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President do you think its wise for president trump to be relying so much on china to solve this issue? >> well, listen, i think you only have so many tools in your tool box and i think hes trying to think outside of the box. first of all hes making sure that north korea understands that were not going to send out a press release with president obama and president bush that didnt take anything seriously. hes making sure that he we watch it and pay attention but were not going to tolerate it but ...

Neighbors out there. china has got to know if he launches a nuclear weapon at the united states it will be devastating because you wont be able to drink milk. kids wont be able to because for years from all the nuclear radiation in the atmosphere. china needs to be told he fires a nuke well nuke him out and its gone forever. the leverage points are one, economic dealing with syria with russia and a straight forward talk with the chinese, you guys have to stop this or we will. >> shannon: somethi...

Care bill that they came up with that couldnt fly was, you know, designed to try to get the votes of the freedom caucus. thats never going to get even moderate republicans, much less democrats or anybody else on board and its not going to satisfy trumps constituency. youre rig, he needs the mcmaster of domestic policy. i have no idea who that is. gary cohn is a smart guy but this is a steep learning curve and you need to know people as well as stuff. >> you need to know people, leverage points a...

This is using local authorities to be a part of immigration enforcement. thats controversial. some want it, some dont. the other slide i want to put up on the screen is all about the wall. this hasnt gotten as much attention today but these memos say were going to build a border wall and quantify u.s. aid to mexico. why? it doesnt say in the memo. weve heard a lot about leverage points for getting mexican payments for the wall. >> sounds like its going to cost a lot, charlie. >> its going to cos...

There yet. we should try to proceed in the near term in a deliberate and bipartisan manner. >> the intelligence committee is making progress. i am optimistic with what ive heard from chairman corker of foreign relations, senator graham who chairs one of the subcommittees of judiciary on which i serve, they could also investigate this. lets see if were able to make progress, and if not, you just laid off a number of leverage points that we might be able to use to get the attention of the white ho...

Appealing about him. you described a subset frame as well as any could. the art of the deal if you read the book, this is what he does. he tries to find leverage points and found them with some great success and sometimes not great success but majority successful in his business life. hes doing it here. almost like criticism we saw last week around the carrier deal. some of my former colleagues and every democratic friends say its not a sustainable approach but if youre a hard working american w...

Got here a quarter of a century ago. >> i get your point that a low-level intern makes all the bad decisions, and speaking as a low-level person on the hill i get the point. it seems like the opposite to get your kids involved in stuff. i know people who have no leverage points, the one thing theyre going to worry about is their kids. >> its not a blind trust if your kids run it. when he was running, he never said he would divest his assets. he said ill put it in a blind trust run by my children...

With the democrats in urging mr. trump not to do this. you know, ive noticed, ari, when hes pushed back, he responds. grounds. today he said oh, maybe i wont when he wanted a top secret clearances for his kids in the transition, there was criticism. he said oh, it was a low-level intern. weve been hearing about that same low-level intern in washington, d.c. ever since i got here a quarter of a century ago. low-level intern makes all the bad decisions, and speaking as a low-level person on the hi...

With us now jack lew. yesterday he shared a security counsel meeting which resulted it was a rare moment of international unity. the u.s. and russia sponsored a resolution in dozens of nations. it was a unanimous vote in the security council. and it put isil in a class that no country, no force, no organization should want to be in, that the world was saying anyone who is connected to you in any way, directly or indirectly, can be sanctioned for any kind of support. >> what are the key leverage ...

Their side of this agreement and i just havent seen any indication from their side thats actually what they whatnot to do. seems to me like they just wantvs-m to play the middle. >> in the absence of this agreement, should talks break down there arent sanctions. we can continue to put sanctions into place but theyre no good without russia and china are they? >> well, russia and china are a special case but we become get the rest of europe on board. the fact is that the global oil markets are den...