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Self-proclaimed master deal maker has warned against appearing too eager. you dont have to listen to him. i mean, read it, right there, black and white, page 53 of trumps "art of the deal." right under the header, use your leverage, quote, the worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. that makes the other guy smell blood and then youre dead. does kim jong-un smell blood? we know north korean officials have been reading "art of the deal." theyve been trying to unders...

Admitted that there was spying in my campaign. large dollars were paid to the spy. far beyond normal. starting to look like one of the biggest political scandals in u.s. history. spygate, a terrible thing!" thats false. heres what the director of national intelligence, former director clapper actually said. >> so, i ask you, was the fbi spying on trumps campaign? >> no, they were not. they were spying on -- a term i dont particularly like -- but on what the russians were doing. trying to underst...

Diplomats in pyongyang were briefed about this yesterday and the northerns are sticking to their talking points that what we saw permanently rendered that site unusable. explosions went deep inside the tunnels. they say that i would could noe never be open. there were no nuclear weapons experts. what the north koreans are hoping that perhaps experts will look at video and help us to ascertain if what we saw was a legitimate dismantling of the test site. are there other sites in other parts of no...

It has been a tough week, i think we could say, for a man who staked his brand on being the master of the art of the deal. president trumps diplomatic deal-making, making -- taking a beating if you will as the north korean summit appearly hangs in limbo and some republicans are criticizing his trade talks with china. how much talking are they actually doing now is one question. senator marco rubio took this poke at the white house. sadly china is out negotiating the administration and winning th...

Everybody needs to be on the same talking points. thats the only way youre going to be able to skucceed with thi high level summit. >> what does all this do to the u.s. relationships with south korea, japan and china? >> well, i was very worried about the fact that the president sent out this letter without in any way consulting with south korea or japan or our allies. the only way the president is going to have leverage at this kind of meeting if it looks like we are unified in terms of our pos...

Team. jeffery toobin and josh campbell. jeff, does it make sense to you, rudy giuliani, i mean does he have the leverage to demand this information about a confidential source as a condition of an interview? >> well, he can decline to give an interview for any reason or no reason at all, and then theyll just fight it out in court over a subpoena. what looks to be going on here is that giuliani is looking to create some sort of impasse so that he can decline an interview. and he seems to be erect...

President trump, hes a businessman. he knows leverage. he walked into the white house and found out the united states is the most powerful country in the world and hes using that leverage. to the other gentlemans comments, for years theyve ignored north korea. what happened? they developed nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles in which they can strike us. what is really damaging, what the democrats are doing is outright reckless and dangerous. theyre sending a message -- >> its not reckless. >>...

Until it shows credible evidence it is taking moves to dismantle its nuclear program. the united states is leading whats called a pressure campaign by the administration getting a group of countries together to isolate north korea economically. the secretary says that continues. >> thank you so much. all right. bring it out to the couch. whats your reaction to all that. >> i think its fascinating to watch some of the presidents critics switch from the summit is a crazy idea to why is he pullin...

And this was strategic messaging to north korea. he understands a leverage of what he has here, and that 7 billion number in our defense budget is 25 or 30 times the size of the gross domestic product of north korea. so if you are on the north koreans died and you hear that number, thats an overwhelming figure. then, he just magically weaves together the diplomatic information, military and economic elements of national power. and really thats the maximum pressure campaign that he referenced in ...

And get the benefit of the back end. we heard secretary pompeo talk about that, and of course john bolton. this is going to take a little bit of time for us to work out with north korea but president trump has a lot of leverage here and he can use it only -- not only against north koreans but more important against the russians and chinese. basically north korean is a big power sponsor. if president trump does -- then yes, we get a denuclearize, disarmed north korea. >> laura: i always think of ...