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The vice presidential debate where he lied multiple things that trump said and did, things that were provable through video, as if we had no access to this information on our own. i think whats going on here is americans arent used to a calm liar. were used to lies put forth in an obviously propaganda way. and i think with pence, the republican party put him out as this alternative, but hes just as come police it and involved. he was part of the transition that put this together. he was warned t...

You have to learn it. you cant just think youre doing it. these guys lately i think w. did it too and obama did it. any way, the lack of training -- >> that level of confidence is what helps people win i elections. thats sort of faking it until you make it. the question right now is has trump sort of been humbled to any extent now that he seems to be acknowledging that things are more difficult? >> sounds like it. >> and if he has been humbled would he be willing and capable of learning. it seem...

What helps people win elections, right? that sort of faking it till you make it. the question right now is has trump sort of been humbled to any extent now that he seems to be acknowledging that things are more difficult? and if he has been humbled, will he be willing to and capable of learning? and it seems like he acknowledges that he needs to do some learning. i just dont know if he has the disposition and the patience moreover to do the kinds of heavy learning that he needs to be doing. >> l...

Reckle recklessness? that being said, the peach was standard, traditional diplomacy. he said the failure is war and nobody wants that. he proposed a negotiated settlement. he shows the disposition that he has for bilateral talks aopposed to multilateral talks. i think that is probably the wrong strategy, but any negotiation is a good thing. as you pointed out, there is a difference in the rhetoric that comes from secretary dillerson a -- tillerson and the president. a major major conflict is pos...

Flynn. it is not a witch hunt. he is impeding. the president is impeding these investigations by not turning over and saying to his people, give all those records about flynn to the fbi. give them to the congressional investigators. now, you have a situation today, a new deputy attorney general of the united states takes office. hes been confirmed by congress. hes known as a real straight shooter and he is going to go in and look at the facts now that sessions, the attorney general, as recused h...

Oil shipments. japan had a visit from the vice president. so theyre watching very, very closely what moves are happening. but paradoxically, former defense secretary william perry told me yesterday that this may be the moment to have a coercive diplomatic engagement to reign that in. >> the allies and now including china are responding favorably to the saber rattling by the united states, that they believe it has forced a different disposition from the allies. there is more confidence that now i...

Director of the korea society and an adjunct professor of korean politics at columbia university. professor, when i hear h.r. mcmaster saying in the coming weeks or months, it sounds like he knows nothing is going to happen any time soon. >> lets hope thats the case, because certainly with the level of tensions right now, we need to find a way to de-escalate. so he has opened the window there. and hopefully that will guide us forward, especially allowing time for coordination with the allies as ...

Weeks or months, it sounds like he knows nothing is going to happen any time soon. >> lets hope thats the case, because certainly with the level of tensions right now, we need to find a way to de-escalate. so he has opened the window there. and hopefully that will guide us forward, especially allowing time for coordination with the allies as he suggests. >> now the presumption in the past has been strategic patience was the only option because any military strike on north korea would instantaneo...

Russian drone. and a couple of hours after that, the plane comes in and bombs the hospital trying to erase the evidence. and the u.s. now says the russians did have chemical expertise inside syria. they are trying to put the full case together. chris? >> all right. and obviously those facts so important if we might see another pivot from the white house in terms of a disposition towards a major player. in that case, russia. now we have another example of that. the president called this organizat...

>> that remains to be seen. the u.s. disposition in syria is that you have special operations forces in the northeast. you have an artillery battery from the marine corps and some logistics elements. it is a squishy number, between 800 to a thousand, almost pretty much in a completely different country siloed off from the rest of the could not zplikt the west. as far as where this goes militarily, that remains to be seen. this was lobbying a few $1.5 million warheads at a very specific target. a...