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Presidents agenda. he said if we end up in the minority id rather have a minority on the same page. do you think youd be republican whip? >> i dont agree with that. you see vice-president pence working with us. president trump has been working tremendously to help us pass healthcare out of the house. vice president pence is a man of the house. i served five years with him in the house. he enjoys coming back. he has great relationships. >> the panel is back. steve scalise trying to play peacemake...

Try to move forward when youve got a president whos being so divisive. his venom with that speech, extraordinary. and bringing it all right not own into our culture and politics but now into sports that intersection we talked about before, sports and culture. well, the nfl is very comfortable now moving into that intersection, almost as a peacemaker of some sort. at least thats what were seeing with roger goodells comments yesterday which were very strong. the union i think was very strong and n...

Outside of the cities paraguay is, of course, sparsely populated. indigenous groups, a few settled europeans, mennonites, germans and every so often, a fishing lure and shotgun salesman. >> peter: guarani. >> anthony: pete, what are the shotguns for? bandits? varmints? uh what, uh -- >> peter: to hunt deer and water-pig. capybara. >> anthony: thats a peacemaker. any rogue nazis we can shoot? no? i am tempted by the offer of a cheap shotgun for sale. and, it figures, peter would know this guy, bu...

A peacemaker now i think absolutely the world sees germany as a very important player on the international stage you probably remember some of the headlines after donald trump was elected saying america is now the leader of the free world so i think that germany has shown its willing to take more responsibility and certainly that was reiterated here by six and i think a lot of countries are looking for it to do so all right that is melinda crane chief political correspondent and alexander phenom...

Ally, our forces in the region, our country. no question about that. i think president trump was also right to call out those countries that are trading significantly with north korea and not helping to coerce north korea, move them towards devotions. that was a message to russia and to china. but the united states has never -- our best presidents, our toughest presidents have not been bombastic and shrill. and we want to position ourselves as a peacemaker. as a country that is willing to defend...

Russia right after the u.n. vote. so they are not doing anything. in fact, they are trying to portray themselves as the peacemaker disrupting further what the u.s. is trying to. china is not going to do much more than they have already done because so many people have already said they want a secure korean peninsula. they would rather have that than anything else going on. the united states has not done much more other than get a very good u.n. vote. but the action from the u.n. is going to have...

>> joining us now, nbcs keer simmons and evalyn farcus. vladamir putin sounding like the reasonable broker attempting to be the reasonable broker of some kind of deal with north korea. >> reporter: yeah. sounding like it, lawrence. we are here in russia on the pacific coast, 14 time zones away from you. so while its evening here, its after midday on thursday here. and there is a president here posing as a peacemaker and his name is vladamir putin. he met with the leader of south korea. he is now...

You cant just use the military tool as a threat and economic sanctions, and then leave it at that. you have to have a diplomatic endgame. and i have to give -- i have to be fair here. previous administrations also have not done a good job simultaneously using all of these elements together. but i would say that all the other administrations have done a much better job diplomatically. we should have our secretary of state out there laying out what our end game is, rallying our allice. while russi...

Provocative and going back further. president clinton froze their activities for about eight years. but our president has raised the international attention, has raised the pressure through his rhetoric. and then he hasnt come up with a plan. i think to what you and kier just said, theres no diplomatic effort. you cant just use the military tool as a threat and economic sanctions, and then leave it at that. you have to have a diplomatic endgame. and i have to give -- i have to be fair here. prev...

>> insert himself in international affairs. >> and in a way that puts the president in a tough position. vladimir putin has been out of the headlines. three, four months ago, hallie, we were talking on the set about what was going on in syria and how the president had sort of a very difficult path ahead with no real good solution from him. now he is in another situation yet again. vladimir putin saying he wants to play peacemaker, that he wants to help sort this out. does he really? and what is ...