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And along with aluminum. yes, should equate to that. obviously its early on. yeah, i see no other way and should equate to some job creation and some pricing along with sustainable products. >> neil: and the tariffs, the thought was cooler heads would prevail and this is a way to negotiate and get people to the table. the point at which that doesnt happen, of course. the things you didnt plan on ultimately happen. where do you think this goes? >> i agree with you there. already weve seen where t...

People. they cannot use their pardon power to obstruct another live criminal inquiry. they cannot use the pardon power as leverage to persuade someone, say, a bob haldeman, from flipping and cooperating with prosecutors and testifying against the president himself. and i say that not because im a legal scholar. i say that because at least that was the impression that even nixon and his own staff labored under during the watergate scandal. thats why haldeman was saying nope, dont say that, dont e...

Logistical reason, i dont know. for some reason, that particular tape where he dangles the pardon didnt come out until years later, whereupon sam dash, who was the chief counsel to the senate watergate committee, said had the watergate committee received that particular tape during their investigation, had that specific tape come out, ill quote you from "the new york times," quote, if known to the committee at the time, that would have justified a separate article of impeachment all by itself. s...

Presidency. its one of the reasons the presidency matters so much. one is quick decision on military action, the other is pardon power. almost everything else has a check and balance. hes probably going deploy this for maximum leverage. i agree with speculation that he sent signals. i think hes saying basically look i have this, i will use it, ive joked about this before but i hesitate to say this, ive wondered whether the last act of this whole great "lord of the rings" drama weve all been capt...

It is inconceivable what would be an active congress that would not have him recused. >> finish your thought. >> you can argue sessions has leverage in the upper hand in the sense theres only so far republicans will go in supporting the president if he does decide to fire him. hed been warned time and time again that would be overstepping the line. that is something republicans in congress would not approve of. they would not go through the process of reconfirming somebody else. sessions has the...

United states. again, imagine thats your boss. he went after jeff sessions yesterday. now hes done this in fits and starts for the last year plus. but in the last 48 hours or 24 hours, the president again has decided to make clear to jeff sessions, i wish you would go away. right? you dont tell a key deputy you accuse him of betrayal unless you want him to go away. right? >> i think its pretty clear that trump wishes that jeff sessions wasnt there, but why is he still there? its because the pres...

Mexico, were renegotiating nafta, thats with mexico and canada. maybe trump thinks, hey that, will give us leverage in those negotiations. hes not thinking several steps ahead in terms of what that means to u.s. manufacturing. if you raise the price of those inputs, its going to put people out of work potentially in the united states. and youre not thinking forward to how does this affect our military allies, how does this affect our partnerships going forward? with the eu, its even more confusi...

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Salesman. its good that he continues to indicate nothing will happen at all because he doesnt want to give away the leverage that he has. every indication that we have, shep, every indication is that kim jong-un does not intend to provide complete irreversible and verifiable denuclearization. maybe he does that later. maybe theres a series of agreements. no ones estimation on tuesday, june 12, thats what will come out of a summit. its about the definition of success and the timing of these agree...

Listen, i have great faith in mike pompeo. i work with mike on the intelligence committee. he was outstanding head of the c.i.a. he is a tough negotiator. and again, i think we saw at the early stages of this, even though it has been going on for a few months now, this is still the early stages. i think north korea is getting the message that donald trump is for real and he is not looking for an easy deal. there has to be real results. now what will happen as it plays out we dont know but this i...