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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, in this case he committed while in office, prior to office, as long as the statute of limitations on it has not run. so new york state has a lot of leve...

Results, and hes going to change personnel as necessary to achieve them.lt i will take that any day over someone who cavalierly coasts on the status quo or doubles down on failure with a swagger. trumps foreign policy is best described as prudent realism. he believes that given the fact that the u.s. economy now represents about 20 to 25% of the global gdp, we need to maximize our leverage wisely. trump actually considers how much military missions cost. cost our taxpayers their hard-earned mone...

Maga. president trump is impatient for results and hes going to change personnel as necessary to achieve them. i will take that any day over someone who cavalierly copes on the status quo or doubles down on failure with a swagger. trumps foreign policy is best described as prudent realism. he believes that given the fact that the u.s. economy now represents about 20 to 25% of the global gdp, we need to maximize our leverage wisely. trump actually considers how much military missions cost. cost o...

Not to pursue a nuclear weapon. its that simple. what the current administration has never done is articulated what it wants. it says we want them to stop doing everything theyve ever done. theyre not going to do that, so to actually be able to articulate in tangible terms here are the thresholds, heres how were going to pull a global coalition to pursue that objective. right now all weve done is unite iran and the rest of the world against us. where the obama administration left it was the rest...

Change there and oversold the influence i think the american government has in a transition like that. >> you know, one of the lessons weve learned, right about u.s. military intervention is your intentions matter less than what actually happens, right? its the same as diplomacy. its so clear the president is palpably desperate for a big deal now, but theres none of the stuff in the process to produce the actual diplomatic breakthroughs. >> i think hes thirsty for a huge agreement with iran. hes...

Get meeting. but if you dont have the leverage, if you dont have policy coherence, a basic confident strategy, if you cant get out of your own way to make a deal like that as we saw this week in afghanistan, then youre really sunk and youre left with this kind of policy adrift of half finished deals and pandemonium. how much does it matter whether its a success or who the successor is here? >> i think donald trump is going to have a very hard time finding a successor, someone who will willingly ...

They wont abide by it, and their leverage, by the way, is violence. and weve seen recent examples of that. and thats how they exert leverage, and our only leverage really is our presence. once we give that up, we dont have any leverage. and i dont know how we would verify let alone enforce such an agreement. and if anyone thinks that the taliban will then police up al qaeda or isis, theyve got another thing coming. and they certainly wouldnt change their attitude towards women. so to me, the sub...

You have to look at that discussion and then kans keld the leaders at camp david. the national security adviser had been beamed into this meeting that the president had with his national security team the friday before labor day, because bolton was still in europe. he wasnt present at that meeting, and thats the meeting that first came to the idea to host the advisers at camp david. of course he was one of the leading figures pushing back not -- and he has them believing, essentially, that the t...

President overruled national security adviser john bolton and vice president mike pence, when he decided to set up the meeting with the taliban. bolten does not trust the special envoy for afghanistan and thought he gave the taliban too much leverage in those talks. president trump sealed a partnership with a scottish airport in 2014, that routinely sent refueling flight crews to his resort in turnberry. thats according to a report in "the new york times." on this tweet on monday, the presiden...

His aides did not push back on that, john. >> kaitlan collins, come back to us with reporting throughout the hour. lets go to kylie at the state house. kaitlan just mentioned the secretary of state and the national security adviser were supposed to be side by side today. and b, also mentioned as part of that, the long-running tensions between the two of them. >> reporter: thats right, so even though these two leaders in trumps national security team are idealogically aligned, secretary of state ...