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Apparent promise is we will be lesko err sieve, thats not an appealing negotiating strategy. >> in your mind is the united states in a worse position vis-a-vis north korea than a week ago? >> no, to his credit and i was concerned about this, i thought -- you know, the president did walk away. you know, no deal is better than a bad deal and i was concerned that in an effort to do a -- generate a counter distraction to the cohen hearing that he might concede something like agreeing over time to ta...

Things are related. i also think hell have to do something, there will have to be something face-saving that president trump can say i got a better deal because i was so tough on the europeans, i was so tough on other folks. maybe its a commitment to have sanctions with respect to ballistic missile test, something along those lines. and i hope that president macron can convince him of some symbolic new gesture to strengthen the deal as a way for them to preserve the deal. >> seems like if theres...

Special counsel against political interference. youre watching "morning joe." well be right back. >> do you believe russia has something on him? >> i -- i believe that the russians would -- would not -- um -- um -- they would opt for things to do if they believe it was in their interest and the russians have had long experience with mr. trump and may have things that they could expose. >> something personal, perhaps? >> perhaps. perhaps. >> you just said you thought it was possible that the russ...

Position vis-a-vis vladimir putin personally, so one can again speculate that maybe theres something there. >> youve worked for six american presidents, both republican and democrat. have you ever spoken out in the way that you are doing now against one of your former bosses? >> no. this is the second time that ive retired. the first time i didnt speak out at all. i said some things in terms of policies, but never about the person. and this is a very different person who inhabits the oval office...

That it was in their interest and the russians, i think, have had long experience with mr. trump and may have things that they could expose and reveal. >> something personal perhaps? >> perhaps. perhaps. >> you just said you thought it was possible that the russians had something on donald trump. director of the c.i.a. until 2017. is that speculation, or are you talking with information? >> im saying that perhaps the russians have something and thats why mr. trump is concerned. mr. trump knows b...

There is something to what davids saying in terms of his actions. he wants to be close to china with his business relationships. politically he said theyre raping the u.s. >> most observers would say he is dramatically changing our position vis-a-vis china. i know its true because everybody in washington is panicked over what this means. the one thing i see is this, which is no longer are we going to shed americas interests. i think hes going to put americas economic interests front and center. ...

Say that the russians would have of course favored donald trump. why? you look at candidate trumps position vis-a-vis russia. whether nato, crimea, eastern ukraine, all these issues that candidate trump held out were much more beneficial to russia than his opponents. there was also of course apparently personal animus between vladimir putin and hillary clinton dating back to her time as secretary of state. but its not that much of a leap to say, yeah, it would have been simply better for putin h...

Before the resignation which spicer now says was asked of flynn and flynn of course says he decided to resign, we dont know which is the truth here, but i think there is great doubt as to whether something illegal was perpetrated or something was done that is contrary to the interest and the security of united states and shows a compromised position vis-a-vis one of our principal adversaries in the world, russia. >> would any investigation be able to whether in the house or the senate, would bit...

Republicans in congress, they have said that this is too little too late. in other words they arent saying this step by obama yesterday should not have been taken, they are arguing that it should have been taken much sooner and, in fact, much tougher so the risk, i think that president-elect trump faces when he assumes office is a growing divide between his views on russia and his interests in buddying up and becoming pals with putin and republicans in congress who do see russia and putin as a t...

Foreign policy discussions are going to be like under the trump presidency, which i think are going to be very different than they have been in the past under a lot of other presidents. i think that one of the things were going to have to get used to is the idea that when donald trump tweets something, its going to be followed up by explanations of what he actually meant within those 140 characters by his supporters. i think in this case when it comes to modernizing our nuclear program and under...