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And talked about a pretty conservative position on immigration. he said he supports building a wall. he talks a lot about e verify. hes right there on the conservative policy side of things. when he sees trump, he says hell support him. the two could not be more different stylistically. thats still the same. i asked romney about that after the event when we delved into it a little bit. take a listen. >> reporter: are you going to be the mitt romney who gave the speech in march of 2016 or are you...

>> i want to ask you about somebody from your home state of oklahoma, scott pruitt, the epa administrator. do you have any concerns about the ethical decisions hes made, the spending? youre a fiscal hawk. he spent $43,000 on a phone booth without asking congress. he was supposed to ask if he spent $5,000. >> ive known him a long time just as the attorney general in oklahoma. this is not a random stranger i just met. i know him, i know his family. scott walking into government, i dont think did e...

People one way or the other so we can move on. >> do you think it is sufficient for the d.o.j. to use the inspector general to investigate the origins of their investigation or do they need to go further? some of your colleagues in the house on the republican side have called for a special counsel to investigate the investigators. >> i think the first step is an inspector general. if the inspector general michael horowitz has been a nonpolitical person. if he comes back and says, hey, ive got so...

Overdo unpredictability as well. >> mike: steve, we have seen a bit of a dynamic of mike pompeo, perhaps, being the good cop in these negotiations and then john bolton behind the scenes perhaps being the bad cop. is that your read of things? >> well, if have you got mike pompeo being the good cop on north korea. thats a pretty hawkish place to be. i would imagine that mike pompeo is giving the president advice that suggests he take seriously this long history that we talked about earlier and not...

Hawk. it is possible, certainly. the other point i would make is this, poppy, keep in mind, this is far from a political story, right? before there was talk of a summit, mthere was real concern here in washington about a conflict resulting from this, a military conflict, a shooting war over north korea was our own reporting with my colleague dana bash and others earlier this year and we remain confident in this that there were real discussions of the possibility of military action, that the pres...

Tough on north korea on everything from nuclear disremembererment to human rights. i think there have been internal divisions inside the white house. more interested in diplomacy. bolton wants to be tough on north korea. were seeing the north koreans seized on boltons comments. first they called out bolton and then pence. >> you have to think about south koreas reaction. south korea actually think it was ambassador bolton trying to undermine. they came out with a statement last week blaming amba...

Does he go there and come back empty handed or with something thats not a great deal? he wants to go there and he wants a full win. and its going to be very hard to see now how he does that. >> dana, why did bolton -- im no pal of boltons, but why did this neo con guy -- i guess he is hawk. why did he say were looking for libya model. libyas president gadhafi ended up being physically mutilate affidavit he was killed after they found him in a pipeline somewhere. >> right. >> youre telling the ...

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Tells them how amazing they are and takes a total turn and gets awkward on them and jekyll-and-hyde situation. >> the most amazing example of that from my reporting well report that this morning is when theyre in beijing with the chinese. you saw it was incredible, lavishing praise, the forbidden city, the red carpet, everything was amazing. and then they get in the meeting with xi and trump says, so you know, everything has been terrible with china. youve been, and its been happening for years,...

But other officials say the real reason was concern about criminal charges because waterboarding now banned by the pentagon violates the geneva conventions. >> turns out that jose rodriguez and others at the cia had been asking for permission to destroy those tapes for years. and over the years, they were told no, over and over again by the lawyers at the cia, by directors of the cia, by the director of national intelligence, by two different white house counsels, even by dick cheneys top lawyer...