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During finals week in an attempt to deliver on some of the promises that brought his voters to the polls in november. so far if you are scoring at home, only one of the ten promises for legislation in a then candidate trump made in his contract with the american voter even made it to the house. that republican health care bill, it died. so far we have seen a real journey, one thats taken this president from i alone can fix it to nobody knew issues like health care could be this complicated to i ...

This as a military problem and all three administrations have backed off saying its not worth the candle. technology of nuclear weapons has been run for 70 years. any country that really wants nuclear weapons can get the ballistic missile technology in another manner, thats not beyond the capabilities. people say that north korean regime is irrational. maybe irrational in its fixation thats preserving the dynasty. in a way of maximum the presence in the world stage with no resources, economy, th...

>> the fixation on this or that, authoritarian or totalitarian leader is well known to us and we know how it goes. chris: michael, what do you make of this dramatic shift this week away from putin and towards chinese president xi? >> i thought the most interesting contrast was with servey and they are building a clear view of what the russians are, strategic adversary to the united states, vladimir putin, former kgb thug who is trying to relive glory days. it is a very much zero-sum relationship...

>> the fixation on this or that, authoritarian or totalitarian leader is well known to us and we know how it goes. chris: michael, what do you make of this dramatic shift this week away from putin and towards chinese president xi? >> i thought the most interesting contrast was with servey and they are building a clear view of what the russians are, strategic adversary to the united states, vladimir putin, former kgb thug who is trying to relive glory days. it is a very much zero-sum relationship...

Their arms that were dead. dead children. it cant be a worst sight. it shouldnt be allowed. thats a butcher. thats a butcher. >> the current state of u.s./russia relations at is a low point. there is a low level of trust between our two countries. >> the fixation on trying to oust the dictator, authoritarian leader is well-known to us and we know how it will end. >> bret: secretary of state, rex tillerson in moscow, meeting with as you see there, the foreign minister, was kind of an icy news con...

Relationship with russia is bad and in trouble. secretary tillerson said bashar al-assad must go after his most recent series of attacks on his own people with chemical weapons. >> the final outcome in our view does not provide for a role for the assad -- for assad or for the assad family in the future governance of syria. we dont think the international community will accept that. >> shepard: the foreign minute store lavrov called investigate ors to prove who was behind last weeks chemical atta...

Conference for over half an hour and really didnt give an inch to each other, as you point out, secretary of state tillerson said relations are at a low point. he talked at one point about a steady degradation of relations. they were completely on opposite sides when it came to syria and assads responsibility. i would have to say, i wouldnt give tillerson quite as strong as high grades as you apparently did, melissa. i thought you could see a contrast between sergi lavrov, who seemed very comfor...

They were there. fathers holding children in their arms that were dead. dead children. it cant be a worst sight. it shouldnt be allowed. thats a butcher. thats a butcher. >> the current state of u.s./russia relations at is a low point. there is a low level of trust between our two countries. >> the fixation on trying to oust the dictator, authoritarian leader is well-known to us and we know how it will end. >> bret: secretary of state, rex tillerson in moscow, meeting with as you see there, the ...

>> thank you for having me and for amplifying the voices of syrian americans who are at the forefront of the story in many ways. if there is no strategy associated with this limited strike it is really just a slap on the hand, an expensive one and message sent to the assad regime. overall we have to see that for six plus years the assad regime and allies have been slaughtering syrians at scale with or without chemical weapons. so this fixation on chemical weapons and only focussing on the need t...

That would be meaningless. i would give him an "a" on that. >> so, nina, to the bigger picture point, there have been a lot of fixation on the russia/trump investigation. we heard from all of those supporters of president trump who gave him an "a." out of touch with every day americans like we heard from? >> the washington elite on both sides continue to be out of touch. im not surprised. i dont think many would be that supporters would give him a good grade. thats any commander in chief the peo...