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Far things are moving as best as possible. certainly we would encourage a president when it would be advisable to be involved only when its advisable. eric: what does that mean? the president had sitdown meetings with putin, has he raises? should he resist directly with vitamin putin? would that do any good? >> i do believe there is value in raising this to the level of the high lateral relationship with russia. the trouble is, our relationship with russia is at its lowest point since the days o...

The table with usmca, and we hope that speaker pelosi and the house democrats will actually belly up and get that deal done. we need to see that move. is so he is a dealmaker, and while were negotiating china, we do have other trade negotiations that we should be acting on. so i would encourage the house to step up, lets get usmca done. that provides us a little more leverage and a little bit of relief across farm country too that would allow us to stick it to china. neil: all right. thank you v...

Slippery on some things and on trade she sounded to me exactly like donald trump without the bluster. >> sure. i agree. i think she sounds slippery. i think she has one mode on every issue. we cant pick gun control because of corruption in washington, we cant fix health care because of corruption in washington. paul: and big corporations. >> its the same shtick. if youre somebody who is just tuning in, maybe they havent picked up on the repeat. >> the trade discussion was interesting. i think if...

Think he has any intention of releasing him and im not sure we have the leverage to force pressure to do so unfortunately. >> you said 2019 but i assume you meant 2020. >> yes 2020. so when she is released you think itll free it up so whalen can be released? >> i do, i think putin wants maria to appear to be no various injection was, what she did in the united states was very discoverable, there is nothing planned about her contacts with republican stakeholders in the nra and conservative religi...

Results of the presidents policies in terms of the sanctions. >> i do believe they would like to make a deal, if they do thats great and if they dont thats great too. but they have tremendous financial difficulties and is the sanctions, we cannot let a run have a nuclear weapon and they never will have a nuclear weapon, they can forget about it. its going to be very dangerous with rich. >> you see these attacks as a clear example that the presidents policies are working and feeling the heat? >> ...

>> isnt that natural? things fall apart with trump. so they go to trumps best buddy, vladimir putin. who is of course going to take advantage of the situation anyway he can. there is a thing going on with trump and since he has been in campaign mode in 2016, he seems to think or believes for whatever reason that vladimir putin could be, and would be and maybe is his important ally and help him out around the world. we know that vladimir putin is not going to do that unless it is tremendously to ...

Separate the security issues from trade which i think are not separatable and is president trumps leverage. >> neil: we got mixed signals and first he was open to an interim agreement that might include addressing some down the road. the low-hanging fruit issues like them buying more stuff from us like right now. is he in a box if he does a 180 on that? >> i cant see it neil. i will tell you that this and the only reason theyre negotiating is because the tariffs and we couldnt and i cannot see t...

And learning the power of the feds. how much power will the manhattan d.a. have to hold over the head of michael cohen and to enforce a case against the sitting president of the united states perhaps? >> let me take your second question first because its really interesting. we talked a lot, brian, if you recall, and i know you do, about the prohibition on federal prosecutors charging a sitting president. >> yeah. >> new york state is a separate sovereign. theyre a separate entity. and oh, by the...

States perhaps? >> let me take your second question first because its really interesting. we talked a lot, brian, if you recall, and i know you do, about the prohibition on federal prosecutors charging a sitting president. >> yeah. >> new york state is a separate sovereign. theyre a separate entity. and oh, by the way, they dont have such a policy and they dont have to abide by the federal policy. so in theory, im not saying this will happen, a state could charge a president with a crime that he...

Establishment figures. take a look at what the former chairman of the democratic party is saying. of course he endorsed her competitor. he said warren transferred $10 million from her senate campaign to the presidential one. $6 million came from the big contributions, $1,000 and up. get the upside from askewing donations from the high leverage donors and using that money in 2018. do you think she needs to address that and is that a strong hit or does that look desperate because elizabeth warren,...