fbi director james comey testifies before the intelligence committee. he will respond to reports that president trump called him a nut job and firing him takes off some pressure. secretary of st...

It's clear this administration wants to have a more muscular foreign policy. they want to contrast themselves with the obama foreign which every foreign hand in the trump administration wanted to use diplomacy and this trump administration is to talk a big game and threaten a military action against enemies. >> another thing secretary tillerson said today he made it clear it wasn't just about the nuclear weapons program we think they're trying to get but they are doing a lot more when it comes to supporting terrorists, he says they're alarming and ongoing provocations that export terror and vi...