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Progress, you know, we need to change course. president trump can change course as weve seen on a number of different areas where hes given these bad actors time to actually reciprocate friendship. when they dont do that, he uses american leverage. thats a good strategy. id like to see the president change course on north korea soon. >> at some point, these bad actors never change and north korea has exemplified that in recent years, gordon. >> yes. thats the problem right now. chinese banks, ru...

Citizens. thats precisely why the supreme court said they had to delay this question. and for the president to once again suggest that they would potentially delay the census, the census is april 1st, thats dictated by statute, would require a law to change, it continues to raise real concerns, not of the formal delay of the census, but potentially of the executive branch trying to sort of muck up the works, even very, very minor delays in census returns can cause serious problems for counting a...

A nuclear weapon in faster than one years time which would provide the international community with space to respond should iran go the nuclear route but no i dont think of iraq in 4 minutes or statement accurately reflects the contents of agreement and i think he knows that very well iran also said today that europe must do more to help the iranian economy withstand us saying. is iran asking europe to do the impossible here to create an infrastructure that can bypass the u.s. dollar is it also ...

A line and to create distance between the u.s. and its european allies in the hope that it would give it more leverage in any type of future international agreement its very difficult to see how the europeans could do much more to address aronian economic concerns. standing up a separate international financial mechanism that would not have exposure to the u.s. economy and to u.s. sanctions is the undertaking of many months if not years and the cost of so doing would be quite substantial so its ...

The president okay, i will get this done myself. he has done that. the working groups are now going to meet. lets see if we can get some progress here. to be frank about it, we have less leverage than we had 18 months ago. the reason is that russia never complied with the sanctions. they are transferring oil out on the high seas and back dooring us on economic assistant. china after the first singapore summit began to increase economic assistance to north korea. we know this for a fact. i think ...

Just to give them some context this was a sit in that had been there since im going to bashir was overthrown they had occupied this essentially with the traffic juncture in front of the ministry of defense barricaded it and this was their physical leverage on the ground on june 3rd they lost that and yesterday they regained it somehow and so you know the demonstrations might not ease tension but it certainly gives more bargaining chips for the opposition should negotiations move forward and they...

Has been negotiating with the military council has not had any direct contact they have been communicating over a draft basically of an agreement through the fuel paean and the african union mediators be the demonstrations of yesterday and today perhaps in. going to ease the tensions between between the 2 parties however they now put the opposition back in in a place that they can negotiate from a position of strength because they have shown that they do commend the streets and that they can rea...

Deal they should have got before he shut the government down. but one of the things helpful here again is just doing this earlier. there was another bill that maybe we would have had leverage on -- so we could have attached it to. but im not criticizing her in any way. because i think she was simply standing up for trying to get a compromise, which is very, very difficult to do right now in this era of donald trump who is not interested in reaching a compromise. and that is one of the things tha...

This is the way that iran is exercising leverage. is that in fact true? >> not at all. we have already rejected such a claim. in fact, the claim is not being supported by some of the regional countries, by some of the closest u.s. allies. so how can they claim that this allegation is true? we have already said that this is not -- this is not something that iran is looking after. we are not looking after trouble or tension in our region. we are not looking after conflicts. therefore, it is not ou...

Placeable on the table. >> you would advise the iranians, lets meet in geneva, rouhani and trump, a summit? >> since we know this is all about trump, the ease for the iranians to give something to trump the individual and get some relief from the sanctions that are really crippling their government and forcing them to respond in ways that are dangerous for them in the region and dangerous for them internationally they have been so reluctant to break out of this iranian deal even though the ameri...