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The republican -- about it president and the decision by house republicans not only to defend it but to abet it in many cases by, you know, working against the investigation, that is the core -- that magnifies their risk in the places their most vulnerable. >> were looking at images of air force one as the president gets on the plane and comes back from his weekend at his golf resort in new jersey. so well just keep this up. if he comes in and addresses the immediate yashgs of course, well be li...

Extraordinary happened this week. conservative members of the republican party in the house used the i word. they talked about impeachment. they were using it to talk about deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. we saw that fall apart the end of this week. your reaction to this effort from conservative members of the republican caucus in the house to impeach rod rosenstein? >> well, i think they were using that as leverage. they could have done that before we left. if they had introduced a corr...

This stuff is, you know, witness dependent and it may be that if this is a new tale that cohen is saying -- remember, cohen hasnt spoken to mueller -- that it is something that mueller will now start running down. so we dont know yet whether hes looked into all of this. >> so listen to what cnn legal analyst paul callan is floating out there. im going to read a part of his cnn.com piece. he writes, "if cohens claim is corroborated, it could theoretically give special counsel robert mueller the l...

Other candidate, donald trump, said we have to find some understanding. >> when people like me, i like them. even putin. >> we like better. >> this was not the outcome we wanted. >> hillary clinton suffered one of the most shocking defeats in american history. >> i know how disappointed you feel because i feel it, too. >> at least in part, because of the alleged hacking operation. >> this was painful. and it will be for a long time. >> putin had apparently avenged his old grudge. >> so help me g...

Better? >> this is not the outcome that we wanted. >> hillary clinton suffered one of the most shocking defeats in american history. >> i know how disappointed you feel, because i feel it, too. >> at least in part because of the alleged hacking operations. >> this is painful and it will be for a long time. >> putin had apparently avenged his old grudge. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. president. >> and he may have achieved even more. >> the 45th president of the united states. >> if d...

Box? >> heres the situation right now. chinas economy is sloewed downa lot. their stock markets done really terribly this year. our stock markets done really well. in other words, what im saying is these tariffs, a trade war would crush china. china cant live with a trade war with the united states right now. their whole economy is dependent on selling stuff to the united states so we have a lot of leverage here. >> but you have to think about how the chinese economy works which is that its comp...

That is totally broken from top to bottom with democrats -- democrats are tripping over themselves to get over the border, to get to the photo op and get back to exploit the very children that they -- [multiple speakers] >> there is no bipartisan -- [multiple speakers] julie: the statement in 2013 that there was an opportunity for republicans and democrats to come together and try to fix this mess before it gets to where it is today. >> it was never done in good faith. they never wanted to solve...

By the way, if there are american p.o.w.s alive, theyre alive probably in china or in russia because the soviets took a lot of them for basically intel purposes. so, you know, logan would be close to a hundred. but there are others 85 or so. and yesterday on americas news room, you guys were interviewing a korean war veteran, he was 85 and he looked-- >> you just mentioned it here. how do we deal with that? what do we do to get to the bottom of that? >> we have to put maximum pressure on the nor...

Broader gee yo little issues. >> i think for families in general, the most important thing is to have some finality to know what happened. being missing is one thing, but being unaccounted. were they killed, what were they killed. thats what the families need to know. theres more than 5,000 u.s. troops still missing, probably in north korean areas. the north koreans extort us for money over the thing, they use it for leverage. its a very brutal process. >> i want to read a tweet here, some comme...

Leverage do the north koreans really have? >> number one leverage is their nuclear weapons. weve seen them grow increasingly confident, and i suspect that their confidence now to push their top demands is really because theyve achieved so much technologically on the nuclear and missile front. until now in past negotiations, there was an explicit understanding in writing and in practice that negotiations would proceed in the sequence of we negotiate denuclearization first and then the north gets ...