the trump administration but in february, the trump administration but how to protect transgender students. mr. president lgbt students deserve to learn in an environment free from discrimination. and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. often those transgender kids but to their children and parents we need to know why mom --dash it took a while. it is our response and nothing poses a greater that they are deliberate with a sustained attack with the right to vote. with the supreme courthe disastrous 2013 decision in shelby county that decision which the conservative got that voting rights act with states of the history of discrimination at the polls. after shelby county decision, this they quickly those that are called to prod and then to say this is the strictest ie law so the state but the changes went into effect and to be challenged in court that the primary purpose is to make it harder for black people to vote. the new target targets african-american with almost surgical procedure on guest policy. so the fact that restrictions ample of racist discrimination is undeniable. b

take for example the trump administration's efforts to suppress votes. shortly after winning the presidential election then president-elect trump was confronted with the unpleasant fact that he won the popular vote and he treated in addition to winning the electoral college inhe a landslide i won the popur vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally. let's be clear, president trump lost the popular vote by more than 2.8 million votes is what he claimed in that is that nearly 3 million fraudulent votes were cast. he later explained that between three and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote citing no evidence. mr. president, 138 million votes were cast in the 2016 presidential election. state election and law enforcement officials found virtually no credible evidence of fraud and no states, not one state, recorded any indication of widespread fraud. none. but n that did not stop the trup administration from quickly turning the president into policy. the white house created a new commission to investigate the preside

you know, at the end of the day i do not think trump or the trump administration is the end of the world. america is stronger than that. we will get through this. our consider trump to be legitimately-elected president. even though i am very much opposed him we are democracy. elections have consequences. i think that if we want to change our foreign policy than all of us have to get involved and make sure our local representatives or whoever we elect to the future more closely reflect our values, ideals, and aspirations. that is what is so great about being american to me is the shared american identity. the shared american idea is that it is about ideas and not ethnicity. not about the notion of whiteness. people can be born american but people can also become american. i draw inspiration from that. my father grew up in a small village in the nile delta and egypt, but he was able to, over time, through education, come to the u.s. and it is a cliche obviously, but in some sense, in a very important sense, lived dreamed it to become american. i was able to watch my parents become american

it is interesting that the trump administration and the number of civil rights group are both anti-cve. the trump feels that gives community too much power, whereas civil rights groups felt that give the government a way to intrude onto communities. deserves a much deeper and broader conversation, but i don't see a future right or forced -- four cve community led initiatives. i think we are back to dealing with heavy-handed law tactics and there is basically no community trust for public trust. how does that influence the u.s. national security strategy? it basically diminishes american influence here inside communities and abroad. in other words, in terms of the foreign-policy front, me move to -- the move to take the u.s. embassy to jerusalem, which is , the unitedritory states is now building on occupied territory -- that is why you are getting resistance from christian minorities in the middle east and the organization of islamic conferences, the former u.s. ambassador -- saudi ambassador to the u.s. wrote an op-ed in "the new york times" telling president trump his vice president

i just want to jump into two points we should look at in terms of the trump administration's national security agenda. the first point is the departure from a longstanding u.s. policy and that longstanding u.s. policy was articulated actually on page 9 of the 2015 national security strategy under the obama administration and states and i quote, we reject the lie that america is at war with islam. and the question to the trump administration is that does it continue with that policy? because the rhetoric and the policies are saying exactly the opposite. that the united states is not just at war with violent extremist groups, but it is at war with islam. and if we are entering that era, we're in a dangerous part of our own history and of the world's history for that matter. so,s that the first thing that we should look at and not just in terms of the introduction and the press statements of peoples that may backtrack from what the president himself may tweet, but the actual policy. what are the actions? and which way is our country going as it relates to islam or any religion for that m

thousands of e-mails that were exchanged between trump transition officials during the transition last year. on one hand, you have the general services administrationroviding e-mail services and support to the trump transition team making the case that these e-mails are part of the public record in part because they used a .gov domain to service these e-mails. that's what one spokesperson is telling buzzfeed news. they're making the argument that they had legal standing in handing these documents over to robert mueller, that they did not do so unethically or unlawfully. on the other hand, you have the executive director of the trump transition team, ken higian, telling me that is incorrect, that there was an agreement, an understanding between the trump transition team and the gsa that though the gsa was providing e-mail services, the e-mails were the property of the trump transition team, and therefore, theirs to ultimately decide who to share them or not share them with. that's why they're making the case that robert mueller obtained these e-mails unlawfully. the president weighed in on this sunday evening as he returned to the white house from c

what does the trump administration have to gain here?tion a lot of people are asking. why is the united states doing this now? it's the concern that this could leave the united states completely isolated at a time when it doesn't need to be. on the other hand, this is the trump administration's america first policy. this is how they see the world. and they're not going to back down, the trump administration. while at the same time, they're opening themselves to allegations of blackmail of just bullying and a lot of people just don't think this is a positive thing for the united states. we expect the discussion to go on for some time. there could be a vote and the vote seems preordained. it will be the united states and a few allies. but the rest of the world voting clearly against the united states on this issue. >> again, ron allen, thank you. we are waiting for ambassador nikki haley to speak. while we do, i want to bring in senior national security fellow with the national security foundation. doug, nikki haley says the u.s. will be t

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i wonder, is there a challenge for the trump administration.e winning and knocking out the leaders of isis but as we saw with the obama administration in 2012, they kept saying al qaeda is on the run and all of that and then al qaeda kept coming back with terror attacks. >> you have to be careful with the rhetoric. >> that's right. without a doubt, this has been a staggering military victory in both iraq and syria this year. that is largely due to the leadership of the president freeing the u.s. military to be able to do what is necessary in order to defeat and vanquish isis in iraq and syria. there is no room for complacency. isis's franchising itself across the world. there is a major threat posed by isis and north africa, east africa, , and europe. afghanistan and across much -- >> ed: feed bike path attacked in new york city. >> that's correct, on u.s. soil, of course. what we do need to see is a robust leadership to absolutely crush and defeat isis. i think we have a kind of leadership in the white house. we have seen the old mantra of lea

time will tell. >> day 188 of the still young trump administration and day 7 of the president's public humiliation of his own attorney general. trump is talking privately about the idea of a recess appointment. "the times" indicates trump family members who want session out as they ian become ensnared in the russia investigation and sarah huckabee sanders reiterated trump's disappointment. >> obviously disappointed. i don't believe they've spoken this week. >> it is important to point out sessions was in the west wing down the hall from the oval office today. day 189 and the fighting inside this white house has blown up yet again in public and it was the new communications director who pulled the pin. ryan liza of "the new yorker" and he used language so barn yard we can't repeat it. day 190. reince priebus will be a private citizen again. the replacement is homeland security secretary john kelly, a retired four-star u.s. marine general and starts on monday and in trump white house, that's ages from day. anthony scaramucci is out as communications director, ten days after he first walk

we have four people from the trump administration or the campaign who have been indicted or pled guilty to felonies. two are at the highest levels of the trump campaign or administration. >> errol, could this be the unraveling of donald trump's presidency? >> it certainly suggests there's explosive information that we are going to find out about. the mueller investigation is operating according to a standard playbook. in that playbook, you give a guilty plea of some credence or use it as a tool to get more information. right? so, we know that the crimes to which michael flynn pleaded guilty could have sent him to prison for over 30 years, yet he's facing only one count, a much smaller possibility of a sentence, a lighter sentence and he's going to cooperate with the mueller investigation. that suggests that, again, following the playbook, they are trying to get more information about a wider, more important possible set of unlawful activities. there's nobody higher than the national security adviser than the president, the vice president, perhaps one or two other people. so, yeah, i thi

we're not talking about the trump administration, because the trump administration doesn't prioritize that the way the bush administration did, the way the obama administration did. that actually if you see the answer to a terrorism problem being princeably government to government relations and cooperation among intelligence services and police, that if you accept that's where the solution set is, the trump administration isn't setting it far apart, it providing a pathway for governments to cooperate more closely with the united states. >> well r, ultimately governmen pursue their own self-interests. and i would certainly put saudi arabia in a kind of special category in that regard. because they have a broader agenda in terms of their concern about the influence of iran in the region. and they see, they're willing to look past a lot of sins, if you will, because they know that this president is strongly anti-iranian and shares their views. and there are other points of commonality, financially, as a strategic resource supplier for the united states, investment relationships and so f

massachusetts sued trump administration over the rules. what about north korea, we're talking about north korea. rest easy on that. and been a day of diplomatic activity at the un. >> secretary of state rex tillerson ait happened several meeting saying they have to work their way back to the bargaining table and attempt to clear administration temps and the u.s. is willing to restart negotiations without preconditions. >> we simply cannot continue to accept progress of north korea program and we will maintain the pressure campaign and in fact we undertake efforts to increase effectiveness of the pressure campaign both through combination of sanctions regime, fall implementation and compliance with sanctions recommend i'm as well as unilateral actions of part of many, many countries to send draj attic steps and we do not accept the path you're on. >> it comes as they worn threat of war going slow and trump administration is leaping on vladimir putin s to reign in the north. >> we would love the help. china is helping and russia is not helpi

. >> the trump administration has not shown a fin ee srfinesse fo diplomatic skills and engaging our partners. i don't think it's a surprise that we announced that jerusalem is the capital of israel. a country has the right to determine its own capital. i think, though, what could be done is use this as an opportunity, as you just suggested, to advance the peace process. it looks like at this stage that is just the opposite of what is occurring. >> let me ask you about this wikileaks issue, because the president, during the campaign, was repeatedly praising wikileaks to the -- really, the horror, i have to say, to the intelligence community which views wikileaks as treasonous, and illegal, and going into the nsa and breaking out american secrets and embarrassing the state department, at the very least, as well as exposing sources and methods. how do you get your head around this? >> andrea, i've been learning more and more every day as we get more and more information. originally the trump campaign said there is absolutely no contact at all. now we know there have been contacts with

seven of those that defied the trump administration supporting the resolution afghanistan, iraq, egyptrdan,ette open yeah, syria and pakistan among the top ten of u.s. foreign aid. so will trump cut them off? here's what the u.s. president said yesterday. >> we're watching thoes votes. let them vote against us. we'll save a lot. we don't care. >> okay. cue the countries apparent response, please. >> bye felicia. >> joining us now, steve clemens, editor at large for the atlantic and endira lakhsman. steve, doesn't appear that 128 countries afraid of the united states having issued that kind of a threat. what does that do to the united states position now that they don't seem to be willing to enact it or stand behind it? >> you are hear the air coming out of the balloon, the gas bag that nikki haley put out there today and it just makes america look like the incredibly shrinking power in the united nations. you know, the bottom line here is that there's a lot of drama over many, many years and presidential administrations about israel. what i've never seen before is that the ambassador,

and the trump administration gets a win on the trump administration, this on the travel ban. let's do this. >>> happy monday, i'm jim lokay. alabama senate roy moore gaining support from republican leaders but a new woman has come forward alleging that she dated moore when she was 17 and he was his 30's. her name is debbie west gibson. and she shared her story with the "washington post." gibson kept a scrap book from high school including a graduating card she claims was given to her by moore. she said the relationship began in march of 1981 after moore came to speak to her civics class and ended several months later. gibson held moore in high esteem until she began hearing stories from other women who allege moore pursued them as teenagers, their stories made her rethink her relationship with him and changed her perspective. despite the story, big development. republican national committee going back in and supporting moore. we know the rnc cut ties over the sexual misconduct allegations. which involved two accusers who say they were under age when moore made advances. anoth

cnn is also learning the trump administration has decided to be more desecrete about military exercises amid new talks for direct talks with kim jong-un's regime. >>> purge the fbi. after president trump called the fbi tainted, a republican congressman calls for a purge of america's top law enforcement agency, accusing it of being biased against the president. >>> and obama's warning. in broadcast -- in a broadcast interview with britain's prince harry, former president obama warns or irresponsible use of social media, saying the internet can re-enforce people's biases. is that a dig at president trump? wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." >>> there are fresh signs that north korea may be getting ready for a missile launch just a month after kim jong-un's regime tested what it said was a powerful new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the u.s. mainland. that comes as the u.s. may start doing a little less saber rattling of its own. a senior administration official saying the trump administration has decided to tone down the r

tension that guess on between the trump administration and the rest of the nation. particularly california. people say well why what is so different about california? it hassing to dmogography. the fact of the matter this state is different than the nation as a whole. we are a majorities of minorities. nonwhite. you look nationally you find 61% of the nation is white with the rest nonwhite. that's a huge difference. if you go down to the immigration issue itself, 27% of this state is immigrant. legal or otherwise. 12% nationally. you look back what do you see? you see a cultural divide here. and that's the source of the tension that a lot of people don't want to see. >> he will well san francisco or parts of the bay area loosen parts of the sanctuary policy? is that possible or it it is it just a blanket thing. >> it's up to the courts. this thing is wending its way through the court system right now. but you know, the bay area has of course taken on the trump administration and the state of california through attorney general bacerra for so many thing. sanctuary ci

we're not talking about the trump administration, because the trump administration doesn't prioritizehat the way the bush administration did, the way the obama administration did. that actually if you see the answer to a terrorism problem being princeably government to government relations and cooperation among intelligence services and police, that if you accept that's where the solution set is, the trump administration isn't setting it far apart, it providing a pathway for governments to cooperate more closely with the united states. >> ultimately, governments pursue their own self-interests. and i would certainly put saudi arabia in a kind of special category in that regard. because they have a broader agenda in terms of their concern about the influence of iran in the region. and they see, they're willing to look past a lot of sins, if you will, because they know that this president is strongly anti-iranian and shares their views. and there are other points of commonality, financially, as a strategic resource supplier for the united states, investment relationships and so forth, t

the trump administration should get alongside it. ould go to new delhi and say it's our anchor point. what trump should be doing, my accent aside, going on twitter and sang prime minister david cameron, the british government, allies dealing with chinese financial entities, they should not be doing that. bad allies ship. >> mike: we've heard the president talk about china. >> my administration is committed to improving our trade and business relationships with china. both united states and china will have a more prosperous future if we can achieve a level economic playing field. right now, unfortunately, it's a very one-sided and unfair one. >> mike: a.b., the president, former businessman, has concerns about the chinese economy. their business practices. >> going back decades. one of the strongest themes of his economic message was going after the chinese. he has not followed through on those threats, like the steel tariffs and thinks he's talked about it because he's in a weakened position with north korea. they should have been con

of course president trump in the trump administration should be taking credit for their games on the battlefield. i think that 50% of the 98% of the loss of territory was done in the last 11 months, president trump has been credited for giving his commanders on the ground more ability, more latitude to move and to move forward in this war but of course, there's this concern that ideology lives on and we are to continue as americans having to fight this and that just carries on. >> kennedy: president trump of course earning praise from some unlikely sources after taking action on russia. democrats praising him but what might that mean for their collusion narrative? plus, shaping up to be a very merry christmas for retail. what's getting americans pull out those credit cards and swipe? we will discuss. stay right here. i just finished months of chemo. but i don't want to talk about months. i want to talk about years. treatments have gotten better, so... i'm hoping for good years ahead. that's thanks to research funded by the american cancer society. the same folks giving me free rides t

the trump administration is appealing to the d.c. circuit court of appeals and the supreme court after losing an abortion case. a federal court judge ruled the administration may not prevent two undocumented teens in federal custody from ending their pregnancies. one of the unnamed teens is 22 weeks pregnant. the judge said they would suffer injury without the order. they stayed the order to give the government a chance to appeal. >>> a nominee for the federal bench has withdrawn after struggling to answer basing legal questions last week. president trump nominated matthew peterson for a lifetime appointment in the d.c. circuit court. video of him flailing at questions went viral last week and has been viewed on youtube. >> in a letter to the president, peterson said he does not want to be a distraction. i hoped my nearly two decades of public service would carry more weight than my worst two minutes on television. senator kennedy said this. >> just because you have seen my cousin vinnie, you're not qualified to be a federal judge. >

the market, maybe for unemployment, it is not the trump administration, it happened under obama. the numbers are not obama's numbers, they are not trump's numbers. he has been in office maybe for a year. he has not done anything. he won't do anything. i forget -- we're going to have a market crash. i guess we are going to have inflation pretty bad. we're going to go backwards. women, wemmon for have a president who -- for the comment about women, we have a president who does not encourage women in the job places. host: i want to get eric's thoughts that there could be a market crash, some sort of counter reaction to the current economic surge. how valid or those fears? guest: it is certainly a true that we are in a very long recovery. it would be the exception to continue on for years and years more. the last time the unemployment 2000.as below 4% was late a recession started three months later. i am not saying a low unemployment rate means a recession is coming am a but it is certainly not beyond the realm of possibility that we are in late stages in this expansion and we are sor

this is a significant move for the trump administration. you have to wonder where all of the collusion with russia is when they're arming russia's enemies. gregg: again, everybody can read the ambassador's column in "the wall street journal." an intel lent one. excellent one. be sure to vote in tonight's poll. can you think of any reason the corrupt deputy fbi director andrew mccabe should be given full retirement benefits from you the american people. cost your vote on twitter. follow lou on twitter, like him on facebook, follow him on instagram >>> on wall street, is the dow off 8 points, s&p down 2, nasdaq dropping 23 points. the lightest of the year at 2 billion shares. apple shares fall 2.5% on reports of weaker than expected demand for the iphone 10. crude oil setting at the highest level since june of 2015 closing nearly $60 a barrel. >>> listen to lou's report three times a day cost to coast on the salem radio network. >>> coming up next, the white house is demanding answers about bias at the fbi and justice department during the cl

the trump administration —— the trump administration —— the trump administration sees this as a stalkingward.” administration sees this as a stalking horse going forward. ijust heard from reuters that the us senate has approved the tax legislation is the bill will now be sent back to the house for a final vote. as you mention, let's move on to that one. really interesting, totally different angle. the democrats believe it will give them a majority in the midterms and actually return nancy pelosi to be speaker of the house. this is a political football but both sides are using. the democrats have to say this. this story is last —— largely based upon a series of public polls. and nearly all, according to the vice story, show opposition to the tax plan. also, the difference between the corporation tax cuts and tax cuts for individuals. businesses, their tax cuts are permanent where is the individual tax cuts operate under a sunset clause. they phase out in 2026. the democrats mean they can get that message across in the midterms next year and that can damage republicans. it hammers home the

the travel ban came as the trump administration said it's withdrawn the u.s. from the united nations global compact on migration. over the weekend, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley said that president trump will no longer commit to the deal, in which countries pledge to uphold the rights of refugees, help migrants resettle and ensure they have access to jobs and education. president donald trump traveled to utah monday, where he announced plans to radically roll back environmental protections. the plan calls for shrinking the bears ears monument by more than 80% and splitting it into two separate areas. trump would slash the state's 1.9 million acre grand staircase-escalante national monument by 50%. the national monuments were designated under the century-old antiquities act, a law meant to protect sacred sites, artifacts and historical objects. trump criticized the law on monday. pres. trump: your timeless bond with the outdoors should not be replaced with the whims of regulators, thousands and thousands and thousands of miles away. they don't know you

trump and the military. there was a widely held feeling in the military that the obama administration was too cautious, that they hezztailted on a number of a-- hesitated on a number of attacks when they should have gone forward. i think president trump wanting to do the opposite of whatever president obama has done has sort of said you are more free to attack when you think you should. i think civilian oversight is critical in a number of these missions to make sure we are attacking at appropriate time and the appropriate place. it does reflect a change in approach, president trump was to be more aggressive about attacking the enemy. look, just be clear. there are terrorist groups that threaten us. i don't have any problem whatsoever with hitting those groups before they hit us. but there's a huge cost to doing so in too indiscriminant a matter, when you start having civilian casualties and turning populations against us instead of terrorist groups. host: well, that's it for our time. thank you so much for being our guest on "newsmakers," congressman adam smith, the lead democrat on the house armed services

trump to withdraw his administration's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel. nikki haley said the u.s. will be taking names during the vote. >>> a riverside woman is filing a lawsuit alleging that she was unlawfully detained by local authorities and federal immigration agents despite her protest that she was a u.s. citizen. the 60-year-old hairstylest filed a lawsuit in federal court in riverside. guadalupe placencia has been a citizen for more than 20 years. she said it was hours before she was allowed to call her family and then have them bring proof of her citizenship. >> nobody let me talking. nobody let me esplain. it's like you don't have a rights, and, um, i'm feel very, very sad. >> her attorney says this case will force law enforcement to have probable cause before detaining anyone. >>> now to the fires in wine country. pg&e is close to restoring temporary overhead power lines to coffey park in santa rosa. the west side of coffey park now has power and the east side is expected to be energized by tomorrow. the lines will eventually be replaced by an u

day 316 of the trump administration, it's one that will be remembered in history. the day president trump's former national security advisor, one of the first real allies and friends in the campaign publicly turned on him and agreed to cooperate with the muller, russia investigation. mike flynn walked into a federal courthouse this morning and pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about contacts with russia. he walked out of that same courthouse a convicted felon and greeted the man that led the charge of lock her up at the convention was a sign in the crowd today that read lock him up. this is a first. muller's first conviction against someone who worked inside trump's white house and the first one in that group to flip. the plea agreement stems from phone conversations flynn had with russian ambassador to the u.s. after the election but before president trump took office. he lied to fbi agents who interviewed him about those conversations but through this process, there may have been many questions about whether flynn was ordered to make those phone calls or did so o

trump. there was a feeling that the obama administration was too cautious. that they hesitated on a number of attacks when they should have gone forward. wants toresident trump do the opposite of whatever president obama has done, has said you are more free to attack when you think you should. civilian oversight is critical to make sure that we are attacking at the appropriate time and place. it does reflect a change in approach, president trump was to be more aggressive about attacking the enemy. there are terrorist groups that threaten us. i do have any problem with hitting those groups before they had us. so.e is a cost doing you start having civilian casualties and turning populations against us instead of terrorist groups. >> thank you for being our guest. daily democrat on the house armed services committee. houseete democrat on the armed services committee. lookat does capitol hill like in the coming weeks? >> right now there is just a question of shutdown. we are getting out of the tax debate. what a compromise measures going to look like? in terms of

trump from the statement. a former obama administration official. the statement adds flip's false statements mirror the false statements to white house officials which resulted in his resignation in february on of this year. nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implications anyone other than mr. flynn. >> we discussed a lot of different situations, swh wonderful and some difficulty. >> the white house statement ignores the fact that obama warned the incoming president to stay away from flynn in the oval office two days after the election. nine days before he was sworn into office, mr. trump refused cnn's attempts to ask whether his campaign had contact with the russians before the election. >> mr. president-elect, can you give us a -- don't be rude. you are fake news. the next month, the president defended flynn's contacts with the russians. mike was doing his job. he was calling countries and his counterparts. so it certainly would have been okay with me if he did it. i would have directed him to do it if i thought he wasn't doing it. that's

we have had the trump administration expand sanctions which have been a high point between us betweenhem when you have that expansion and you have democrats, bipartisan praise for the trump administration in this area, the problem is, this is a jekyll and hyde approach on one hand. you have the expanded sanctions, but we have not seen that rhetoric and that cohesive rhetoric on the issue of russia throughout officials, and critics of the administration are still looking. >> you mention, under the act, section five russian individuals for the rights abuses, they banned it from getting visas, and as you said, it is sort of a conflict or surprise to some. >> for some it is a surprise. this is been a crucial part in multiple times in the past year. remember, moscow retaliated against this act by banning or limiting americans options for russian officials, which ended up coming up later, it was part of the questions about what donald trump, jr., was meeting russians about. we have seen the issues of russian adoptions come up over and over, and when you have this action with the administrat

umbrelella term, so i think the focus on transgender has to be understood in terms of the trump administration'sse that transgender is a category that requires some kind of medical intervention. this is also the reason that trump gave for wanting to ban transgender people in the military, that this would d be n enorormous cost on the m militao be funding sex resign the surgeries and so on. it is a k kind of transactional relationship to the category of transgender. amy: and what does it mean to not use the word? can you talk about the importance of naming? >> to not use that word is in a way to try to wish it out of existence or to imply that it is a fictitious category that has been created by social justice to being, as opposed an actual experience of a body. so i t think this calling out of transgender in particular requires s special attention.. because this is clearly a targeted word for the trump administration at a moment when we are actually having a public conversation about gender diversity, bathroom use, and so on. juan: you refer to the trumpet administration in the past as been char

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trump administration national security strategy that was issued a week ago. they thought it took them as an adversary, used in their view unusually sharp language with russia, so maybe they were responding in kind with this readout. the fact both sides are talking about how to work together on these crises, how to deconflict strikes me as being more important than what they decide they're going to say afterwards. >> interestingly enough, david, there was also that decision by the u.s. to send weapons to the ukranian government. that was not going to be something the russians were going to be too happy about, right? >> they're angry about that, they're angry about the national security strategy. the u.s. has just publicly disclosed russian navy ventures too close to coastal waters. the u.s. and its allies too close to submerged cables that carry international communications traffic. so we got a lot of this cold war tension. again, i would note the fact that the two sides are meeting, or talking on the phone, probably the most important issue here voted togethe

the public statement of the trump administration is, "we cannot accept that circumstance."hat's a real formula for some troubled times ahead. >> so that begs the question, do you agree -- i mean, i would say, yeah, you cannot accept that kind of threat and any american president couldn't accept that kind of threat. but on the other hand, why not? >> north korea is not the soviet union. north korea is not china. north korea is not even iran, all right? so i understand how difficult this will be for any american president to digest, and i understand why the trump administration is trying to avoid that reality. but let me give you what i think is a truth, a very, very sad truth but truth nonetheless. it is my judgment that it will be more dangerous to prevent north korea from getting to that state than it would be for us to try to cope with a north korea in that state. >> so, the question of kim jong-un's real agenda has baffled many across the globe, but now we're getting a much clearer picture. thae yong-ho once worked for the north korean leadership -- a high-level diplomat

if they had convinced trump administration and succeeded in making it policy of the trump administration to pursue that, would have created political imperative in u.s. policy that would have required dropping of those sanctions. had a plan to clear political way doing that, buying off ukrainians who would otherwise object. and house democrats have made public that witness while trump was giving inaugural speech mike flynn was allegedly texting one of the businessman to drop russia sanctions and pursue the nuclear plants, reportedly texted during inauguration that the plan was good to go and assured him russia sanctions would be ripped up immediately as trump administration's first order of business. company is denying that flynn sent those messages but elijah cummings says the communications are a matter of record and could prove it one way or another if it were properly investigated. appears that republicans in congress are not going to be persuaded to investigate it but mueller investigation may be working on it or have already covered it. congressman cummings makes clear that mueller

but no thanks to the trump administration.which proposed cutting by lateral assistance to the region by 50%. including the elimination of other military financing for morocco and tu knee sha. congress is going to restore the funding. the danger of setting though low levels. sending that signal that we think it's okay. or the president and the united states thinks it's okay is already a problem. when you set new benchmarks in the president budget all too often that's what we benchmark against. so i cut your budget 100%. and congress is a hero we restore 50%. at the end of the day you have a 50% cut you didn't ask for and we don't need. political space for opposition. second point. i think another lesson learned is the need to create political space for opposition even if the host government does not welcome such. if we learn anything from the fall of the it was the folly of heating his assistance that we had no contact with political opposition. we see similar things in egypt. what happens? political opposition goes under groun

of people directly involved in the hillary clinton email scandal that migrated over to the trump administration trump investigation. over half the people on the hillary probe donated to hillary clinton or barack obama. have you weissmann, the number two, praising people for defying orders from the president of the united states and then peter strzok, the very person who may have dressed this up dossier as an intelligence document going from the clinton scandal to the trump

we had this first year where the trump administration is trying to find the common ground with the chinese. it's very difficult when it am cans to the north korea issue. president trump had his skepticism about a number of issues with the chinese and not just on north korea. currency manipulation and unfair trade practices. i believe that a lot of these north korean issues and a lot of the president's beef with china also comes to those issues as well. the trait practices and what not. you have these issues building up and that's the icing on the take that is driving the president a little bit crazy. >> he vowed to label them a currency manipulator and they have been killing us on trait. what is the one thing he can do if he wanted to say this was a red line for him? >> declare bank of china a primary money laundering concern and that means it would no longer have access to dollars. it can do business where in dollars and that would be a death sentence for an institution like that and say look, the united states is taking action that hurts the united states as well. we would suffer from th

i immediately thought this victory that the trump administration had today in reference to the travel ban. this certainly will not be the first or really probably the the last time opponents of trump policy bring things to the courts and it's been fascinating to watch the travel ban unveil and really take shape over time. we'll see if this gets to that point. so back to you, jim, sh >> thank you very much, ro ronica. >> congress tonight is working to overhaul the tax code following gop controlled senate victory over the weekend to pass their version of the bill. and now it must now be combined with a bill the house already passed and if all goes as gop plans a final version could be sent to the president's desk for signature before the end of year and the arm person brandon arnold has the idea. he's national president of the taxpayer union. brandon, good to see you. >> thanks for having me on the program. >> obviously we know the national taxpayer ruinon aprodded passage of the bill and tell us why it's a good thing so far. >> this is a great piece of legislation for american families

in fact, president trump's proposed budget for next year would cut federal funds for the federal transit administration's capital investment program, including amtrak projects. president trump outlined his blueprint for national security monday in a speech trumpeting u.s. military might, but failing to mention the threat posed by climate change. his national security strategy calls for the u.s. to respond with nuclear weapons to nonnuclear attacks. trump said he was digging up in america first by expanding the u.s. military to counter the expanding power of russia and china. the united states vetoed a united nations security council resolution monday, calling on the trump administration to withdraw its declaration that jerusalem is israel's capital. the vote was 14-to-1, with u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley exercising a lone veto. the israeli military seized control of east jerusalem in 1967 and has occupied the territory ever since. palestinians, however, have long seen east jerusalem as the capital of their future country, and both the u.n. security council and the general assembly have passed

he said because the trump administration comoas to withdraw from the job killing pair tries climate trade agreement. i cannot believe this guy. he's emulate we did in may, following president trump around, apologizing and attacking the president. >> he doesn't know what to do with himself since he's no longer president. he's engaged in what appears the mueller investigation wants to go after the trump administration on, a violation of the famous logan act. conducting his own foreign policy overseas. this is a demonstration of the hypocrisy we are facing in washington. lou: this is beyond ignorance and opposition and resistance. this is outright subversion. there has never been a president who has done this to his predecessor in american history. >> i think it's the complete unwillingness of the opposition to admit they lost the election. lou: who gives a damn what they acknowledge it's the reality. if they refuse to recognize reality, let them get medication or treatment. but let's move the economy ahead. >> they are trying to prove the trump administration is illegitimate. lou: lee an en