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Had an elicit shipment of oil that got cut off, getting squeezed with sanctions. that will hurt north korea. by elbowing the chinese out of the negotiation, it frees up the north koreans and the meshes to hash out a deal without any outside interference. pretty tactical move. what do you think about the personal chemistry going on between our president and the leader of north korea. thats got to be critical. no other president has been able to deliver that in these talks. >> yeah, jesse, its ext...

That got cut off, getting squeezed with sanctions. that will hurt north korea. by elbowing the chinese out of the negotiation, it frees up the north koreans and the americans to hash out a deal without any outside interference. pretty tactical move. what do you think about the t personal chemistry going on between our president and the leader of north korea. thats got to be critical. no other president has been able to deliver that in these talks. >> yeah, jesse, its extremely critical. i think ...

Command, the decision making, the response with regards to iran now going to change considering the presidents nominee, mark esper officially taking the helm? >> yeah, thats a really good question, and i think, you know, potentially under the obama administration, a logical assumption, patrick shanahan was a civilian leader. sometimes when youre an acting official, your word and decision making carries left heft, you would think es pper, trumps opinion as commander in chief, he is the ultimate d...

It is not like that. there are multiple scenarios. the main decision-maker is the president. succeeding and isolating iran, we dont iran to stop us from that isolation. >> as we talk about the us facing global problems without a chief of the pentagon. where do you make of where we are? >> to have a secretary of defense at this point in time wont change everything. a titanic institution, the secretary of defense, the best one possible, this will not stop us understanding what the iranians are doi...

The significance of the president giving that detail why we are not hitting that military target, the means as you told me about this week yesterday as the story was breaking, not hitting the means that took down our drones? >> they were clearly going after the means from what i understand, batteries, radar sights and command and control to take care of those. and the estimate of 150 casualties, i think what he was going through in his mind was unmanned drone vs. 150 casualties as a tradeoff, it...

Fascinating. it seemed like they had the same kind of back-and-forth with two sides pairing up against each other. should we go, or should we not? thats normal in any kind of decision-making body. the difference is, i think, in this white house, as ive said before, they have not seen this kind of requirement to make a decision, and the processes for national security arent aligned. it seems to be a little bit more scattershot, if you will, where they pull people together for arbitrary decision-m...

Sides pairing up against each other. should we go, or should we not? thats normal in any kind of decision-making body. the difference is, i think, in this white house, as ive said before, they have not seen this kind of requirement to make a decision, and the processes for national security arent aligned. it seems to be a little bit more scattershot, if you will, where they pull people together for arbitrary decision-making at the last minute, and theres not a process to really look at the inten...

Of the national security counsel with the deputies and principles committees and the presidents themselves. and it is really unimaginable to me that any intelligence agency would conceal relevant facts from the president who is the ultimate decision maker. i cant say whether or not thats happening now. but if it is, it would be a marked departure from the past. >> would you be scared in their situation that he would leak those details? >> well, i think weve seen the president speak impertinently...

Steps being taken. nancy pelosi has maintained all along that she wants to keep legislating, she wants the house to be able to do its work. impeachment equals indictment. it is not a quick and easy way to remove a president from office. so shes looking at the accountability she would have as the ultimate decision maker in this, and how can this go forward, shes saying, take issues to court, use the committees to gather evidence. some of those committee chairs feel there is a burning desire that ...

Can we indict the president? cant we indict the president? can we, cant we. no. >> the -- and the they in your account in the book and you quote sources close to the mueller investigation. >> yeah. >> is the way you phrase it. were those people working on the mueller investigation on the team. >> i dont want to discuss my sources on this. just to say they are gold standard sources. >> the way you put that was close to the mueller investigation. >> exactly. >> they seem to be describing to you a ...