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Like some people might be. i will be the last, but i will never, ever, rule it out. >> time to bring in our panel. politico chief international affairs columnist susan glasser, former communications director foreboth barack obama and hillary clintons campaign now with the center for american progress, jen palmmary. >> and some will say, so what if you ask? why is it a big deal that the president of the united states meeting with national security leaders asked about what our nuclear capabilities...

Audiences across the country seem to be good evidence this is not a protest movement that is gaining steam. its under cutting its own message. if you want to protest perceived police brutality there are police stations right down the street. >> dana: my sense is that this does not end well for the nfl. im not exactly sure how it ends. i hope that it does. richard from your perspective do you think this has been helpful until i want to make a couple points. i dont think this is left or right. tod...

What kind of position does this put the president in when the white house is to be the house of many and all, and now you have an invitation, an invitation no longer extended because of a critical viewpoint from a star player? >> yeah, so a couple points. to piggyback on what brian was saying a moment ago, when i see that statement from the nfl commissioner, what i think is that he realizes, and i think this is part of the motivation behind the statement, that the president by bringing attention...

>> and as he said, moving forward -- go on, david, im sorry. >> a couple points, don. first of all, just to go back to the last segment, for the record, cant hide love, best earth, wind and fire song. second point, i like what scott said about humility building credibility. im going to use that. >> thats good. >> for sean spicer on that previous clip from the morning show, he said i never knowingly lied, but heres the thing. that statement he made either the night of the inauguration of the day ...

It wasnt 14% of americans or ballots were illegal, it was a smaller number, but there was an underpinning of fact there. he just misstated it. there are moments when you can look back on those things and say, i misstated that. >> but david, if you misstate and people call you on it and you dont clarify it. >> right. >> thats more than a misstatement, thats a lie. youre lying, youre misleading the american people. >> yeah. >> and as he said, moving forward -- go on, david, im sorry. >> a couple p...

Senator president obama did as senator obama in 2008 after the goddamn america tape came out with reverend wright. i believe thats the way he needs speak in those very real terms people can feel and know he understands that because i think we need a national dialogue on race now more than any other time in our countrys history. >> stephen, you wrote an opinion piece on the hill about why president trump is back for black mesh than obama ever was. and you talk about various economic factors that ...

Let me make a couple points, don. ive been watching cnn all day and appeared a couple times on cnn. one of the impressions i think that has been left by the whole discussion all day long and yesterday is that trump is a racist but not only trump, people who are associated with trump are somehow racist. ive been part of the conservative movement about 35 years and front and center in many of the debates and in a lot of meetings over those years and i have never once, not once, been in a meeting w...

It has taken a long time for republican senators to start to break with president trump and they havent broken fully with him. if you look over the last three weeks, there are more and more signs of republicans who are starting to stand up to trump. those guys are mathematicians. they say donald trump who loses a couple points, every day they get a couple more points of courage to break with him. >> i had a conversation with a republican, i said does this mean now policy splits -- no. theyre sti...

States. i think theres a tradeoff there. >> rick, youre shaking your head no way. >> a couple points. one, i agree with the ambassador richardson. i think theres more we could be doing. six party talks failed. we have to get new actors in, thats true. im not a fan of unilateral sanctions. i think they never work except in the case of banking sanctions. we have yet to try banking sanctions on the country of china. again, that is not a solution that i think, in the words of -- >> not to interrupt ...

But in exchange north korea has to curtail, degrade their nuclear and their missile cape canability, especially if their potential ability which is happening to reach the united states. i think theres a trade off there. >> rick, youre shaking your head no way. >> a couple points. one, i agree with the ambassador richardson. i think theres more we could be doing. weve got to get newicters in, thats true. im not a fan of unilateral sanctions. i think they never work except in the case of banking s...