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When you kneecap your secretary of state, whose diplomacy you have to depend upon to really bring china to the table to do the things that need to be done, when you kneecap that effort, you really move our country into a binary choice, which could lead to a world war. >> president trump attacked corker in a series of tweets this morning. trump said he couldnt get elected dogcatcher in tennessee. he said e he dropped out of the race when he refused to endorse him and now only negative on anything...

His way and there are absolutely no cuts to social security, medicare and medicaid? >> you know, the president is going to get his way, so at this particular point, its a binary choice for us. its either working within the framework that we have and trying to be aggressive on the tax cuts. ive raised this issue of looking at modifying, whether it be social security or medicare or medicaid, any of those items, and the president has been very emphatic. personally on three different occasions, he s...

So even though there may be a statistically balanced response, we really dont know. so im not that worried. what i am worried about is the fact that the majority of americans, republicans, democrats, independents, libertarians, do not trust the basic institutions of america any longer, including the media. >> but isnt it funny, though, congressman jolly, the fact that the president diminishes polls, diminishes the news, but then will use this headline as a way to solidify himself in the way that...

Post," in an interview the post did just tonight, he expressed concern that the president was inviting, as he put it, binary situations like choosing between war, like in north korea, or iran with nuclear weapons. the problem he said the president has neutered his secretary of state. i believe he said -- he said, you cannot publically castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice. is he right about that? >> i think senator corker, being a senator, can be more co...

>> all right. thank you. were going to bring in stoo steven colinson. i want to read something to you. this is new this morning. he said you cannot publicly castrate your own secretary of state without giving yourself that binary choice. that binary choice being the u.s. choosing between war or north korea or on iran thats capable of threatening the u.s. with nuclear weapons. so steven, its pretty strong language coming from the man who is essentially tasked with working with the white house t...

Respect to north korea and creating a binary choice where its either fire and fury or destroying north korea or nothing. and the north koreans obviously find that threating, they play that to their domestic audience. this is very troublesome where thats the only choice. the reason its troublesome for me having served on the peninsula many years ago is the fire and fury will not be limited to north of the demilitarized zone. this will necessarily spill over into the south and have terrible, terri...

Fray, recruit more moderate individuals for office and focus on economic message rather than what people see as message of coastal elites. >> two options, they could swing far out left and go the anti-trump and moving that direction or move towards the center which would be the better move for them and capturing what to think right now. >> there is a binary choice. we have seen the growth of the progressive movement with bernie and the millennial push and democratic socialists who the

Felt jammed. shouch strain have these deliberations put on donald trump and the relationship he has with his advicers. >> they created a lot of strain, and the way the deal worked it had to be recertified every 90 days that wasnt an issue they had to broach with him just one, but every three months. and that was a problem, as soon as they got him to agree, it felt like it was popping up again and thats why they realize the final time, they couldnt present him with a binary choice to recertify or...

Months. we know we dont like this deal. i have said repeatedly i dont like this deal. why are you making me tell congress that the deal is fine when so many people in congress also dont like the deal? >> he basically signalled he was taking it away from the state department, who was in charge of coordinating all of this, putting it in the hands of the white house cnc, and thats how they compromised, which youll see tomorrow. >> the white house came away from that experience determined not to giv...

Being part of the conservative movement, to watch as people who understood this, you know, as the year went on, rationalized to themselves or rolled over or, you know, told themselves, okay, you know, this is a binary choice, well go along with it. may be a textbook example of racism, may be the last person you want around the nuclear codes but at least hes not hillary clinton. and that was an extraordinary moment for news. i really thought i understood what the conservative movement was about a...