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Bill: maybe the korean meeting yesterday was a long list of surprises. your colleague bob menendez, this came on thursday and he said this. >> the art of diplomacy is a lot of harder than art of the deal. its pretty amazing that the administration might be shocked that north korea is acting as north korea might very well normally act. bill: sometimes i think that sounds like you would describe it, is he right about that? >> well, i think the quote is not all that surprising that you suggest that...

Under both republican and democratic positions, to continue to undermine the credibility of the fbi and the department of justice in this way does not serve interest for law enforcement and rule of law. bill: i apologize, im trying squeeze one more question, his point is that president trump should have been told about it, whats wrong with that? >> because president trump and his actions in the campaign are potentially the focus of an investigation into obstruction of justice and collusion, i do...

>> a couple of things, that the president is not going to fire anybody, thats definitive on what giuliani has said. in some of the interviews he says a number of different things about the investigation overall and whats going to happen and whether the president will sit for an interview or not, sounded its not leaning that way at this moment. it would be interesting to know about conflicts of interest of mueller and something that will play itself out on twitter. bill: its clear they are going ...

So far since ive been in this, all i see are obstacles that they are putting in the way. starting with cohen. whats that all about? and then going off on -- something about the middle east and which turned out to be software that was turned down by the campaign and now the spygate, wow, we have -- i dont think they are going to want to tell us about it because its so damn embarrassing. i want to emphasize not to the fbi, leadership at the time. bill: last question, do you think you have structur...

A glimmer of hope as both the president and defense secretary jim mattis seemed to signal optimism that talks could happen after all following statements from pyongyang. all that just ahead of saturdays report that the leaders from north and south met that pyongyangs commitment of the meeting and full denuclearization remains resalute. >> i think people want to see if we can get the meeting and get done something. if we got that done and if we can be successful in the denuclearization of the kor...

Lawyers and we have to give them the legal advice. he can make the political judgment, look, i can put a different hat on and talk about that too. his approval rating its the highest its ever been. i believe the democrats are going up wrong alley here. the republicans did this to clinton and it backfired. the reality is the american people have come to the conclusion everybody else has, this investigation is rigged, its unfair, and if they have to choose on impeachment or not, the president is g...

Be able to work it out amongst themselves. bill: there may be an ig report that comes out this week, it could be tuesday or wednesday which could throw all of this back up in the air. is there a way referring to jonahs point, that they can turn this against bob mueller and his team effectively? >> well, thats why at inflection point, whether they can and cant, clearly the effort by the president and rudy giuliani is to do exactly that. he used illegitimate and rigged multiple times to describe w...

The fact that korean leaders had second summit. thats an indication to all of us that they want something to happen here, i do not know, quickly four of you, you think they do sit down? >> yeah, do i. i think it might actually happen june 12th which is hard to believe but i think that there is a want by both president trump and kim jong un to move forward. now, if they can do it quick enough, you wonder the results of that from a u.s. perspective. bill: quickly, do you think it happens? >> i thi...

Going to testify unless its all straightened out, unless we learn the basis of the russia investigation, they are not going to tell us because the basis is going to turn out spread to trump to be unethical or illegal. they are going to tell us what they have found so far and the basis of the investigation, russian collusion. here is what they found, zero, nada, nothing. president -- maybe they should wake up and realize the president is innocent and thats why he wants to it -- testify, because o...

We have worse off in the fight against trumpism, arent we? >> we are, but it is early. if im right, that this is the cycle, that it does take longer than many of us think it should or hope it would, mccarthyism took 48 months to die out. watergate took 26 months, from the time of the break-in from nixsons resignation. when people talk about the great moment where they told nixon he had to go, that was august 7th. that was after the supreme court ruled that nixon had to hand over the tapes, it wa...