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Now you have your state department, your national security team sort of playing catchup which is never a good thing. two, from what we understand, theyre going to be background conversations to sort of dial this back as quickly as possible because the president cannot afford to be yet again associated with a dictator and bad guy who has not worked in the best interests of the united states but more importantly worked in the best interests of his own people. >> what is this affinity for strong me...

Lets get back to the topic we started with, which is north korea and donald trumps seeming affinity towards authoritarian leaders. glenn thrush, who is also a white house correspondent, i want to play that exchange. >> you just described kim jong-un as one who led his country forward in early years. the president put out a statement after erdogan won his referendum, congratulating him. he said kind words about putin and the campaign, he said kind words about saddam hussein. does the president ha...

Affinity tm. its a dance of trying to stay supportive of what hes been trying to do. >> weve been talking a lot about the talking point sean spicer is using. he said he clearly needs a net when he said he would be honored to speak. >> i think what we were seeing was a dance by sean spicer here. as this administration trying to keep with its domestic policy ways in which they can, in effect, overlook some of those human rights violations and still condition with this policy. the conversation here...

His officers to duel he didnt think they were doing enough on the war on drugs. he has said if you do drugs, we are going to kill you. it is disturbing that trump is not only not speaking out against some of these abuses but in my mind almost encouraging them by showing, hey, i had a productive call with you, we have a really friendly relationship. how does that discourage the strong men around the world from treating their people better? and, you know, dictators do get things done. maybe why tr...

Throwing some insults. he said its all part of dealing with north korea. joining us now our political reporter. betsy, thank you so much for being here on this topic. they admitted actually killing suspected criminals just last year. saying that they did it for example. if i can do it why cant you. in addition to that there is a possibility that thousands of people were killed as part of this war on drugs. what message does it send to this particular world leader and it comes to the white house....

Certain amount and thats when they do pruno. you got an apple, huh? its manufactured alcohol. in the trash. we try to prevent them from taking it back to the units. >> when our producers checked back in with tim duncan, who has an affinity for pruno himself -- >> thats my only vice. all i can do is drunk. i dont do drugs. so i drink. >> officers overherd him talking to our crew about his drinking, sparking a surprise search of his cell. >> theyre not going to find nothing. there aint nothing the...

Atmosphe of control. >> you have to believe pence, the vice president said they had to get wind of this stuff. he could be in legal jeopardy here. likely you have to get rid of this guy. >> his lawyers say he disclosed it the way he needed to and you have very tricky notice provisions with the law works here. his disclosure with pence is a non issue. the fbi will not consider anything there. it is largely political. it has one word, mudd, russia. this man is another the example of a clumsy or un...

Trump who is speaking now at the department of veterans affairs. he will be signing executive order to increase accountability at the va. lets listen in. >> making life really great for our phenomenal veterans, that i can say. so were sharing the stage with a it lot of great people and a lot of great friends. a couple of my friends are out in the audience today, ike pearl pearlmudder, laurie pearlmudder. where are they? these are uncredible people, incredibly successful people. they just have an...

The campaign that does not get any more important for me than making life really great for our phenomenal veterans. that i can say. so sharing a stage with a lot of great people a lot of great friends. a couple of my friends are in the audience today. ike, lori, where are you? where are they? these are incredible people. they just have an affinity for helping the veterans and for helping david. i want to thank them. unbelievable. [applause] dr. moskowicz also. were going to protect those that pr...

Does not get any more important for me than making life really great for our phenomenal veterans. that i can say. so, were sharing the stage with a lot of great people and a lot of great friends. a couple of my friends are out in the audience today. i ike, lori. where are they? where are they? where are they? these are incredible people. incredibly successful people and they just have an affinity for helping the veterans and for helping david and i want to thank them. unbelievable. thank you. dr...