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Thats why its especially important that the trump administration is clear up front. both with the north koreans. also with the american people, craig, about what exactly it is they are willing to concede and how we will get from point a. to point b. with pyongyang. >> we dont know where this meeting is going to take place. we just heard from jeff bennett there that according to administration sources, china is off the list and north korea is off the list as well. what, then, would be the likelie...

Unlike president obama, who when he says something she follows through. its not just in holding assad accountable for using gas. hes done it in other areas, such as recognizing jerusalem as ilisraels capital. i think the president helped himself with that. i do think its important that we not get mired into syria and i dont want the president wants to do that because theres no real victory there given all of the disastrous things that are on the ground there right now that obama basically left p...

The fact that as nominee for state department pompeo is now saying that he will put diplomacy book into the center, that he will help prepare these negotiations, that we should have a negotiated solution, that is the best thing for the united states, is an important change and, frankly, u.s. diplomats are eager to get in there and get their swagger back, as he said. so just having a voice that will promote a diplomatic solution will be an improvement, i think. >> ned, one last question. iran. wh...

Least the next step to confirmation, to be secretary of state. meanti meantime, victoria nuland and ned price, thank you. the president says if he wanted to fire mueller, he already would have. now lawmakers are trying to get a bipartisan bill passed to protect the special counsel. will it pass? and will the president listen? we just switched to geico and got more. more? theyve been saving folks money for over 75 years. a company you can trust. geico even helped us with homeowners insurance. m...

Adhere to our request if we just send a regular subpoena. we think this is the best way to get this evidence. we must have the element of surprise. >> were out of time, ned. i want to give you the last word here. where does this go next? >> if i might just follow up on midwins point there. yesterday was a very bad day for donald trump but it was a very good day for the rule of law. it underscored the key point here that no man is above the law, not even donald trump. in terms of where this goes ...

Privilege does not attach. >> ned, why wouldnt prosecutors just issue a subpoena first? >> well, chris, in this case, it could well be that prosecutors didnt believe that michael cohen would adhere to a subpoena and that there was suspicion on their part that he could be engaged in destruction of evidence. >> is suspicion enough? isnt the bar pretty high to do what they did yesterday? >> the bars extraordinarily high. but this is an extraordinary set of circumstances and set of events. this was,...

Sunni and it is not clear to me where we should go. we should not abandon the fight until isishas been terminated. isis, is a concept. >> i am not going to get the 200 million. a complex situation. the likelihood that president discussed that fundings is plausible. that is something he would have. it appears he is getting what he wanted from president trump. >> ned price here, the programming note. we were 7:00 on msnbc, a lnk to

College. to me it means a two-year college. i dont know what it means. but vocational, and i tell people, call it vocational from now on. >> what is he talking about? there are community colleges that are not vocational colleges -- whats he talking about, ned? everybody knows what a community college is. >> lets go back to message discipline and talk about why -- i think it is a very good idea on vocational schools, leave the community colleges out of it. im not really sure where he was going wi...

Reviewed schedules and he sees that pruitt used between two and three dozen different security agents during a six-week period and also says that he frequently requested per diem lodging expenses in excess of what the government allows. >> so theres an investigation, presumab presumably, going to be taking place at the epa? >> epa oig is looking into travel and security detail. these new details that the senator is laying out in this letter, hes not quite sure that theyre looking at that specifi...

Statements about russia. were ascribing to trump the statements the white house puts out but weve not seen trump say these words. and the russians in their pronouncements are saying there is a divide, which i think there is as well, between the president of the united states, that person, and his own administration. theres also a divide with congress thats wanted tougher actions on russia. and not tougher actions on their own, you know, expelling diplomats for this nerve gas agent. while i think...