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Will be quite different than john bolton. >> the ones who survive end up bending to the presidents will. you can see why. >> if theres one thing thats defined john boltons career it is not engaging in frivolous negotiations with dictatorships. i think he is going to try to kill off this idea of a -- >> meeting? >> -- summit with kim jong-un by raising the stakes and asking for things that kim jong-un will be find to be impossible to deliver. by the way, i think he will also do that on iran. ther...

No matter what he does in the end. >> and weve heard some instances of this with mcmaster and tillerson and others where they have given the president advise that he didnt want to hear. >> with gary cohn on economic issues. you hear it constantly. and so when he fired tillerson, he said that tillerson -- he did not see eye to eye on numerous issues. i.e. the iran nuclear deal and with the recertification deadline in a month, the president is really gunning toward basically pulling out of that ag...

Cnn political analyst brian care rem. a.b., you can get into the weeds about what it means to slide over from one cabinet member to another, acting versus permanent. the idea that it would be easy and they can avoid a revetting of pruitt if he were to take out sessions may not be simple in the minds of the senators who would make the decision. here is senator angus king who would sit on the committee that would do the vetting. >> is it your understanding that the white house can slide somebody f...

>> they will take the word until you issue your report. first, is it your understanding that the white house can slide somebody from one cabinet position into another without going through any recertification by the senate? >> no. ive never heard that theory. oh, no. if mike pompeo moves to secretary of state, there has to be a full confirmation process. hearings and senate vote on confirmation. those are two very different jobs. the qualifications for director of the cia and secretary of state ...

Yes. rex tillerson, in a press conference if africa said -- on the plane rather on the way home said, yeah we think they did it and put out a statement to that effect. >> mike pompeo will be pressed on this. >> absolutely. >> pompeo, a -- you got the recertification upcoming. all of these different hot stops around the globe again. seems like its not only going to be a opportunity for democrats but also republicans. >> we have senator bob corker lets listen in. >> the president called, you know ...

Acceptable to the president. i think that personal thats a fools errand because the agreement from my perspective is a pretty good one and, you know, and the europeans and the -- the others involved particularly the russian and chinese have no stomach for messing with it. thats going to be a tough job and as usual i think the presidents painted himself into a bit of a corner. i dont think thats going to get done and next time the recertification comes up he may find himself in the position of oo...

Out? i dont know. i dont think we ought to do it piecemeal. i understand sometimes you have to inch along as opposed to gallup along. if we do the daca bill first, we will never get to the rest. it just wont happen. >> you have hundreds of thousands of lives, though, senator. this is not just money we are talking about, these are lives. every day people come up for recertification and they dont get it, and the court ruled on that and said you have to keep processing the applications until this c...

Current government in tehran what replaces it? >> well, i think the logical step is to let the iranance figure out how to hold an election. it doesnt require american involvement. we ought to stay out of that. lets see who is the most popular political figures inside iran. free and open election is what the people want. it is an educated population. it is young. 70% of the population under 30. thats one of the major sources of discontent. and i think youve got major opposition groups already say...

Ballistic missiles, still cheating death to america and not even letting us inspect the military sites. do you agree with what the president did? >> ive been counseling a simple message, minimum no recertification, and ideally withdraw from the whole deal because it is a disaster. on friday, the president did the first. he said no recertification and added important incentives. he said now its the work of the hill to see whether we impose the original sanctions and we have 60 days to do that but...

Now just like the north koreans, they are running into somebody who is not lovable. >> sandra: i want to follow up on that because out of curiosity points to what will iran do? they are angry about these recertification about the iranian national revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization. there were some of the president was to put into place that they are saying that they are very angry about. what is that anger look like? i wrote it down. what do you think death to america means? >> newt...