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The upcoming summit and encouraged kim jong-un to be tougher and more bellicose. >> for sure jinping have an interest on how the negotiations play out and that is what happens when you are in a complex chess environment like this. so for sure president xi jinping is playing chess but it looks like our president is playing tiddly-winks and we are bumbling into the summit where there is no agreement even among the u.s. administration of where this is going and what are the goals. >> hes playing ti...

Meetings, expecting that the north koreans would give up their nuclear weapons when they had no reason or desire to and now no pressure to, it was always unrealistic and that -- that problem, that core problem is what is playing out now. >> and let me bring it back to the panel in studio here. scott, it is not just democrats making this criticism, senator marco rubio tried to get at how president xi of china is playing president trump and in a tweet he said china is outnegotiating the administra...

Hoc foreign policy. these kind of meetings are usually set up with months and months if not years of negotiations before the principles even meet or talk. and what weve seen go on here over a period of time of, i dont know, weeks or a couple of months is that this is being negotiated in public and we see the ups and downs and i think the president was really optimistic that he could do something nobody else could do just by sheer force of nature and suddenly he sees the chinese decide, well, wer...

Its a big problem. we cant continue with them stealing and cheating. >> isnt this also zooming out peter and weve been talking about north korea in this impending summit, will it or wont it happen next month? china is a key player here. were hearing from the u.s. administration that its china who maybe influenced kim jong un in the last week or so to back off this potential for the summit. would it explain how the president is behaving toward china and zte and tariffs to make sure this whole thi...

Is that fair? >> i think that is right. pence has call himself the skunk at the garden party. you know, he i think wouldnt have favored trump doing this and i think that is true of john kelly and hr mcmaster. john bolton has said, you know, in his book that he wrote when he left u.n. ambassador that he doesnt think north korea can be talked out of giving up nuclear weapons. but i think that the president if we talk about whether this is going to happen, his leverage has been that he will walk aw...

Window into a state of dysfunction in the government. at was that bill about?cess. why did it go down? what does it mean? >> well, because a decision was made to run a republican only partisan farm bill. typically its done on a bipartisan basis. you run a bill like this on a partisan basis, that empowers the hard right. and so 25 of those members can take the bill down. what happened some on the hard right voted against the bill over immigration. you had some from the center who voted against be...

Sanctions a so important to cut off that supply which is helping iran to cause trouble in its neighbor i mean thats quite an indictment to make and apparently the europeans they dont agree with them because they are fighting to use an elven see if the irans nuclear deal thats right i mean they see that if this deal doesnt stick then that gives more leverage to the people who were anti american anti western in the first place in iran now of course the europeans have plenty of business opportuniti...

To you know be on a conflict course with the u.s. and protect the plant and shield these small and medium sized businesses that maybe are already in iran doing business or of course the e.u. u.s. trade relationship is vitally important talking about seven hundred billion dollars worth of trade so i cant imagine that the e.u. is going to stand in the way of that but of course the security aspect with iran is so vitally important and you know that theyre worried that this. its going to send out th...

Difficult because the u.s. has the leverage here thats where its very interesting to see how the e.u. is standing firm and theyve introduced what theyve called a blocking statute so that in and theyre making it illegal for e.u. companies to comply with u.s. sanctions thats a bold statement its difficult to enforce but they are clearly getting out their biggest political message against the u.s. sanctions as early as possible then not giving in and trying now what it will definitely be interestin...

Trouble in its neighbor i mean thats quite an indictment to make and apparently the europeans they dont agree with them because they are fighting to use an elven see if the irans nuclear deal thats right i mean they see that if this deal doesnt stick then that gives more leverage to the people who were anti american anti western in the first place in iran now of course the europeans have plenty of business opportunities in here weve seen the likes of tal all of the womens mask and so on invest b...