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Include the bidens and sanders and harriss of the world as well as the castros and harriss and bookers. >> does it make it look more or less likely to run when he weighs in on age? >> i think hes running, barring -- i would say this doesnt have a huge impact on what i think about joe bidens chances on whether he runs. i think hes going to run. he has to make a final call obviously, but i think if it was today, hes in. >> thank you, chris. 42 going on 15. great to see you. >> thats true, actually...

With another beauty today. i only say that you have to look at the facts. the senators are very capable people, theyre very good people. i know many of them, theyre friends of mine. these are very talented, very good people. and theyre going to vote. theyre going to have to believe what they believe. when i look at whats happened to the reputation of a great gentleman, a great intellect, a brilliant man, somebody that has a chance to be one of our great supreme court justices in history intellec...

Artist, avenatti, come out with another beauty today. i only say that you have to look at the facts to. the senators are very capable people. theyre very good people. i know many of them. theyre friends of mine. these are very talented, very good people. and they are going to vote. theyre going oh have to believe what they believe. i can -- when i look at whats happened to the reputation of a great gentleman, a great intellect, a brilliant man, somebody that has a chance to be one of our great s...

With another beauty today. i only say that you have to look at the facts. the senators are very capable people. they are very good people. i know many of them. they are friends of mine. these are very talented, very good people. they are going to vote and theyre going to have to believe what they believe. when i look at whats happened to the reputation of a great gentleman, a great intellect, a brilliant man, somebody that has a chance to be one of our great supreme court justices in history, in...

Frankly, was the president did a lot of threatening an a lot of saber rattling one year ago when many of his critics said we are going to have war, no way out of it. >> how far have we come if its still an extraordinary threat to national security and foreign policy according to the president? >> i believe they are still a threat. however, he is absolutely correct, they have quit nuclear testing and they have moved a long way. i think having a chemistry is a good thing. you think back about roos...

Hypocrisy theme for a moment, we do have an example from the white house communications office. when presint oma was meeting16 with the castros, raul, she tweeted, so obama shakes hands with dictator raul castro. whats next shakes hands with north korea dictator kim jong n jong-un. then yesterday this. president trump is the real deal maker and is successfully moving north korea in the right direction with maximum pressure campaign and working towards denuclearization. maximum pressure? >> maxim...

And depressing. >> no knowledge of history. it is staggering to realize how on self-aware and the lack of knowledge. >> laura: the lack of knowledge. i dont recall most of these media elites griping about embracing dictators when barack obama restored ties with the castros in cuba or when he gave hundreds of millions of dollars to the dictators in iran. bogus denuclearization deal. when he held a steak dinner for the chinese dictator. the selective moral outrage here is galling, predictable, and...

>> jake tapper, i mean, its like you watch that, you watch the arc and its almost like record scratch. >> its crazy. the idea that anybody can look at human rights issues, whether its the castros or are the llahsn iran or kim jong un or the kim family through a political partisan lens of the united ates, if obama does it its bad or trump does it, its good, or vice versa, its stunning to me. human rights issues are human rights issues. what the castros, the kims, what the mullahs do, it has nothi...

Diplomats and their families. and that has been -- id argue for the united states, a fig leaf. certainly that, you know something happened. but also has been a fig leaf for a gradual ratcheting up of the rhetoric there. >> julia, let me ask you about the legacy of the castros. is cuba ready for significant liberalization? have they -- is there a sense in which there were things that couldnt be done while the castros were alive that not just the cuban people, but officials are all just kind of wa...

Rhetorical than actual and theres been a curious sonic beem attack which has affected american diplomats and canadian diplomats and their families. that has been argued for the united states a fig leaf that something has that that, but a fid leaf for the ratcheting up of conversation there. the legacy of the cal tro-- castros, is there a sense things couldnt be done when the castros were alive that not just the cuban people but official are just waiting to do? thats been often been the case in...