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Assumption that there is a price somehow for which kim jongun and his predecessor, his father and his grandfather, would give up this Nuclear Program. Im not sure thats right because the Nuclear Program, to their mind, is the one thing that guarantees their survival. And the moment that they give it up, theyre in the position that Mow Mar Qaddafi was in when he gave up his nas entitle Nuclear Program in 2003. And he got a lot of promises of integration with the west and of course as soon as his ...

The American People have worked too hard rebuilding to see their elected officials to cause yet another one. It seems like every three months around here some manufactured crisis. We have more work to do than to just try to dig ourselves out of these selfinflicted wounds. While a plan to reduce our deficit has to be part of our agenda, we also have to remember deficit reduction alone is not an economic plan. We learned in the 1990s whether bill clinton was president , nothing shrinks the deficit...

National security advisor over that russian matter. So now a fullblown investigation, inquiry looms over the political and governmental horizon with witnesses called, subpoenas issued, documents gathered from the fbi and presumably from the Trump White House itself. The person overseeing this giant investigation to come will be the newly selected special counsel, former fbi director Robert Mueller. And yesterday as i said, the New York Times was first to report former fbi director james comey re...

Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images It’s going to be a busy offseason for the San Francisco 49ers. General manager John Lynch and head coach Kyle Shanahan will have some tough decisions to make with up to 40 players up for free agency and the salary cap expected to be around $180 million. The secondary will be one area of focus for the Niners. They have nine players who could hit the open market, including starting strong safety Jaquiski Tartt. Tartt earned $6.5 million for the 2020 campaign...

Welcome development. obviously democrats rejoicing. republican reaction a little bit more tepid but still, i think, relieved. thats got nothing to do with the reaction down at the white house tonight where obviously it spells trouble. chris. >> great reporting. thank you, mike, from capitol hill. lets bring in now some people on our roundtable tonight. ari melber, ruth marcus, jason johnson, and alex eisen stat. ashley parker is with the washington times. i want to go with ashley parker. you got...

This bureaucracy of washington. as you know, everyone comes to d.c. saying theyre going to change it. and while he certainly upended things, you know, these same rules do apply, and thats what hes bumping up against. >> alex, quickly, there is a gull ivers travels aspect to this. he comes to washington with a lot of people who arent billionaires, they can bring him down. >> were really going to get a sense of what this president is made of if hes going to be able to survive this because, look, t...

Looks like, which is now an independent chance to get to the bottom of the facts. if you believe in donald trump and you like donald trump and you think, you hope that theres nothing wrong underneath the hood of that car, then great. thats good news. and if you like america and you want this system to now go forward, thats good news. and for people who are hoping to get something political out of this, i would argue that its bad news because i dont think robert mueller is going to look to damage...

By the way, judge curiel was born and raised in indiana. >> but i have a judge who is a hater of donald trump, a hater. hes a hater. his name is gonzalo curiel. i think judge curiel should be ashamed of himself. i think its a disgrace that hes doing this. and i look forward to going before a jury, not this judge. >> reporter: why did you refer to his ethnicity, donald? >> because his heritage is mexican. >> reporter: so what? >> because i want to build a wall. >> now to the new legal battle over...

Pulling a little bit of a fast one. alex, youre reporting this is going to be put up on the floor next week possibly? >> look, clearly thats what the white house wants to happen. but its a little unclear why theyre talking about doing this especially so soon. look, next week theyve got to deal with government funding and a potential government shut down. thats really what republicans on the hill really want and need to tackle. heres the bottom line. there are a lot of republicans on capitol hill...

>> hes true. >> its really in the middle, not just off the coast of california. hawaii is far away. >> all right. so, hes literally correct. >> hes got the facts. >> its actually many islands. >> many islands. but what youve got is -- the question i share with alex, is trump going to sound like candidate trump? one of the biggest problems i think in the first hundred days is he hasnt adapted to being president of the united states. sort of pushing his daughters shoe brand and, you know, saying o...