changer in this back and forth. francesca chambers, north korea again. you do a lot of foreign travel. it has to be part of the buzz on the back of the plane every day that you are flying. i 100% agree with what you re saying. i don t want to be like accused of warmongering or scare tactics, but, look, this administration is looking at plans to be able to, if they had to, as you re saying here, to be able to go forward with some sort of a military option. i know they keep saying those are always on the table, but i am hearing they are trying to afford a military option if they had to, in march of next year. again, hopefully, we ll obviously not get to where they would have to do that. when they say the military option is on the table, the military option is on the table. general dunford said at the aspen security institute, that s what you pay us for. we have plans. it is hard to think about the unthinkable, but we have plans.
desensitized, as james was saying, to so many of t
packed hour. it was like a scene straight out of the americans on fx. thanks for joining outnumbered overtime. have a great weekend. come join me and my friend david at 4 p.m. on fox business. here s dana perino. dana: fox news alert. the department of justice announcing just a short time ago a series of indictments against russian nationals accused of interfering in u.s. elections. hello, everyone. i m dana perino and this is the daily briefing. a federal grand jury delivering those indictments all charged with conspiracy to defraud the united states. tin tkaoeugtment alleges that the russian conspirators wanted to promote discord in the united states and under mind public confidence in democracy. we must not allow them to succeed. the department of justice will continue to work cooperatively with other law enforcement and intelligence agencies and with congress to defend our nation
against similar current and future efforts. dana: chief intelligence correspondent cathe
that does it for our show. rachel h rachel. don t go anywhere. hardball with chris matthews is up next. power trip let s play hardball. good evening, i m chris matthews in washington. breaking news from the associated press. just broke the news reported that omarosa manigault newman has more than tapes. just broke.
we begin the other big story news tonight. obsessed with power. president trump appears ready and willing to use his office to punish enemies like omarosa. scare others including his own people into submission. having revoked security clearances, trump is weaponizing the presidency. axios reports president trump has become enamored with power. consultation with anyone else. when it comes to yanking security clearances it is a power that is uniquely and solely hiss. matches his idea of how the presidency ought to be. pure power and instant
gratification. investigating his enemies. yesterday vanity fair reported that trump told advisors that he wants attorney gen
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mr. trump, helped along by aras and amon. it s clear from the very beginning the information being offered to the trump campaign was coming from russia. and it was clear that the information being offered was dirt on clinton. it s the first thing they said. despite trump junior s initial claim the meeting was about the adoption of russian children. that claim coming in a statement we later learned was dictated by president trump himself. after white house press secretary sarah sanders claimed he didn t. how did we learn about the president s statements? well, his own attorneys acknowledge it in a letter to robert mueller in january. it s all right there in front of your face. it s all in writing. this is an administration that has tried to distract and deflect from the facts literally from day one when then press secretary sean spicer, remember, tried to claim that president
trump s inauguration crowd was the largest ever. and kellyanne conway doubled dow
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truth is a choose your own adventure kind of thing because he can t explain away the following fracts. so listen, write dedown if you have a pen, if you have your phone on record it. so the white house counsel don mcgahn sat down for 30 hours of interviews with robert mueller s team and the white house doesn t know exact lewhat he said. the fact that in a matter of days the president s former attorney and so-called fixer michael cohen could face criminal charges related to possible fraud and campaign finance violations. the fact that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is on trial on charges that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life if convicted, and the fact that so far the special counsel robert mueller has brought a total of 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants. there have been five guilty pleas. those are the facts. that is truth. and the president cannot
distract and deflect from that. facts matter. now i want to bring i