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Facilities. they figure during the pendency of talks, they wont do that. also the legitimization, once kim is in the room, thats a big win for north korea. up to now, the north koreans have made all the concessions. weve made none. but that changes as soon as kim and trump sit together and shake hands. and then the balance changes, because weve made a big concession. im not saying we shouldnt do that, but we should get something in return immediately, and that something is a clear pledge to give...

Pretty sensational, sometimes involved colorful language. but yeah, if we had the ability to listen in on what everybodys saying. the other thing you may find interesting is that blagojevich was a contestant on "celebrity apprentice." so this is somebody who trump knows. and this is kind of the -- you know, the blagojevich team is making this appeal to trump, framing it as an overreach of the justice department. blagojevich himself had an op-ed in "the wall street journal" where he frames it thi...

That we havent really applied. weve applied some to north korea, of course. but we havent gone after russia and weve only made very tentative steps to go after north koreas major sponsor, and thats china. we do those things, we can get north korea to a point where they realize the only choice for disarmament is death to the leader. right now you have a regime that doesnt have as much cash as they need. >> it dont sound like were doing that, it sounds like were trying to have a conversation with ...

Was in fact all about russia, the comey firing, this one is tough to maintain with a straight face. but the president is trying. >> we all talk about what sort of obstruction case robert mueller has. i feel like a lot of the obstruction, im not a lawyer so correct me if im wrong, a lot of the obstruction is right there in front of us, up in our face, and the president is very clear about it, in the way that he speaks about the investigation, what hes demanding to see about the investigation, try...

To rhodes, it offers little sense that the former president thought he could have done more to counter the russian influence in the election, that if he said more about it, all donald trump would do was claim over and over again that the election is rigged and use president obamas words as evidence of that. i will tell you from being on the campaign trail in that period of time, that was the message at the end when they thought they were going to lose, the president hammered rigged, rigged, rigg...

This is a difficult, difficult challenge. make no mistake about it, there remains a great deal of work to do. and we made progress here as well as at the same time made progress in the other venues the conversations were taking place. we had all the time we needed today to make the progress that was achievable during our time here in new york city. >> our next question goes to michael borden from "the wall street journal." >> reporter: sir, following up on that, senior state department officials...

Handle the russia issue. and ben rhodes book kind of gives us a little more of a glimpse on the thinking on that. it also is a reminder, having covered obama, and peter knows this too, is how much he would take an issue and wrestle with it and argue every side of it, and really think about it, and then sometimes, you know, come out not really wanting to do -- or deciding not to do much of anything. and this was another instance in which we see president obama weighing all of the different option...

Gets in his way, he just imposed tariffs on our allies, peter. >> he did in fact seem to project what the argument would be as soon as president trump took office. what are these institutions going to do in the face of a president who takes a different view of them than other presidents have, republican and democrat. and i think that, you know, president obama saw it coming. one of the other things thats interesting, we have heard so little from president obama since he left office. he told repo...

James comey. lets play it, hopefully well get through it. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thin thing with trump and russia was a made-up stories. >> he fired comey because comey would not, among other things, say that he wasnt a target of the investigation. hes entitled to that. >> thats donald trump and rudy giuliani, contradicting thems...

>> its a loud elephant whistle. you know, the timing is remarkable. it comes just a day after there were even more revelations in michael cohens case. it seems clear that the government is amassing a significant amount of evidence against cohen. and lo and behold, we have today the pardon of dinesh dsouza, pardon for campaign finance violations, one of the same crimes michael cohen is being investigated for, and one of the most important things about this pardon is that it didnt go through the n...