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Republican can go into alabama, a state that the president won by 25 points, and lose a special election? that takes a special gift. congratulations, steve bannon, youre our winner. >> well, i do think it all depends on who the candidates are. theres something to that. james, look, the president also raised what he called this countrys very weak libel laws after the cease and desist letters failed to stop the publisher from releasing the book and silence the author. do you think there is more le...

And south would not be talking right now. we know that president trumps sanctions had affected their regime. they actually address that issue. and even called those sanctions a threat to the north korean state. so president trump deliver -- deserves a lot of credit for that. he wants him to shovel money. on the other hand we have to remember that the family playbook it is you refuse to talk to south korea you make a dramatic overture and then you demand concessions and if you dont get those conc...

The morning unless something there thats caused to jump a little bit. >> i want to move on to what you just mentioned, this attempt to pressure attorney general jeff sessions not to recuse himself from the russia investigation in just a moment, but walter, i want to come to you on this element of the book and not the book itself but the white houses reaction to some of the claims made and the publishing of it. we saw those two cease and desist letters go out earlier this week. whats the line her...

Frustration that exist within that upper echelon of government officials that they are trying to execute a actual strategy, and the way we have seen top administrations execute strategies in the past but the president of the united states is not close to onboard. >> they are lonely decisions. we are talking about all the bluster right now, and absent an acute crisis, thats something to be thinking about and frightened about. >> thats true. all the tweets have been on the sides of things. >> than...

Bomb cyclone. in the wake of the east coast storm that were getting, they are saying the cold in the wake of the storm will be 20 to 40 degrees below normal for friday and saturday. so, like i said, long underwear. you and me both. im not ashamed. this new year is starting with literal bluster in the form of this extreme weather but bluster characterizes the news. kim jong-un is ringing in 2018 by same tan uimultaneously offes with south korea about his country being allowed into the olympics ne...

He remains in many ways still a vulnerable figure surrounded by older military and intelligence figures, he has no choice but to respond to a personal provocation of this kind. because if he doesnt, then he risks his own domestic political stability, his own survival politically and otherwise. so in a sense, this is not the kind of thing that a north korean official, a north korean leader can allow to go unanswered. so im afraid that we are now back into this dynamic where instead of pointing us...

Seen the relationship between the united states and north korea. and that the reality of the exchange of these kinds of contemptuous comments by not only the north korean leader but by the president of the united states regarding each other have only increased the tensions. i still am hopeful, though, that the we can find a diplomatic way to try to engage here. i wouldnt lose hope on that because i think the alternatives, frankly, are unacceptable. >> in a new years day address kim jong-un said ...

From achieving what their goal is to achieve, which is that that capability. so i think right now it is bluster. but at the same time, you know, if there is the possibility that we could at least begin a dialogue between south korea and north korea with regards to the olympics and how north korea and south korea can basically come together to allow those games to be played successfully, i think that would be an opportunity to at least begin the kind of dialogue that has to begin. >> let me ask y...

Contemptuous comments by not only the north korean leader but by the president of the united states regarding each other have only increased the tensions. i still am hopeful, though, that the we can find a diplomatic way to try to engage here. i wouldnt lose hope on that because i think the alternatives, frankly, are unacceptable. >> in a new years day address kim jong-un said he had a nuclear button in his office that could fire intercontinental ballistic missile as that mainland u.s. do you th...

Is going to be more of this tit for tat to come. >> evan, in your new extraordinary reporting in "the new yorker" about china and their reaction to trump, you report they seem to have figured out he is all bluster, he is as they put it, a paper tiger. and all of his threats about china during the campaign have proven to be false. and he has turned out to be the best thing that they could have hoped for in an american president, especially after pulling the united states out of the transpacific p...