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Something youd like to keep secret you may want to obfuscate that information. another problem is other intelligence agencies, other countries will not as interested or willing to provide this information the next time. >> reporter: tonight neither u.s. intelligence agencies nor the white house are commenting on the presidents remarks on intelligence or the fallout that could bring. former spies say that could go all sorts of different ways including if intelligence officials do not trust the pr...

Consultation with the palestinians, to give away the golan heights. so the palestinians see the u.s. as being very one sided on this, on being for israel, and giving away some things that could be considered to be leverage to get the israelis to concede some things in what ultimately would be an agreement. so the palestinians are going to be angry about this from the start. so what kushner and his team are trying to do is clearly make this a kind of sweetener. like, lets have this economic works...

Economic partnership, but theres a real national security around china. can you walk us through it? well i think youre right its certainly gone beyond trade and economics at this point. part of whats at stake is which nation is going to set the standard for the rest of the world, which nations values are going to pre dominate. we see china using not just their military, but their economic and trade leverage and investment all over the world to get their hooks into some of these less-developed co...

Anticipate even more fallout. some lawmakers say e china should not be underestimated. >> it has certainly gone beyond trade and economics at this point. part of whats at stake is which nation is going to set the standard for the rest of the world, which nations values are going to predominate. we see china using not just their military, but their economic and trade leverage and investment all over the world. jon: david spunt has more from washington. >> this trade war does not appear to be endi...

Tariffs on their back for a year. the president has promised a major trade deal. so far we havent seen anything come of that either. so looking across the board, there has been a promise this this erratic style would deliver results. and its hard to see how thats adding up to anything consequential for the american people. as we see over the past week, were taking some serious risk in the process. >> as a distillation of what you just said, give me one sentence, one piece of advice from someone ...

Citi university of london. >> thank you. >> was this an effective strategy by president trump and do you think this replacement of nafta has a chance of being ratified in a politically divided congress here in the united states? >> right. thats a big problem now. i think the chance have improved because the taking away of the tariffs on aluminum and steel. and i think that will make people a bit happier. but i think the democrats and others who are critics in any case, they want environmental la...

Nafta has a chance of being ratified in a political lly divided congress here in the united states? >> that is the big problem now. i think the chances have improved because there is this kind of -- the taking away of the tariffs on aluminum and ste steel and i think that will make a lot of people a bit happier. but i think the democrats and critics want environmental labor protections to be added in as well. so chances have improved, but i suspect that the democrats will use the road block as l...

And its hard to see how thats adding up to anything consequential for the american people. as we see over the past week, were taking some serious risk in the process. >> as a distillation of what you just said, give me one sentence, one piece of advice from someone whos been in the expensive seats in the white house and not just the cheap seats out here where all the rest of us are. what would be your advice to this administrations foreign policy shop, if asked. >> well, it is important to recog...

Despite the fact that both britain and gibraltar have signalled that that issue is not open for debate why do you bother. to open the question of shared sovereignty who says that your prime minister did in november he said that the issue shared sovereignty would be back on the table all the prime minister sunsets for sure its on the table all the time you move for you but its not for them not for gibraltar not for britain for sure and what. so what so what why do you think this time you can put ...

Of millions of dollars into his personal account. >> why do i care? if its his money why do i care? >> for lots of reasons about leverage and influence over him but also donald has a long history of having financial houses of cards. currently has three leins on the washington hotel. mechanics liens. totalling $5 million. thats a lot of of money for a hotel thats been open 2.5 years. why hasnt he paid those bills? maybe he doesnt have the cash to do it? maybe something else is going on but those ...