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Appointment. there are fractures on the right as they see this preferred access that fox gets. some of the other ones may -- i mean, the danger is that you then -- it splinters and they turn back on the white house. >> the idea that the conservative president that well stand up to the white -- >> they have the experience of the one interview that he granted to our own lester holt. >> yeah. >> [ overlapping talking ]. >> because 23 tif the president a conversation with a functional journalist, he...

Missiles, nuclear weapons, dismantling the infrastructure for this and we are going to agree to the most strict inspections regime on earth. by the way, we are going to give an accounting on the japanese abductees, something president trump promised the japanese when shinzo abe was in washington. thats success. anything short of that is basically, i think, essentially the north koreans just trying to drag this process out. we have given them the incentive because time is now on their side. >> am...

Joe manchin, who one would think would be a pretty reliable vote at this point given what happened with neil gorsuch, has said what would really trip him up is if somebody wasnt going to support the affordable care act. and one of the main nominees or potential nominees, a woman amy barrett from indiana, notre dame law school, took a very strong position against the supreme courts decisions upholding the constitutionality of the aca. so that might create an interesting possibility where the pres...

Influence and actually feel were giving her a little too much credit. she is a moderator influence. same for melania. i think at this point given whats happened with the jacket, we actually should just ascribe motives that she is either expressing out loud to us or through her actions, and i think what she did yesterday, yes, visited the school thats housing around 50 children. but she also wore that jacket. she knows shes photographed and those images go all over the world and anything she wear...

The combination of the nixon case and the paula jones case makes very clear that the president has to submit to an ongoing criminal justice probe if he has evidence, and he certainly does because his lawyer just admitted that he dictated a statement lying about a meeting in trump tower. >> michael, to jennifers point given what you said earlier and what i agreed with, which is, you know, pay attention -- donald trump is all about donald trump, if the supreme court comes down with an order and sa...

You will. you wonder if he might choose to walk away. >> i mean, it would be very hard -- i would have to say myself, if the president called and asked a me of my family to serve in some position, it would be very hard to accepted that at this point given what everybody is going through. it does look like its a pretty impossible process. at the same time, its really frustrating to me from a business perspective to see that weve made no head way on the v.a. its a huge problem. its so essential to...

Committee, do you think white house counsel don mcgahn should come testify before your committee and if he claimed executive privilege, what would you say? >> i would welcome don mcgahn to testify before the committee, and theres a huge question as to whether or not he can claim executive privilege, but i would welcome the opportunity to ask him questions. >> what do you want to learn from him at this point given what has been reported about what he was asked? by the way, he has already spoken t...

Privilege at all with that. >> to put it in plain terms, there is no way that you could use even a legitimate privilege to hide an ongoing crime or criminal conspiracy. youre referring to the fact that he appeared unable, according to ranking member schiff, to rule out whether he was part of the investigation. part of my job is to ask questions and process everything. it is no longer far fetched at this point given what has leaked out that donald trump would be asking senior officials to do thin...

>> reporter: oh, thats the big question and it could be an open-ended question at this point given what weve seen over the last week. its called the 19th party congress or frankly just the party congress. it happens every five years, this is the 19th. its been interesting, because we seen xi jinping formalize a power grab he has been engaged in the last five years the likes of which we have not seen since the founder of communist china moo mao tse tung and the other happened this morning. the st...

Kind of presence, they have the proliferation of intelligence operatives within that area, but lets remember something else. chinas behaving badly so look what they are doing in the south china sea. they arent building resorts as the south china sea they are building militariness haitians and a blue ocean navy so its not the isolation of north korea acting badly. its china as well expanding it. >> trish: so we need to do something about china. china holds the key to north korea and this is a con...