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Out of this trip so far other than what kristen was summarizing earlier, which is a lot of photo ops. keep in mind when youre talking about president trump and the way he handles international relations, in many ways, those sort of personal relationships are really how he sees the job. so his relationship with the prime minister of japan, their ability to golf together, is actually a huge part of that sort of international diplomacy and negotiations. and even the tweets about the north korean di...

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The very end because he doesnt like one part of it. not enough money for the border wall or something else. so until he is ready to negotiate with congress and let them do their jobs, i dont see how bipartisan packages or legislation can get done. the president only wants things his way. >> a friendly reminder to all, it is wednesday. great thanks to our lead-off panel. thank you. coming up for us, two more big setbacks today. we referenced for the concerted white house effort to keep the presid...

Hired rex tillerson? how is that all of the best people, there are always the best people turn out to be lousy or liars and i went back and hooked looked at a tweet from december 13th, 2016, donald trump, i have chosen one of the truly great business leaders of the world, rex tillerson. >> what -- go ahead. >> i recall coming out of that meeting in germany the president tweeting and announcing grate de a great deal that he and putt yun came up with and that is the great cyber commission which wa...

Thank you. coming up for us, two more big setbacks today. we referenced for the concerted white house effort to keep the presidents taxes out of the hands of congress. and later, thanks to one of the 20th century predecessors, as "the 11th hour" is getting started on a wednesday night. cant see what it is yet.re? what is that? thats a blazer? thats a chevy blazer? aww, this is dope. this thing is beautiful. i love the lights. oh man, its got a mean face on it. it looks like a piece of candy. l...

Republicans have worked together to craft bipartisan legislation. they feel good about it. different groups of folks have tried to do this. theyve taken for the president to be signed and he vetoes it at the very end because he doesnt like one part of it. not enough money for the border wall or something else. so until he is ready to negotiate with congress and let them do their jobs, i dont see how bipartisan packages or legislation can get done. the president only wants things his way. >> a fr...

Justice department career employees hoped he would act as a bulwark against what they saw against their political work. he showed no desire to push back active actively. this to me is the most extraordinary -- extraordinary sort of tectonic plate shift of the sessions, even whittaker regime at doj and barr. barr makes you long for his two predecessors. >> right. because its not just that barr is not pushing back, hes enabling, hes helping send this message that this is okay to call for the prose...

Jumpstart negotiations. youre in washington, d.c. is that one of the thematics here? >> thats certainly part of it. of course, from day one confrontation with iran has at some point level been a plank of the administrations foreign policy agenda. for president trump, it was mostly a desire to unravel sort of what was a lynchpin of his predecessors legacy with teheran and a whole host of figures within his administration beginning with former national security adviser michael flynn up to the pres...

Of how the white house will do anything kit to dodge accountability and then see whether anyone notices. i am joined by pulitzer prize winning journalist, jonathan has figured into this story. good evening to you. >> hi. >> what does it mean that theyve cut off these briefings almost entirely in 2019? >> it means that they dont want to be held accountable. look, the presidents predecessors didnt have a good relationship with the press. they had a contentious relationship with the press. they res...

They, you know -- its just that simple, i think. >> let me be clear. let me -- youre from the "new york times," you got it wrong. let me be smarter than the "times". >> its the failing "new york times." >> this is going to sound facetious, not meant to be so. in the world i lived in, foreign policy, theres a three-letter word, ego. in every single circumstance, north korea, china, russia, iran, nato, nafta, every single circumstance the president has said im the stable genius, im going to do som...