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China giving ivanka trumps brand and raising conflicts of interest. is it just bad timing or does it amount to a level of special treatment by the foreign government? >> we dont know the answer to that. and this is why you try to have administrations avoid conflicts of interest of this kind, by having the president divest, and have people close to the president not pursuing this. this president has declined to do that. with the trademarks just like on the $500 million loan that the chinese gover...

Of color. you have to shine a light on these people so they come from the shadows, come from behind their keyboards. i think theres some reality to it, right? at least this gives people to know who exactly is it on the ballot. patrick little lists himself as a civil rights advocate. if someone like that is on your ballot and you vote a straight republican ticket, you may not even know exactly what he represents and who he is. i feel like my job as a journalist is to shine light on the truth, no ...

A lot of it is relationship driven and remember, he does so many things, he, donald trump, in opposition to what he doesnt like. so so much of his presidency to date has been what did barack obama do? okay. were doing the opposite. it doesnt even matter really what that is. its just the opposite. i think its relationship driven. and there is a score settling piece. i dont think there is any other question. one other quick thing to kirstens point, dont underestimate what a big deal it is. this is...

Pardon this guy. the president says, interesting, ill let my counsels office know. the counsels office studies it and whatever. >> if youre waiting in that line, you should have gotten the hint that you need to -- >> get in the other line. >> looking at the 25-foot level is more interesting to me and what this means for the next administrations to come. in particular, the last two min administrations have been very careful about this. going through the justice department kind of alleviates the p...

Ara sacrosanct, not to be shared. and lawrence summers said, if during the clinton or obama administrations there had been a statement from potus or anyone senior official in the morning before the employment report it would have been a major scandal -- with all sorts of investigations following on. nobody is saying, mr. president, please dont do that. >> general kelly in the oval ofl office, look, follow the rules. its pretty clear in this case. and the goodness of these numbers outweighs the b...

Where they are considering a strategic shift. some big change in the way that they do business that would make this different than the field of negotiations in the clinton and bush administrations. >> harris: judy, how important is the letter that he is said to be carrying to give to the president? >> its all important, harris. we are going to know based on what kim jong un has written to president trump, whether or not to north korea is really serious about what the administration is calling co...

Warming of possibility here. because that was also -- remember how closely seated she was to a member of the trump family who was also at the olympics. i want to tell everybody what youre looking at. thank you for joining me, i appreciate your perspective across to different administrations. on the left side of your screen, through that window, some movements that you see. that is the oval office. that is where the presence of the united states is meeting for the first time in nearly 20 years wi...

But we will have video and words, we are anticipating, moments from now. we have been told this will be a short meeting. we will know the history that is being made. across two different political administrations joining me now. i asked you a question about success and what it took to get here, and honestly looking at the back and forth and may be seeing a different way, and you say what? >> i think its a fair point. we have gotten to this point, this is extraordinary. i agree that no one would ...

Looking to the president and saying this is finally somebody that is moving the dial with north korea. hes trying to deescalate the tensions that weve had with the north koreans. hes moved the ball further than previous administrations. it just shows the strength of president trumps ability to negotiate and to be tough and to put america in a position where were gooing to demand that they denuclearize and we have already seen head way with the three hostages coming back. i think these will be ve...

Administrations. have you ever seen anything like whats the president has done public by but whats been described of him essentially twisting the ample his attorney general? >> no, ive never seen it. i started my career whether he ronald reagan was president. i left after barack obama finished his second term. not one of them ever tried to use the attorney general as a fixer. all you need to do is just go back and look at what the job of the attorney general is. it was stated in 1789. and its be...