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Are a blatant attempt to use human beings as bargaining leverage, a practice condemned by the global community and inconsistent with chinas international human rights commitments. we stand shoulder to shoulder with canada in calling for the immediate and unconditional release of both michael kovrig and michael spavor. as for the fate of michael cough veh kovrig, no word yet on when his sentencing might be. but in china, courts have a sq conviction rate of over 99%. >> what is the likelihood that...

Of hours. i think its really the implement aation that has generated all these negative outcomeses, the criticism, the deaths, the accusations against the u.s. when, again, a good idea could have turned out better, had it been more properly executed. eric: you think erdogan would have offered any concessions when he wanted to put the 20-mile buffer in there and wanted to get the kurds out. >> yeah, he wantsdz wants the kurds out. he cant get them unless the u.s. moves. that gives the u.s. levera...

More pain to the iranians. im not sure its going to bend them or break them or bring them back to the table. what has happened is that the iranians have taken the measure of the president and found him wanting. in other words, when he starts tweeting, he has a big bark and then when they call his bark or bluff, he goes back to the table and says lets see if we cant work this out and make peace. >> neil: hes also tweeted and said, as you know, secretary, that, you know, if he wanted to response, ...

Point, the government of the united states is going to partially shut down because we have a president of the united states who has a personal ideological commitment to a border wall, and hes unable or unwilling to use that as traditional bargaining leverage to get some kind of a traditional immigration deal. this is driving the rest of the system into the ditch. and so, when we talk about the presidency, when we talk about the nature of political power in the country, we always have to go back ...

The situation between libya and north korea are so completely different. libya had a very small underdeveloped nuclear program, it was completely isolated in the region under tremendous pressure. north korea has a very advanced nuclear program, with probably several dozen nuclear weapons and missiles, and it is not isolated in the region. it is now developed better relations with south korea, restored relations to some extent with china, so our bargaining leverage with north korea is simply not ...

Couple years has allowed us to enlist chinese and russian support since 2016, to put sanctions on north koreas economy. of course that hasnt produced the desired result of deterring further testing, but theres still a lot more sanctions that can be applied if china was willing and i think if north korea carried out an atmospheric nuclear test the chinese would join us in supporting even stronger economic sanctions. >> do the sanctions that were announced yesterday by the u.s. administration make...

Resolution last month, largely in response to kim jong-uns refusal to stop testing, and i think again kim jong-un is giving us an opportunity to work with china for stronger economic sanctions. whether that works at the end in terms of giving us bargaining leverage, i think, is very unclear, so in the meantime its important that we continue to strengthen our defenses in the region. i noticed both south korea and japan are talking about strengthening missile defenses and i think its a very wise p...

Bargaining leverage, including with a number of our west european allies who themselves are wondering what is america planning to try to do in the middle east? >> you know, general, the ambassador said that vladimir putin is trying to increase his leverage. what about the leverage from secretary of state rex tillerson? hes flying into moscow, just landed after making these statements saying vladimir putin is either incompetent or complicit. does he go in with more bargaining power now because of...

The congressional budget office said -- >> people cant afford it! >> one at a time. >> the congressional office said there was no death spiral at all and there can be minor fixes. its not perfect obviously. you dont want the major insurance companies to merge as quickly as they are merging into three or four giant insurance companies that have extraordinary bargaining leverage to jack up prices. >> the idea the white house could be willing to work with democrats just days after blaming them for ...

Enterprise institute and joins us right now. zarif is about to go back to tehran to consult with the supreme leader. now another delay. what could come of this? >> well i think this consultation is a little bit of theater. this is just the ran yawns outnegotiating john kerry yet again. if the iranians took the deal that was on the table from the u.s. point of view this instant, it would still be an enormous victory for them. i think they simply sense, however, that theres no bottom to the number...