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Arabia or russia or china dont have to do that. theres like a structural advantage to nondemocracies in sort of bribing and flattering this president. >> indeed. i think people have seen if you just give him a little sugar, it goes a very long way. i think the other thing were seeing here, chris, is hes really trying to do a little bit of a kamikaze kind of act here. i think he believes if he puts pressure on europe that europe will then follow through on sanctions on iran but what he doesnt und...

Domestic public opinion as opposed to donald trump. they dont like donald trump. places like turkey or saudi arabia or russia or china dont have to do that. theres like a structural advantage to nondemocracies in sort of bribing and flattering this president. >> indeed. i think people have seen if you just give him a little sugar, it goes a very long way. i think the other thing were seeing here, chris, is hes really trying to do a little bit of a kamikaze kind of act here. i think he believes i...

Theres been talk about leverage vis-a-vis the informant looking into candidate trumps campaign. what does this say about leverage and the demands rude youd might be making at this point. something he said time and time again is he doesnt want to put the president in the position where theres a perjury trap or he mind find himself someplace where he might not know the answer to something or be misled down a path. >> lets debunk a perjury trap. it only exists in a grand jury when you subpoena some...

Legal team. rudy giuliani wielding an upper hand, talking about leverage, especially when it comes to the role of this informant. how much has that conversation changed? i guess what im asking you is how dated might this letter be when you look at the legal theory the presidents legal team is trying to apply here? >> we went back and looked at whether things had changed from this. this is essentially the intellectual underpinings of which is the presidents lawyers think he doesnt have to sit for...

Interview trump. i think rudy giuliani is saying that if we go in there and donald trump testifies truthfully according to giuliani and trump that bob mueller may have other witnesses who say the opposite thing and, therefore, they may believe those witnesses and not drpt aonald trump and t would then go down a rabbit hole where he is charged with false statements. thats part and parcel on his general attacks on the investigation to, as you say, generate leverage. i think at the end of the day h...

The industries that produce steel. and then theres all the industries that are going to face new tariffs from europe, from canada, from mexico, that will be hurt as well. >> so again, to keep it straight up, it seems like there isnt a real factual basis to say this is a good thing. that the only remaining argument would be this is a bad thing that could lead to a good thing. the negotiation argument that this will somehow get something out of the other side. whats wrong with that? >> so the ques...

Negotiations. because there are definitely differences of opinion inside the white house, but the opinions that matter most, the president of the united states, wants this and wants this bad. so this is a diplomatic card youre playing, a diplomatic dance, and we may have more leverage with the north koreans if it happens. >> there are a lot of ifs, right? if you can get the north koreans to degroup and play ball, were not talking about rolling out sanctions yet. but i dont think anybody is clear...

>> the state department didnt respond to the letter. >> heather: $16 million. any new details about the skyrocketing cost of the russia investigation? >> we have the report itself. according to the report the taxpayer funded russia probe spent nearly $17 million, as you say, since they opened or robert mueller took over the investigation last year. the special counsel offices are headquartered in washington, d.c. and, according to the justice department report about $10 million has been spent be...

And the president has all the cards here. i mean, kim jong un needs the summit, the president doesnt need it. using as much leverage as he has here to move them closer to our position, so that there is a possibility that something substantive can come out. if he thinks that these positions are so intractable by north korea, not getting anything out of this, he doesnt want to go to the summit and just have some fluff agreement, which is something that the previous administration has done on more ...

Quote, the fbi had a human source inside the trump campaign. okay, that was way back in 2017. dont forget last week, former cia director turned cnn hack, james clapper, actually said trump should be so happy the fbi was spying on his campaign. really? okay? the united states of america or venezuela? take a look. >> i ask you, was the fbi spying on trumps campaign? >> they were not. they were spying -- i term i dont particularly like on what the russians were doing trying to understand if the rus...