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More important than left versus right, so to speak. that idea that this person in this office is a problem even if we can disagree politically and we can adds here to the foundations of our party platform, this particular person is not acting in a measured, thoughtful and rational way. >> is there somebody in the white house administration, legal counsel, that can advice the president on this and should they do it post haste? >> absolutely. in 1995 i was in the clinton white house, that was when...

Immigration, for the influx of drugs -- >> but my point is the sticking point here is the wall. >> the wall in my view is not the end all and be all. there are many ways to secure the border. we can do it by air and by rivers. we can do it partially by wall. >> is that whats being considered here? >> it has not been. >> whose fault is? >> i think we can also bring daca into the kfrgconversation, that as a negotiating tool. it does need to get down to how much is the president and republicans who...

But its not a -- its not something one party does. there are many -- more than -- not more than, in addition to any subpoena power, and subpoena power is interesting, to use it or not to use it. its a great arrow to have in your quiver. >> its a great arrow to have in your quiver. but she also went on to say that maybe that they would use the power of subpoena as leverage, as a negotiating tool for other issues. i was surprised that she said that, frankly, and republicans are jumping on it alrea...

Then four days later, boom, everything turns around. what happened? >> lots of deals are done at the last minute. i think the president was very clear in what we wanted to. ambassador bob lighthizer and jared kushner did a great job negotiating around the clock, we made a lot of progress over the last weekend, came down to a handful of remaining issues and we couldnt be more excited by this deal was done. >> john: the president always threatened against candida tariffs on your vehicles, which re...

November 6 election the president added, is very much a referendum, not only on me, its a referendum on your religion, its a referendum on free speech and the amendment. he claims to have gone rid of the johnson amy, which forbids churches from endorsing political candidates. of course the president cannot get rid of a law. he issued a executive order to direct the irs to no longer enforce it. a state wide leader follows the news last week implicateing him in a scheme to cover up his alleged aff...

Best thing. >> i agree with that, poppy, in that, yes, they could have used executive privilege as a negotiating tool on the front end. that was probably the would have been a better strategy on hindsight being 20/20. what i also think is important to note that there is still anticipate argument that executive privilege can still be asserted. you are talking the white house, which is part of the executive branch, doj, part of the executive branch. that doesnt get to a grand jury and that doesnt ...

Verify aboutly dismantle their program which must happen. trish: uh-huh. whats chinas role in all this? you look at some of these actors talking about russia, iran, china, north korea theres a whole set of them out there. how is china helping to potentially dismantle our progress with north korea? what are they trying to do? >> well what you see, trish is that china is the 800-pound gorilla in the room casting a shadow over everything. their only military allie on the world is north korea. they ...

Armistice. that took 188 meetings to get to the armistice, two and half years just to get to that. inf treaties with the soviet union, that took over a decade. things do not happen overnight and i think we should allow the process to take its steps. trust the people at the state department and pentagon and the workers working continuously behind this is to get us to that next step. >>alicia: are you expecting the north koreans to ask anything in return for these 55 servicemembersshould we be cau...

>> well, his explanation, it was -- it was, hes going the right direction. hes explaining himself. >> reporter: do you believe that president trump believes it was russia? >> i dont know what he believes. i dont know what he believes. >> reporter: but you believe it was russia? >> i mean, you know, i believe it was russia as sure as i believe the sun comes up in the east. >> reporter: but its tariffs, not russia, that could be the x factor in this already tight race. >> farmers are going to take...

Fan of the method. >> i dont like tariffs as a negotiating tool. i think the president will be successful at some point in the future. in agriculture, this is what ive advised him more than anything. in agriculture the short term is the long term. one season can ruin a farmer. >> reporter: what is your message to the president? >> my message to the president is stop it. i mean, you know, hit a reset button. >> reporter: hide camp is the only democrat in north dakotas delegation. she eked out a l...