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Leverage over people. theres always the rumors of films. theres rumors of the blackmail. there could be a lot of evidence on these computers of tapes, of blackmail, of documents, of e-mails. i wouldnt give it -- you know, again, if the southern district of new york is serious about pursuing this now that he is dead those people should definitely be worried and lawyered up. even the lawyers are getting lawyers. >> okay. no doubt all of these people were lawyered up, are lawyered up, and always wi...

Bench cour ben of course national former security adviser to president obama. youre watching all of this play out as well. first of all, your initial thoughts on what were seeing. >> well, think were seeing a really pivotal moment in the history of hong kong and china. you know, essentially these protesters have been pushed to the brink by chinese government thats gotten more and more heavy handed in its response. the protesters are going to the airport because that shows that they can affect th...

Know his pressure points. they know where his base is. they know the political environment in the united states. >> and thats why this makes his one kind of final major legislative priority that much more important which is the ratification of the u.s./mexico/canada trade deal. we talked to a lot of lawmakers and it really can be characterized as being in limbo right now. it is up to nancy pelosi to put it on the floor. she has a lot of leverage here to give the trump administration that one maj...

Violence. the direct challenge, asking president trump to withdraw his request for $5 billion in border funding and redirect that money to programs that would combat the rise in mass murders and white supremacy. in a statement to politico, schumer said, the dual scourges of gun violence and violent white supremacist extremism in this country are a national security threat plain and simple. and its time the trump administration and republicans in congress start treating them as such. no one is ho...

Huge community of walmart customers who say, they stand by the second amendment. they want walmart to sell guns. by the way, im not saying they shouldnt, not saying walmart should necessarily stop selling guns completely. im saying because you sell the guns now use your leverage to actually make the system safer. >> but is it doug mcmillan or do they have something else in walmart, the walton family one of the richest, most storied american families has almost 50% of this company. could they not...

There have been private efforts to try to get him home over the years. i know about a couple of them but they havent succeeded. we need that sort of leverage that maybe the russians or others could provide. >> all right. well, well be following it in "the washington post." thank you so much. coming up, theres new information overnight on the failures of the federal jail that allowed jeffrey epstein to kill himself inside his cell, even though he had tried to commit suicide two weeks earlier. w...

And if youre one of these co-conspirators who think that you just got away with it because of epsteins death, well, you just lost your leverage with federal prosecutors because epsteins not around to flip on anyone. epstein is not around to cut a deal on. if youre looking around for a bigger fish to flip on, then generally, the big fish is you. because theres no one else around. >> wow. >> okay. so still a lot of questions about what happened, still a lot of questions about what happens next. ...

Obsessed with their own security and the united states and south korea had always had a long-term goal for regime change so when the exercises pop up it unnerves them. were conducting a table-top exercise in a sense to deal with the north korean invasion of the south and hes demonstrating a new weapon that he would use in that war that were practicing. thats what hes doing there. >> bill: you support the military exercises with south korea, right? >> weve given up on the big exercises and i agre...

>> what did it say? >> very positive letter. arthel: president trump hinting he could meet again with the north korean dictator in the near future for a third summit, that was just one day before pyongyang fired up two more short-range ballistic missiles, state media there saying today kim himself supervised the test firings of unspecified new weapons system. heightening speculation she could be jocking for leverage ahead of any face to face, anita vogul live in los angeles with details, anita. ...

Time. david: kim, on the other hand, the president is right, jobs in the united states are through the roof, weve never had a better job situation in my lifetime in the united states and thats led to higher wages as well because the job market tightness it gives more leverage to wage earners to boost up wages, there was an article in market watch on friday of this week that suggested that the president could give up as much as 3,000 points on the dow before the democrats could really use the eco...