Negotiating Advantage News Today

That. >> as the former ambassador to germany, what role do you see germany potentially or what kind of negotiating advantage might it wield with russia. >> well, i want has a very important potential role to play because theres probably no other western country that has been as important an economic partner with russia than germany. and i think the germans, because of their geographical position and because they have such a dynamic economy, can do a lot to help the russians build a dynamic econo...

What they were committing to. they were also saying that they were going to break from al qaeda. now, when secretary pompeo was asked about how the u.s. could trust the taliban to actually break from al qaeda or trust them to prevent al qaeda from carrying out terrorist attacks outside of afghan soil, secretary pompeo said that it was trust, but verified. so well have to see how the u.s. is able to verify those commitments if they are able to come back to the table with the taliban. but for now ...

Really make progress so after now after almost two decades americans billions and bms of dollars and all of the lives and sacrifices americans had been would be properly honored. >> when did you find out the taliban were coming here and when did you find out the meeting had been canceled? >> we were working on those for a while and it was the case when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to sa...

First class sergeant ellis angel ortiz. he was the 16th service member to die in afghanistan this year. his body arriving at dover, delaware, last night. today on cnn mike pompeo defended the presidents decision to invied members of the taliban onto u.s. soil just days before the 9/11 anniversary and the presidents decision to cancel the meeting. >> weve been working on this for awhile and it was the case that when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks insi...

Meeting and called off peace negotiations. what kind of people would kill so many in order to seemingly strengthen their bargaining position? the president is referencing a car bombing in kabul that killed sergeant first class ellis angel ortiz. ortiz was the 16th u.s. service member to die in afghanistan this year. his body arriving at dover, delaware, last night. and today on cnn, u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo defending the presidents decision to invite members of the taliban onto u.s. s...

Told jake tapper trust, but verify. so there are still questions here. lets listen to how secretary pompeo described the decision to eventually call off the talks that were supposed to take place at camp david. >> weve been working on those for a while and it was the case that when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to say thats not going to work, were going to walk away from a deal if others...

And sacrifices americans had made would be properly honored. >> when did you find out the taliban were coming here and when did you find out the meeting had been canceled? >> we were working on those for a while and it was the case when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to say thats not going to work. were going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends to...

Do, by the way, during the campaign. were now two years into the administration. i think its time for leader pelosi to continue to play hardball and she clearly has the upper hand. she clearly has the negotiating advantage. because from my perspective, joy, i go back to the comment that benjamin made, very astute one, when he pointed out in reaction to the "new york times" story that hes starting to believe that obstruction of justice is the collusion if you look at this from the frame that says...

Should also matter to the country and to the world are policy successes. all of this destabilization hes introducing into nato and europe right now to get a negotiating advantage is not take the bigger picture into account. which is hes making the stage in europe easier for vladimir putin to intrude upon. if youre in latvia estonia or lithuania right now, you dont have any assurance that if putin decides to spread westward to the baltic, you dont stand up. >> and if you live in ohio, oklahoma or...

But we ought to have a very very high bar for when we finish this deal and, remember, of course, that iran needs this deal a lot more than the united states does. that might give us a negotiating advantage. but as secretary albright said it does cut off their pathway to a nuclear weapon. the iraq heavy water reactor is going to be neutralized. the enrichment is going to be scrutinized. the verification provisions here are very strict. i think what makes it different, mika from north korea is thi...