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Opportunity for secretary tillerson. he cant avoid the press this entire trip. the press is going to be there, and the people he will be meeting with, asian countries, they value public commitments. this is an opportunity, but secretary tillers must do here if this is going to be a successful trip, back up all of the talk we have heard out of the trump administration so far with concrete action, concrete pressure on china, on issues like north korea, like human rights, like the south china sea. ...

Presumably, you know, i dont know whats in the presidential daily briefing or what the briefing is being presented to the nominee of donald trump but there might be information there that would be useful if youre angling to promote the interests of the turkish government. >> and he may be seeing this information and hes advise ago candidate through the lens of what his commitments are elsewhere. this is a classic conflict of interest situation so yes, well before the election he was donald trump...

Out of this trip? >> i think this is a big opportunity for secretary tillerson. he cant avoid the press this entire trip. the press is going to be there, and the people he will be meeting with, asian countries, they value public commitments. this is an opportunity, but secretary tillers must do here if this is going to be a successful trip, back up all of the talk we have heard out of the trump administration so far with concrete action, concrete pressure on china, on issues like north korea, li...

Commitment. it wasnt just the lower price of natural gas. some of thesal laws put a knife in the back of the coal industry. we need coal. we have 500 years worth, and we should produce it. i went to a lot of coal mining towns, sir, with donald trump. and these towns have been decimated by excessive environmental regulation. its true natural gas prices are low. but id love to see coal make a big comeback in this country. >> heres where i agree with you and heres where i dont agree with you. i bel...

Commitments that he would change. he also did not flat out say he would not change. so i think that it was a listening session and he did listen. he asked me specifically how i would address the concerns that i had. i talked about how i would go about doing that. the others in the room also expressed their concerns and he listened. and i have to say i do respect that and appreciate that about president trump. at least he invited us in to hear our concerns and to genuinely listen to them. its mor...

And it was very often the case that president barack obama would at a press conference, at a speech, in any -- had to give -- had long back and forths about the granular details of health policy. now in -- and health policy is complicated. whatever your ideological commitments are, its genuinely complicated. this president at some point is going to have to do that. hes going to have to talk about why they had the subsidy rates they do and why its age and not other things. i cant imagine he has t...

-- had long back and forths about the granular details of health policy. now in -- and health policy is complicated. whatever your ideological commitments are, its genuinely complicated. this president at some point is going to have to do that. hes going to have to talk about why they had the subsidy rates they do and why its age and not other things. i cant imagine he has the wherewithal to do that. >> i think hes going to fake his way through it and i think this has come back to haunt him. i t...

The nominee did not make any commitments when asked about the issue. >> are you willing to it takes a look at this the committee infrastructure in place right now works. nunez saying hes going to have his first hearings on march 20th. is there a consensus thats reached about house to go forward on this? >> there doesnt seem to be a

Realm of a special prosecutor that of course a little different from weve talked about a 9/11 style commission for example to investigate russias meddling. this would be a criminal inquiry, and thats what democrats want him to say hell do. so far hes answered those questions by saying i havent had a chance to look at a lot of this classified information that ill have access to once im confirmed into this position and something he hasnt made a decision about. we will esee if thats good for enough...

He says there is no decision at this point thats been made about a special prosecutor. so so far hes not given democrats the commitment they are looking for. senatorlumenthal from connecticut has threatened to hold up the nomination entirely if he doesnt commit to it. >> i suspect well be seeing you many more times over the course of the afternoon. >> joining me life, greg be bernste bernstein, he worked closely when he was -- with rod rosenstein. his answers seemed solid, hes coming across well...