it's important to be consistent and not change the terminology of definitions. that is confusing for the end user. >> i want to respond because we have use of force. this djo will be trained in conjunction with use of force but we can have a higher level when it comes to this particular weapon. we're set new policy and making it clear when the weapon can be used. i think assaultive doesn't apply here. >> commissioner turman: commissioner hirsch. >> commissioner: i hear what you're saying, chief, and i understand and to me the real issue will not be the language but how officers are trained and how they use that training. i understand you have to come up with a consistent training but when i read this language, the definition of assaultive i can't understand it or make it work. verbally displaying an intention to assault. an assault is an attempt to commit battery. it's an unsuccessful battery. you don't display an intent to commit a successful battery and if he or she is brought up on disciplinary charges. they're going to point to language we won't be able to i

and to what extent the command the order could be implemented consistent with law and more consistent with the record we have in this manner. i want to close with a thought about what we are left with. if the court withdraws the relief granted by the district court in this manner. what we have is the atty. gen.'s memorandum which my colleague well describe the limitations of. it wasn't even issued to the other agency that even under the premise of justice's narrow reading is charged with implement in, section 9 a. we don't actually know what the apartment of security things about this reading. i want to make another note. we have seen between the district court and now that the department of justice, not always the final word on how the grantmaking components interpret section 1373 or the threats to the county. mr. riegler represented the district court he didn't think santa clara violated 1373. as a motion for summary judgment, his colleague pointed to the fact that the parts of justice hadn't issued 1373 compliance letter to the county is evidence that there was no standing in this

at every turn e it states it shall be consistent with law to approach that he has reconfirmed in court into the department. so to enjoy enforcement with three fundamental respects that the district court for any action taken under it is directed to cabinet officials to use their discretion to place them where they are appropriate and none of that happened. it actually ordered a facial challenge there is noap implied contract and that appropriate standard would serve unconstitutional application of the viread ofut complications for the executive order confirmed by the fact there are other cases litigated right now addressing to enforce 1373 like san francisco or philadelphia or chicago they are allowed to proceed with the attorney general at the initial level assert histo authority. >> does the president have the authority to impose conditions on a grant that congress did not authorize? >> that could be governed by this terms? we talk about the grants that you referenced at the hearing i believe the other grants what is the status of those? be like the one that has been mitigated the mo

i think you're right to argue that there are certain consistencies in american foreign policy but in the premise of the question you're wrong because you know look at the way you framed american intervention in syria at the start you said look america obviously intervened it intervened by allowing other countries to intervene without stopping them so american non action is a form of intervention in american action is a form of intervention and the reason that american non action american action or both forms of intervention is because of the general presumption that the united states has a responsibility to be involved in every conflict everywhere in the world in the basic reality is the united states has relations with governments in every part of the world and having relations with governments in every part of the world the united states is involved in every conflict in every part of the world in either through its actions or its in actions the united states is going to be blamed for the outcome so the question is ok what is the best policy for the united states to follow is it a p

at every turn, the order states that it shall be implemented quote - consistent with law and approach attorney general has himself reconfirmed both in court and in directed to the department. in the decision below and join enforcement of executive order, the district court had at least three fundamental respects. the first is that the district court in before any action had been taken under it it was two cabinet officials to use their discretion to study the law and oppose grant restrictions where appropriate. none of that has happened. second, because none of that happened, the court should have viewed this as a challenge to the executive order. there is no applied conductivity review the appropriate standard with the challenge and whatever unconstitutional application to the statute one might dream up, there are myriad constitutional applications of the statute or of the executive order which is confirmed by the fact that there are other cases being litigated right now addressing the departments authority to enforce 1373 and san francisco, philadelphia and chicago. all judges suffer

two, they were authorized to do so consistent with law. so they certainly had to review their legal obligations and legal authorities. there was a carve-out for law enforcement concerns, if there were grants. while maybe 1373 might be an appropriate condition, but the grant was too important with respect to law enforcement and the cabinet officials had to weigh those issues and potentially not impose a condition. and they also had to assess 1373 for willful violations. that's another expressed term in the executive order. so there are a whole host of con tin generals here to the -- contingencies here to the cabinet officials in terms of what grants if any might be at issue. i will talk briefly about the relief that was issued here by the district court. because even if the court agrees that the order ran afoul of some constitutional concerns, certainly a nationwide injunction was well beyond the relief appropriate in this case. that's both for articles three standing purposes and for the general equitable powers of district courts. i think

in a lot of particular details, it's entirely consistent. and i think, you know, over time that's going to sink in for people that this isn't a joke, this isn't an effort to smear the president, it's just what happened. >> matt miller we see in the first memo that james comey wrote, he suggests at that point a classification of secret but he also offers to the archivists and others handling this memo that he would accept any recommendation to either raise or lower the classification level. so he wasn't himself deciding exactly how these memos should be held. >> that's exactly right. one of the other memos, the one that's most important where he reports on the conversation with the president where the president asked him to back off the michael flynn investigation. that's the one he gave to a colleague of his, a professor at cohuman bee ya law school. that was unclassified because that's been dispute among republicans on the hill who said he leaked classified information. but that wasn't a violation of him to share that with someone outside t

it's more about the consistency of the advice, making sure -- independence also means nonpartisan. independence means not captured by one party or the other or beholden to one committee or another, working for all of the congress. so i think that, you know, you can have conversations with the director. you can go one on one with the

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they will have to figure out how to consistently protect consumers. i think the core question is to make sure that regardless of the particular regulatory classification of the entity that holdings consumer information, that those consumers are protected. they eave uniform expectation of that and i think the regular solutions respect that. >> final question. there's one back there. >> hi, mr. chairman. i have a low-tech question for you. >> a.m. radio. >> this deals with censorship. have you looked into the major news wires undertaking now editing of press releases behalf they go out to determine whether they are acceptable? >> that is not something that within our legal authority to do. traditionally going back to the early days of the commission, the agency is not looked into types of content regulation like that. if there is an issue of that might be within the purview of another agency but not within ours. >> thank you. >> tom, final question? >> the chairman has kindly grant me the ability to ask the final question because my kids are blowing up

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with a gas attack some appeared to have white fame around their mouths the news is consistent with a sarin attack the area is the last rebel stronghold around the capital and is undergoing intense bombardment off the talks collapsed last week. well this was the state of play in eastern back on february eighteenth when the renewed military offensive began the rebels were firmly in control of the key towns and villages and this is how it looks now rebels have lost control of most of the territory except duma city is now the focus of the assad government's aerial bombardments and ground attacks shot palace as this report. the skies over duma had been quiet for two weeks then this. residents counted more than fifty airstrikes and say twenty barrel bombs were dropped on the city. one day into the assault syrian civil defense reported the use of chlorine gas they took at least fifteen people to hospital. syrian state you said the assault was in retaliation for jaish al islam or the army of islam shelling residential areas of neighboring damascus it said four civilians were killed and twent

have you to do this consistently. this is one of those teams, if you don't come out and play consistently every night, they're want going to beat themselves. you have to beat them. >> when you say eight, you're mocking this whole thing because you're saying you just want the focus to be -- don't be thinking, okay, we're going to sweep and walk right in. >> yes. >> i want to continue this, but let's go to somebody more important than us, and that would be draymond green standing by -- welling, he is, with mike. it's true. >> reporter: yeah, he's a lot more important than all of us. talking about flipping that switch for the playoffs and pretty good start to round one with san antonio. >> very good start. i never look at it as flipping the switch. i look at it as we just weren't playing well. we got back to the basics of what we do, which is dwind and then push the tempo. we had a better game tonight. we know how this goes. game two is tougher when you play a team like this that's filled with so much pride, fight, and c

it is consistency that is not there, but you need to stay with the same team and bike to get that consistencyew years, and the results are showing. if you get consistency for the next three or four rounds, it will be really exciting. the london marathon takes place this sunday, and it could be one of the warmest on record. around 40,000 people of all ages and abilities will be on the start line. the oldest, at 87, will be john starbrook. emma jones has been to meet him. half marathon, to: 15. a mass of medals and great memories of the ru ns medals and great memories of the runs thatjohn starbrook has done so far. i had two let shoes, so i had to cut a hole in the one on my right foot so that the tote could get through, had to do that again. he was 53 when he ran his first london marathon. this sunday, at the age of 87, he will take part for the 33rd time. it might have been more but for illnesses and a few unfortunate injuries. on the saturday, i took my alsatian is out, and they decided to trip me up, so the night before the marathon might angle was doubled up andi marathon might angle was d

the is consistent with how risk plays out, how the global growth chart plays out.ut we think it is temporary. guy: talk about the risk of trade across the atlantic. is there a signal i want to get in? put tod fresh money to work, would it be that side of the atlantic or decide? david: in the u.s., it is not just the s&p. the nasdaq, russell, core indices sectors have come down and done exactly the same thing. you can argue with the u.s. market on its own is what we saw in january, this huge overshoot on the top side. we are just still in the process of unwinding that. everything has been taking back to its long-range average. -- been taken back to its long-range average. that is consistent with what we are seeing here it is probably takes time to play out. it is consistent. what i think is interesting in fromynamic is the switch europe. we have this risk off phase come through. he rebounded sharply in that trade has come in. if we revert back to risk on, probably the u.s. takes the lead again. typical pattern we tend to see, in europe is doing better in this risk o

this guy isn't a very well—known consistent from the show. -- is well—known consistent from the show.and that he is really serious. there are a lot of concerns about the lack of water as well. they ran out. i wonder to think it started earlier. only if they could've brought it forward by an hour and half. interesting with all these big events off the lessons to be learned but sadly in this case, somebody lost their life. it should be there to matt campbell who died on sunday. my thanks to the guest this evening. that is it for the papers. don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you, 7 days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. my my thanks to christopher hope and maranda green. think you both and goodbye from all of us. good night. hello, is than a wet evening across parts of scotla nd of scotland and a little bit of patchy rain is now working its way south to most parts of england and wales stayed dry today. not a to much and some of us underneath t

predictability, consistency is not boring. it lets our allies know that we'll support them and our adversaries know that we cannot get away with violating international norms. the erratic nature of this administration's foreign policy exemplified by the abrupt reversal of nikki haley's announcement is something all americans should be worried about. all americans should be concerned about president trump's disturbing decision to pull back from sanctioning russia, for its support of assad, and its enabling of his use of chemical weapons in the wasn'tton murder of his own people. this extends a sad pattern of inconsistencies when what is required of this administration is more aggressive, comprehensive, and consistent policy actions that impose on putin and his allies sufficient costs to change their behavior. the second foreign policy issue is the administration's ongoing efforts to secure a diplomatic deal with north korea. we all want diplomats to succeed with north korea. my primary concern with the president and his efforts

>> i think as you know, president's economic plan has always consisted of three parts. tax reform, regulatory relief, and trade. trade is an important component of that. i have the imf and world bank meetings coming up this week i'll be meeting with all my counterparts we've been talking about these issues for the last year we have complete transparency. the president believes in free and fair reciprocal trade. we're trying to get good deals for companies here this is what this is all about >> wall street has detected a change in tenor of these talks is there a change in the tenor or is this a continuation of the last year? >> well, again, i think it's a focused strategy that the president has been very clear on we've had an integrated plan we now have larry now on board secretary ross so these are coordinated efforts. again, as you know, we've been in dialogue with our counterparts in china about reciprocal trade there we're speaking to the eu so we have a lot of focus on this the president is determined to have free trade. >> in davos, the president said i'm thinking

analytically the more consistently to think about it is the first precondition under the jingles framework. the question whether the targeted minority is numerous to form a majority of a reasonably drawn district. we knew it was true because between 1990 and 2010 voters had formed the majority of a reasonably drawn district. in a circumstance where the cord is looking at if there's maintenance of a prior gerrymander we think the mark consistent with a look at it is as i described under the first jingles precondition. >> is yours the only tester proposing. >> in other cases do you see other tests being a possibility. >> in this lawsuit. >> in other gerrymandering cases you have the aclu, the others have proposed tests that would adjust some of justice kagan's concern why did you disavow those? do you think yours is just easier? >> our understanding will file the amended complaint that we did not have made a claim under some of those tests. because the focus was on the six district not the map as a whole it wasn't a way of thinking about what happened. the other reason is because we are conc

i think you're right to argue that there are certain consistencies in american foreign policy but in the premise of the question you're wrong because you know look at the way you framed american intervention in syria at the start you said look america obviously intervene in intervene by allowing other countries to intervene without stopping them so american non action is a form of intervention in american action is a form of intervention and the reason that american non action american action or both forms of intervention is because of the general presumption that the united states has a responsibility to be involved in every conflict everywhere in the world in the basic reality is the united states has relations with governments in every part of the world and having relations with governments in every part of the world the united states is involved in every conflict in every part of the world in either through its actions or its in actions the united states is going to be blamed for the outcome so the question is ok what is the best policy for the united states to follow is it a pol

we see a lot of that consistently. so we're used to that. one thing that did not change as we look through the memos that were released is the fixation on certain aspects, right? certain things that we know the president has always been focused on. chief among them, some of the details of this dossier and why we are talking about them. and more salacious details, john. >> yeah. i mean, look, the salacious details are clearly a fixation. he is worried that melania is into find out. says he never snt the night in a moscowhotel, doe say he has spoken to vladimir putin about that russia has the best hookers in the world apparently. >> putin is now pushing back -- or the kremlin is pushing back. >> we are having an elevated conversation around the world, people. the dossier is a repeated obsession with him. he says, for example, one way to push back on leakers is to put reporters in jail and jokes about that. you do have the sense that he is throwing flynn under the bus at one point in the conversation, talking about putting reporters in prison a

i think it is good to have some consistency. areint when changing on monetary policy and have a complete unknown with little policy experience coming into the new york fed best that might create more uncertainty and instability. i think it is a good thing from that perspective. shery: he talks about the neutral rate in the u.s. being the low. how hawkish is he when it comes to these elements? i don't view him as particularly hawkish but he reacts weekly to incoming data. incoming data has been solid lately, so i think it is consistent with that. michael: i'm not a chart that looks at his neutral rate research for the board of governors and came up with a way to calculate what the neutral rate is. do because itt to is a moving target but you can see. the white line has moved up over the years. what i did is at inflation back into it because their natural rate is inflation-adjusted. fed'sou look at the target rate, you can see monetary policy is getting tighter and tighter, but it wasn't for a long time. that argued for the fed re

they consistently obstructed humanitarian aid. tens of thousands of people have been detained, tortured and executed by the regime. this is one of the most serious challenges to the international nonproliferation regime. the state party has violated the chemical weapons convention, defied the security council and has broken international law. with -- we have been met with russian obstruction. we have in this council attempt to overcome this obstruction without success. we are faced with a litany of violations, no sense of guilt or regret, no sense of responsibility, shameful record, denial, receipt and disinformation. mr. president, i would invite those like the russian ambassador to speak about the charter, to consider the following. it is hard to believe that this is in line with the principles and purposes of the charter to convey the use of chemical weapons. under the united kingdom's view, it cannot be illegal to use force to prevent the killing of such numbers of innocent people. despite all this, we would like to look forwa

i think they perceive consistency and that consistency of an inability to act. will tell you that this is not about, this cannot be about the method of delivering death if you like. one person from syria was pointing out to me today that a few top of all the people who are known to have died in chemical weapons attacks in syria, it comes toi weapons attacks in syria, it comes to i think a few hundred. she was saying. if you talk about all the people who have died in the war it comes to 100s of thousands. there is a big discrepancy in people's minds between while would the americans, why are the americans choosing to act out over an alleged chemical weapons attack when every single day president assad's forces are targeting civilians with the barrel bombs, with all sorts of different weapons. so i think it is not seen as is consistent behaviour, it is seen as as is consistent behaviour, it is seen as consistently week behaviour by outside actors like the united states. i think all i have to say most analysts would agree with that, that there appears to be very li

this is how we should be working together to be sure we're presenting consistent and clear policy to facilitate our standards, to improve housing stock, and to move projects forward as expeditiously as possible with minimal confusion. one of the other things that's very high in my mind, the issue of serial bad actors. i think we have to, at this point, accept that we have some serial bad actors, and our penalties currently are not an adequate deterrent to them, and we need to immediately begin to look at improving real penalties, and if we need that to be through the legislative path, to work with the land use committee of the board of supervisors to really have some significant penalties for serial bad actors. it's the fool me once, shake on you, fool me twice shame on me. i think we've been fooled more than twice by some people, and there have to be serious penalties. how we develop what those are, whether they include licensing, whether they require more perjury or misrepresentation penalties, that needs to be seen, but that needs to be addressed. a last issue brought up by people

more consistent with a bullying attitude that we see in nondemocrat, small d, countries. deputy attorney general rosenstein is doing his level best to honor the integrity of the russia probe while being dragged through the mud by his colleagues. he's a strong man. he's done an excellent job and he is doing his best now. he's doing exactly what a deputy attorney general should be doing. mr. rosenstein deserves our respect, all party's respect, the whole country's respect for his efforts to be honest and transparent with congress while maintaining the integrity of the russia probe, but even so, as a columnist in "the washington post" put it this morning, quote, it's a miserable day at the justice department when the deputy attorney general is forced at gunpoint, bullying, threatening to turn over important evidence in a criminal investigation. the bullying and threatening were my words. it continues to be a real disgrace that house republicans engage in such bare-knuckle tactics to deter and kick up dust around the mueller investigation. our fellow republicans, the bar acro

spencer the people another decision to make in my home and that's an inconsistency that is consistent that's consistent is even if you don't like richard snow it is not all doctors like you and i have let me alone let me tell you i hate to stay here even the government even. know you know going into your life they obviously when you or your insurance agents are playing games with an issue here i think steven has varied an interesting point because for example the. lawyers say he's facing danger if he's deported which conflicts with the european values to send him back to face discrimination possible violence torture even death in algeria so i think that's the crux of the issue here isn't it if a lot of these people are deported they're being put in danger is not a valid point as well. yes i think that's the key point and this is what trying to do if we take away our initial reaction about an extremist preacher we talk about the brutal democratic values in europe we talk about the rule of law we talk about jew process and we talk about freedom of speech yet in reality in reality in fra

. >> i think what folks will see if they get to see the memos is i've been consistent since the very beginning right after my encounters with president trump. >> reporter: comey revealing in his memos the president said he had serious reservations about former national security advisor michael flynn. during that infamous dinner with mr. trump at the white house where comey says the president asked for a loyalty pledge, comey writing the president pointed his fingers at his head and said the guy has serious judgment issues. comey also describing another meeting he had with the president a couple of weeks later in which he said the president kicked everyone out of the oval office, including attorney general jeff sessions. he then returned to the topic of michael flynn, saying that flynn is a good guy and has been through a lot. he said i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go. he's a good guy. i hope you can let this go. i replied by saying i agree he's a good guy, but said no more. and just days before flynn was fired by the president for misleading th

and described it as significant trauma consistent with being hit by a car. the officers closed the two right lanes of highway 101 in order to do an investigation. all lanes were re-opened around 8:15 a.m. (mabrisa rodriguez)tracking morning clouds and/or fog returning to the coast and valleys monday. not much change is expected as northwest flow aloft continues. expect another degree or two of cooling from today to tomorrow. little day-to-day changes in afternoon highs are expected tuesday and wednesday. the pattern becomes interesting once again in the extended as models have been consistently calling for an atmospheric river event for the northern half of california. there remains plenty of uncertainty at the present as models have been bouncing around from run-to-run. while it is still a bit too far out for specifics, it seems quite realistic to say this ar has the potential to bring widespread moderate and possibly locally heavy rain to parts of the region. additionally, depending on the exact placement of the surface low, strong southerly winds could be

so it's consistent with that. it adds to his credibility. now, what i see, let's look at it from the other lens, which is what it tells us about the white house. i read the memos and i see dysfunction. i see a bunch of newbies and rookies who just don't understand how government works. i mean at one point reince priebus asked comey if he's an attorney. i mean there's no homework done on anybody. they leave the fbi director alone with the president. the president asks comey if he can investigate the hooker allegation in moscow just to make it kind of go away, continually asks if mccabe has a problem with him. it's odd. and, you know, you reported earlier that we've heard that the president's hired a couple of organized crime attorneys from florida. i got to tell you, from what we see in these memos, maybe that's the right way to go. i worked in the fbi in south florida. there's a lot of russian mobsters down there, and maybe these two attorneys now how to deal with that. >> for the record, they were on the prosecutorial side and not the defen

so i mean, if the hallmark of credibility is consistency or a hallmark of consistency, of credibility, consistency over time, and the details don't change, and by the way, he didn't have access to these memos while he was writing the book. you know, these memos show that he's been telling the same story since the beginning, and, by the way, as, you know, somebody he was talking to at the time, everything in those memos is consistent with the tone of what he was telling me at the time, and so i -- i think, you know -- it's really hard to look at those memos. first of all, and not be a little bored by them, because the story is the same as the story we've been hearing to this point. >> i disagree. i think the story is the same in that the president seem stos lat -- seems to latch on to certain stories. and almost didn't know who andrew mccabe was and comes back time and time again and the same with the infamous steele dossier. let me play part of the conversation rachel maddow had with james comey. >> he brought up other allegations made against him by other women during the course of t

language is consistent. they want to raise rates three mes. at the same time trying to normalize balance sheet which is ongoin process so we'll see if that becomes ahead wined for them to gethi two more done year. inthink the more we see the difference tight difference between 2 and 10 will probably slow them down. any tighter than now, i think they'll leave off rai until the fall. >> along the same line, as feds raise rates dollars should gogh which is not good for commodities. >> that's true.an the conundrum we know what's going on with the fed. they've bn transparent. we also know great deal of issuance. between tax cuts and newudget we realize how much of a debtor nation we'll be. how much we have to issue in debt. i think that's what's been weighing down on the dollar. if we just had the one component you brought up, which is monetary policy, which isti ter than any other central bank, i think the dollar would be firmer. but ifth you look a country ou had this much on tax cuts, deficits is blowing out. i think that's keeping the lid on th

these memos it shows that he's been consistent is saying the same thing all along. the memos back up everything he's been saying. >> yeah, it's astonishing we're seeing this thanks to house republicans because these memos do donald trump no favors. and when you read them many of the charges in them and substance is stuff we've seen before, there are new details, of course. but really what strikes you is what scrupulous detail james comey is taking. and really bolsters his credibility because he's taking the act very seriously. and as he's saying i'm writing this five minutes in a vehicle and you sense he's doing something historical and important here. he knows that something is going on and someday someone is going to read these, and he's trying to establish how scrupulously detailed he's being, and he's very conscious he's doing something for history and not just in case. >> i want to go to joe, but if you can tell me julia, you said he had three things. what was the other one? >> he wanted loyalty from comey. those are the take-aways from the hookers and everythi

us consistently on the peaceful resolution side has in fact worked in complementarity. the first meeting between presidents moon and trump clearly spelled out the joint position on this which was pressure and sanctions, but also dialogue towards a peaceful resolution. and that hasn't changed. i think the nuancing of that message on the day-to-day basis was up and down. but that has been the consistent joint stance. >> human rights have always been an issue when it comes to north korea. and there are people in the human rights community and elsewhere who are concerned that this is not part of the formal agenda. can you tell me whether it will be on the agenda? will you raise the issue of human rits, given tt north korea's considered to be if not the worst, then one of the worst violators? >> we're not sure north korea is ready to respond to this issue at this point. but the summit has been -- is being structured to be very flexible. so depending on how the discussions go, i wouldn't rule it out. >> you wouldn't rule out your president raising it? >> but i wouldn't count

stone consistently denied any wrongdoing. roger stone joins us now. thanks for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you for your kind invitation, anderson. >> so this news first of all, before we get to the wikileaks stuff, i want to ask you about this news about the president that he's begun initial steps of prepping for a possible interview with mueller. in your opinion, should the president ever sit down with the special counsel? >> i have written and said on infowars repeatedly i thought it was a perjury trap, that there's every possibility the special counsel is looking at some process related crime that doesn't relate to russia. i obviously believe the special counsel has a political bias, as demonstrated by the fbi text messages and e-mails that have surfaced and the political nature of this investigation so i think it is very dangerous for the president to do so. i think mr. dowd, who i read had advised against this, was correct. >> do you think there would be -- >> judge napolitano advised against it. >> would there be a political cost to the president if he was sub

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you know, frankly, he's been consistent throughout. he's a law enforcement agent, he made contemporaneous notes. they're backed up by dana boente, who he told shortly thereafter. frankly, whether or not there's proof of corrupt intent, i've argued publically there is based on a number of other things, evidence that we have. . this is something that is very highly disturbing and all of us as americans should find it disturbing. it should not be a partisan issue. >> go ahead, josh. >> if you look at the administration when they come in, there's the honeymoon period when they come in and get to know washington. the president says he hires the best people. but someone like jim comey who's known to keep notes in many important situations and bob mueller with the hospital situation, i can't imagine that someone would have mentioned to him, you need to be careful when you're talking to law enforcement, department of justice, these are agencies you need to keep at arm's length to begin with, you're not going to bring them in close to you. i ca

so there's no consistent policy and that lack of consistency, that lack of strategy, the lack of specific objective that could be carried on with clear strategy creates confusion. it may very well have led to assad saying they will be out of here so i will end these rebels right now. and i will do with chemical weapons because leading.s it is hard to say exactly what was on the mind of assad. but there is a very clear pattern of inconsistency with the president. therefore, it is more important that congress to re-assert constitutional power. given with very specific reasons. the framers of the constitution did not want the power of war in hands of the chief executive. >> at any point can the president take military action on its own? legal? when is he justified? >> yes. in 1973, the war powers act was put into place. the results of the vietnam war and the congress wanted the president to be able to defend the nation in case of an imminent attack for an attack that was underway. it was very clear. it was to limit the power of the president and simultaneously give the president power should

so, i suspect no matter who is in the positions right now, we will see consistency there.you showed us the quote from peter navarro, and he seems to have really positioned himself to take the lead on these issues. with the report out, i think there will be consistency in policy, even if there is some more moving around of the deck chairs. emily: now, the administration is also reportedly considering trying to penalize, or influence chinese investment in u.s. tech sectors, specifically talking about semiconductors and 5g. you know, how do you expect that to play out? adam: well, as you know, we have already seen that. the president blocked the broadcom acquisition of qualcomm. we have seen leaks of documents that supposedly the government was thinking about nationalizing the 5g networks. but i think the most likely move forward is the reform of the process. the committee on foreign investment in the united states. and there has been concerned that some of the ways that china has been acquiring technology, either using minority positions, going after companies that are bankr