Donald Trump and his personal attorney want to lay the foundation to discredit whatever Bob Mueller comes up with.
ADAM SCHIFFThe Iraqis would love to have Americans die for Iraq and the Syrians would love to have Americans die for Syria.
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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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We should be worried about protecting the homeland.
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That bomb that took down that Russian airliner may have been the size of a soda can. And that bomb killed more people than all the Paris attackers combined. So this is still a grave threat.
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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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And if they’re not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.
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And there has to be a far stronger mechanism for being able to track down people, have overstayed their visas, to have a responsibility for who they’re coming to visit or stay with.
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If we can’t get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection
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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 can’t do it alone. And that has to begin by his acknowledgment of the facts.
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The legacy of the Armenian Genocide is woven into the fabric of America.
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I think that policy is changing, should change and will change.
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In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II
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That first justification given, again, the White House misleading the country about a major action the administration was taking, but the fact that they had a private conversation in which the president,
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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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I would strongly urge the Donald Trump administration to pick someone who is completely apolitical, who doesn’t come out of the political process
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And here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.
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But even race-neutral policies and recruitment efforts designed to achieve greater diversity are, in the end, not race neutral.
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The president [Barack Obama] is not willing to send in apaches and spotters if the Iraqis say they don’t want them and if it means that these Shia mobilization forces are going to be going after and trying to kill Americans.
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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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Someone who is a retired judge or an acting judge willing to step down from their judgeship, someone ideally who has prosecutorial experience, but someone who could come in and give credibility to the Russia investigation that is severely in jeopardy.
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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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There are many reasons why the Russians prefer Donald Trump.I think, in the first instance, they wanted to tear down Secretary Clinton.
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We cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.
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We are trying to do as much of this as we can in the public eye transparently.
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I think Barack Obama has the overall right strategy and he’s been right to resist bringing in massive numbers of American troops.
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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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