thanks for listening to judiciary nominations at wtf. and thanks to our panelists. >> and i want to take a quick moment for being here. you have been absolutely incredible. and for everyone listening, they have all given us a lot to think about and a lot of different opportunities for us to be talking to our friends, family, coworkers, senators. and one thing i wanted to let you know they do have a love our constitution initiative so some of us will be spending time with our constitution with article ii, section 2, and whole power point where you can go through and walk many of your friends and family and senators through this very process. you can talk about with them that might give you anxiety opportunities that people can speak out how important the courts are and how important judges are and how important we still have a process that respects all of that in our values. so thank you all so much for being here this evening. and thank you again to all of our panelists. >> that was really great. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> tonight ame

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respond but former national security council spokesman tommy vitter did, sarcastically writing quote wtf, ben, immediately confirm or deny this totally unsubstantiated claim and then tell us why you don't support assassinations. bret stephens then responded that the obama administration certainly didn't object to assassinating other terrorists like usama bin laden and that led to this back and forth. first vietor saying, quote, yeah taking out usama bin laden is the same as assassinating an iranian political leader. stephens comes back with this: seriously tommy vietor so political leader actually he is the head of quds force which is the u.s. designated sponsor of terrorism. >> he is the major political figure in their system and a general piece of blank but to blithely suggest the u.s. should support his assassination is irresponsible. then tommy vietor sends another tweet that appears to confirm that the obama administration did warn iran saying, quote: we were well aware of the dangers posed by kassem and the iranian revolutionary guard. obama sanctioned them repeatedly among other d

and the cliff edge exit is you leave with no deal and you drop straight to a wtf status without havinge heading for hard. if you look at the politics of brexit and the negotiations are you starting to model a shift under jeremy corbyn? >> i think the hard brexit is the government's vision. and i think the december suggests thatade vision is going to be very difficult to realize which means you either get forced into softer brexit within the single market which is something the labour party have talked about before or you have a chaotic brexit. i agree with those scenarios. the risk is significant deviation from the government's vision at the moment is likely to come only with political shock and potentially political crisis. there is a risk of a general election this year and under those scenarios jeremy corbyn could become the next prime minister. francine: let's listen to eu president donald tusk. if the u.k. government sticks to its decision to leave, brexit will become a reality with all its negative consequences in march next year. unless there is a change of heart among citizens.