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Job many years ago, colin powell who died today as an exceptional leader in and out of government. back with us, michael sang who served as a special assistant to secretary powell. he was also a former senior director of middle east affairs at the nsc as well as managing director of the washington institute. it struck me that one of the things we heard from antony blinken was that people, his people, would walk through walls for him. you were one of his people. why? why and how did he engender such respect and loyalty in a town that is not always known for either of those things. >> you know, ...

""meet the press" daily." "the beat with ari melber starts right now. good evening, ari. >> good evening, chuck. breaking impeachment news. as chuck just mentioned we are on the eve of history in washington and perhaps for the nation. hours away from this impeachment testimony going public for the first time on live tv. i have a lot in tonight's show. let me begin with the context. president trump bracing as more bribery testimony emerges, undercutting his defense and a new preview we got moments ago on what the democrats think might be the strongest case to impeach trump. so we're going to ge...

The head of u.s. central command, army general joseph votel told reporters he had no guidance, no new guidance as a result of helsinki. typically the white house would brief national security officials after such a meeting or provide them at least with a written memo. meanwhile, a u.s. ambassador in europe, who has extensive experience dealing with russia, told "the new yorker" that he and other state department officials who would need to know have received no post-summit briefings or even talking points about what actually happened. saying, quote, nothing. we are completely in the dark, comp...

Onjanuary 20th of 2017. and then a bombshell on the russia investigation. the president had ordered the firing of special counsel robert mueller back in june of 2017. but backed off when his white house counsel threatened to quit. and january 29th, it was memo week. president went against the fbi and department of justice recommends and approved the release of a controversial republican written memo accusing the bureau of in tensionally using questionable material to obtain a wiretap of former trump campaign aide carter page. and then last week with the rob porter headlines continuing into thi...

Washington, d.c., about how secure his job is? >> well, if you pay attention to how the president has responded to people that he has found troublesome and problematic, more often than not he doesn't fire them, at least that hasn't been what happened once he went to the white house. he creates an environment that's so you should have been for them that they step down and resign on their own. what will rosenstein choose to do as he has had to go up against this campaign where the presidentnd his party is politicizing is agency and presenting him in a light that makes him look like he can't do h...