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A question of saving face. by the way if you saw them both yesterday there was this celebration of. or anniversary of about about refugees from german refugees from from the east and so on and not based not on comfortably next to each other but this battle got enormous applause from the assembled political and cultural elites of germany and she has this behind her back and see who is an outsider and hell have to climb down. yeah i think ill go into the crystal ball. we will see if zero four is a...

>> i think were not even sure if he has pulled out. the summit is kind of offish right now. i dont think we know what the status is. >> yeah. didnt kim sort of do it first, but not officially? with -- yeah. is this kind of saving face, like im going to break up with you before you break up with me? seriously? >> yes. ive tried that. not in diplomacy, but i think that we did have indications that the north koreans failed to send officials to singapore to meet with white house officials. i think t...

Security adviser under president obama. and michael dantonio, author of "the truth about trump." good evening to both of you. you, did you call this? >> a little bit. i mean, we talked about this, don, but the president does have a history of getting played by powerful men. and i think -- >> you think he got played? >> i think he got played. in fairness, previous u.s. presidents have been played, too. weve had clinton, weve had bush. the difference here is the president let this play out in fron...

North koreas head. the libya analogy was never going to be helpful. confidential source and raising its not appropriate to north korea -- >> but they had to have known questions about why not just that. >> i think thats plausible. john bolton has been pushing the john kelly but emmitt flood was libya analogy for several years. i think they know its deliberately inflammatory and involved. not helpful and not conducive to >> hang tight. well see if they answer any of get the summit to happen on yo...

Around to other countries. the risk i mean is the risk of saving face. this is going to be very challenging for donald trump to figure out how does he come out of this as seemingly the upper hand and not look like the united states has weakened i eer in the region. >> the north korean write, we shed light on the quality of bolton already until the past. and do not hold our feelings of repugnance against him. he wrote a preemptive strike? >> its amazing what theyre doing in terms of studying the ...

>> theyre very formal oriented. i would urge the president i hope in singapore theres private time they can have with kim jong-un away from his advisers and from the formality from sitting across the table, because you make deals with the north koreans in informal settings, walking together, at a meal. some kind of personal relationship where kim jong-un is a total dictator, you could make deals, he doesnt have to go through congress to get approval. so i would advise maybe with pompeo, the pres...

So much, it overwhelmed their ability to understand and know the law that they studied. i can tell you, jeff sessions didnt know and i trust my sources a lot more than any that "the washington post" or others are using. and also, "the washington post" story that sessions is going to resign if rosenstein were fired, i dont believe that. its more manipulations from "the washington post." >> julie: jeff sessions doesnt want to go anywhere but hes saving face for rosenstein. >> jeff is a loyal guy. ...

States, united kingdom and france. everybody here, seemingly, at this point, saving face. we have heard they were very strategic strikes and they seem to be very strategic diplomatically. the united states can claim they were able to do what president trump committed them to doing three days ago on twitter. president assad can, again, claim victory he was able to thwart the attack. the russians didnt lose any service members. no need for them to respond to the attack. again, that word calculated...

Challenge to china. in the absence of that, chinas hand has been strengthened, and the president is sort of kicking about in -- without a plan, without a strategy in this way. doing i think damage to our economy but failing really to pursue a strategic end. and that -- that is the problem. >> a great discussion this afternoon. thank you both for your time. howard dean and evan mcmullen on this saturday. thank you. ahead, saving face. major changes coming to facebook as the founder of the socia...

Going to pass, figure out what the baseline is? >> it would open the door to negotiations. if you have a baseline, then you can have a sepb of where deals and concessions need to be made. i dont think that would be a problem. the larger issue is if you are in charge, if you are the speaker, for example, you dont want to give leverage to people who are then going to make demands and potentially embarrass you because the bill would be a failure. if the party negotiation that were talking about sav...