he was the reason he was unqualified?al of course not. he was very well qualified serving in the d.c. circuit court. the reason was stated clearly by senator mcconnell. we were going to place a bet that the next president would be republicans and let them fill this vacancy so when the republicans come to the floor as politi about the politicization of this process the reason we are here when we should be celebrating the one-year anniversary ofe merrick garland in the supreme court is because they that filled by a republican president. that's exactly why we are here today. this notion that somehow fanciful that the choice of neil gorsuch was made by outside groups is belied by the very words of the president himself who thinks the heritage foundation to special-interest f republicans organizations for giving him the list of nomineesr for the supreme court. it was very open and public and there was political gratitude that they came up with the name neil gorsuch and that's fact. when you look at the history the senator from kentucky to repu

people were signing letters saying he was unqualified, and the nra was spending hard money to get himnt ally for him, and we've seen so far that he has governed for the most part to get them behind him. >> they endorsed this president earlier than any president they've ever endorsed. more than $30 million they pumped into the campaign directly and indirectly to help get him elected. president trump in the building, we're told, by the way, in atlanta. when he starts his speech, we'll certainly go to it. michael, i want to real quickly talk about the first 100 days. this is president trump in an interview talking about the difficulties of this job. here's part of what he said. >> i loved my previous life. i had so many things going. i -- i actually, this is more work than in my previous life. i thought it would be easier. >> really? really, michael? he thought it would be easier? >> well, he really has given every sign that that's true. he gave an interview to the "new york times" just after the election where he said, you know, it would be quite easy for me to run the country perfectly

some of my friends on the left have called judge gorsuch unqualified, too conservative and someone who is simply not in the judicial mainstream. judge gorsuch started his legal career by earning degrees from not one but two ivy league schools, columbia university for his undergrad, harvard law for his jurist doctor. he even, as a marshall scholar, earned a degree from oxford. when one takes into account these extraordinary educational achievements, it would be simply incomprehensible how anyone would consider him unqualified. his record on the bench is just as impressive. we've heard these numbers so many time that we sometimes just gloss over or glaze over these numbers, but these numbers are powerful indicators of how successful he has been as a judge. out of nearly 2,700 cases, judge gorsuch has been overruled only twice. 98% of his opinions were unanimous, further proving that he falls exactly square in the judicial mainstream. he has received well qualified, as my senator from arkansas just stated a few minutes ago, from the american bar association, the highest rating available f

. >> reporter: tonight the president still insists the tomahawk missile strike was an unqualified success. tweeting out, "congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the united states, and the world so well." not long ago trump was reluctant to intervene in syria. we don't want world war iii over syria. >> back when president obama wanted to punish syria for a previous chemical attack. trump tweeted what will we get for bombing syria besides more debt and a long term conflict. obama needs congressional approval. trump informed congress after the missiles were launched. george stephanopoulos asked secretary of state rex tillerson if the strike signals a change in u.s. policy. >> this strike was related solely to the most recent horrific use of chemical weapons against women, children and as the president said even small babies. we are calling on bashar al assad to cease the use of the weapons. other than that there is no change to our military posture. >> even as the president was juggling two foreign issues, china and syria. he had to intervene in a conflict among

. >> tonight the president is touting his first 100 days as an unqualified success. >> i believe that the first 100 days of my administration has been just about the most successful in our country's history. >> reporter: yet tens of thousands of marchers in d.c. and other cities would beg to differ. the protesters today focused on climate change. tonight as the main stream media he likes to bash gathered in black tie for the annual white house correspondent's dinner, trump is heading here in pennsylvania where he'll tour a lawn mower factory and hold a campaign rally. >> and i think having a campaign rally in pennsylvania when a lot of people in washington are in tuxes at a dinner is just brilliant. >> reporter: trump says the media refuses to give him credit for his long list of achievements including 28 legislative signing. in fact, he's signed 29 bills so far. 13 of them repeal obama era rules and regulations. 9 ceremonial in nature commemorating veterans and encouraging flying the flag and innovation. 7 have legislative substance. trump is still getting started. >> day one we are

jesse: you don't think she is unqualified, do you? >> no. this is a topic that's difficult to debate because i like her. there was a huge sign that said ivanka trump with all of her clothing. when you say she is not taking a salary. but she is benefiting financially from this position. jesse: it wasn't one of the department stores that dropped her. >> you have to look at it from both sides. >> she is a successful business person, that of that's great. people voted for trump because they want successful business people running the white house who know what they are doing. >> we need a role model who are not kardashians. jesse: you are sething a low bar. you are not kardashians. >> millennial women and girls look at the kardashians. jesse: if i was donald trump and i had all these swamp creatures swimming around me trying to take me out i would have someone i trust around me and i think that's what he did. the press caught with its pants down again. and spring break craziness under way. where do you go to school? >> florida state. jesse: you g

let's understand what is really going on, democrats want you to make you thing neil gorsuch is unqualifiedyet he was unanimously confirmed to president obama's circuit court. at the end of the day, this is about donald trump. they want to make him a failure as a president. they don't want to give him an inch on the bench of u.s. supreme court. at the end of the day this is about throwing everything up there, and hoping it sticks, nich neil gorsuch niche will be confirmed. thatemocrats will be very sorry. >> this is a big win for president trump. for all conservatives who are unhappy about health care bill, and' to see action, a great many of them voted for president trump, specifically on this issue, they wanted a conservative to take the place of scalia, that is what is going to happen. this could get his momentum back in place. and i think that democrats are scared of that. >> one last thing about the plagiarism. neil gorsuch submitted 75,000 pains of documents, and 20 hours of questioning, and 299 written responds, this is the best you can come up with? move on do america's business. ch

some of my friends on the left have called judge gorsuch unqualified, too conservative and someone who is simply not in the judicial mainstream. judge gorsuch started his legal career by earning degrees from not one but two ivy league schools, columbia university for his undergrad, harvard law for his jurist doctor. he even, as a marshall scholar, earned a degree from oxford. when one takes into account these extraordinary educational achievements, it would be simply incomprehensible how anyone would consider him unqualified. his record on the bench is just as impressive. we've heard these numbers so many time that we sometimes just gloss over or glaze over these numbers, but these numbers are powerful indicators of how successful he has been as a judge. out of nearly 2,700 cases, judge gorsuch has been overruled only twice. 98% of his opinions were unanimous, further proving that he falls exactly square in the judicial mainstream. he has received well qualified, as my senator from arkansas just stated a few minutes ago, from the american bar association, the highest rating available f

in 2007 aggressive unqualified political dissent is alive and well and venezuela and how was that working out for you? and then only government to provide institutional framework that is repugnant to journalist and to be sure the that is fundamentally hostile to freedom of expression. b.c. it when they're barred from college campuses we see it with university bureaucrats want to continue to empower that prey framework of prevention. and those to restrict political speech and regulate the online pack --- platforms. where did the people stand on greater governor regulation of the internet? they strongly demand that the emir supposed to believe the freed -- the true motive is to protect free speech? so do we want the government to control the internet with those from the republican congress in 1996 to reaffirm the republican fcc. and then to invest in those networks with that of mind of a structure with the digital opportunity. thirty-one jeff you were americans or put them back to work? do we want rules of promote competition for consumers'? do one american consumers broad ban prices? and t

he has been under this cloud by the investigation, it makes unqualified, he has decided to carry thiscan distance themselves from the white house and actors they should do in the interests of the intelligence committee's investigation, that would restore some of the faith in congress. it certainly needs its fate restoring because people do not think much of american congressmen that perhaps we should have more people like scott taylor, a former navy seal who wants to do the bestjob you can. i can think of one or two in the gallery! never has going nuclear sounded quite this anti—climactic. let's have water. 0n let's have water. on this boat, the ayes a8, the noes a2. by unanimous consent, a mandatory call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate to be an associate justice as the supreme court of the united states should be brought for close upon reconsideration? that was the scene on the floor of the us senate an hour ago as the august body triggered what's called here the nuclear option. don't worry, there's no mushroom cloud over the capital, but that seemingl

we regret to this outcome theouh canceled especially given your unqualified support for our studentsht to bring speakers of their choosing to the university and our deep commitments to the values and principles embedded in the first amendment, it's the opposite of that, actually, isn't it? >> yes it is, i am giving the speech, what are they going to do, arrest me? they can put me in the birmingham jail. i am definitely giving the speech, i'm invited to give the speech, they kept piling on requirements, ruses, you can to speak of evening, you have to speak in the daytime when kids are in classes, you have to exclude everyone except students. the intermediaries kept encouraging me to say this is unfair, they never do this to liberals. i kept saying nope, i'll do it, okay, okay. i agreed to all of their demands and then wake up this morning and they sent out a letter saying how much they love the first amendment and freedom of speech and if there are so committed to it but we're just her anyway. >> tucker: what does that mean exactly, they're not allowing you to speak there? these are s

he is completely unqualified, completely unprofessional.doesn't live in the place he's supposed to live. shame on him and shame on the voters who voted for him. cheryl: to be fair, neil, he did explain that, neil. and i want to give neil a chance. >> the republican nominee took down a breast cancer organization by attacking planned parenthood. that's what her politics are. extreme right-wing politics are not going to fare well in this district. cheryl: again, this is a democrat versus a republican, you have two candidates versus a completely split republican ticket. fascinating. we're going to be watching it. erin and neil, thank you very much. >> i like the slogan he used, we're going to work our ossoff. remember that slogan? good slogan. i appreciate jokes like that. cheryl: that's good. david: venezuelan protests are getting quite violent. anti-government protesters taking over the streets. we have the frightening details coming next. >>> one prominent member of the patriots not making the trip to the white house to celebrate the super b

and from the db2 popularity, so from hamilton's point of view as a check andr balance against an unqualified person someone i was qualifieded but not for the job and someone supporting close to the president is not qualified for the job and somebody that was poignant because the favored side of the particular state wouldn't be fair to everybody else. when you look at the history of the advice and consent clause i don't think the founding fathers had in their mind one party would nullify one of another party that was chosen by the people when it came to the supreme court confirmation because they chose somebody they didn't agree with philosophically, so i voted for them knowing that they come from the progressive judicial pool, and neil gorsuch is one of the finest any republican president could have chosen and he is as qualified as they were. his record is incredible. ten and a half years on the bench, 2700 cases and one reversal. he received the highest rating of the american bar associatione the committee as well qualified a supreme court nominee must be in the legal profession, havepe out

the nomination of neil gorsuch has been an unqualified success for this white house and for the republicans in the majority and in the senate it's not -- there are not a lot of other big successes. >> so far. jeffrey toobin, thank you so much. you should read this piece. it's fascinating. at the high court, thank you so much. >>> we now turn to a show of force against north korea. president trump deployed a navy strike to tamp down north korea's nuclear threats or at least try to. certainly a show of force. it is on its way as secretary of state rex tillerson arrives next hour for the g7 meeting in italy. he is expected to deliver more tough words on russia and syria's tough chemical weapons attack. barbara starr is at the pentagon. will ripley is the only journalist inside north korea. the significance of this move, barbara. it's not like a carrier hasn't moved to that region before. >> reporter: carriers do operate there pretty routinely, poppy, but here's one of the big signals why this is a message sending exercise, at least in large part, and that's because the pentagon is talking abou

a longer-term challenge but i do think until we get policies and practices in place to take the unqualifieddata with the alphabet soup agencies we will still have these problems. >> and with this military power we don't weigh in if it is just right or wrong we would address them but one thing that is concerning and to engage militarily all over the world and live in other ways to engage the world. to pull out of the u.n. and to have those two different approaches they did not show up end to specifically address the travel ban and and in geneva that approach is confusing and similarly with nato there is a serious concern bet they will expand the notion the fact there are reports with the use of force with places like somalia and in yemen and as a result more people will join in the forces. >> and this could be a whole other conversation the lot of talk of immigration boils down to america first. >> but that is not accurate. >> felicia lead take care of our own people will take care of others. i am from california and i m from i community in icy these refugees so little in is an american? wha

qualification judicial temperament and record of independence are trulymy exceptional he has my unqualified support for his confirmation for the nation's highest court. when president obama and the presidents before him were collected from both parties it was the standard procedure here in the united states senate to give the incoming president the benefit of the doubt the people have also basically endorsed his responsibility and his right to nominate judges to the courts. that is a given because american people spoke with their selection taking into consideration those responsibilities the f president would have so i voted for most of the obama is nominees as it did with clinton's so now we are so polarized even with the qualifications of judge courses each is now opposed by a of friends will be beside the the aisle and on this side of the ideal that is not the way the senate was designed to work and to communicate and work together and understand results and then they try to do things in a bipartisan fashion with the near hysterical opposition but does not bode well. i yield of four. >>

he is plainly unprepared, unqualified, and he often seems unhinged.ossibly put our future in the hands of such a man? brian: i've interviewed you lots and lots of hours. i have actually no idea what your politics is, and it surprised me when i saw this, and i thought, why did this historian do this? david: because i felt that he was at the least qualified candidate for the presidency in that he not and only had no appropriate background or training and has never done anything for his country, on his own or volunteering, and that he is one of those people who uses fear and smear and slander as his weapons for succeeding. and i really was worried and i still am about what the consequences are going to be. brian: how did you -- did you still am about what the organize of the other historians? david: no, i did not. yes and no. ken burns and i did. we said we had to do something. the traditional place that historians take in a political contest has been to stay out of it, maintain neutrality, because it would appear to violate your ability to make fair jud

the rough transition, the nepotism, promotion of flagrantly unqualified people to consequently political offices, the fact that there are 553 positions that need approval and they haven't nominated somebody for 512 of them. the careening incompetence of the new administration has been amazing to watch thus far. i'm desperate to come to work these days to see what will happen next. we are getting to one of these moments now we all knew would come when that clown car of incompetent catastrophe after catastrophe, when that clown car has pulled up to the scene of a real situation. i don't think it's fair to say we're in a national security crisis right now. we're a hair's breath away from one breaking out on any number of fronts. that is happening in a moment within this new administration, national security stuff is going haywire right now. not like they're really screwing up on light rail and pesticide use. national security is going haywire right now. the administration has gone out of their way to insult and start pointless fights with almost all of our closest and most important allies

. - we're about to vote on a totally unqualified individual to be ambassador to a nation which is very important to our national security interests. - why do we choose ambassadors? - some of them are supremely gifted, college presidents, corporate ceos, foundation presidents who have unparalleled qualifications. others, the main qualification is they contributed to the president's campaign, whether it's in the democratic party or republican party, and i think it really depreciates the process of naming and selecting ambassadors. - when we appoint an ambassador who can't speak the local language and isn't even sure who the prime minister is or what party he or she belongs to, we look unserious. - it's important that you have both career foreign service people involved in diplomacy and political people who can represent the president's political interests. that's important, that's the basis of our democracy. - [voiceover] but concerns linger over the appearance of patronage and its impact on u.s. foreign policy interests. - since the kennedy adminstration, 70 percent of our ambassadors r

it's not like he forgot to say trump is unqualified.e says it more time than he brushes his teeth. that was his whole thing for a whole year. so it's up to us in a democracy and it would be unwelcome and wise for him to use that bully pull pit incris niminately. he did speak out when president trump did attack muslims around the world with the muslim ban. when trump does more shameful things, i'm sure president obama will say something. but i was just happy to see the brother. i got my popcorn out, like thank you, lord. >> what do you mean, thank you lord? for what? is. >> he looked tan, he looked happy. he had a bounce in his step. talking more chicago. it was like watching a rerun of your favorite show. i'm like thank you, lord. i was just happy. >> paris is the only person on the panel who is not smiling. >> no, listen. president obama was unable to deliver secretary clinton into the white house and so he wasn't able to do anything about president trump but at the end of the day it was appropriate for him not to try to attack preside

. >> you think nudge neil gorsuch is so unqualified for the u.s.me court, you're willing to blow up a couple of hundred years of tradition in the united states senate? >> wolf, what i'm saying is, if you can't get 60 votes on a senator, what you should do is not change the rules. you should change the candidate. and i'm sure there would be other judges that president trump could put forward that i would be supportive of. i just am a little surprised and disappointed that we've got a judge here that i do think has outside the mainstream views, and rather than saying okay, let me try to put somebody up that could get 60 votes, the same way that the judges that president obama put up gained more than 60 votes, instead we'll have the majority leader change the rules. i think it's disappointing. it may inure to the republicans' benefits in the short term, but as we know in politics, times will change, the democrats will get in control, and they'll using the same tool. i know there are some people still talking so i'll try to keep a little bit of optimis

apparently the rules applied to the first black president of the united states do not apply to the most unqualified president we have ever had. release the tax returns, show me the visitor logs, go to work, donald trump. >> let's get those visitor logs released. and in return, let's get the phone calls, whatever phone calls and relationships and business between nancy pelosi and congressman schiff -- >> this is a reach. how about we find out who else from the trump campaign and the current trump administration were speaking to the russians. this is about transparency. this is about doing what's best for all of the american people, not just the republican base or donald trump's voters. >> that's the last word. i did hear for jeffrey lord to call for the visitor logs to be released. thank you both for the debate. >> in return for the other. >> got it. thank you both. >> all right. this other story we're following this morning, the murder suspect accused of posting a video of the crime on facebook. the man on your screen is still at large. our law enforcement expert says this fugitive wants to be caug

and it starts with this installment of a completely unqualified gentleman named steve bannon on the nsc. he has no foreign policy experience, no national defense security experience whatsoever. so this doesn't surprise me at all. it permeates from his general approach, and frankly his lack of regard for the intelligence community. >> all right. congressman denny heck, thank you for your time tonight. >> you're welcome. >>> joining me now, karen demurgeian and barton gelman. latest piece, is the trump white house spying on the fbi. bart, let me start with that on you. i think the operating principle or the operating assumption a lot of us have had is there was a fishing expedition into the raw intelligence by the white house as a means of reverse-engineering some plausible kernel of a basis for this wildly unsupported claim by the president. it was then given to nunes. you sort of floated an alternate theory about what these individuals might have been doing inside that intelligence. what is that theory? >> well, it's really a question. i don't have a basis to say it is happening, but it

frank is showing some signs of being unqualified at being a general manager. are things that he should know that he just simply doesn't know. >> that's what we'll do from now on, not a problem. >> hi. >> hey. >> how are you? let me just close the door. so, guys, i need you to get my mind wrapped around frank being the general manager here. help me understand why you think he's the right person to be second in charge. you know, he's not necessarily the way he should be. i'm watching him argue with donna. i'm not convinced. >> he runs the show downstairs. >> yeah, here's the problem that i have. i-i have general managers all over the country. and i want them to be able to run the entire business. which means understanding things like work flow and cash flow. and i don't sense that from him. coming up... >> frank, no one knew you ordered this. you're supposed to give me the p.o.s. what are you missing? >> you look a little stressed. >> i'm tired of frank. >> that [bleep]'s gonna stop. i love you, couch. you give us comfort. and we give you bare feet... ...backswe

from hamilton's point of view the check and balance against a crony and unqualified person soo someone who was not qualified for that job, someone they were supporting because they were close to the president someone their particular part of the state and would not be ferreted anybody else. in the advice and consent claust it's pretty clear i don't think the founding fathers had infy their mind that one party would nullify the election when the president of another party was chosen by the people and came to the supreme court confirmation because they chose somebody that did not agree with philosophically. s i voted for a leyna kagan and sonia sotomayor knowing it was a progressive judicial pool and ican p finest conservatives that any republican president could have chosen and he is every bit as qualified as they were. his record is incredible. 10 and a half years on the bench , 2700 cases in one reversal. he received the highest rating of the american bar association and well-qualified to merit the committee's rating of well-qualified a supreme court nominee must be a prominent member

was the reason he was unqualified? of course not. he was unanimously well qualified, serving on the d.c. circuit court. the reason was stated by senator mcconnell, we're going to place a bet that the next president will be a republican and let them fill the vacancy. when a republican comes to the floor talking about the politization of this process, the reason we are here when we should be celebrating the one-year anniversary of merrick garland on the supreme court is because they kept that position vacant so it could be filled by a republican president. that's exactly why we're here today. this notion that it is somehow fanciful that the choice of neil gorsuch was made by outside groups is belied by the very words of the president himself who thanked the federalist society and the heritage foundation, two special from republican organizations, forgiving him a list of nominees for the supreme court. it was very open and public there was gratitude -- political gratitude -- that they came up with the name neil gorsuch. and that's a fac

you may not agree with it, but you can't say he's unqualified and i'm hoping my friends on the democrat see that and let us have an up and down vote. that's what we're fighting over, chris. all this nuclear option and culture, that's complicating it. all we're fighting over is whether kneel gorsuch should have nominated by duly elected president of the united states that some people like and some people don't whether kneel gorsuch should have an up or down vote by the united states senate, which is why my constituents sent me up here. i don't think it is unreasonable to say let's have an up and down vote and let the chips fall where they may. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you, chris. >> chucklehead, that is not a word i use enough. >> i was going to say. >> why is president trump peddling another scandal? what will he do today about the very real international crisis unfolding in syria? our all-star panel discusses all of that next. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james fi

. >> people who are unqualified but trusted?. >> i'm trying to summarize what you said. >> yes. >> dan? >> first, i'd make a couple of points. i think even if jared kushner was the most experienced, most talented person to serve in government he has more on his plate than that person can do. you can't handle iraq, middle east peace and reorganizing government. this speaks to i think problematic elements in president trump's management style and the lack of talent and experience in that white house. it makes sense for presidents to put people around them that they are close to. it makes sense -- valerie is someone who has more experience in business and in life than jared kushner before he showed up here. but she had a portfolio specific to her experiences. she wasn't given the entire world like president trump has given jared kushner. it's not possible to succeed like that. >> we know it's china. we know it's opioids and it's infrastructure. here is donald trump talking about jared kushner in a variety of different environments

popular to do so from hamilton's point of view it was a check and balance against a crony or an unqualified person, someone who was popular but not qualified for the job, somebody was appointed because there are close to the president, not qualified for the job, somebody o was appointed because they were the favorite son of a particular state that would not be fair to everyone else. when you look at the history of the advise and consent clause, it's pretty clear that he don't think the founding fathers had in their mind that one party would nullify the election when the president of another party was chosen by the people when it came to supreme court confirmation because they just somebody they did not agree with philosophically. so i voted for elena kagan and k sonia sotomayor, knowing that the come from the progressiveis one judicial pool, and neil gorsuch is one of the finest conservatives that any republican president could have chosen, and he is as evident as qualified as they were. he is a record is incredible. tenten and a half years on the bench, 2700 cases and one reversal. rat he

back in 2007 he said the aggressive unqualified political dissent is alive and well in the venezuelan livestream idiot in a manner few other democratic nations have ever known including our own. how is that working out for you? he and another co-founder of the special interests argued during the obama administration that quote only government can make policies and subsidies to provide the initial framework for quality journalism. this report was a journalist is the very building week gather. to be sure it is tempting to dismiss the statements as isolating rants. unfortunately it is all too typical of the larger movement in our country today that is fundamentally to free speech and expression. we see it as an effort to banish those who express unpopular statements on my to see it when speakers are barred from college campuses sometimes violently. we see with university bureaucrats who are willing in phrases like we will continue empowering a culture of prevention and receive the members of the federal election commission seek to restrict political speech, regulate on line platforms lik

confirmed by the senate to become an appeals court judge, what happened in the meantime to make him unqualified for the supreme court? >> you heard senator coons just say it, but democrats are saying is you handled the merrick garland process so badly last year, this is base of the just trying to get back at the republicans. so you have a qualified judge, someone who is widely respected, someone who democrats are saying they will support, if you democrats saying they will support, majority of democrats, 40 plus democrats are saying they will not support gorsuch because of last year's battles. i don't think it is a good strategy for them. i think it will be really rough on them, and it probably will be next time around there is another opening, and there probably will be in the next coming years, republicans only have to get 50 votes, 51 votes. that will probably be a nominee that is more to the right. >> jon: hang on one second. we will be back in a moment. aleve with direct therapy tens device, a relief from lower back pain. i put it on my back. i feel this electrical pulse grabbing at my musc

what he is basically acknowledging is how manifestly unqualified and unprepared he was. he had no idea what it was going to be like to deal with congress. he had no idea what it was going to be like to deal with a federal judiciary. he didn't understand the constitution. he had no idea how complicated the executive branch was. and frankly, he obviously had no idea the gravity of the decisions he would have to make as president of the united states, including on international affairs and trade. but what an amazing thing for him to sit down and go yea i really had no idea what i was getting into. and when i promised that everything was going to be eds, easy, i really didn't have a clue. remarkable. >> and it is semi public information. once you're elected president, to your surprise on november 8th, you have time to grab bob woodward's book "the agenda." it's not a long book. it's about the first year of presidency. it's the single book to read if you're president. you'd pick up a lot. george mitchell would come to trump tower, and he would tell you here is how it works. h

and it starts with this installment of a completely unqualified gentleman named steve bannon on the nsc. he has no foreign policy experience, no national defense security experience whatsoever. so this doesn't surprise me at all. it permeates from his general approach, and frankly his lack of regard for the intelligence community. >> all right. congressman denny heck, thank you for your time tonight. >> you're welcome. >>> joining me now, karoun demirjian and barton gellman. latest piece, is the trump white house spying on the fbi. bart, let me start with that on you. i think the operating principle or the operating assumption a lot of us have had is there was a fishing expedition into the raw intelligence by the white house as a means of reverse-engineering some plausible kernel of a basis for this wildly unsupported claim by the president. it was then given to nunes. you sort of floated an alternate theory about what these individuals might have been doing inside that intelligence. what is that theory? >> well, it's really a question. i don't have a basis to say it is happening, but i

. >> donald trump has proven himself to be temperamentally unfit and unqualified to be president of the united states. >> i wake up every day and laugh at the latest thing donald has tweeted because he's losing it. i mean we're liable to wake up one morning and donald, if he were present, would have nuked denmark. >> well, today facing mounting crises from a north korean missile launch to a chemical weapon attack in syria, president trump said he will take responsibility for handling them both. but he also repeatedly blamed president obama again and again. let's watch. >> i think the obama administration had a great opportunity to solve this crisis a long time ago when he said the red line in the sand. and when he didn't cross that line after making the threat, i think that set us back a long ways not only in syria but in many other parts of the world. that's another responsibility we have, and that's called the country of north korea. i'll tell you, that responsibility could have made -- been made a lot easier if it was handled years ago. the iran deal made by the previous administrati

i think that's weird. [ light laughter ] is the president mentally ill or just terribly unqualified?mbined. both of those things together. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] i heard you like to take lsd before press briefings. why is that? >> it makes it seem like it's all rainbows and puppies. [ laughter ] >> seth: are you going to prom this year? >> i -- i don't have a date. [ laughter ] [ audience aws ] >> seth: but if you could choose anyone, who would your dream date be? >> the deputy crown prince and minister of defense of the kingdom of saudi arabia. >> seth: oh, okay. [ light laughter ] very specific. what do you call that thing runners do before a race? >> i think that -- that would be a stretch. >> seth: yeah, that's right. [ light laughter ] how many undigested pieces of gum are in your stomach at any given time? >> you know, 218, 219. [ light laughter ] >> seth: here's one for you. why do the guards in front of london's big ben always look so tired? >> they are working around the clock. [ laughter ] >> seth: nice one, spicy. yeah. [ cheers and applause ] you know it was

unqualified women will be pushed into combat arms to satisfy political requirements.hat are all of these quotas about? we hear about 25%. some of the leading advocates have said we need a critical mass of 33%. what is going on? you have touched on it with all of the social science taking precedence over common sense. this stuff is official policy now. the military is being asked to believe it. what is your comment? ms. simmons: political correctness for quite some time has run amok. the people that should be most courageous because they have multiple stars on their shoulders, over the past decade or so have been leased least courageous in terms of drilling down on this question in terms of what is that will help make, that units more lethal and more effective. instead they are thrown on the defensive continuously. consequence will do things like what you just showed everybody in terms of mass production sensitivity training that itself does not create both cognitive dissonance and those that understand fully what reality is, that are being told something different on