There was certainly merit to the criticism that the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein had about how James Comey handled the Hillary Clinton investigation.
ADAM SCHIFFThe most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation.
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The only element of it that concerned him was how it might impact him personally.
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The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.
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The U. S. trade deficit with China shows that while we value the potential of their market, they value the reality of our market. It is in this area that we should use our leverage.
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Euphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.
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It was an echo of Director Comey’s testimony that Trump showed no curiosity, no interest, no concern over the Russia hack.
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When the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.
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We know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy.
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And that is a threat that here in Europe, they feel acutely. They’ve seen their countries interfered with, bombarded by cyber-attacks, by Russian propaganda, indeed, by Russian troops.
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An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
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It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
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In fact, that is done quite often. And the standard is whether the unmasking of those names is necessary to determine the significance of the intelligence.
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No other nation can do that the way we can, and it’s going to be very hard for Congress to do it over his opposition.
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We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].
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Terrific. Now to win a larceny trial all we have to do is prove how the universe ends.
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We can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.
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Then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn’t have prevented it altogether.
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We cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
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The most important thing to me is that the president Donald Trump fired the FBI director James Comey all because of the Russia investigation.
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What disturbed me most, frankly, about the Rod Rosenstein memo, is the fact it was addressed to the attorney general.
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While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans
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So let us call genocide, genocide. Let us not minimize the deliberate murder of 1.5 million people.
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We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy.
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That says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.
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The Gulf states are happy for us to fight and die. That’s good for everybody, but the Americans fighting and dying.
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We must either reduce the number of our engagements or increase the number of our troops.
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Obviously, some of it will have to be done in closed session.
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