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Hand in washington, judy, bill bennett who served in the reagan and bush 41 administrations in a number of capacities, on "fox and friends," and had this to say about whats going on with the trump white house. listen to. >> the guy is a supernova. hes all over the map. but fulfilling the promises that he made on the campaign. this is quite extraordinary. usually in washington, you have a president, puts out a plan, you get to it three months later. when you get to it, there it is, its straightfo...

Billion of a trade deficit. $375 billion of it is china. china is not the big exporter of steel and aluminum. its canada. canada has $582 billion of total trade, ins and outs. china has $636. very close. yet their deficit is 375. canada is only 18. less than 3% of the total trade balance. so coming out with a policy that penalize as country like canada where we have a quid pro quo and we tonight know what previous administrations did in saying, okay, you can have this tariff. i have this one. sn...

Hes also going to deal with china. a china that has not been cooperative when it comes to dealing with north korea. in fact, we know that the chinese have continued to trade with north korea despite having signed on to those sanctions. >> i agree. >> is this a warning an alarm to china. youre in violation of the wto agreement with all the intellectual property that you steal and we can do things that you never thought of. >> i dont blame trump for the issues with north korea or iran. that was pr...

But also explore the hack itself and your view of -- did the president know before the dnc did that these e-mails were hacked? >> right. well, i also come to you as someone who spent over a decade at the department of justice. i worked there under republican and democratic administrations as a career prosecutor. and ill tell you, i watched the statements that you just made and from time to time, when we are doing investigations, somebody would try to stonewall us and director mueller is a big bo...

Evidence base practice tr whats working to achieve gender equity. we are going to put a spotlight on that. and its just infectious. theres momentum growing every day. >> tina, were seeing that the white house counsel on women and girls, a lot of the initiatives from past administrations are evaporating before our eyes. . at the state department, the draft proposals on the human rights report take out womens reproductive rights, new policies on u.n. programs that help women around the world with ...

That mueller has been look iing at. and no one has quite been able to figure out exactly where that threat is going. but it doesnt seem to be going away. more questions seemed to be raised about kushners business interests. >> and very briefly. if you dont have a top secret clearance, and you cant read the intelligence ob a foreign leader, how do you negotiate middle east peace? >> its hard to pass a test when you dont have the books to read. you need the top security clearance. the middle east ...

Special counsel robert mueller peels away his defenses, tightening his net around the presidents inner circle. the president is besieged on many fronts. hope hicks. >> hope hicks is a tremendously talented person. >> his communications director, one of mr. trumps closest and longest serving aides, abruptly resigned wednesday after eight hours of testimony on the russia probe in which she admitted to telling white lies on behalf of the president. that left mr. trump seething. >> you have ups and ...

Leaking. . this is a presidency where the tone is absolutely set by the president himself. thats always true in presidential administrations, but i think more so in donald trumps just given the nature of what weve seen in the volume of news. patty and i were talking about this a little bit before we came on. the chaos theory to some extent does work for donald trump because it drowns out so much other news that could be damaging. one good example over the past few days, it was leaked that carol ...

>> balbina, should the u.s. talk to north korea without preconditions? >> its a good thing jamie and i are friends. he knows our differences are really about policy, nothing personal. but the premises are simply incorrect. china is absolutely not the only leverage over north korea. if fact it is very clear, it has been clear fon the last 20 years that the road to pyongyang does not go through beijing if we have learned nothing in the last three administrations, its that china is not the way in w...

Retaliation. you know, i think this across the board approach, it really ends up hurting our allies and arguably benefitting our enemies. paul: and the retaliation i know from watching what happened back in the bush and obama administrations, these countries can get really canny, dan, about retaliating. they may go after harley-davidson motorcycles, for example, they go after jim beam in kentucky for mitch mcconnell, go after fruits and vegetables in arizona to hurt the republican senate candida...