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Man, the night newt gingrich became the speaker. the 25th anniversary this year of the contract with america.. and im thinking, house republicans kind of do a better job than senate republicans, in terms of trying to help the president and his agenda. maybe it would be a good idea to put the top ten items on paper, nationalize the election, you would be the next speaker of the house, mitch mcconnell would run and win in kentucky, easily. then we would have promises thas can help the president so...

He has more about it. hello, sam. >> natalie, open to diplomacy is the way to put it. this is another bid by tehran to get the europeans good to their continued promise they want to stick with the deal that the united states walked away from, under the trump administration in may last year. it took 12 years to negotiate. and it committed iran to suspending its nuclear program for a decade in return for the lifting of sanctions. now, the iranians want the europeans, notably france, germany and th...

Govern. paul: yeah, its fascinating, jason. its ocasio-cortez has -- [laughter] and others have learned the lesson of the freedom caucus, right? >> right. paul: which is if you go outside and agitate, you gin up support on the left, the rachel maddows and the others on msnbc and social media, you can i put real pressure on the speaker to go your way. >> sure. and nancy pelosi knows that it is not the election of people like ocasio-cortez that gave democrats the house majority, and thats her dile...

Why its been such heavy lifting for nancy pelosi. >> you know the contrast, dan, between nancy pelosi in this iteration and when she ran the house first with george w. bush in his last two years when he was still president, pretty striking. by this time i think they were closed to passing a stimulus bill. it was not a good one, but it was a bill. close to moving ahead on a big energy package among other things. this time right now nothing. >> well, no, thats right and what has changed since then...

World and not just iran against the u.s.? >> thats exactly right, thats what iranian strategy is here in this case, arthel, it is about trying to decouple the united states from europe, to get sanctions relief from europe, to get -- bring back foreign investment and to -- to resuscitate iranian economy but to do that create daylight between u.s. policy and right now european policy and right now looks like it isnt working certainly with great britain and macron has opened the door for negotiatio...

>> gregg, there is an old saying on capitol hill that member of congress, in two categories: more courses and show horses. and she is demonstrating exactly that she is the show horse. she has no intention of doing the heavy lifting, the hard work to get this problem solved.. she is already on record months ago saying that this was a manufactured crisis. the president said that it was a humanitarian crisis, and she said no, no, no, this is a manufactured crisis. now, all of a sudden, she is going...

Conditions? >> gregg, there is an old saying on capitol hill that call mess, and two categories, were courses and show horses, and she is demonstrating that she is the show horse. she has no intention of doing the heavy lifting, the hard work to get this problem solved. she is already on record months ago saying that this was a manufactured crisis. the president said that it was a humanitarian crisis and she said no, no, this is a manufactured crisis. now she is going down there and hugging thes...

Meet with kim jong-un if need be. but no, he wasnt begging. >> of course he wasnt. >> north korean does not ask to meet with u.s. presidents and theres a reason why no u.s. president met with a north korean leader. it boosts their legitimacy. so no, its absolutely not true. and earlier discussion, the problem with interim deal is north koreans right now are looking for huge sanctions relief. its fine if theyre going to sort of give up something for a little something but what theyre asking for i...

President trump. so going back to the report in "the new york times" as to whether or not the trump administration is considering a partial freeze, this is something that could play very well in terms of kim jong-uns own priorities. he is likely willing to give up some part of his nuclear missile programs, but clearly not all of it, in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions on the north korean economy, giving a bit of breathing room there. the key question is, is there any veracity in this r...

Talks as president xi continuing the talks which have been interrupted for a while. it is a very big deal. i think that is a banner headline from this. i think everybody is going to be pleased at that, no promises, no deal made, no timetable, i want to emphasize that, president said several times, this is about the quality of the deal, no timetable, no rush, he is comfortable where he is in any case. i think coming back we will resume the talks, the two teams will begin together in tariffs will ...