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Now? is this something that just died in the white house? has he talked about it again, is it a theme hes returned to? >> i was at bedminster when i brought it up. at the time it seemed to come out of nowhere. we in the press core were like, what? it was reported out very well. this is something he brought up before. it is not something he has focused on since. lets remember when this happened, last august, at the height of the fire and fury, the harsh rhetoric with north korea. there is a sense...

Is a communist government. they arent used to playing by the rules. when the president says that they are liars and cheats he is absolutely right. the question is how you go about changing that. i dont like all of his bluster but he is very much limited to what he can actually -- he says he wants to pull out of the wto himself, the u.s. he cant because congress has to approve of that and they never would. >> sandra: david said you are digging into the numbers here. what do you make of these open...

Comfort level with any nominee i think is disastrous. ive recommended and other people have recommended who ever is picked needs to recuse himself from those category of cases. not all cases involving the administration, but those category of cases involving this president. because this president asks for pledges of loyalty. if we dont have the action of quid pro quo, we certainly have the appearance of impropriety. he shouldnt mind recusing himself or her recusing herself from a very small limi...

Again? >> at the time, it seemed like it came out of nowhere. we at the press corp were what? this is something that he has brought up before. lets remember when this happened. it was last august. this was the height of the fire and fury. the president was looking on military options then and feeling the bluster. and that he was floating this idea. we dont expect, this is not something that he has been actively pursuing since. people around him have talked him out of it since. this is a bad idea...

Himself or her recusing herself from a very small limited number of cases. >> matt, speak to that as well as the democrat strategy in a tight senate where reports suggest trump and his aides are thinking about how to get this vote through. theres a lot of bluster about how they dont care, and it also suggests the limits on him, whether he acts on them or not. how does that fit through the kind of candidate that does get through than those that brings on a fight he could potentially lose? >> the ...

Reported it. they had a nugget about how mark short in the white house said to peter navarro in the white house, this is dead on arrival. its not going anywhere. there is no way republicans are going to pass any sort of legislation that backs the u.s. away from the wto. they see the wto as an ally. actually when the united states thinks another country is implementing unfair trade practices against us they go to the wto, who regularly rules in favor of the united states. there is no way the repu...

The most important that any president has, ask anyone, is persuasion, this guy promised he can persuade anyone, he said i can make the best deals get everyone together. but once he got in office, rerealized his bluster, his lying, nobody wants to cut a deal with him. so melania can say so, sarah sanders can say so, but if he cant get anything done, he blames the democrats. >> clearly he does not know, since he never paid attention to this, that theres no rule that says you are not allowed to pas...

Aisles. >> you can see trump over her shoulder dictating the messages. this is the thing that amazes me. we heard this from this president, we know he lies. the most important that any president has, ask anyone, is persuasion, this guy promised he can persuade anyone, he said i can make the best deals get everyone together. but once he got in office, rerealized his bluster, his lying, nobody wants to cut a deal with him. so melania can say so, sarah sanders can say so, but if he cant get anythin...

On this again and again. he said were going after china. china is not playing by the rules. no surprise this is coming. the last time they talked about tariffs, the dow shrugged it off. this time a little more reaction. >> right now we have a $200 billion threat. its more of the same that its a negotiating tactic in order to amp up the pressure on china. likewise, this $200 billion bluster will fade into the background as a new round gets underway. youre a tech guy. china is cheating. lets make ...

On friday morning, the white house announced 25% tariffs on some $50 billion of chinese products. th response beijing was fast and furious. the commerce industry released a statement, saying america had launched a trade war, that china would retaliate and that all economic and trade agreements reached by previous negotiations will be nullified. is this bluster, or is it the start of a trade war? president obamas national security adviser, susan rice, joins me again. so susan, what do you make of...