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Depraved character of the north korean regime to understand the nature of the nuclear threat it could pose to america and to our allies. >> jon: what is your response to the way the president characterized the north korea situation? >> he is accurate. we have cut our defense budget to the extent weve disadvantaged our men and women in uniform and capabilities. talked about our near competitors china and russia and their future threat to peace. focusing on north korea and bringing the issue of th...

Hopefully release it to the public. >> jon: many critics have said this is going to release sources and methods of intelligence gathering. you dont think that will be the case. >> absolutely not. specific actions of abuses and that needs to be brought to light. when people finally do get the opportunity hopefully with the presidents approval to read the memo all the critics will look foolish for some of the speculations theyve made and some of the accusations theyve made that are absolutely fals...

Address. and while the president did not reveal any new policies per se, trump touted his strategy for reignining in the rogue regime. >> but no regime has suppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in north korea.s of missiles could threaten our home land. we are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening. past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation. i will not repeat t...

Recused and we dont know about it. could he be a witness mueller already talked to? could you give insider banter if he were to leave? >> i know rod rosenstein who is a career professional who has served honorably in democratic and republican administrations. i dont think everything hes done since becoming the deputy attorney general but i have always said to friends, in rod we trust. he is our last line of defense. i do trust him to act honorably. if he were to be fired, it could be very troubl...

Own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in north korea. north koreas reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland. we are waging a campaign of maximum pressure to prevent that from ever happening. past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation. i will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position. we need only look at the depraved characte...

Constitutional crisis, but what youve got is an imbalance in washington. look, the way the thing is written, the article 1 guy, congress can earn the drooiver seat if they want to drive. they have to want to drive. what im telling you is congress has allowed the president to take a lot of authorities that should actually be the province. it should be the congress that check on the president with regard to the russians, with regard to justice, with regard to protecting the mueller investigation. ...

>> whats happening now with congress is a culmination of a long period of dysfunction where they have -- the congressman, unable to discharge its basic functions, like passing an acting budget every year and theyve repeatedly failed to do that on time. >> how many administrations have you worked for? >> oh, my. at the national level, clinton, bush and a little obama. where i was supposed to go to congress -- i had a thought. when i went to congress, all right, and thats hard for executive branch...

The optimism in the afghan war. the afghan military is on the brink of taking control of the country. three administrations have said that. it hasnt happened. >> how will it impact the national security and isis being on the run? >> right now, it is rhetoric. he can say all he wants. as christine read in that lead, two other presidents have said very similar things. particularly about afghanistan and the united states is still there. they make another point in that piece that men and women who a...

All sorts of trouble in the courts as you can remember. and they have allowed it to go partially through after a lot of changes. thats only sort of a partial win for the administration. and immigration, yeah, deportations are up, but there is no wall, mexico hasnt paid for it and comprehensive reform still flapping in the breeze. look at the approval rates for the past six presidents at this time in their administrations. you can see, for all of his wins and losses, hes certainly trailing everyb...

Administrations failed to deliver on although they talked about it a lot. watch. >> i am announcing my administrations efforts for high speed rail. we will lay and maintain 4,000 miles of our railways. enough to stretch from coast to coast. i will keep on fighting along side all of you to make sure we are doing everything we can to rebuild america, not just rebuild one bridge. i want us to rebuild every bridge. >> martha: james inhofe, senator, good to see you. when you watch that, president oba...