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Could easily open up the border and start economic cooperation again with north korea and then counter that strategy but of course china and china stephanie very worried about the u.s. trade or and that china will use that as a leverage in discussing trade well with trump and they will meet soon at the g. 20 summit in japan ok you mentioned the sanctions against north korea from china so that makes this a very important meeting for pyongyang. actually you this also like a practical outcome that ...

Both leaders are locked in stalled disputes with the united states. could their face to face be a strategy session to help each other gain leverage with president trump? sk cnns paula hancocks is live for us. is that the working theory, paula? >> reporter: dave, this summit is certainly long overdue. it was about 15 months ago that kim jong-un invited xi jinping to pyongyang and he said yes. the fact that its a week before the g20 is raising questions. is this a way of showing that china is pivo...

This instance. >> melissa: i think its interesting -- to answer her question, if you look at this through the lens -- and i think it was general jack kenya since yesterday but i could be wrong -- if you look at everybody trying to get leverage ahead of us attend and you see the president sing again and again that the thing he would want most is a sedan of the table with iran and have a conversation about whats going on with the need to do, and you see both sides sort of teeing up as much leverag...

>> no, i dont know the answer to that question. hope hicks is no longer as close to donald trump and the trumps orbit living as she is in los angeles as she has been before. the evidence the record shows the mueller report when confronted of these questions, she was not willing to answer them. she was not willing to commit perjury. congress want as public hearing with hope hicks having to answer questions under oath of what happened in those key moments in the oval office when trump was accused ...

Been used against him. >> and him serving nearly six months as acting secretary of defense with this potential leverage pending against him while he tried to keep it secret as well. i mean, obviously an acting secretary doesnt have exactly the same power as a secretary of defense, but its not like hes been shy in that position. i want to ask you something about some of the documents you turned up. in your reporting with shawn boburg at "the post." youve gone through more than 1,000 pages of divo...

White house and to the world. that credibility of that secretary is going to be under question not just with the white house and not just with the hill, but also with the world. >> now, to that point, the president said i like actings because he can have more flexibility. but that is exactly the point. thats the problem. lets talk about the world and iran. now theres been a rocket attack near the iraq headquarters of exxonmobil. the workers were evacuated. there is evidence according to mike pom...

Using our superior military presence to threaten the regime. the iranians have two points of leverage. one is to close the straits of hormuz and attack ships in the strait, which would have economic damage, not only to the united states but the world. secondly, a rush towards enriching nuclear fuel with the possibility that they could develop a nuclear weapon. so those are the elements of leverage going on here. and each side is confronting the other. i mean, the point here for the united states...

Deadline does continue to loom, the united states continues their maximum pressure campaign against the iranians approving 1,000 more u.s. troops for deployment to the middle east. dana? >> dana: thank you. for more on this, lets bring in jack keane, retired four star general, chairman of the board for institute, fox news senior strategic analyst. i could go on. tell me your big picture on this. is iran seeking leverage here? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. i mean, the sanctions are crippling their eco...

When it came to the confirmation hearing. so you have a situation, you know, where the very purpose of a confirmation hearing, of vetting nominees so that there isnt something, as you said, that could be used as blackmail, we are very close to patrick shanahan being put before congress for a confirmation hearing, possibly having this never come up. you know, if there hadnt been such a delay around the latest fbi investigation. but possibly a very long time before, you know, this was out there an...

Fault, even if its just something that you really want to keep secret, therefore you are vulnerable to blackmail for anybody figures it out and tries to use it against you, right? even if you didnt do something all that bad but its something you find embarrassing or otherwise so un -- not the way you want to think about yourself that people could use it against you as leverage. that kind of thing, anything serious like that would generally disqualify you from getting a high-level security cleara...