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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181219:19:33:00

Overhaul and promises to sign it when it reaches his desk. the president has said america is the greatest country in the world and my job is to fight for all citizens, even those who have made mistakes. congratulations to the senate on the bipartisan passing of an historic criminal justice reform bill. with me now, cnn senior political analyst david gergen, former presidential adviser for nixon, ford, reagan, clinton. hello, sir. hello. this is a huge deal, this legislating happening. a long, dark chapter, so good to see some light and to be encouraged. isn t it? we ve hammered the president and his administration a lot and i think justifiably so. but on this one we have to say he did a good job on this. he did the right thing for the country. in particular jared kushner played a pivotal role. had it not been for his persistence, phone calls and partly because his dad went to ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181219:19:08:00

What s happening in the agriculture and farming industry, you have people walking away from farms. these tariffs are killing them. so what i worry about is if we don t fix trade quickly, if we don t sign a farm bill quickly, we re going to have an entire sector of this market that does cause a real pull back in the economy and we could be sitting here in q2 and q3 and talking about layoffs. so to me right now, i think if i m the president or his economic team, get the deal done on china, get the canada/mexico agreement done, sign the farm bill, give us some positive news. certainly we ll see some kind of tweet. none of this is something that jay powell at the federal reserve can control. we re asking him to make interest rate changes and support a stock market potentially but none of those things are things that the central bank controls. it does come from the government. critical point. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181219:19:44:00

Government. when he goes back in march, is the judge s sentencing contingent on how much more he cooperates? is that the deal? that s what the judge suggested. i think that s a figure leaf to we ll have the tongue lashing, we ll slap you around some and see you another day. mueller said he s just about done but there are these new charges he could be a witness if he went to trial. you ve gotten your lecture now, you sit in the corner now and i ll see you in march. and the crux is why did he lie to federal prosecutors in the first place? you have a hypothesis. do share. he was carrying on that rogue foreign policy during the transition, making upwards of half a million dollars with turkey trying to influence things and he had lied about it already over the past couple weeks with vice president pence and maybe others. then the fbi shows up on his ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181219:19:22:00

Vacuum for terrorism. how big is that concern? there s a big concern. there s thousands of isis fighters still in the area, there s a significant threat of them surging and reconstituting themselves. but you also have the vacuum with iran and russia. they have long sought to get the united states out of syria. they ve called for the u.s. to withdraw from its bases in syria. they see that has a bulwark against them. this is a victory for iran and russia absolutely and in addition having a surge in isis that could threaten the west and the united states. ryan and nick, thank you guys so much. we ll have more on that next hour. meanwhile, it is considered the biggest overhaul of the criminal justice system in a generation. we ll talk about what it took to bring a deal like this to tgeth. and a deal that handed a big bipartisan victory to president trump. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181219:19:21:00

The syrian kurds, turkey considers them to be terrorists. they hoped the u.s. would assist in a brokered deal and the u.s. and turkish are allies. now soon and the term rapidly depends, it s pretty elastic, now they look like they re on their way out and it opens the door for the turkish to potentially move in. eventually the americans were going to leave here but why now with so little gain for people on the ground, i m baffled. he probab nick has reported extensively on the ground. it s good to hear from you, nick. ryan, this withdrawal causes a ....

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