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One. paul: rex tillerson called for more sanctions to come down on north korea here. do you think that is the answer, just press north korea with sanctions and other pressure? >> sanctions, pressure campaign, only 10 months of it, ten years of failed policies by republican and democratic administrations and now we are willing to give 10 months worth of robust sanctions. and a military option comes with several disadvantages, sanctions is the best one now, to give what leverage we can attain.

Work together, for partnership together, counterterrorism work in particular, even though i think thats extraordinarily challenging. i think he saw that as something we might be able to do together when he was director of dia. and also -- >> go ahead. >> its probably hard to speculate on others, but i would say that, look, successive administrations, the bush administration, the obama administration, have tried to reset our relationship with the russians, thus far without any success. >> i want ...

>> right, and i think in this case, one of the things i think the russians certainly tried to do was to create the impression of some conspiracy, the impression of some collaboration between the campaign and the russian government. they did that with the june 2016 meeting at trump tower, all that just to soil our democratic process. and i think right now in the kremlin, vladimir putin and his team are probably popping over some vodka bottles because this strategy has probably succeeded well beyo...

The matter is no one is talking about the fact that uncle sam is going to acquire $10 trillion in added debt, the tax cut, whatever you make of that would be about a tenth of that, everybody worried about where the money is coming from? not too many on the republican side either concerned about the 9 plus trillion dollars of added debt. its a little weird but it is what it is. what now. john, we begin with you, the fixation on the debt is one thing but its grown, you know, in the last two admini...

Coming, the george papadopoulos was coming t. people around trump assumes everybody operates like them and if muellers people had something interesting, it would have leaked out to the press. i think thats not true. they wont necessarily know what he has and is working on. they ought to be very nervous. >> that said, this weird aspect ty cobb one of the lawyers in the white house has been saying publicly and seems to mean it and saying this for the president as well, that he expects the probe wi...

One. paul: rex tillerson called for more sanctions to come down on north korea here. do you think that is the answer, just press north korea with sanctions and other pressure? >> sanctions, pressure campaign, only 10 months of it, ten years of failed policies by republican and democratic administrations and now we are willing to give 10 months worth of robust sanctions. and a military option comes with several disadvantages, sanctions is the best one now, to give what leverage we can attain.

Issues like north korea. >> i was a career civil servant at the state department in two different administrations, bush and obama administration. its incredibly important that the state department and diplomats have the resources they need, have the support of the secretary, have the support of the president. and on complex national security issue like north korea, it is important that we have a coordinated whole of government approach, that the president is not undercutting his secretary of sta...

Who are thinking about the facts. and those facts that he said are facts are simply not. first of all, we dont know whether flynn lied to the vice president. we know that the vice president says he was lied to, but we dont know whether thats true. flynn can tell us whether he told him the truth or not. and i think we have to wait and see. i dont think what the president said has any relationship to the truth. >> here is what retired general barry mccaffrey said a bit earlier this morning to me a...

He and general mcchrystal are the reason we havent suffered a disaster of attacks. so i think he started off the rails as a director of defense intelligence agency. he had target fixation. what happened was any enemy of al qaeda and isis is a friend of mine. therefore his relations with the turks and the russians, that sort of thing. when the obama team fired him, by the way, for basically stepping on their narrative that we have won the war on terror, i think he went into a dark place. he just ...

Surprised by todays development? >> the timing somewhat. its hard to imagine that after last weeks announcement that mr. flynn had stopped cooperating with the trump defense team that something like this wasnt going to happen. it was clearly an indication that there was cooperation, which is more likely than not leading to some sort of a negotiated plea. so i think -- i felt this was going to happen. it was hard to imagine that the general didnt have a lot of exposure. but as suggested, it has g...