so in favor of the democrats winning back the house of representatives and it was because of an absolute standard with no compromise that the government was shut down embarrassingly was then we opened after the country including a lot of democrats who were opposed to using the government as a bargaining chip for getting what we want on the dreamers sorry that speaker i hope she speaker minority leader pelosi feels that way but i think in the final analysis the democratic party needs to keep the government functioning and needs this budget bill as much as i really support the dream is legislation is the democratic party have a leader. no but it isn't unusual in opposition party years especially when one party controls all sides of pennsylvania avenue and the only thing that donald trump can brag about is something that he had nothing to do

with which was the writing of the tax bill and that is his one success claim but with all sides of pennsylvania avenue six hundred in both houses of congress by the republican party is dominant the democratic party has a hard time having leaders emerge and i think we have maybe ten or twenty that are thinking of running for congress in two thousand and twenty whoever does get the nomination will be donald trump and that will be our next party leader is it joe biden my clothes into the ring. he is certainly one of the strongest candidates that we have and extremely likable especially for in my case when it. was his chief of staff and when he was first elected at the age of thirty from the state of delaware so i have a long history with joe biden a quite frankly i would love to see a younger generation in the same age as joe so nothing disrespectful here i'd love to see a younger generation emerge and begin to reassert the youth base of our party

come up for it harris your senator is one such person i would love to see emerge as a party leader lanny stay right there we'll have more politicking right after the break.

i'm completely confused about why a republican administration made a change that was essentially. part of the democratic philosophy i can only think that's our way add deep within won't they. called the deep state in the us treasury there were left leaning bureaucrats who implemented this chase to a territoriality based system protect sation without anybody actually being aware of what was going on. the pentagon recently released its new nuclear posture review its critics are

stunned not only the use of nuclear weapons is now more thinkable but it's also the threshold for their use has been lowered dr strangelove would be proud is the world facing another dangerous arms race. politicking i'm talking with lanny davis the former white house counsel to president bill clinton and the author of the new book the unmaking of the president twenty sixteen how f.b.i. director james comey caused hillary clinton the presidency he joins me from new york. it's good in the tight basically how did he cause her the presidency when everyone thinks it's wisconsin and pennsylvania that cost of the presidency well what cost her pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin and

a number of other states i don't make an argument i don't use adjectives or adverbs or rhetoric i proved statistically that it is beyond dispute. that but for james komi october twenty eighth letter hillary clinton is present united states and here's how i do it it took me months of research of all the polls that on the morning of october twenty eighth hillary clinton is up six percentage points nationally she won by three million popular votes she would have won by over seven million plus six in the battleground states let's just take the three you mentioned pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin on october twenty eighth she is ahead by substantial margins in those three states according to all the polls no. nothing out of what i just said all of them and then within three days in the afternoon of october twenty eighth comes to call me letter an avalanche of headlines across the

country hillary clinton under new criminal investigation on e-mails all the networks all the cables twenty four seven all the media three days later her lead has collapsed in those three states and south carolina north carolina florida and arizona the entire electorate started to shift away from hillary clinton some of them stayed home many of them went over to donald trump and that is a simple fact of mathematics and it wasn't until two days before the election on november sixth that james komi said in effect a two sentence letter which he put out on sunday morning two days before the election. sorry we looked nothing there six days they were able to look at all of the six hundred thousand e-mails and found the hillary clinton ones where she was mentioned nothing there that changed the decision on not to prosecute and yet it was too late by then all of her lead has collapsed and she

lost the election and remember that on october twenty eighth in the morning she was winning by a greater margin then at that time and the election then barack. defeated mitt romney so people who say she ran a bad campaign she made a lot of mistakes they were responsible for defeat too but the one decisive thing that we know statistically is that she would have won had james komi not intervened improperly and written a letter to congress which he didn't have to write all he had to do is go look at those e-mails and earlier three weeks before he could have done that and didn't and he cost her the presidency and gave the country donald trump done a good bit of research well done let me but the question is not did my question is why so that's a mystery other than i never impugn motives because i'm not a psychiatrist i know that the character and conduct of james komi over the years

is consistent with a pattern of extreme norse's cystic belief that everything he does is right and he does not have to follow the rules that everybody else does for example there has been a rule for over half a century democratic and republican attorneys general don't do anything at the justice department within sixty days of a presidential election nothing wait till after the election don't do anything that might impact the presidential choices of americans he ignored he knew about this he said well i had to ignore it because i wanted to keep my commitment to congress well excuse me mr komi. you're not entitled to ignore rule you are appointed and you report to the attorney general and the president you don't get to not follow the rules he should have been fired by barack obama that's the only thing i agree with donald trump on but donald trump fired him as part of what appears to be an

obstruction of justice motive as he told n.b.c. i fired him because of the russian investigation he should have been fired because he violated a fundamental principle that the justice department does nothing that might impact a presidential election couldn't hold the attorney general have done something. well he did actually write an op ed and said that james comey was wrong and made a poor judgment but it was really learn how to lynch and sally yates who could have done something and but for their decision to not order him not to send his letter and they could have on october twenty seventh as i reported in my book they made a decision not to order him because they were worried about his grandstanding if they did and they thought hillary will win anyway what a sad understandable but said choice that gave us donald trump when they didn't order him not to send the letter you suggested that there was such overconfidence that deep thought you could win anyway right so somebody very close to the dog

o'shea sions on the day he was considering writing that letter. has told me and i've reported on many sides of this including senior people in the intelligence community that james komi wanted to protect his political rights in the congress and decided to send that letter even though the letter said we don't know anything we don't have any facts he specifically said that in his letter he wrote it anyway because he said there is no way that donald trump can get elected now he testified in may of two thousand and seventeen that he was not thinking that that letter might have affected the election a lot of people think that that he used the expression pissed off donald trump one of the reasons trump fired but we do know that komi had a choice of not sending that letter going over to look at the e-mails before he sent a letter and he would have found in six days because that's how long it took them there was nothing there he could have done it in early october this country would

have hillary clinton as president had he done that rather than being gamed by think rudy giuliani and other people who went on the air and predicted something was coming three days before the letter had rudy giuliani you know when he went on fox and said ha ha something is coming we now know that a cell of f.b.i. agents in new york city were leaking information to try to pressure komi to change his mind the notion that donald trump in the right wing are now trying to sell that the f.b.i. is a left wing pro hillary clinton conspiracy are you kidding me so it's unfortunate that komi just didn't see the possibility that what he was doing would elect this reckless and dangerous man in my opinion who's president have you spoken to hillary about your book yes and. and. for before the inauguration of mr trump and talked about burying myself in my grief

after the election and literally buried myself in data all the polls below the surface of. i told her i didn't just do you versus trump i did feelings towards you versus mr trump i did everything i could and the only thing i came up with was that you would be president had there been no komi letter and i want to know whether you think i should write that book and she said you would write that book a lot easier than i could because i'll be blamed for blaming it on comi and we both agreed that lots of mistakes were made in the campaign no campaign doesn't make mistakes that might have caused her to lose but the last one on october twenty eighth in the morning she was going to be president and then called me write this letter and she encouraged me and has supported me and came to my book party in washington and did a very nice treat about the book yesterday the today call me is a popular thing figure among democrats clothes near an adult kind of

a democratic hero. you're great over the years digging right into the core ironies of life oh six the irony is right in the middle of writing my book in which i actually legally in all of the ways prove that james komi cost hillary clinton the election that he was too worried about politics rather than the rules and then just at the point that i'm ready to finish up the book donald trump fires him and he becomes a hero i had to decide should i continue this book and then i realized it was still a fact that james komi has to live with he won't accept that he made the wrong judgment but he can't deny my statistics that's why i think he said he would be nauseated if he thought he changed the election while he was nauseated and now he is being made to a hero because trump and all the right wing are trying to suggest that he was pro hillary clinton that he should have prosecutor or recommended

a prosecution all these silly things when you think about the f.b.i. for if i said judges the entire justice department are all part of a left wing conspiracy are you kidding me right now komi is liked by democrats simply because trump fired them and the f.b.i. and called me are being attacked as a good. i was going says a good journalist your mother journalist you're a partisan but your hell of a writer. to call me for a quote. i did i called everyone and i got everyone to sit down with me they're not on the record and by the way i was editor in chief of the el daily news in my old the sunset is a great journalist and on c.b.s. and as the final four as you know so i'm a frustrated journalist and i did interview everybody many senior people in the intel it will not contain justice department and i called comi and i sent somebody very very close to him to ask please sit down with me and give me your explanation

as to why you did what you did and he respected him for this he just declined once to tell his own version of the story in an in a book that i think he's working on and i resent that as you know i mean i don't i'm so i'm told i did speak to so many people close to him and there are many many articles written in the new yorker the washington post new york times that had quote friends of jim comi explaining that he made his decision sincerely believing that he had made a commitment to congress and he needed to tell them about the find of the hillary clinton e-mails and the winner laptop but when i read the actual testimony larry this is one of the non told stories that i dug up here was his exact sentence when he was asked will you come back to us and report to us if you find anything new and here's what he said if i find anything new in the e-mails investigation i will take a look and then decide that's all he said i will take a look question then why didn't you take a look if he had taken

a look history would be different by a lot hillary clinton would be president because it took them six days to take a look and they determined nothing new here she's not going to be under criminal investigation but those headlines with eleven days to go hillary clinton under a new criminal investigation the polls and every other measurement she plummeted like a rock falling into a pond. where do you think it's going now with rosenstein and more. from well there's no question that if mr muller makes any effort at laying out a criminal case against donald trump that mr trump. will either fire him or fire mr rosenstein and somebody else to fire him i believe that i have no doubt that that is the trump pattern of behavior which he makes abnormal unconstitutional conduct as if it were normal but it will be

a constitutional crisis if he does that and i honestly don't think. we're at to have a military parade like the autocrats of the world china or russia do military parades that this man is not somebody who looks at our constitution as the supreme law of our country he more likens himself to putin into autocrat not labeling him and i'm not attacking him it is a simple fact that he mentions putin as a great leader who sits in on may day and looks at all the tanks rolling by that's not america he looks at the justice department as a law firm that should be loyal to him that's not america that's a banana republic our justice department is independent of politics in the white house at least it has been until mr trump so i'm very worried about a constitutional crisis in which this country is badly divided by a man that isn't looking at the constitution in my opinion just by his own words as

the supreme law of our country let me thank you always great talking with you because being on you again and again congratulations on the book thank you larry hope you have me back i love being on your show who all was lanny davis and the book is the unmaking of the president twenty sixteen how f.b.i. director james comey cost hillary clinton the presidency great read and thank you for joining me on this edition of politics remember you can join the conversation on my facebook page or tweet me at kings things and don't forget to use the politic the hash tag that's all for this edition of politicking. i.

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one thousand nine hundred two that must qualify for the european championships at the very last moment no one believed in us but we won and i'm hoping to bring some of that waiting spirit to the r.c.t. . recently i've had a lot of practice so i can guarantee you that peter schmeichel will be on the best fall since my last world cup i think the last throws are as we've. thousand all joke i was only kidding here i called russia. i fly strike. left left left more left ok stuff that's really good that very few united states pay more attention to peace would. of north korea nuclear issue i personally believe the risk of that can come up in just illusions but the ocean the us has been paying too much attention for military you know solutions but i talk to us to pay more attention to peaceful solution to the north korean nuclear problem.

to pu. dozens of russian athletes who've had their hopes dashed just hours before the winter olympics start in south korea as the court of arbitration for sport dismisses their appeals against a doping were later found. elsewhere syria calls on the un to

hold the u.s. coalition to account for wednesday's airstrikes targeting a pro-government forces and u.s. central command says the attack was to defend an american backed coup. and republican lawmakers in the us are threatening to cut funding to a global cancer research program after returning to america's most widely used we tell our company monsanto to cancel. thank you for watching the news headlines here at r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. a last minute appeal from forty five russian us meats and two coaches against a ban preventing them from competing in the lympics has failed the court of arbitration for sports secretary general and now it's the ruling with just hours to

go before the winter games get underway in south korea. is in the host city appealing chang right now for us in the area with some devastating news then for some of russia's top athletes including key medal hopes i mean can you tell us something about this ruling from pass. kate hello well the secretary general of the court of arbitration for sport was speaking just about thirty five minutes ago and as you were saying it's a disaster for team russia the ruling of cast that he announced so that's it speak forty seven russian athletes and coaches will challenge the international olympic committee at the court of arbitration for sport will miss the young chang winter games twenty eight c. so it was their last chance to make it happen but it never happened the

cast secretary-general said that the process that was established by the international committee to establish the invitations list wasn't a sanction but rather an eligibility decision that means that the court was fine with the criteria the i.o.c. chose for their invitations and according to cas refusing i don't live it can be taishan for these people doesn't equal to punishment this is what this man was saying as he was talking to the media now just to remind you there are people who never missed never sorry failed doping tests including former reigning olympic champions i should say the likes of victor on when they first heard that they weren't going to be invited here's how they. acted. and.

movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be opponents of it without even providing an explanation i've never given a reason to don't my own history and my integrity. the games in korea are to be the first in my career together with my book that we've been working towards this olympics for many years and it was my cheering group. i was showing the lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career i've given no reasons to doubt that i'm. so again there were two groups of russian athletes and coaches that appealed one was initially banned from competing at anti a live thanks for an amends by the international committee for life and they were

also stripped of their gold silver and bronze medals that they previously won but then last week the court of arbitration for sport cleared them all the second group were the athletes that never had any issues with the olympic officials or the anti-doping authorities but still they were not invited to compete at the young chang games without providing any explanation so they're scum there comes the actual contriver see here first the court of arbitration for sport decides to overturn one i.o.c. to fit the i.o.c. decision it allows the athletes to complete compete in the future it gives them back the medals but then they decide not to do what specifically for the winter games in young chang and. many people were arguing after the original cost decision to overturn the bands that the i.o.c. is going to put a lot of pressure on the court of arbitration for sport and so they did the

president called for reform so here's what else thomas back said back then. now so the decision is so extremely disappointing and surprising care for. the i.o.c. we would never have expected this. decision shows so the urchin to meet for reforms in the internal structure of the class. so again this situation is awkward to say the least of course it's a disaster for the russian sports community it is a disaster for the fans and something else that i want to point out here is that in this casts and now it's meant they only said they only gave the actual reason their decision they never explained the motivation so it means that half of the two

decisions the first one by the international media and then the other one by the court of arbitration for sport we still don't know why this huge group of athletes or two groups rather than i was telling you about the ones that have never failed the doping tests why they can't come to young change perhaps there will be a lot of questions asked of the russian fans and the russian media will be try to ask the members of cas and the i.o.c. questions but we'll see how they react. with plenty of ramifications after this many are trying to impede on chang south korea thank you very much indeed thank you . now syria has called on the u.n. to hold the u.s. led coalition to account for wednesday's asked. acts against pro-government forces the number of casualties has not yet been confirmed but some reports claim of two hundred people could have been killed u.s. central command described the attack as

a defensive move but russia's defense ministry said the unit was hit as it was carrying out an operation against an i s l. while carrying out an operation to locate and terminate an eyesore sleeper cell near form oil refinery a unit of pro-government forces was suddenly shelled and then hit by airstrikes by the u.s. led coalition vis was overkill if the numbers are true i would see a demonstration of she have brute force perhaps you know to send perhaps the send a message nevertheless the united states says that. it's in syria and it will defend itself and it has the right to defend itself in this instance syria and democratic forces acted in self-defense with support from the coalition to defeat an unprovoked attack by syrian regime forces in eastern syria if the situation is like how they describe that they were indeed attacks while fighting isis to make up

the right to self defense well if you take them at face value you could think so but the people they just killed were also fighting isis and recently they had been making money against isis then the united states against isis then the united states led coalition or their partner forces the the s.d.f. the syrian government has of course called all of this an act of aggression unwarranted and unjust but just for your information all of this happened in there is or near a rich oil field and refinery chronicle it's called it was liberated last year by the u.s. led coalition very quickly and fact. u.s. partner forces seem to have a knack for liberating areas with oil under them much quicker than they do those areas that don't have oil under them.