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Strengthen his bargaining position before talks begin. the problem is that this is the game of nuclear chicken, and you cant be sure that the pressure will lead in the direction that you want toward diplomacy or in the opposite direction. what i do know is that underneath all of the rhetoric we hear from president trump, there is a lot of thought going on about precisely what issues would arise in the diplomatic negotiations, what positions the u.s. would take, and quite good cooperation not sim...

Nancy pelosi. they didnt want to play politics with harvey funding. it was not that difficult to agree to the deal. we heard from nancy pelosi and got her side of the story. she described it as democrats being in a better bargaining position. she could deliver her voting block, if they agreed to a three-month extension of the debt ceiling. then it was the republicans who said they wanted to add a continuing resolution to avoid a government shut down and harvey funding. they wanted 18-month exten...

Headlines off the wall street journal. trump makes deal on debt irking gop. are you irked? >> im sort of thrilled. this is what ive been arguing for. i think the president made the right decision. i think getting the three months buys you the time to deal with the natural disasters right now. i think it also gives you the time to negotiate a larger appropriations bill. today well pass all 12 appropriations bills across the floor of the house setting us up in our bargaining position. the senate w...

When his efforts with north korea hadnt worked out, he seemed to have president trump putting the chinese on the defensive. the u.s. policy on north korea centers on putting pressure on north korea through china. that means using trade through china as a weapon, and if the president is saying president xi can influence north korea, china wont have a very strong bargaining position at the table. its a message to the chinese we need to step it up, jake. >> thank you very much. dangerous weather in...

Other places. qatars strategy basically is to expand the crisis to maximize its bargaining position by internationalizing the crisis. the qatari foreign minister was in russia yesterday. also, turkey has sided with qatar because qatar is now isolated within its own space, within its own family. the gulf is politically and physically the only land crossing with saudi arabia is basically now shut down. what qatar is trying to do is play for time and maximize its bargaining position. i doubt it ver...

We talked about this before. roughly 20% of the people who voted for him didnt think he was qualified. they wanted the change, didnt like hillary clinton, were willing to give him a chance. so far, he is not reassuring those voters. >> but i do think that threat was strategic. i dont think he ever intended to pull out of nafta. i think he lays the bargaining position as far left or as far right as it needs to be with the intenth of bringing mexico and canada to the table. during the campaign, he...

Commentators kayleigh mackanin and doug hide is here as well. doug, the president to reuters, moving away from nafta, but heres one thing i wanted to get about capitol hill, government shutdown, the countdown clock that is not now. heres the quote -- "if theres a shutdown, theres a shutdown." and he added that democrats would be to blame. what kind of bargaining position is this in your mind? i mean, do you really think that the president doesnt care if the government shuts down? >> no, i think ...

>> youre much better looking. >> i would say we have principles that were not going to compromise on. we want universal coverage. we want a system that controls health care costs for the average person. were going to keep medicaid as it is. those are principles were not going to compromise on and if the republicans want to compromise or want different principles like were going to provide access but we dont mind if millions dont have insurance thats not bargaining position. it depends upon what ...

Assange at some point. what is his fate? does he come here and is he tried? >> he has made a pledge if this outcome happened, if manning was commuted or pardoned that he would return to the united states and agree to extradition. i expect he will abide by his agreement. i think what president obama has done puts aassange in a stronger bargaining position. when you have the president saying we dont think it was serious enough to warrant a penalty of this nature it makes it harder for united state...

Overconfident manner are equally shocking. so china really firing back at any suggestion coming from donald trump that he could use taiwan, which china considers to be a breakaway renegade province, as a kind of bargaining chip in future relations on trying to carve out some kind of a better deal with china, carol. >> so david, china is upset, europe is upset. so i mean, you study international relations. could it be a good thing that theyre sort of -- theyre sort of confused about what may happ...