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Clapper this morning discussing his past meeting with kim yong chul saying the conversation was tense and nasty. one of the real questions is, is denuclearization a realistic option? the cia and outside experts tell nbc news that goal is impossible any time soon. three u.s. officials telling us a recent intelligence assessment concludes kim jong-un would never abandon his nuclear program his countrys been developing for decades. >> if he would never abandon it, begs the question, whats the point...

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Hes trying to get president trump to see the light from that per inspect 50 heres what he said this morning out on this network. listen. >> well, you know, i understand that people have anxieties about this deal and of course theyre right in the sense that it is very far from perfect but it is the best thing that we have at the moment. >> ned. >> well, were hearing this uniformally from our european partners theres no good reason to get out of this deal at this moment. precisely because it is wo...

The world who should be anywhere near the national security bureaucracy. this president has -- he has dupes y s y dubious legitimacy at best, he doesnt have spop ypopular supp the country and we are stumbling toward an apocalyptic war that will kill millions of people, turn america into a pariah and theres no way to talk about what a dangerous spot we here in without sounding insane. but i think republicans in congress are underreacting and letting us down and putting us in danger because theyre...

Bit more circumstantial and we dont have this coincidence of sequencing but i think its all there if you read through the lines. >> is there precedent for this? someone like jared kushner running around with the exposure he has? >> wow. we have had situations like this. offhand, i think of john connelly during the nixon administration but basically, this is the most tangled web ive ever encountered. i think what ned says is right. this is the very best scenario and just that were asking these qu...

Congress. and also a question of, does this put lawmakers in a bad spot? does this pompeo essentially acting as if hes already gotten the job of secretary of state? one democratic lawmaker said this should be a job for someone in the state department. not someone in the intelligence community. by sending pompeo in this role, sort of like a battlefield promotion for a job he hasnt earned yet and will still struggle to earn a little bit because democrats particularly on the foreign relations commi...

All three are msnbc contributors. also joining us is jennifer tanden, center for american progress, also hillary clintons policy director during the 2008 campaign. ned, lets start with you, donald trump talking about letting russia back into the g7, making it a g8 again. after all the trade talk and the tensions between him and our allies, how was that comment likely going down in the inner circles of our allies? >> we saw how it went down. it was widely rejected by virtually all of our european...