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It looks like we do not have john park. jonathan pollock, is there a leverage point with shinzo abe, with japan, to core roll a willing of many for policy against north korea? >> well, i dont think theres much question that abe. and i heard him speak in japan less than a week ago. at a conference there, that, you know, he is going to be very -- hes using the same buzz words, the same language that trump uses. the effort here is to reinforce the sense that japan and the united states are joins at...

Test? >> well, i think as jonathan indicated, the japan -- theres not much daylight between japan and the united states when it comes to north korea. i think hes going to shore up that defense alliance. and the other thing that will be on the table as the two men talk privately is, what is president trumps approach going to be when he arrives in beijing. what is the next iteration of the strategy to try to get the chinese to exert more influence on pyongyang. im sure the two leaders will talk ab...

Years. its a thing about which conservatives have been complaining as long as i can remember. so if they do have a deficit increase, its going to be more than bob corker. a lot of republicans wont like it. >> absolutely. mike pence got his start a decade ago fighting george w. bush on these very issues. so you have something inside the administration, the vice president himself who is a fiscal hawk. its a key question right now. as you said, its a huge leverage point. it wont just be corker. the...

Capitol hill. president trump told house republican whos are having a bipartisan meeting on tax reform, if they fail on health care, he would work with democrats. the work that did he, according to the discussion. how is that supposed to sit with your fellow republican whens he is saying, you dont play my way. im working with democrats. >> it is one leverage point that trump actually has. probably not the best way to use it. if you know, he got great reviews when he crossed the aisle and worked ...

>> weve heard from both sides, there were some quite critical. maybe the leverages gone. why critical? >> the leverage point would be the criticism. you dont want to start a negotiation from a place of weakness to give away daca to make some sort of permanent amnesty for these people would take away leverage off the table. thats where the criticism is. he runs a wildcat and he can go either way. hes got options here, but its going to have to give the majority of the republican caucus to agree on...

A myriad of different structures along that wall we expect to be secure to make sure america is safe. >> that is not -- that is not what the boss said during the campaign and not several times as president. >> this is a repeat of the decade ago. bush talking about wall by wall. i covered immigration back then. so much so familiar sounding. yeah. look. the republican party leaders were never on board with the wall. mitchell mcconnell snickered when you think mexico is paying for it. not like a le...

Whole world. according to the "washington post" president trump has a gentlemens agreement to chuck schumer to take the debt ceiling vote out of the hands of congress. you used to be, as we talk about often, a tea party fiscal conservative congress. do you support that taking that out of the reins of congress? >> i was in the meeting with senator schumer. hell be back again tonight at dinner and ill participate in that as well. what the president told me after the meeting, pulled me aside, sai...

On the back burner now that the president is ready for congress to focus on other issues like tax reform? >> again. i wasnt there but it wouldnt surprise me if the priorities were what are we doing in houston? what are we getting ready to do in florida to help these folks and then when do we get tax reform? it wouldnt surprise me if that dominated the discussion last night. steve: i know when he, the president and the leaders agreed on the three month deal what they were doing is they were exten...

But on so many issues, on health care, on the debt ceiling, they just arent really in touch with reality at this point, which in a funny way makes their own lives really difficult. >> and, adam, we know now that chuck schumer and nancy pelosi will be under tremendous pressure from their democratic colleagues to load up the next debt ceiling 90 days from now with democratic party agenda items, including a d.r.e.a.m. act. >> thats right. one of the ways in which trump really screwed over republica...

Legislative agenda plans that the congressional republicans have. >> lawrence, winston churchill used to tell a story about a negotiation within the british government around the time of world war i. the admiralty wanted to fund four battleships. sorry, the treasury wanted to fund four battleships. the admiralty wanted six battleships. so churchill said, we compromised on eight battleships. thats the sort of deal that we got done today. this is not surprising. mr. trump has no intellectual balla...