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National security advisor john bolton announced a trip to the region to meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. bolton is dominating iran policy keeping a tight rein on information that gets to the president. thats pretty scary. house republicans called for a measured response for irans actions. nicolas christof warned we are facing very real risks of a cycle of escalation without face saving for trump or kamcould h . nick, thank you. this is real, right? this is not a trumped up wa...

White house has told the american public do not support that. revision of history, many in the white house believe. >> brooke, i could just say, according to sources who ive talked to, just to kind of bounce off that sentiment, people i talked to are saying theres great, deep frustration. never mind as a transparency question for the white house and the president and the presidency and people closest to him but just as a place to go to work that theres great frustration that the guy who is in ch...

Sense encourage north korea to talk to south korea because they think our country may be insaid so they should turn towards south korea? >> not exactly. the intelligence agencies warned him not to do this, not to personally insult kim jong-un and not to talk to him in these ways. it has the opposite effect. it pushes you to take stronger actions. it pushes the north koreans to test more, be more resolute. we cant talk to these people, theyre the crazy ones. but pressure overall, the risk of war ...

>> i totally agree. we saw the energy for tax reform begin to melt away when the republicans could not pass the repeal and replace measure several weeks ago because inside the caucus they understood that a large amount of the opposition to it from the freedom caucus was based not upon the merits of the bill but based upon excuses designed to help bring down the republican leadership and foil the direction the conference wanted to go. now that that group has had pushback from their constituents a...

Clear that if and of course thats a big if they can get a final deal that looks like this framework, that is a huge step backwards for irans ambition to develop a nuclear weapon. the secretary was passionate about, you know as we have to do every time we consider anything here dont compare this deal to the perfect. the idea that iran was going to capitulate 100% with no face saving measures you know complete capitulation but compare it to the alternatives. that said to answer your question chris...

Raising taxes on 250 and over. could they accept millionaires tax which would give our ideological base a little bit of victory, not the entire victory they want, and it would give the republicans a little bit of face saving that they didnt, you know, drew the line much higher. that would be number one. number two, i think we need to, and you know im co-chair of the campaign to fix the debt with judd gregg, the ex-republican senator from new hampshire, our position is, if we can get revenue by t...

Fact, the chinese government was fairly flexible in terms of making that possible when it was clear it was an important issue to the united states. we cant expect to have china change their whole attitude on any issue like this in a short period of time. but this really reflects considerable progress. both in terms of the administrations ability to deal with them and chinas ability to be flex able. >> hillary clinton was going over there for unrelated issues. and patty, you know the delicate dan...

>> reporter: well, we can tell you -- >> it certainly -- >> im sorry. >> it does look like a lot like face saving. it comes on a day when the rebels say theyve taken over central misurata, theyve ousted gadhafi forces and the snipers who were causing a lot of havoc. and now comes a statement the army is withdrawing and the tribes are taking over. essentially what the deputy foreign minister told me is the tribes approached the libyan military and told them they werent making headway, and the tri...

We are still trying to get more information on whether or not people were killed. >> fred, what do you make of the libyan government saying theyre pulling out of misurata? they say theyre leaving the fight to the tribes. the spokesman for the rebel military command says if gadhafi leaves misurata, the game is over, its a significant move. what do you make of it? does it make sense that they would leave this up to the tribes, is this just face saving? >> well, we can tell you -- >> it certainly -...

Leaves misurata, the game is over, its a significant move. what do you make of it? does it make sense that they would leave this up to the tribes, is this just face saving? >> well, we can tell you -- >> it certainly -- >> im sorry. >> it does look like a lot like face saving. it comes at an interesting time, of course. it comes on a day when the rebels say theyve taken over central misurata, theyve ousted gadhafi forces and the snipers who were causing a lot of havoc. and now comes a statement ...