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A president who has a 100-day mark looming. a foreign policy crisis over his head. north korea possibly launches another missile test. thats his test right there. what does he do? >> well, again, you know, i dont think anyone knows what he will do because the foreign policy has been so unpredictable here. and what are his options? i dont think that a military option is something that they want to pursue. its just really hard to see what they could actually do and trying to come up with something...

Fortunately, the attack that took place on the champs elysees just behind me on thursday was a much smaller attack. and while it disturbed people and people are very nervous here, that something else, something bigger will happen, it likes like any of the bigger attacksave been thwarted. how does all that play out? marine le pen has definitely tried to exploit it. definitely taken advantage of what happened on thursday and said this is why we need to close our borders, get out of europe. take an...

Theres nothing there if we dont have china on board. >> well, thats true. they are the major players. south korea is having an election soon. south koreans are very scared. 25 million people in seoul. theyre worried about a miscalculation being affected. japan. weve got,000 american troops there. they are worried about a missile hitting them, o. i think what we need to do, and i expect north korea to do another missile test very soon. they always do this on anniversaries. and this is not somethi...

But the properimportant thing t understand is if you stop tpp, all youve done is kept us right where we were doing the 2016 election campaign. tpp was something new. and so you still have not addressed many of the trade issues that donald trump made such a big deal during the campaign. >> a lot of people wondering what exactly president trump is going to do with his own companies and their labor as well. thats another question that we dont have time for. john nichols, thank you for joining me. ...

Losing that particular constituency because those people are -- have voted for the president over hillary clinton. and its just -- its just curious. i was astonished when i saw the letter go out to those cities. particularly new york city. and as the commissioner mentioned, crime has dropped tremendously there. so im not sure thats something that you want to do because at some point, you are going to need their assistance. >> im a new yorker, and from what i understand, you do not go after the n...

Well, just democrats are to blame here. and i think that they are aware of that which is why you see this activity, this sort of do something before the deadline. >> for the president doing some wheeling and dealing here as well, he is offering democrats funding for obamacare subsidies in exchange for border wall funding. chuck schumer is like, that is a nonstarter. so is the president here really willing to shut down the government over health care? >> you know, he very well may take that tact ...

So expect something to be unveiled for tax cuts and his tax proposal. it will be a big week. and he will cap it with a visit to pennsylvania. harrisburg, where he will hold a campaignallyext saturday night to mark the 100 days in office. so aone time, he is trying to say its not that important. the timing doesnt matter that much. and at the same time, he knows there will be a lot of attention and hes going to embrace that marker at the start of his presidency. yasmin? >> not that important but a...

Election. he makes big, bold claims. he uses rhetoric to convince everyone that hes accomplishing something and when the proof comes to the pudding, nothing happens. so were going to repeal obamacare obamacare, but oh wait, were really not. were going to make china a currency manipulator, oh, wait, were not. theres nothing to see here on the russian scandal except there is. i mean, the problem i think with the trump administration is both internally and externally dysfunctional and its a reflect...

So they may be willing to take that risk and play some hard ball with negotiations. but there are certain things we know that democrats will not make concessions on. they politically cannot support the border wall. their base will not tolerate that. also defunding of planned parenthood. but hopefully they will be willing to negotiate with republicans on areas where they can find consensus such as discretionary spending on other domestic policies or increasing defense spending is something i thin...

Presidency can ultimately be. most of what weve seen thus far have been executive orders and nothing legislatively in a big picture sense. so this week, they are working hard to try to move the ball on a few things. first of all, government funding to keep the government open. that is a deadline that they must reach by the end of the week. and thats something that congress is working on to try to keep funding but also to provide money for the border wall the president believes is an important pr...