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Is the white house pessimistic it will reach a deal on nafta -- >> well continue to push forward in those negotiations but as the president said, he wants to make sure we get the right deal but i dont have announcements on it yet -- >> [ inaudible question ]. >> im not going to -- im not a gambler so i wont throw out wild percentages here but well continue in that process. >> thank you, sara. for a long time you and the president and other administrations saying there is an infrastructure bill. ...

A deal. >> well make sure we get right deal as the president said. >> and what are the handicaps of the deal. >> i am not a gambler and i will not throw out wild percentages here. well continue in that process. >> thank you, sarah, for a long time you and the president and other administrations said there will be a infrastructure bill. in fact you said it before scarlets last birthday when you corrected me on the name. >> pretty good, john and you nailed it this time. >> and i got it right, on c...

Of three americans. secretary of state mike pompeo securing their freedom on a trip to north korea where he also worked out some final details on the summit between president trump and kim jong un. im joined now by senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. a loll to talk about. thank you for joining me. listen to what trump said earlier today about the north korean summit. >> president trump: both sides want to negotiate a deal. it will be a successful deal. i think we have a really good shot at...

Democrats, republicans, people in the cia across the board were involved in this program so if youre trying to spot someone who worked at the cia at the time who opposed it or refused to participate in the program it will be a real short list. the question, is it against the law? she recognizes it is against the law, no evidence shes going to but the law and start waterboarding people so what exactly is the objection to haspel particularly? she obeyed the law of the time and will continue to obe...

Program so if you are trying to spot somebody was working at the cia, thats going to be a real short list. the question now is this is against the law. she says that she recognizes its against the law. i see no evidence to suggest shes going to buck the law and randomly start waterboarding people. and wondering what exactly the objection to haspel particularly is when she obeyed the law at the time and now she will presumably continue to obey it now that has changed. >> shannon: we have a letter...

Bad, get out of it. theyre not making any progress with korea. in a way its just churn and do the opposite. and i think hes got himself into tricky situation intellect stuff from trump. but he ran as an anti-stupid war guy. he brought in john bolton. he is acting like the most neo connie owe con. he looks like he wants to go after the axis of evil again. lets go fight with iran. lets go fight with north korea. the old game plan of the neo cons, fight with everybody. and yet he is going to make p...

Their roll in this which you see in this meeting youre talking about, well get the readout of the call between the president and the leader of china but everything here is putting the chess pieces in place on the board leading to what is going to be this historic summit most likely to take place between donald trump and kim jong-un. >> youre so right, david. a problem that had seemed intractable for years and different administrations now every day -- every week were having some sort of breaking...

People dont want to see the movie of sanctions played again. people here had been hoping for jobs. they had been hoping to get better education for their kids. they had also been hoping that their own leaders would normalize their policies after the nuclear agreement. and you can debate long and hard about what happened. but for many iranians it is clear that some of the measures irans leaders have taken have not been the right ones. in the economy there is corruption, mismanagement. at the same...

After 9/11. critics have called it torture. haskel, in thailand, two terrorism suspects were water boarded. donald trump came to her defense on twitter saying haskel has come under fire because she was too tough on terrorists. mike pence accuse democrats of playing politics with her nomination. >> she enjoys the support of former cia directors from past administrations representing both political parties including leon panetta, john brennan and michael hayden. >> the wall street journal is repor...

Yesterday and last evening and was happening today that so important, shes walking into the fold on capitol hill. shes not a politician and this is something that we have seen candidates to across-the-board, across administrations but this is a hostile work environment for her in a way because we have made a cultural difference in decision about what her job was. your soldier, that was important, he was fourth in command. he was much closer to the top when these issues were talked about. she was...