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Cleared the company that hunter biden was working for here in ukraine and was pressuring him to also come up with information that could help president trump in his campaign. so yes, it is astonishing that this not very prominent country in central europe could end up bringing down the president of the united states. >> of course we have to remember thats the law there is within the ukraine. give us more of the back-story of that, especially with the history of corruption and the prosecutors the...

Drill. so im very hopeful that despite the heavy storm coming in that were going to be ready. >> president trump is considering taking away military aid to you crane which includes weapons, training, equipment, intel support. there was $250 million allocated to fund that, congressman. this is another action that will make putin happy, no? >> sure. its a gift to his best buddy, and one of the biggest threats to our democracy, russia and vladimir putin. but it doesnt help with our allies in europe...

Border. there have been three million refugees who had to leave the country. the humanitarian crisis is enormous. thats always an american interest to make sure we feed those that in this case the government cause is a wholly man-made catastrophe in venezuela. we have security interests too. this is in our region. we dont want this to be a cuban puppet state in venezuela. president trump is determined to protect the american people and provide humanitarian assistance in this true crisis. >> whil...

>> donald trumps view of the world as one unending deal means that he is always ready to walk away from the table, walk back to the table, call off a negotiation, put it back on again. >> is a deal even possible if north korea wont give up its nuclear program? >> kim jong-un made a decision to prioritize the nations resources explicitly towards the rapid development of nuclear weapons. >> having a missile program and having nuclear weapons is his way of ensuring that he and his regime survive. n...

. mark: gordon chang, really north korea is a puppet state, is it not, of china. not of russia. was a puppet state of russia, but still a stalinist regime, a puppet state of china and china is becoming more stalinist under xi and more mao-like, stalinist, whatever you want to call it. do you think china would tolerate the collapse of north korea and what can we do about china in that regard? >> yeah, china, if north korea looks like its going to fail were going to see the peoples liberation army...

. mark: gordon chang, really north korea is a puppet state, is it not, of china. not of russia. was a puppet state of russia, but still a stalinist regime, a puppet state of china and china is becoming more stalinist under xi and more mao-like, stalinist, whatever you want to call it. do you think china would tolerate the collapse of north korea and what can we do about china in that regard? >> yeah, china, if north korea looks like its going to fail, were going to see the peoples liberation arm...

One, any coordination between russia, and the trump campaign, and two, any issues that are arising in the course of the investigation and that means criminality discovered while they are looking at issue one, and thirdly, the ob stlung of justice. so, if what is going on here is that they have found criminal wrongdoing on the part of mr. manafort involving for example his associations in russia or its puppet state ukraine, that is perfectly within the scope of mr. muellers mandate. i expect at t...

The syrians were deliberately co-mingling air assets with russian assets to hide them and to raise the stakes in terms of what type of escalation that they assumed we would not want to have in the region. pete: general newton talk to us about that cooperation between russia and syria. why are they so entangled? why is there such support for this as the president calls them animal assad who is gassing his people? why would moscow continue to back him? >> well, i believe it provides a vacuum, you ...

Of doing damage to them in the middle of those negotiations. >> how much of a factor is russia in the situation? >> they are a massive factor. syria is a puppet state of russia and iran. the russians negotiated long-term leasees on their port they are fond of and an air base so it is hard to believe assad would go ahead and authorize any chemical weapons attack without consent of the russians. that puts donald trump in position of having stared down the russian bear again and said we wont tolera...

Able to developing the nuclear program with long range missiles capable of reaching north korea. its a difficult diplomatic chess game and china and russia are at the center of it. >> what does this test actually do to the relations between the u.s. and china? >> reporter: well, just in terms of china and north korea, its easy to exaggerate the closeness of the two countries. they are traditionally historically close. but at the same time, the leader of north korea has never met with president x...