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>> and does kim jong-un take something from that? do we have a way to know? >> shepard: what kim jong-un would do, he has links with iran and syria which are established. that i have china in the background. the problem here is that if he thinks the u.s. is going to commit military force in the middle east, he knows that were not going to do very much in north asia, which means he could starting a provocation against south korea. thats how these things really sort of spread from one region to th...

That the u.s. will lead in the international order. i dont think any of us expected this from him after the campaign. but thats what hes doing. so i would focus again, on that larger picture that president trump is now sounding like most of his predecessors, democratic and republican. i find that quite encouraging. >> question, respectfully, is there a chance you are misreading hyperbole for policy? >> hyperbole becomes policy. he is now on the record as saying he is going to be engaged in the w...

Significance that involved russia or china or anything else interfering in our political process. we needed to understand the significance for us not to try to understand it would be dereliction of duty. >> what did you think when the president tweeted that president obama had eavesdropped on him? >> i was surprised. i was shocked. many people would be. thats a very serious allegation and had no basis in fact and it wasnt typical of the way presidents treat their predecessors. its not indicative...

Deralection of duty. >> what did you then when he made the accusation of pyre tapping. >> it was not typical of the way that presidents treat their predecessors. it is not indicative of the tone and the classify ration that we sought to achieve in the transition. >> there has been republican responses today. they called you the typhoid mary of the white house. >> i have been called a lot of things by folks on the right that are unfair and disingenuous. i wont get into each individual allegation ...

Said it is like turning the conversation away from potential collusion and cooperation to the politics of oh, obama administration were coming after trump officials and instead of potentially doing what film mud is actual lyanly an expert on ts likely the scenario. >> the white house is seizing to try to get credibility of those tweets of the president initially -- early saturday morning suggesting predecessors that president obama was wiretapping trump tower in new york. >> that piece is not go...

Desegregation case, roe v. wade, on the right to reproductive care. griswold v. connecticut, the right to use contraceptives, interracial marrying. every one of these precedents he refused to say whether it was correct or not, unlike some of his predecessors, roberts, alito, kennedy, all said they agreed with these precedents. so were left with no conclusion except thats greez with the trump litmus test, he would automatically overturn roe v. wade, he would stop gun violence prevention. >> said ...

Problem that keeps us off balance and keeps us needing them. especially when they dont want to make our life easier especially not to focus on them building the south china seas and displace us. china has no motivation. our military options are complicated that seoul is over the border from north korea. we have to worry about a military strike in response to hit tens of millions of civilians in south korea. that is a major problem. this strikes me as the president is trying to do something diffe...

>> wait a minute. it is known as the bobby kennedy law and when i worked in the white house and my republican predecessors, we were bound by that law and we had to send family members away. i dont think its proper to have jared and ivanka there. wafr the law says, theres arguments of the law. it makes no sense from a policy perspective. when we are -- please let me finish, jeffrey. when we are in a crisis, we want to know that the official advisers have the first loyalty to the united states, no...

We have done in the past to reduce the effectiveness of soviet behavior and what we might want to consider for the future. i think if one looks at the history of the last 100 years youre going to find the russians and soviet predecessors believed active measures is a major tool for their advancement. they believe -- whatever we think about it, this gives them the possibility of achieving influence well beyond their economic and social status and conditions in their country. i think when you look...

Conventions were going on at this time. but its also at the height of this hillary clinton e-mail controversy and the fbis investigation into that. in july we saw director holme comey holding his press conference that a lot of people said was unusual. so the february was already being seen, scrutinized as seen as being political. and that scrutiny only continued later on into october 28th with his letter. >> but right in the middle of all that heat about comeys public comments about the hillary ...