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Will it stop the government from running . The president of the United States being compared to Joseph Stalin . Not from democrats but a republican u. S. Senator. And hell do it from the floor of the u. S. Senate. The president pushing back on critics who say he is a racist due to his comments he made about african nations and haitians. Here is his charge about racism. Im not a racist. I am the least racist person you have ever interviewed, that i can tell you. The president is also denying that...

Gauche to a lot of analysts who would like to see everybody sort of standing quietly and supportedly on the sidelines cheering on these talks, seeing where theyll go. its normal, of course, to have some kind of military contingency plan. but between the debacle in hawaii and the rhetoric we heard from president trump and this "wall street journal" article, i think there is some concern in some international quarters that maybe the u.s. is speaking out of both sides of its mouth at the same time,...

About iran, about north korea, about syria, and specifically with syria and north korea, these are areas that the russians had really considered themselves to be a main player at the negotiating table. so i think youre seeing a real chilling of the relationship. i think youre seeing a very ticked-off foreign secretary lavrov, and yes, its just an extraordinary difference in such a short space of time. >> certainly that u.s.-russian relationship, bob, certainly from the beginning of the trump adm...

Bob barrons, a former political analyst, senior correspondent clarissa ward. bob, let me start with you. before we get to the russian issue, i want to talk about north korea. i want to talk about what condoleezza rice, the former u.s. secretary, said. listen to this. >> i think kim jong-un is turning out, much more so than i thought, to be actually pretty clever. the approach to the south koreans was clever. the decision to go to the olympics is clever. i think he is more isolated than his fathe...