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431 of president trumps nominees have received senate confirmation. thats a far lower number than any other president at this point in their term. now democrats have continuously invoked a rule that requires 30 hours of debate on many of trumps appointees. so that means that nominees way to an average of 84 days for confirmation, thats a lot longer also than previous administrations. more than 50% of trumps nominees for federal judgeships are still awaiting confirmation. democrats obstruction ef...

>> marie: absolutely. im just not sure its going to get prosecuted. >> harris: i also think if youre sitting in your talk about this all the time, if youre sitting around your kitchen table right now and youre watching this, what are you thinking about? s are the highest levels of the fbi attacking one another after theyve been in office. what was it like when they were in office? but in the office. >> tomi: i have it hard to believe it was better than the obama administration but again, is an a...

Past administrations are kicked the can and gotten north korean to a place where all of a sudden it could have nuclear weapons that could threaten the united states. donald trump deserves credit for that. remember that agreement for a face-to-face talk took advisers by surprise. is there a danger he could get rolled? yes. the other way to look at him is is im not going to take a bad deal s. this high stakes for the world? yes. are they doing the hard work to change the calculus? i think they des...

Japan didnt give enough to the united states in order to be exempted from tariffs, so i love that trump is holding firm on that. on this issue of north korea, this is just, this is just so classic trump. he says he wants to be flexible but this thing isnt going the right way, hes out of there. what do you think? >> he is a guy, when he plays his cards, never really give his cards away. what hes doing is saying okay, pompeo came. we had a great visit. things went well. they set up is there. he wa...

One of the first things that i did when i joined the agency, work north korean issues. the past 30-plus years of foreign policy strategy weve been following has produced nothing other than an almost fully nuclear capability. the time is right. but we have to be realistic. the president said it right. you have to be willing to walk away. you have to be aggressive. this is a good thing. >> jon: but its also true that north korea comes at this from a position of significant strength. they almost go...

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From tariffs meaning japan didnt give enough to the united states to be exempted from tariffs. but on this issue of north korea, this is just -- this is so classic trump. he says he wants to be flexible but this thing isnt going the right way hes out of there. what do you think of this? >> hes a guy when he plays cards never gives his cards away. hes saying, pompeo came and we had a great visit and things went well. the set up is there. but he wants to make it clear he has expectations. will his...

Last three administrations has met with kim jong-un. dennis rodman is the only american who has. so you really had to get a sense of him. is he serious about this summit. is he serious about denuclearization. but it is going to be very difficult for the president to convince kim jong-un to denuclearize and commit to denuclearize in the first meeting that they have. kim is likely to going to want to hold on to those weapons. he may be willing to engage in some kind of compromise agreement, katy. ...

For a lot of these democrats, thats not enough. >> nbcs geoff bennett in florida and msnbcs garrett haake on the hill. guys, thank you very much. lets bring in ambassador nicholas burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs and has served in various roles for both republican and democratic administrations. hes also professor the a the harvard kennedy school. thanks so much for joining us, ambassad ambassador. >> you bet. >> the president going to north korea. the stakes are ext...

That the number one most likely cross overon this would heitkamp. >> difficult, particularly if you voted for him before. the positions are similar enough. cia, and secretary of state i dont think the subdistinctions are clear enough that if you are heidi heitkamp you can suffer of now voting against a nominee in an election year where you are going to have a tough time. >> what we are seeing here is this evidence in the same way has the obama and clinton administrations were criticized by the r...