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Press secretary said just this morning there is no disagreement on this issue and that the president is the ultimate decision maker. but theres clearly a disconnect and our sources are telling us president trump has expressed to people close to him that hes frustrated by this sense of hawkishness coming from his team of advisers. this swiss meeting is his way of saying what i want to do is get on the phone with iran and cut a deal. >> interesting. the president wants to talk with iran. something...

Well. we should have gotten on the same page with our allies before we decided to withdraw -- the policy process is a train wreck. im going to gdisagree with max for a second. president trumps policy on iran didnt start with john bolton. president trump took escalatory moves all by himselves, like withdrawing from the jcpoa, he let secretary pompeo designatde. i dont think hes the decision maker in chief on this. when it comes to going it alone with iran, the fluke leer deal has divided us from ...

Perception that bolton and others are leading him into a war with iran. expressing it on twitter today saying, i make a decisive and final decision. a message echoed by his press secretary. >> the president is the ultimate decisionmaker, and hes going to take all of the information and intelligence thats given to him, and hell make the decision that he thinks is best to keep americans safe. its that simple. >> reporter: people familiar also say trump is privately complaining that if bolton had i...

Military council to make way for a civilian government how much trust is there in the military council to deliver and make good on their promise until now the military council is having a face from the old regime extreme age of faces from the old regime izing the protesters are seeing that and until that change is still the mistrust will be between the protesters and the military and dollars in that there is a progress also in the in the negotiation with the military but there is no i read actio...

It should because people may remember in the ways of president clinton or president nixon the questions around presidential obstruction as a potential high crime are genuinely dealt with or as lawyers say adjudicated by the house. not by the presidents own justice department nap right there is a glaring sign. that i think is interesting. >> what they had with bill clinton, he perjured himself. a difference there. >> im not referring to the underlying facts. the comparison im making is that the h...

The democrats are going to say the man who said the investigation on obstruction shouldnt have happened in the first place is now the one deciding making this conclusion. yes, he did it with rod rosenstein, but thats what theyre going to hone in on. >> this is typical of the way the doj works. arent there situations where prosecutors want to bring charges, and they go to main justice and they say, no, you dont have enough. i think thats important for the public to understand. this is a very typi...

Directly to the president and made a commitment that he would not resume nuclear testing nor missile testing. >> reporter: north korea also appeared to threaten to walk away from denuclearization talks when the deputy foreign minister told reporters that the american delegation at the failed hanoi summit was too demanding and inflexible, claiming the u.s. team were too busy with pursuing their own political interests and had no sincere intention to achieve a result. national security adviser joh...

Thats really all i can say at the moment. >> north korea -- you and the secretary of state created an atmosphere of hostility and distrust. whats your response to that? >> i think thats inaccurate. but the president is our decision-maker. i have seen the statement you are referring to within the past hour i have spoken to my south korean counterpart. we discussed their reaction and our reaction. but i would like to speak further within the u.s. government before we respond. thank you very much. ...

>> reporter: north korea today appeared to threaten to walk away from denuclearization talks when the deputy foreign minister told reporters that the american delegation at the failed hanoi summit was too demanding and inflexible, claiming the u.s. team were too busy with pursuing their own political interests and had no sincere intention to achieve a result. national security adviser john bolton rejecting the north korean claim. >> i think thats inaccurate. the president is our decision maker. ...

What is more, the minister blamed the breakdown of talks on the u.s. side saying the american delegation was being too demanding and inflexible. she specifically called out secretary of state mike pompeo and national security adviser john bolton. they created a, quote, atmosphere of hostility and mistrust and, therefore, this is all according to the north koreans, obstructed the constructive effort for negotiations. bolton and pompeo pushed back on that today. >> i think thats inaccurate, but th...