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Administrations you would have. >> imagine what it does to morale. ive heard people say this inside the west wing. when the president is going out and tormenting his attorney general on twitter on a daily basis and humiliating -- >> homeland security secretary. >> or secretary of state -- imagine what that does to the person who works a few levels down. this is why trump has failed to engender a lot of loyalty, except for really a handful of people around him. >> its kind of a death spiral in th...

Missing the forest for the trees. as crystallized in the atlantic, quote, the myriad trump scandals obscure the fact that theyre all elements of one massive tell of corruption, the corruption of the american government by the president and his associates who are using their official power for personal and financial gain. and their attempts to shield that corruption from political consequence, public scrutiny, or legal accountability. here are some of the countrys top national security officials ...

But we all did. i think every one of us, including those two, have worked for presidents of republican and democratic administrations. and i think what giuliani said there amounts to a kind of crude character assassination that characterizes really the whole manner in which he and the president are talking about this investigation. >> and, in fact, what jim clapper had said was to deny that there was a spy embedded. you know the fbi better than anyone, the difference between an informant and a "...

Logistical questions filling in around the pompeo testimony. the officials answered to why he couldnt be on the record is the president has spoken. lets let the presidents words stand and then you have the president coming back and saying that the official in his words dont exist. >> dont exist. and then the background trick is all administrations have tried it before. wasnt a phony person. put pressure on democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from their parents. catch and re...

Days in september." he spent months studying the personalities and the history and the language and the meaning of phrases, absolutely essential. like i have said before, we have had so little contact with the north koreans and know so little about their system and their personal ditie personalities, you need even more direct talks. its kind of a golden rule in diplomacy that you really want to with something this important is to have a direct conversation, and not rely, as good an ally as south...

Reassert itself. there might be a little bit of clash because inevitably the interests will be at the mix. >> it is an interesting point. we have seen two readings with kim jong un. we have now seen two meetings with kim jong un and president moon. the question now, will that meeting take place with donald trump? wait and see. thank you so much for your time and perspective today. >> thank you. venezuela released an american and his wife from behind bars, how their freedom was secured and how ...

Made available, but that second day, the epa was discussing with each other regulatory tones, thats what we want to make sure is public. and thats why i asked the ooichli.g. to take a look at it. >> scott pruitt hasnt given an interview in many weeks n other administrations he probably still wouldnt have his job. well see where this goes. just want to point out we did invite both pruitt and an epa spokesperson and we got no response. reliable sources.com is where you can find up with all the d...

Pushing harder, pushing journalist s out. in one case, pushing an ap reporter out of a meeting at the epa. back in the summer politico reviewed press access into all 17 cabinet agencies and the white house was not releasing appointment coalendars or basic information that past administrations provided. the epa is of particular issue right now because there was a two-day summit meeting being held at the epa, where pruitt was speaking about -- for some reason the epa said there werent enough seats...

Thats because washington and caracas have been at odds for years. the two countries havent exchanged ambassadors since 2010. so the fact that this happened at all is fairly remarkable. we know members of the utah delegation to include orrin hatch, mia love, have been working on this for two years over the past two administrations, really. bob corker, the top republican in the senate foreign relations committee, went down there as the closer, met with maduro on friday. all of that preceding the r...

Your reaction sir to this back and forth that we have been hearing since the president abruptly canceled the summit on thursday? is there anything that you think is strategic. >> its puzzling. i think it is very, very difficult to deal with north korea and kim jong-un, as several administrations have dealt with both him and his father. they have a pattern. they try to suck you in, promise things, dont deliver, try to get what they can. there is no easy way to deal with them. so im of the going t...