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Seriously because the president, he has ways to save as well as kim jong-un has face to save. it is different now. before with previous administrations, i think the north koreans looked at our negotiators as gray pinstripe suit state department types and you know, will act up in the end and in the end they will give us economic assistance and will all go on about our weight. now, you have a president that is hands on. and he is leading the operation. in his rhetoric is one where he has things to...

This before in other administrations, in your opinion? >> in my own opinion this is not unparalleled at all. this is part of being in the american political system. im not sure how many journalists are independents but im pretty sure a vast majority of them are compared to being democrats and republicans. it helps for the job. but what i can tell you for a fact is this isnt new. we saw how terrible the right treated the obama presidency and obamas family while he was in office. in fact as i reca...

Hillary clinton took over the portfolio she wanted to do universal health care, it did not work mostly because it was the first lady. but, nowhere was the amount of conflicts of interests there. you know it is not quite a fair comparison. it is a family member though taking on the responsibility and it should have served as a very good lesson for future administrations not to do it. >> thats a family aspect. does every administration have some appearances of conflicts of interests. lets take hil...

Countries have discussed this. >> did you know of any chance that jared kushner got his top security back? >> it would be difficult at this rate. we have read in the washington post, the department of justice had a discussion with mcgahn. it is been 14 or so months now that hes been in this limbo situation, given of what we know in the public domain, i think it would be exceedingly difficult that jared would grant a top secret clearance and that would be adjudicated. i dont see that to be in the...

Deals with georgia bank. that was really a huge penalty of their misbehavior in 2008 and so son on of the recessions. now, the reason this is a problem is not because jared kushner has done it, thats bad enough. it is probably trump has done it. i am guessing -- trump called the president of argentina when he first got elected as a hello call and one of this things they discussed was trump hotel is going to hope in buenes aires. what trump is doing is treason. >> susan, how about these conflicts...

President who is intellectually and temperment alley unfit for office that this would be a challenge like none priebus and kelly have never had. >> i guess it may have been tongue in cheek, but we know that the tenure that he has had to survive through. i mean this is a general, a very decorated man in the upper ranks of the military. >> well, be and there is a lot of people who stay within an striks administrations because they feel it is their duty.e and thef people who stay within an administ...

Week. perhaps also his son-in-law who is increasingly under fire for mixing his personal business with white house duties and of course may be soon to be without the person hes closest to of all, his daughter. if all of this werent enough looming over this administration is special counsel robert mueller and a russia investigation that seems to be moving closer to the white house by the day. >> thank you very much. >> do you still have confidence in attorney general sessions? >> president trump ...

Regardless of what people think and the opinion of the president, theres no question that hope hicks, you know, a 20-something is someone who has had a consistent access to the president and to candidate trump and shell have that as long as she wants it. >> last question here about that trade announcement we were talking about. i want to ask you about the way this which that announcement was made. we saw meetings like last week many times before. the president opens the door to cameras. reporter...

Did a segment that featured alec baldwin as the president. so from 4:23 a.m. to 5:42. andrew, same question to you. how bad is it? >> i mean, its getting bad. you see time and time again these sort of mini scandals that happen week to week. but this week seemed a little bit different i think in part because even people inside the white house are beginning to acknowledge that things are getting a little bit crazy. i mean, the president is angry. hes stalking around the west wing. hes frustrated w...

Else? >> a matter of style and what washington is accustomed to. we have a president that has led a tightly held family-controlled llc, never had to deal with a publicly traded company that had a board of directors and shareholders, so the lines of authority were pretty direct and very, very clear. now, hes running what we could say is the largest publicly traded company in the world in the federal government. so it is a clash of styles, and what has been considered to be the norm in washington....