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That he never uses chemical weapons again. that would require an inspection regime, it would require a follow-up, it would require careful diplomatic strategies to make that happen. that should be the goal, but im not sure that a lot of thought has been given to that. >> mr. secretary, in your mind would that approach, if it was possible, be preferable to the, you know, wham, launch a missile and drop it on some air field? would you rather see the former or the latter? >> lets not kid anybody. w...

With, i mean, this is a landslide state for president trump. very hard for the democrat to win re-election there, if he manages to turn out his voters for congressman cramer. what was interesting was the bit about the trade war. where is that going to stand in late october, and how are north dakotans going to feel? the farmers, soybean farmers, how are they going to be feeling about where this trade war is going and whether or not trump has created leverage for the u.s. with china and other coun...

Bush advised him to air on the side of transparency but that the trump administration directed him not to release certain files citing executive privilege. and so you have democrats saying that this is unprecedented. that republicans are trying to ram through the nomination without proper scrutiny. they say these documents would provide insights into kavanaughs thinking on issues like abortion rights and presidential investigations. heres what democrat senator dick durbin, who sits on the judici...

Da dangerous for us than iraq because because you have major world powers impended in eye rand and russia and we have told the ayatollah and putin and assad that we may strike, meaning they are marshaling all of their defenses. >> well, my concern right now is the longer this process goes on, the riskier it gets. you know, we indicated we were going to strike. it has now taken a number of days to try to move towards some kind of potential strike. in the meantime im sure the russian goe russians,...

Low percentage shots they are taking. >> listening to the reporting, it sounded like they believed that they had leverage to use, and he wanted to have a visa to the come to the u.s. to expand his businesses, so why so hard to flip the oligarchs? >> well, he owns an apartment in new york, and has business interests here, and he would like to be here, but he has a vast fortune, and that vast fortune depends upon the graces of vladimir putin. so it is hard to flip somebodys livelihood and the lavi...

But he took it to the fbi. >> appreciate it. >> for more on the presidents campaign, i am joined by acting solicitor. when you take a step back away from the details of what happened on the russia investigation and the details of the experience theory, you have the president of the united states using his power and leverage to attack, over and over, a civil servant in the career justice department. have you ever seen anything like this? >> not in america in recent years. we had the pendleton act...

Waves thereof. again, very much showing the idea of who he is, working through stormy times. that passage alluding to it. >> the sense of him as a naval officer. >> yes, obviously. >> and the boats, the ships, the finding their way through rough choppy water. thats him as the mann and military man. >> one thing about his faith, beth, he did not want to talk about it because he was worried about it being seen as leverage politically. >> right. think about where we have gone with politics over the...

The president is treading on dangerous water here. he torpedos the talks with the canadians and says the answer will be to tax cars coming from canada. that ultimately shows a poor understanding of basic economics. >> it does. and canada is our biggest trading partner. a big chunk of the u.s. economy depends on that relationship. hes playing with dynamite here. hes got jared kushner negotiating against freeland, who some viewers might remember when she appeared often on msnbc. >> correct. >> and...

>> i want to take a turn here to another topic, jeff, before i let you guys go, on nafta. the president, the talks will continue, the marathon talks that led to nowhere, will pick up on wednesday. what do you see come out of that, at this point, no deal with canada in the works and again, a possibility on wednesday for some progress? >> well, the president is certainly putting a lot of pressure on canada and that started last week, when we announced that they had already reached a deal with mexi...

The message gives. 63% of the washington survey supports the mueller investigation, only 29% oppose it. record high disapproval more on the president on the job. more on the revelation by one of the presidents boogy man, bruce ohr. we got new reporting on what he said steele told him of how much leverage i should say, the russians believed they had over donald trump. the phrase he used "over a barrel," they thought the presidential nominee over a barrel. thats coming up. more though on the paten...