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Solution to korea has to involve china. >> well, the comment from the military side of this is much closer to what trump has always said up to this point as a candidate and as a person preparing for the american presidency, that his plan for dealing with north korea has also been get the chinese folks in the roonl andm and ill tell to knock it off. to some extent you can interpret his comments as a classic donald trump negotiating position with china, that if we are not prepared to do whatever w...

Of establishing a hard negotiating position so he can move away from that as he gains what he wants, or at least partially does so. otherwise, it frightens me. >> you talk about the inexperience here. its been hard not to scratch your head a little bit, i think, at seeing jared kushner in these meetings. he goes to iraq before the secretary of state, rex tillerson, does. this is a washington post story about kushner, saying he is a singular, almost untouchable role in the white house. and this i...

Were talking about concentrations of artillery. we couldnt evacuate the american citizens fast enough. the -- so this would be an absolute disaster. we need to stop thinking about a military solution to korea. we havent thought about that since 53, not really. this seems to be the inexperienced team again thats thinking about these sorts of things. and i have to hope -- i have to hope that with other things that trump has tweeted and talked about, that this is all his idea of establishing a hard...

Using it. it is entirely appropriate for the president not to go to camp david as other presidents have, but to go to what was the winter white house. the reason for that is because you want someone in a setting where you can negotiate. just like work was done on the golf course today with a senator who previously opposed the president on his -- on obamacare, presume went into louisville and did a rally targeted towards rand paul. now theyre out on the golf course doing business together. >> won...

Reducing out and building out. >> why the delay? >> he is throwing out the $1 trillion number. that scares any deficit hawk. it will involve a broader coalition. he hasnt shown a lot of interest. >> will thes democra democrats this? >> chuck shum hchumer would plal on this. this is a big move. he could get a bipartisan coalition which alluded him. >> it could be a win for everybody. >> i think it is a win-win-win. >> you dont get it. health care. this seems like it has gone away. that doesnt mak...

Switched to trump in the last election. blue collar democrats. hes pushing them into the republican column. >> and the blue dogs as theyre called, something that megan talks about. before we move on i want to get your thought on this nuclear option and what it really means politically. >> its great. >> push gorsuch through? >> hes going to get confirmed no matter what the democrats do. when they fill burnter theyre holding a gun to their own head and saying dont make me pull the trigger. >> wow....

Our gop leadership. a assume youre referring to the spaer paul ryan. is it halftime this this collapses for him to go? >> ill give him a few other chances. if this thing collapses tonight it will be a big win for republicans. if it passes and becomes law its going to be horrible. i give him a chance next week. lets go home and come back and work on this next week, or the week after that. theres more than one bite at the apple. this premise that it has to happen today because its the anniversary...

Salesman, and youre going to see both of those things in play tonight. one of the interesting things, i think, is that he has in common with -- >> ronald reagan. >> thank you, thank you. who was a union president, and as a -- >> i knew you werent going to say marine le pen. >> who was a union president, screen actors guild, was a supreme negotiator, so when he would stand up as a new president a few days after his swearing in and give a press conference and talk about the right to lie and things...

The budget are all factored in. >> i think that will be the key question. talking about a presidents legacy, its early to talk about it a month in but thats where it could hinge. i dont know if he can be the one. he has spoken strongly and, if you like, from the heart on entitlements. thats been his appeal differentiating himself from other republican candidates. chris christie for example, who said we have to get serious about entitlements. and that congressional republicans with paul ryan, the...

The president was criticized by people in this town, in the media, for his america first inaugural address. its very hard to criticize that person, saying he doesnt put america first and doesnt think of america in a different way than russia. youre taking one statement and saying he extrapolates from that that hes okay with poisoning people. that is frankly absurd. the fact is, look at the presidents actions versus his words. hes speaking to putin through the television and the russian people th...