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Dessert and now here comes the rest of the meal. were seeing that its difficult even if theyre feeding mike pompeo nutritious rice or whatever in pyongyang. >> richard haass, we will have to let you explain to our viewers, you described this negotiation with reference to a new york restaurant that i imagine youve gone to with your children, unless you have a bigger sweet tooth than i thought. >> it was probably 20 years ago, but, yes, its called serendipity and you begin with dessert. thats what...

Through or with china. three things now, as we said, the president has undermined his own leverage by talking by success that isnt there, thats given the green light to china to ease up on the pressure but at the same time hes prosecuting a tariff war against china and china is retaliation, thats going to make it more difficult to get china to do more on north clae and, three, weve also of course taken apart the iran deal and as part of that were trying to get countries including china to buy le...

Hes finding out is its very hard to do what ought to have been the work done before, to do it afterwards. >> tony, in both your jobs you dealt with china a lot and i think the crucial piece here is the one you say which is the chinese seem to recognize that they do not need to put the kind of hard pressure that they were being asked -- they are the only country that has leverage with north korea. 90% of north koreas fuel comes from china, 50% of its food. so in this situation if you were in nort...

And then they walk away from hard commitments. i hope the president is aware and focused on that history. the danger now is that by talking up, by hyping up the success we actually havent had to date the president is undermining his own leverage, leverage he built up effectively with economic pressure. its been a green light to china talking up the benefits of these talks, a green light to china to lesson the pressure to let north korea off the hook. the challenge is how to keep north korea at t...

They have a different reason for being in syria the most everybody else. israel cannot tolerate hezbollah and iranian presence in syria. if you leave assad in power, the arabs will never accept them and neither will syrian people. this way to get russia pulled away from iran but we have to have a presence in iraq and syria to be successful. in 2007 he lost 900 soldiers fighting in iraq. the last three and half years weve lost 14. president trump has done a good job of destroying isis and counter...

They have a different reason for being in syria the most everybody else. israel cannot tolerate hezbollah and iranian presence in syria. if you leave assad in power, the arabs will never accept them and neither will syrian people. this way to get russia pulled away from iran but we have to have a presence in iraq and syria to be successful. in 2007 he lost 900 soldiers fighting in iraq. the last three and half years weve lost 14. president trump has done a good job of destroying isis and counter...

Collusion. so ridiculous. trumps lawyers wrote a letter to mueller in june of 2017 where they called james comey dishonest. joining us now is doug burns. good morning to you. could these types of attacks on comey and mueller affect leverage for the legal team? >> it could, to some extent. this has been a consistent strategy, as it were. the trumps side and the other side. the trump side is scorched, there was no collusion. deny it over and over, then turn around and look at the information. agai...

That would rattle the economy. >> that was my question, look at the stock market today, i think it went up, it ended the day up. >> yep, yep. >> wall street not yet responding like this is a panic situation. >> certainly not panic. wall street has been going sideways since january, since we topped out. we havent made a new all-time high in the dow or the s&p for quite some time. the nasdaq, being strong in technology, has been doing well. the russell 2000 that is focused on domestic economies ha...

Democracy mantra and under this administration, every branch of government is chipping away at the core democratic values. you have to challenge voters. i dont see a lot of leverage from democrats to stop this court, unfortunately. you have to focus on the house and the senate. you cant have a trump administration control congress and the courts. that is disastrous for the american public. i would argue that none of these justices are qualified. if theyre thinking about overturning roe v. wade. ...

Zone. give us the history, if you would, here, why this is so important, and what it tells you about this process more broadly that this is something of such acute focus. >> sure. its a political tool. by the way, north vietnamese, the vietnamese communist party, has been extremely cooperative in trying to identify and return remains. we had a team in vietnam for decades now. the north koreans, not so much. they frequently give us misidentified remains. they use them as leverage. it works. the u...