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Iranian dictatorship never acquires a nuclear weapon. [applause] >> president trump: and we have imposed tough terrorism sanctions on irans islamic revolutionary guard corps. i also canceled the last administrations one-sided deal with the communist cuban regime and we will not lift sanctions until political and religious freedoms are restored for the cuban people. [cheers and applause] >> president trump: at the same time, we are confronting the socialist oppression of the regime, the problem i...

There is a rpush for the government to make clear to americans just how widespread this quiet work is around the world? >> you know, brianna, i hope thats not the case. i make this point in my book "game changers" that we have been at this war for 16 years now. if we think the direction-action raids are the only way to defeat isis, we have another thing coming. we have had three presidential administrations now that have gloomed on to that approach. we need it. its amazing what the operators hav...

>> why has that not happened before? >> because you didnt have trump as your president. >> all right, for more on this, i want to bring in nick payton walsh, cnns senior international correspondent. so give us some context here, nick, what has changed between these two administrations, the obama administration and now with president trump in power? and can he really claim that everything is different now because of changes hes made? >> reporter: its so hard, really, to answer that question. in a...

There. >> melissa: thats the opposite of what the former administration said. national security advisor to president obama susan rice said that basically we could tolerate a nuclear north korea. that we have to pretty much accept the inevitable were some of the things she said. what is your reaction to that statement? >> my reaction to that statement is the prior administration and indeed succeeding administrations going back 20 years really had tried to use the carrot and then the stick and the...

Before it was interesting the other day, and her international law profession or was saying that the past three ministrations using sort of different tactics all ended up at the same place with north korea. with the trump administrations, he calls it unhinged and off the cuff rhetoric has actually put korea and russia and china into position where they dont really know what the trump administration is capable of or what president trump will do. so that gives him a certain kind of leverage at the...

Americans were killed there, and what do we know about why were there, what the strategy is, what the u.s. government is doing? >> well, listen, to be fair to president trump, this counterterrorism strategy of pushing special forces out wherever al qaeda was gaining strength dates to the bush and obama administrations. but you are right. there is -- and this is not me telling classified information. this is open reporting. the united states is spread far and wide with respect to our counterterro...

Bannon has launched an all-out attack on mitch mcconnell who went out of his way today effusive by mcconnell standards, to defend his close relationship with the president. >> i want to underscore what the president said. we have the same agenda. weve been friends and acquaintances for a long time. we talk frequently. we dont give you a readout every time we have a conversation. frequently we talk, on the weekends, about the issues that are before us. >> trust us, thats effusive by mcconnell sta...

Effusive by mcconnell standards, to defend his close relationship with the president. >> i want to underscore what the president said. we have the same agenda. weve been friends and acquaintances for a long time. we talk frequently. we dont give you a readout every time we have a conversation. frequently we talk, on the weekends, about the issues that are before us. >> trust us, thats effusive by mcconnell standards. back with us tonight, bill kristol, veteran of the reagan and bush administrati...

We are probably now despite what we read, were probably now, i think, at least as far as im concerned, closer than ever before. and the relationship is very good. >> the president today singing the praises as you saw there senate majority leader mitch mcconnell from the rose garden despite what he has said about him in the today. while former trump aid steve bannon has launched an all out attack on mitch mcconnell who went out of his way today effusive by mcconnell standards to defend his close ...

Effort. if it hasnt worked, nobody has been able to come out and say what they think might be different. what this administration might be doing differently from past administrations to give any indication it would work this time around. the best person to make that is not rex tillerson who has been cutoff by the president. >> part of the segue. a lot of people wont find diplomacy continues. a lot of people dont find that funny. this part is funny. bob corker and the president has been having a ...