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Montana, north dakota, they have bombers and missiles covering as well. three methods to launch nuclear weapons in the list goes on. north korea knows this, so when they make these threats that seem to be more talk than action. one has to wonder, what kind of message is kim jong un trying to send to president trump, whom he has had these friendly encounters with? >> what we have seen, and this goes way back before impeachme impeachment, the north koreans really continue to test to the u.s., to s...

When youre eyeball to eyeball with him he doesnt blink. we saw that the in the case of merrick garland. we dont know if president trump will blink. >> because he is asking for the urgency of a trial? he says trial immediately. mitch mcconnell says, you know, if theres a trial there are no witnesses. pelosi says we want witnesses. when you say blifrnk what do yo mean? >> we saw this occur during the shutdown in 2018, 2019. the president undermined his own negotiating position because of his impat...

Opportunity to look those accusers in the eye or testify to your understanding of the facts and of reality. so they are kind of stuck in what exactly is my defense playbook. its why they havent had a formal war room. why do we have a war room if we have nothing to defend? its a tricky negotiating position for them. >> kim, before we go, just briefly, you have something of a debate that has to be decided this weekend. do democrats include in articles or an additional article elements of the muell...

Officials meeting with senators. republican senators, thank you. to talk about what will happen during the likely senate impeachment trial. the one thing we know is that the white house now is saying they want witnesses. they want to be able to mount an active defense which they really havent done yet. what do you see as the significance of this? >> itll be interesting to see what that defense is. i suspect theyre not going to actually address the interactions with ukraine. i think theyre going ...

This? >> reporter: frances digital service tax proposal is outrageous. dont worry, dont stockpile the champagne because the us trade representative is just announcing their latest investigation findings and they will have another hearing in january to decide what action to take. this is a negotiating position by donald trump but a series possibility. heather: as you continue to discuss it, emmanuel macron pausing to take questions from the press. as we mentioned happening at the grove and anothe...

Discussed in the state department? was this something being discussed in the department of defense? >> it doesnt appear that this was something that was being discussed at upper reaches of the u.s. government. and for trump to say, well, the taliban want this and the taliban kind of deny it and say their negotiating position has not changed indicates kind of a credibility gap between what the president says and what the actual truth is. and so he seemed to go a little above -- over his skis but,...

State department? was this something being discussed in the department of defense? >> doesnt appear that this was something that was being discussed at upper reaches of the u.s. government. and for trump to say, well, the taliban want this. and the taliban kind of deny it and say their negotiating position has not changed. indicates kind of a credibility gap between what the president says and what the actual truth is. and so he seemed to go a little over his skis but he does want the taliban to...

And we still have a weak position in afghanistan. withdrawing is -- does not strengthen our negotiating position. the taliban know that. we have the watches. they have the time, et cetera. the greatest likelihood is that they will continue to press us for concessions while dangling peace in front of us and president trump will go along with that because its good for his re-election prospects but it doesnt actually solve the problem of conquering terrorism or providing for a stable afghanistan. >...

Just explained there yesterday, he hurt their negotiating position visa vi russia with whom they are in a war right now. which means russia benefits from trump doing that. from trump withholding that military aid, russia benefits from that because it shows that ukraine doesnt have the kind of american and international support that ukraine might have thought they had. and so theyre weaker than everybody thought they were. theyre more at russias mercy. right, even with the military aid now being ...

Itself hurts ukraine. that benefits russia, right? the president was holding up aid to ukraine to try to pressure them to cook up these investigations to help them against the democrats in 2020. but in using ukraine that way and in putting on ice hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. aid to them, he hurt them. he hurt their national security. he specifically as bill taylor just explained there yesterday, he hurt their negotiating position visa vi russia with whom they are in a war right now. w...