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We still dont know why the president is doing this when his own constituents, the steel workers didnt want this. >> and steve, you have a look at how some of the efforts of previous administrations use tariffs to reduce imports played out. how did that work? >> look, the reason why republicans are willing to speak out about this because its truly a bad idea and history is not on the side of using tariffs to try to advance yourself economically or any other way. let me make four quick points. let...

And a possible summit with vladimir putin, is this kim jong-un trying to change his staff your ahead of the world summ summit? what do you make of this? >> i think the fact that they are announcing this right now is certainly some part of signaling by the north korean regime, precisely to what end, a reminder for president trump that he is not going to do a complete about face and change the man that he is, change the leadership that he has, it should be slightly troubling that he wants to send ...

>> across a ton of different industries. i think it is telling and unfortunate from the administrations perspective that you have this lengthy back-and-forth with larry kudlow moments ago and the amazing job report and stay of the us economy almost felt like an afterthought because we are discussing whether or not we should move forward with terrorist against some of our closest friends which was for a wet blanket over the movement that i think is attributable to trumped policies on deregulation...

>> across a ton of different industries. i think it is telling and unfortunate from the administrations perspective that you have this lengthy back-and-forth with larry kudlow moments ago and the amazing job report and stay of the us economy almost felt like an afterthought because we are discussing whether or not we should move forward with terrorist against some of our est friends which was for a wet blanket over the movement that i think is attributable to trumped policies on deregulation and...

Recollections, which to me means how are they coming up with another reason to not tell the truth. >> what about "the wall street journal," which is saying officials are in early talks f trump, putin summit. though no details on date or location. in fairness, president obama and bush met with putin, in the first six months of each of their administrations. wouldnt this president be following that precedent, despite the cloud of the russia investigation? >> well, again i always support diplomacy ...

Summit. trump can get something useful out of the meeting. weve got to go to a partial type of victory, maybe getting rid of the missiles or eliminating the missile program. >> what would kim want -- he said several times that he wants a denuclearization of the entire peninsula, reportedly, which would include requirements for the u.s. to pull out some of its forces, missile defense systems there in the south. do you envision a scenario at all where thats plausible for the u.s. to pulls it force...

Poppy-cock. >> but there is a difference between that and holding russia accountable for doing things in russia versus homeland security. there is a difference there. go ahead. >> across administrations, ive, in fact, been a u.s. diplomat. i was u.s. ambassador to the united nations human rights commission. we sat across from some of our nemesis, whether it be russia, cuba. believe me, we know how to engage. we have a team, pompeo, bolton, mattis. dont tell me these folks are not aware of our vu...

Carry a letter proposing a series of measures back then that could have led to denuclearization. clinton, in turn, sent madeleine albright, secretary of state, to pyongyang. it never happened. they just never seemed to want to give the north korean leader the kind of pedestal standing next to an american president. ironically, if october of 2000, the same month, the south korean president won a nobel peace prize for his efforts to seal the rift between north and south korea. so this is 18 years ...

Career dealing with government ethics, thats just unbelievably disheartening to see ethics explicitly being given a backseat to peoples policy views. >> this administration continues to do things differently than past administrations, no doubt about it. the president made another controversial pardon this week. he may soon do the same with martha stewart and commute the sentence of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. president trump not the first to make a controversial pardon, of course. ...

Be the speed bumps, if you will, to getting this on track and accomplished? >> well, many administrations have been down the road before on talks with north korean officials. nobody has been down the road of a presidential meeting with the leader of north korea. this is something that has never happened. and i think we have to understand that this really is incredibly historic. no president of the united states has ever met the leader of north korea. i mean, former presidents have, but not the s...