and more isolated and that the only ultimate security for a regime is that its people enjoy some sort of prosperity. so i think the north koreans, and this is a very unusual outreach after a after a year that we have gone through where we have really been escalating, escalating the sort of dialogue, it s a little hard to perceive. and frankly, we should all do with humanity. it s a hard regime to analyze and say we have very little insight in some regards into the regime. and we ll enter to proceed cautiously. i think one caveat, one takeaway from this is the president himself, donald trump should lower the escalating dialogue, the escalating rhetoric. thank you to both of you on this new year s day. author of the right turn blog. and an american family killed in a plane crash in costa
london and also with us the writer behind the washington post, the right turn blog jennifer rub he en. thank you for being with us. i want to pay another part of the interview with jay sekulow. jake tapper asked him whether a president can technically commit obstruction of justice. here is his answer. in this particular case you had a scenario where the president receiving advice from a variety of his government officials was told by his attorney general and by his deputy attorney general that james comey should not be leading the fbi. it is ironic that based on the action that they recommended, that he took in consultation with others, that he s now being investigated by the agencies that told him to take that very action, removing the fbi director. so, alan, the president s lawyer initially said multiple times he s not under investigation, disregard the president s tweet, but then we just played this clip in which he says the president ironically is being investigated by the
to me. what happens when you mix ideology with deception? and undercover activist james o keefe has a new media target. we discovered something else interesting about huffington post reporter sam stine. he accuses the reporter of getting his sources drunk. is this the new face of conservative journalism? plus, as facebook reveals more and more about us, is privacy passe? why is blogger jeff jarvis revealing so much about his personal life? we ll ask him. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. every week it seems there s another one, and there are at least a dozen more to go televised drama featuring mit and rick and herman and newt and michele and the rest of the gang. but these primetime programs, are they really about chris wallace and anderson cooper and wolf blitzer and brian williams and charlie rose? it s time now to meet the 2012 republican presidential contenders. here s the format for our debate tonight. let s get to it and meet the c