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That mike flynn was a potential target for blackmail because the russians knew the truth. why wouldnt donald trump be a similar target for blackmail, until two weeks ago, the russians knew more than we did about donald trumps interests in doing business in moscow. >> i want to be a little careful here with you because i dont want to talk about things i know from the investigation from the election to when i was fired. its, obviously, a concern about any public official if theres significant info...

Though he is facing a ton of prison time potentially and in the next trial in d.c., there are leverage points for mueller with manafort, and the president sort of pleading with him to hang in there, but sarah sanders didnt want to touch it at all. >> does this move the needle at all in terms of the question of impeachment and what it means for the president politically? >> the question of impeachment is ultimately a political question. this is not a legal question for this president. hes now bee...

We have to use sanctions as a tool. you talked about global engagement center. i think there are tools we can use. in my role as a diplomat, we have a handful and we are working to do what i think it was senator rubio at the beginning of the hear is raised the cost sufficiently and convince vladimir putin that its not in his best interest to continue this behavior. that is difficult. i know precisely who vladimir putin is. i know his history. but thats the task. the task is for us. the u.s. gove...

Could explain connections to russia and could explain ultimate leverage points in the election. >> what reasoning does someone like robert mueller have to provide for these things? who does he have to satisfy when he gets the subpoena? does he have to satisfy a grand jury or is it just up to him to decide that he wants to look at certain information? >> well, ultimately he is held accountable by the grand jury because you have to let them know in their name certain documents were requested and m...

The deadline for congress to come up with a fix. now the supreme court has essentially taken off all of the time limits. so what happens now? >> president trump is still very interested in being able to get a great immigration bill done as quickly as possible. you still have additional leverage points. right now were negotiating the next funding bill. congressional republicans are engaged in this discussion on the house side. there is a bill that was introduced by chairman bob goodlatte and mike...

>> yeah. the polls show it. we showed earlier. >> actually, more americans would blame the democrats right now. it is basically even. 34% to 32%. but they are staking the future on the fate of the d.r.e.a.m.ers at the moment. >> they are. and they are doing itnort of an unrelated bill which is the continuing resolution. but it is their only leverage points. it is is one of these things in an ideal functioning congress you wouldnt do this. but we dont have that and havent for a long time. this is...

The president convened multiple groups, brought folks over to the white house. it takes a little more time. what we did today -- or yesterday in the house in regards to health insurance for kids for six years, 30 days of government funding, thats a reasonable compromise. lets get the kids out of the way. lets make sure were focusing on the bigger issues. we have the opportunity to do that. >> when you say, lets get the kids out of the way, we talk about chip all the time, talked about nutritiona...

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...

Refugees, and china kind of likes the fact that there is american soil over there, and they are also a source of cheap labor for china, so china does not want to be defending college students being killed for no reason. >> dana: so you think that china will step up? what are the leverage points that we have? >> this has creeped out in the last week, south korea and japan are saying we want nukes as well, china does not want that on the peninsula in that area because that means that this is tryin...

This. in terms of a decision to make, how should the u.s. respond beyond the defense development we discussed sf. >> i think its extremely important. i think our military posture is extremely important to make sure we have an option if, in fact, we need to. that is the almost absolute last thing we should do. the last thing is allow them to fire a nuclear weapon at us. having that posture there and finding leverage points, pressure points against the chinese to say you may be worried about mass ...