unquote. actions speak much louder than words. with a republican in the white house, senate democrats have turned our role of advice and consent into the most aggressive campaign in history. this chart gives you an illustration. democrats complained about obstruction when during the first six months of the obama administration the senate confirmed 69% of his nominations. today marks six months since president trump took the oath of office and the senate has been able to confirm only 23% of his nominations. i ask my democratic colleagues, if 69% is too low, what do you call a confirmation pace that is two-thirds lower? democrats do not have the votes to defeat nominees outright. that's why the centerpiece of their obstruction campaign is a strategy to make confirming president trump's nominees as difficult and time consuming as possible. here's how they do it. the senate is designed for deliberation as well as for action. as a result, the senate must end debate on a nomination before it can con

not about take care of people but systemly, quote -- but simply, quote, survival of the fittest, unquote. is that really the health care system that we support here in the united states of america, survival of the fittest? how about chuck. chuck is a c.e.o. of perm health, it is a rural hospital doing really innovative work in kind of northwest minnesota. it's kind of central north -- it's in rural minnesota, not unlike the rural areas in the presiding officer's state. chuck told me that, quote, a cutting -- cutting medicaid as drastically as they are proposing will force us to cut staff in areas that are actually saving the system money today, unquote. these cuts would affect nurses that run the hospital's medical homes, community paramedics and other staff that are helping keep people out of the emergency department, and reduce readmissions and keep people healthy overall. this is part of the innovation that they're doing there. this is part of the innovation that minnesota leads the nation in. now, perm health is one of the largest employers in town, so taking away jobs doesn't just i

no longer are these quote unquote onerous regulations of the obama administration going to get in the way of producing coal and natural gas at a pace that the industry really wants. host: the president took this theme to the state department, the energy department last week. here's a bit of the president. [video clip] >> my administration to seek only the american energy independence of have been looking for for so long, but american energy dominance. we are going to be an exporter. exporter. we will be dominant. american energy all over the world, all around the globe. these energy exports will create peopless jobs for our and provide true energy security to our friends, artan is, and allies across the globe. when he's talking about energy exports there, is it just oil, is a gas as well? what's he looking to boost? guest: i believe he's talking about energy ellen p, oil. energy expert is not true from the point of view of the obama administration. they ended these long-standing restrictions on crude oil exports, the only thing standing in the way of all energy exports. this idea that

seven is ultimately needs to be junked i don't know why america is the only advanced economy quote unquote advanced economy in the world that has not revisited its constitution in the past thirty or forty years of a constitution is the shared agreements that society has led to lead the sort of basic rules we. live by obviously we need a brand new one that includes economic and social and this wasn't written by slaves i think that's a very light study for males. and yet we with the age of trump we have seen the installment of a naked kleptocracy he has they don't even try to hide it i mean in the past figures like obama or even george bush they had that patina that kind of a near of civility and even veneer of compassion that's all gone and i think that's a very frightening moment because it the state is or at least the kleptocratic corporate state and include of course the war machine is so. seem to have nothing to fear from the scenario that they they can carry out this pillage. in public with this kind of racist language everything else. what is that moment what does this moment in ameri

this morning say that democratsn quote decide early on that they did not want to engage seriously, unquote, on health care. in the same speech the republican leader also admitted that the very first thing the republican majority did this congress was to pass reconciliation so they could pass health care on a partyline vote, 5 50 needed, no democrats needed. early on the majority leader ned told democrats we don't need you, we don't want you. respectfully, i take issue with the idea democrats didn't want to engage on health care. the majority leader admitted that he decided the matter for e us when he locked democrats out of the process at the outset. at the very beginning of this congress, president trump and leader mcconnell said don't come knocking at our door on health care. d we don't need you. now that they are one partyff effort has largely failed, we hope they will change their lik tune. it seems like many republicans are ready for a truly bipartisan effort on health care, indeed. my friend senator mccain is purged it quite strongly saying quote, that congress must now return to reg

>> i have an entire group of people digging deep into just that issue of -- of quote/unquote new tank sort of thing. it's ana family of vehicles. so let me go back to the basic question of, have tanks and mechanized war and -- army on -- in 1914 there were giens around who were wearing three and four stars who adhere to the roles of horse calfry, and then the horse cavalry wen into machine guns when things didn't go so well for horse cavalry. so are we in that period where mechanized vehicles are cavalry. so are we sort of at that point in history where perhaps mechanized vehicles are going the way of horse calvary and going the way of dinosaurs? i don't think so. but i'm skeptical enough to ask that. we have a good solid tank today. the m-1 tank. and the m-1 tank that you see today visually looks exactly like the tank from 1981. it's not exactly the same tank. the insides of those things, the firing mechanisms that's all been upgraded and modified over the years. having said that, we do need a new ground armored platform for our mechanized infantry and our tanks because it's my belie

i would argue not having a quote/unquote full fledged secretary of the army has not been catastrophic. the professional civilians, army department of civilians have stepped up and done a tremendous job. and that includes secretary spear. so we'll work through it. i think it's better to have one than not. but it's not catastrophic not to have one either. >> we have two questions similarly tied together about tank warfare. >> yes. >> with russia preparing to have its new tank, the t-14 armada , enter service in 2020. >> right. >> do you worry at all that the united states or its nato allies may be at a disadvantage? and should there be an increased focus on tank warfare and modernizing our fleet? what technologies would you like to see developed? >> yeah, so i have an entire group of people digging into that exact issue. it is beyond the new tank, it's a new family of vehicles and mechanized one. so let me go back to the basic question of, you know, have tanks and mechanized war and conflict between ground armies, has that gone the way of the dinosaur? in 1914, there were guys around wh

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the three goals for compensation was quote aligning management interests with those stockholders unquote. they claim to have made changes that quote strength in the alignment of our executive interest with those of our stockholders unquote. he boasted that quote our executive compensation programs are designed as a result of payouts that are closely aligned with the shareholder and therefore our executive compensation program resulted in payouts that were closely aligned with company shareholder performance. discover leap to proclaim their competition was designed to align the management of their stockholders. where does this group thinks come from? this is also a cultural question. why do people talk such gibberish? while they are pulling the wool over her eyes and engaging in what you do say at one point is that in some cases. of shareholder values. >> these all come from the company profits and company proxies are written by pr so that's why they say we are aligned. everything is a best practice and everything they do as a best practice and they are aligned in what not so they are jus

unquote. flanders saturday sent a copy of his remarks to eisenhower who publicly commended them. edward r. murrow, eloquently condemned to mccarthy on his vietnam television program. he included quotations from the flanders speech. the senator as a one-man committee who had demoralized the president state state department and level charges of conspiracy against the army, including declaring the general ralph snookered was signed to serve. moral argued that the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine line in the junior senator was from wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. devastating eloquence. eloquent that would speak even to our time. we will not walk in fear. we will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason. it is no time, moral concluded, that people who oppose senator mccarthy's message to keep silent. we cannot, he declared, defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. two days later, march 11th, released the 34 page shine report on behalf of the army. i emp

president, -- that's unquote. i urge our republican colleagues to make the right choice, to reject this nominee and put in place people on a court position that is a lifetime appointment, one that all americans feel that they, that will represent them on: thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i'm here, mr. president, to oppose the nomination of john bush to the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit. i've been a member of the judiciary committee since i was sworn in as a united states senator six years ago. i participated in dozens of confirmation hearings. over time

unquote. don jr.'s response, quote, if it's what you say, i love it. unquote. so to review, goldstone tellingdtelling don jr. that the russian government is working to influence the u.s. election. don jr. seems to salivate. the e-mail chain continues as a meeting gets on the books. goldstone identifies the person flying to the u.s. to provide said incriminating information as a russian government attorney. remember, don jr. yesterday denied knowing she had any ties to the kremlin. then finally, don jr. forwards the exchange to none other than paul manafort and jared kushner. again, just this weekend, donald trump jr. said he told kushner and paul manafort nothing of the substance of the meeting. and we have just received the first comments from the president through his spokesperson, sarah huckabee sanders. quote, myon is a high-quality person and i applaud his transparency. unquote. so, is it rookie politics by donald trump's eldest son or a smoking gun in the collusion case surrounding trump

and from people with cancer in order to give tax breaks to the billionaires, unquote. quote, let us be clear, this is not trying to be dramatic. thousands of people will die if the republicans' health care bill will become law. if the republicans' health care bill is passed, thousands of people will die. if the bill is not passed, thousands of people will die. so i guess, we can't say it's not true, thousands of people will die if it passes or not. but the implications that republicans, are going to kill people. and i would like an acknowledgement like senator sanders, that there have been people since obamacare has and d who loss the their didn't get the treatments they d, their way of life was harmed and a lot of people have died earlier if the president's words have not been hollowed, if you like your sflurns, you can keep your insurance and not rewarded insurance like m.d. and dr son, because if they had the best health care providers for these life-ending disses ease. it created an incentive for insurance companies not to get the best end of-treaters in their netw

see stories come out htat are patently false, to see narratives that are wrong and to see, quote, unquote, "fake news". donald trump's press secretary, controversial and much lampooned, decides to quit. the nspcc expresses alarm at a bbc investigation which found children being groomed on the live video—streaming app, periscope. 16 children are interviewed as part of a major child abuse investigation involving up to seventy police officers in cheltenham. and on newsnight, as she sets off on holiday with her husband, how long can theresa may stay in number 10? we'll be speaking to one of her former key advisers who gives some trenchant advice about how to survive in downing street. good evening and welcome to bbc news. president trump's press secretary sean spicer has resigned. it follows the president's appointment of a former wall street banker, anthony scaramucci, as his new head of communications and reports in the us media suggest mr spicer resigned in protest at the appointment. mr spicer‘s performance in the post had been heavily ridiculed, not least by the us tv comedy show saturda

unquote. a federal court in washington, d.c., throwing out a texas voter identification law stated it would impose, and i quote, strict, unforgiving burdens on the poor. unquote. remember, under that texas law, a state university i.d. was found not to be adequate proof but a state-issued concealed weapons permit was. in wisconsin, in 2015, a chief of staff to a leading republican state senator resigned after attending a party caucus in which he said some legislators were giddy over the effect of state voter i.d. laws on minorities and college students. finally, last year an appellate federal court in california stated based on discovered official state government e-mails that republican lawmakers had targeted in their new voter laws, and i quote again, african-americans with almost surgical precision. unquote. let me be frank. voter fraud did not become an issue in north carolina, as in other places, until people of color started to cast ballots in record numbers and become an item of greater

s account of what thereed, the only reason wasn't quote/unquote collusion is because the russians didn't goods and they can say all they want, anyone would meeting, as the president said. most people in politics would not have taken that meeting. some say they would. even anthony scaramucci, when asked over the weekend, would have taken that meeting said, i don't know, not yes. changet and i would talk to counsel. up tothe meeting was set ludicrously, incriminating as a piece of bait to say we would like to bring information that's connected to russia's campaign to support your father and defeat hillary to bring you like this information, the you like to take that meeting. there's no subterfuge around it, it was set up in a way -- the russiane government wants your father to win. test case to the openness of collusion at a ludicrous rate. not just the email but to say paper trail, -- charlie: he owned it if for no reason vladimir putin hated hillary clinton. want and the elites didn't another administration that would keep it expanding. john: that's the assessment of the intelligence com

so if that campus has, quot quote-unquote, a pattern or practice, an employee on that campus can make a petition to the attorney general to sanction that campus and have it declared a sanctuary campus. this is something that governor abbot insisted on. we were demanding it be taken out because so many of our what we call texas dream act students are on public campuses. they were so mean-spirited that they wanted to put those kids in fear by including this provision in it. and i find that so offensive on so many levels. and that's why this governor needs to be called out. [ applause ] >> and i've got to highlight here that texas was the first state, even before california, texas was the first state to grant instate tuition to undocumented students. but how things have changed in the last couple of years, dave. >> let me add that sanctuary cities and sanctuary campuses have bebeen a threat by the federal government that they will be defunded. there has been action taken by municipalities in the state of california to put that to a stop. we know the city of san francisco as well as the c

not fit to serve. >>> the president has no problem tweeting that certain of his enemies are quote-unquotet comes to diagnosing public figures, psychiatrists are limited by a 40-year-old rule and some of them are fighting this. >>> plus, does president trump hold sway over his party? he's been threatening gop lawmakers, but are they learning they don't have to fear it? >> this was the one we were worried about. you weren't there, but you're going to be, you're going to be. look, he wants to remain a senator, doesn't he? okay. we check our phones 85 times a day. so it only made sense to create a network that keeps up. introducing xfinity mobile. it combines america's largest, most reliable 4g lte with the most wifi hotspots nationwide. saving you money wherever you check your phone. yeah, even there. see how much you can save when you choose by the gig or unlimited. call, or go to xfinitymobile.com. xfinity mobile. it's a new kind of network designed to save you money. >>> a new debate erupted this week over whether mental health professionals can weigh in about the president's mental stake

president, -- that's unquote. i urge our republican colleagues to make the right choice, to reject this nominee and put in place people on a court position that is a lifetime appointment, one that all americans feel that they, that will represent them on: thank you, mr. president. i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i'm here, mr. president, to oppose the nomination of john bush to the united states court of appeals for the sixth circuit. i've been a member of the judiciary committee since i was sworn in as a united states senator six years ago. i participated in dozens of confirmation hearings. over time i've become accustomed to hearing nominees attempt to dodge our questions. but i've rarely come across a nominee who was as reluctant to respond to my questions as john bush, and i've rarely felt so unsure and concerned about how a nominee would assume the responsibility of a federal judgeship if confirmed. and i should emphasize

see stories come out htat are patently false, to see narratives that are wrong and to see, quote, unquoteontroversial and much lampooned, decides to quit. the nspcc expresses alarm at a bbc investigation which found children being groomed on the live video—streaming app, periscope. 16 children are interviewed as part of a major child abuse investigation involving up to seventy police officers in cheltenham. and on newsnight, as she sets off on holiday with her husband, how long can theresa may stay in number 10? we'll be speaking to one of her former key advisers who gives some trenchant advice about how to survive in downing street.

nobody, unquote. those were wise words in 2013. i just wish he would remember them in 2017. because apparently he's forgotten those words. he's forgotten those words. because right now it's just pure obstruction in terms of trying to seat the people to run the government. so, mr. president, sometimes it's important to explain a little bit, try to explain to the american people what's going on on the senate floor because it can be confusing. i still get confused sometimes, arcane rules. but let's just give an example of what just happened here right now. we had the deputy secretary of defense, the number two official at the department of defense, pretty darn important job. we voted after he came out of committee, armed services committee on which i sit, to end--to end debate on his nomin. the vote just happened. i think it was 90-6, i believe. so very bipartisan, very bipartisan. and by the way, we need people at the department of defense whether you're a democrat or republican, regardless of who you voted for in the november elections, most americans want us to have good peo

even if you're quote/unquote subject to fara because you're acting to here, how will we reach the agent physically located in the other country? i see that as a significant challenge. >> do you want to add anything, mr. priestap, to any of the questions? >> no, i think mr. hickey is exactly right. that is the true challenge and i'm not sure how you legislate late that. >> okay. anything? >> no. i think the internet presents some new challenges and thinking that has to occur on the 48 hour rule and other requirements. >> it seems like we need to update this law in light of everything we have seen, given that another election is around the corner and everyone in america wants to have their vote count and that means not having influence from other entities. so i want to thank you very much. >> thank you. senator lindsey graham. >> thank you. i would like to add any compliments to you and the ranking member for conducting a very organized way forward in terms of dealing with the threats we face as a nation and changing our laws consistent with those threats. i am too disappointed that we ha

i think the question about, talked about before he took office -- what will the quote/unquote adultsn the cabinet do. it's impossible to know but my sense is that by january, if things are not different, you will see -- it could be sooner but i think by january, by the state of the union. john: interestingly, the place where you're starting to see the movement is in the foreign policy place where people who have broadly wanted solace in trump's presidency have looked at those particular grown-ups, mattis and tillerson and masterson and have said, the worst things we have to fear with trump are his temperament in crisis and all three right now, tillerson said i'm going to take time off, i got to get away from this a little bit. he's been in office six months. all three of those have high flight risk at this point. i'm not predicting any of them will go but you're hearing emanations from people around them that their frustration level is mounting. they came in as patriots to try in ways to constrain the guy they're working for and as they see he's unconstrainable, you sense in varying

a whole bunch of bad stuff, and they are willing to make these leaps of faith, run these, quote, unquote, sexy headlines that just don't have a ton of there there? >> but, trish, that is just not the case because again, as i said before donald trump drives this narrative. so let's take the meeting f it was just one meeting and that was it, it would be a one-day, one hour story. i don't disagree with you there. this is the deal, right. this is the 18th or 19th meeting or connection between the trump campaign and either a russian operative -- trish: can i put it in perspective. i got to jump in scott, you have to put this in perspective. compare and contrast that with hillary clinton who is pocketing money, doing your uranium deals on the said. she was secretary of state getting handouts from every tom, dick and hairy, doing speeches, whether her husband or money for the clinton foundation while simultaneously doing deals with these countries and players as secretary of state. if that is not buying access and whole another can of worms, i don't know what it is. you have got one meeting wit

i accuse the, quote/unquote, historic malfeasance because they co-opted a piece of land that was ownedblic. that seemed, to me, to be wrong. >> wow. >> it seemed to be unjust to ask after rican-american citizens, of whom who make the majority of our city to walk by pieces of property they own and ostensibly be forced to genuflect that they were less than human. i don't understand what's so cataclysmic about that in 2018 and it's sad the response mostly from people outside of new orleans was so threatening. they engaged in actions that were tantamount to burning a cross on people's lawns to intimidate them into not telling the true history. i believe we're better together than apart. i think we should be looking forward not back. you cannot look forward unless we acknowledge what we did wrong, unless people accept an open and honest apology, and until they forgive. you can't have reconciliation unless you have that. i don't think that should be so hard for us now in the dawning of the 21st century. >> you know, it leads to you talking about the future. i was reading a study this week, m

margin, i think he will continue to say just, hint, whatever word, that they are beginning to quote unquotee punch bowl. they are not removing it but the era of superlow interest rates and super high degrees of central bank stimulus is coming to an end. we are seeing an indian in the united states, canada, perhaps great britain. not so much in the ecb quite yet, but i think he is preparing the markets for an eventual move that reduces the degree of stimulus that the ecb provides. jonathan: you talk about complacency around the federal reserve, i cannot understand the amount of nervousness around the ecb. you get a scheduled speech and the market moves on it because they are expecting something flagged ahead of the september meeting. that is how nervous they are about the next move, is a justified? >> high sensitivity. i think for the ecb, the trouble is going to be to try to communicate a hawkish message without -- the market. we saw even a very small nugget of heart this -- hawkish information caused the bond yields to be prized high in a short amount of time. with the been rich treasuries

you don't like electing someone just because it is, quote, unquote, their turn. i agree with you.hink donald trump has connected with a lot of voters that would have historically voted for the democratic ticket. so, gina -- but it's not just -- it's not just the policies; right? it's also the person. it is the candidate. i think about bush and how he related to your everyday sort of average american in a way that, say, romney didn't. and the same can be said of kerrie. kerrie never related to the average american. in other words, it's not always along party lines here. it's that you need to have a candidate who is relatable. . >> it is about the candidate, trish, i think you're right. and it is ironic that president trump has said -- you know, when he talks about people having good jobs, he says -- and he literally said this. i want americans to be as rich as i am. he literally used those words. people know that when the democrats talk about full employment, they're talking about everyone having a minimum wage job, mostly government job that the elite in dc control. and nobody wan

he is is not getting cooperation from quote, unquote, the swamp? karl, looking at your party who is in a whole bunch of disarray. >> sure it is. let's be careful going too far. he is getting cooperation from the leadership. they fought hard for this. but you have 52 members, you lose four of them, mike lee, rand paul, both of them conservatives, and lose susan collins and lisa murkowski, shelley moore capito, moderates, you have a problem losing those votes. we were down, we had 50 people that were either on the record supporting it or hadn't made announcement. one conservative, mike lee of utah, one moderate, jerry moran of kansas both came out, for different reasons both of them fundamentally saying this is not my way. not completely perfect. they brought it down. trump had support from the rest of the caucus. unfortunately we're in a place where one or two or three, or four people can cause a lot of damage. in the case of more than two bring it to a halt. trish: should jerry moran, mike lee, be out? do you think they run that risk or constituent

g20 summit with vladimir putin where they talked about, quote, unquote, adoptions, which is code words for sanctions. then shortly thereafter, trump ended u.s. aid to the moderate syrian rebels, which is a key demand that the russians have been making for a long time. we're every single day learning more about this meeting that occurred in 2016 between donald trump jr. and the rest of the trump campaign hierarchy and these russian representatives, including the fact that we learned today that the lawyer who was involved there on the russian side represents the fsb, the russian intelligence service. so if you put all this into the context and you see all of these russian connections, there's a new one every single day, and increasingly benign explanations for what they're up to, benign explanations are just not incredible. >> right. you mentioned the disclosures on the meeting alone and how outnumbered the trump folks were with these russian officials. john mclaughlin, here was jeff sessions -- i would say the crescendo of his testimony when he clearly decided to try to lay down a gaunt

and much more likely to feel, quote, people like me are in decline, unquote. the public religion research institute and the atlantic also conducted an important study to analyze the most powerful predictors of whether a white working-class voter would vote for donald trump. after party identification the two best predictors were, quote, views about cultural displacement, unquote, and support for deporting undocumented immigrants. those who felt their economic conditions were poor or fair were actually slightly more likely to vote for hillary clinton. it's worth considering how much the democratic party has changed over the last 25 years on cultural issues. bill clinton's party was careful to come across as moderate on many social issues, like immigration, and gay rights. the democrats eventually moved boldly leftward in some of these areas, like gay rights, out of an admirable sense of principle. on others like immigration, they did so largely to build a growing segment of democratic voters. but in a broader cultural sense, the democratic party moved left beca

quote/unquote. with russia, and some in the republican party are outraged. >> to forgive and forget when it comes to putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower putin. that's exactly what he's doing. >> there has been no penalty whatsoever. time to move forward? yes, it's time to move forward, but there has to be a price to pay. >> why? why does there have to be a price? >> otherwise, he will be encouraged to do so again. obviously. >> adding to the confusion and bewilderment on both sides of the aisle, trump's proposal to actually work with russia on forming a cyber security unit. >> this is like the guy who robbed your house proposing a working group on burglary. >> talk more about all of this and what the president has been saying on the heels of his meeting with president putin. bringing in cnn's white house correspondent athena jones. athena? >> reporter: hi, fred. these are remarkable and confusing tweets, as you said. here are a couple of the tweets. put them back on the screen from this morn

so do you standby your statement that regulators should be quote, unquote, behind the market? >> that is probably the most unfortunate use of language i have ever made, and i do not stand behind that statement. >> thank you. thank you for what you said in your earlier statement about humility. those are two things we don't always see in this committee. when chairman yellin was nominated and confirmed, i asked her to come to cleveland and see what the real economy looked like and learn a little more about manufacturing and what decisi decisi decision she would make as chair and considering what mr. ottings bank, the impact it had on my neighborhood and beyond, considering what some of the statements from mr. quarrels -- and i so much appreciate your comments a minute ago -- i would like to invite both you of once confirm today come to my state. president lincoln once said i have to get my public opinion bath and go out among people. and i'd like to invite each of you if confirmed to ohio to join me in learning more about an economy in the midwest. >> eyed be delighted to. >> so

he was specific about what the, quote/unquote incriminating details were. he said in the statement it had to do with russia funneling money for democrats, so clearly something was discussed beyond what was in the e-mail chain. >> i think spicer is trying to argue, hey, weapon went to the meeting, we didn't get the dirt, all we talked about was adoptions. i think that's what he's suggesting here. we still don't know everybody who was in the room, and a lot more, we don't know if there were meetings after that. there's been denials about that, but the credibility of the white house just sinking lower and lower when you have spicer making thinks kind of strange statements. >> s.e. cupp, your reaction? >> let's not forget in addition to all the statements and the e-mails in an interview don junior said it ended up a waste of 20 minutes. what would have made it worth his time? well, actually getting that incriminating information, so there again you have don junior admitting the point, the hope was to walk out with getting that incriminating information, he didn

trump, unquote. goldstone writes he could also send the information directly to donald trump senior, currently the president, via his assistant, quote, but is ultra sensitive, so wanted to send to you first, unquote. donald trump jr.'s response in part, thanks, rob. i appreciate that. if it's what you say, i love it, especially later in the summer. now, just a brief note on that. "later in the summer." trump jr. seems to be suggesting there that it would be best to have damaging information about hillary clinton come out later in the campaign, later in the summer. the e-mail chain goes on to show them, coordinating the best times to talk or meet. on june 7, goldstone notes that aman, agalara, a pop star, and whose video he once appeared, quote, asked that i schedule a meeting with you and a russian attorney who is flying over from moscow. the russian government attorney is apparently a reference to this woman, natalia veselnitskaya. donald trump jr. was quite reseptemberir receptive to that idea. gre

i think it's going to look like whatever small things they can pull together in this quote unquote skinny repeal, which i will add is language that republican aides don't love. it's bad branding. >> yeah. >> so that's a whole nother struggle as well. >> bob, let me go to you for the take sort of from the white house perspective here. but i want to start with sessions. where are we right now on jeff sessions? >> chuck, it's a cold war between the long-time trump confident ant and the white house. you have attorney general jeff sessions really not on speaking terms with the president of the united states. we've reported here at the post that his chief of staff jody hunt has been sort of an elm saer to the attorney general going to chief of staff reince priebus that elnot resiep, has no interest in stepping down. that's where we are. the situation where the president is doing everything he can to try to force his own attorney general to quit, but the attorney general just won't do it. >> i don't understand why the chief of staff for jeff sessions is going to reince priebus at this point when

in a new interview the president tel tells reuters that, quote, many people, unquote, would have takenhat meeting if the opportunity presented itself. let's discuss this and more with democratic senator richard blumenthal, he serves on the judiciary committee which is investigating russian election interference. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> now that we've all seen don junior's e-mails in black and white on the front page of the papers where he expresses interest and even enthusiasm about getting dirt on hillary clinton from what he thought was a high level russian source, what do you do about that? what is congress going to do about that? >> we are investigating not only russian interference in the election campaign, which was extraordinary, unprecedented in its scope and sophistication, but also the potential trump campaign collusion with that russian interference. and these e-mails are bombshell evidence of criminal intent. >> why? hold on, what do you mean they are bombshells of criminal intent? >> what they show is as you said so well just a few minutes ago, interest

think you have -- one thing i found fascinating in your book, ed, some things i thought were quote-unquote modern, on been done with the internet, you showed a version of that back in the 1830s, and other case is thought that thing died out when the automobile came in. you show the same old people game people did in the 1830s, still down in the 2010s. so i guess i'd ask ed or inelse, can you thick of a couple of examples of ones that have staying power and why you think they persist? just they're fleecing the same sheep or what? >> i'll give you one example. one common investment fraud is the pyramid scheme which promises wild profit anti-ability and then initially delivering on the promises by taking the money that later investors put in and use that to pay off early investors. can't last forever because eventually you run out of people at the bottom of the pyramid. one of the -- the actual form of that is very consistent but so is the mode of marking. almost all of these type of schemes, the approach is to look for some group of insiders and to have someone in that group, almost all of t

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that we're not going to be leading quote unquote from behind. we will be leading from the front. and obviously high-tech ships like this is a key component of our ability to project force and project image, and clearly, david, that's what the ship will be doing as we move forward. david: general keen, if you are still with us, you talked before about how this president decided to break with previous presidents -- not only obama but also with bush in terms of saying we can win this thing. we are going to win this thing. it reminds me very much of what president reagan said about the cold war. he was the first president of his generation to talk about soviet union and say not only are we going to win but we're going to end the cold war. how does this ship specifically propel itself into winning the war on terror? >> well, certainly as tony mentioned, and this is about power projection. and that's what an aircraft carrier does, so we will have aircraft carriers during the most needed parts of the world obviously. in the pacific. in the gulf. and at times in the atlantic. sometimes i