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Was to getting a deal, which was the president depending on whether he changes this position or not said something that the moderates like jeff flake have wanted him to say for a long time, which is that the wall, quote unquote, wall doesnt actually have to be a wall. maybe it can be part fencing, maybe it can be some surveillance and controls, which is what everybody has said all along. >> yes, lets improve border security. >> so lets just assume for the next week or two he continues to hold th...

It was an old demand but he told democratic leaders he didnt need in a deal. now its a new demand because the message from bannon and others were this is going to be perceived by your base as amnesty and a sellout. this is a huge, political fight because the president is making it so. actually, democrats and republicans were much further along in coming to a consensus than people understand. its now a question of whether or not they have to set off this deadline and move this fight later. i dont...

Interests, not just in theirs. and i doubt frankly whether the president or nikki haley are serious and are going to go through with that. so failing that, lets have a friendship party, a friends of the peace process, or the united states party. but think about it, i mean micronesia, these countries, even if you lump in the big ones, australia, canada, mexico, wont have much effect on the peace process, makes us look silly. >> saving face, i hear you. the netanyahu sat down our correspondent the...

Leave your job under whatever -- you have had the opportunity of a lifetime to serve the american people, and the next thing you do is go on a morning television show and youre suddenly raising questions about the people youve just been serving with to pitch a book? to not even answer those questions? to dangle them out there. it just seems -- >> im reminded of a song of loyalty that i shall not say on air. the only thing i will say to you, there should be no surprises here. omarosa was fired no...

Twice, but this was the third time. we should understand that omarosa and donald trump are cut from the same cloth. and its about her first. its about self-preservation, saving face. you clearly cant save face any more, everyone knows what was going on. she talked about her political acue accumin and why she was ready for this job. and im still trying to understand what her job was and what she was doing. she talked about my community and my people. im hard pressed to understand who her communit...

Eventual russian response that much worse. because the russians care a lot about face, about saving face, about not being humiliated and not being made to look weak. so they were given a promise, allegedly, that these sanctions would be undone, and theyd get their two compounds back. and that was december 2016. by the time they learned that they were not going get them back, five or six months had passed, and they had to retaliate really hard. and instead of, you know, expelling tit for tat, 35 ...

Stuff. he wasnt able to deliver. and so if you look at it actually from the american perspective, what mike flynn did by promising this stuff to the russians, or allegedly promising this stuff to the russians, that these sanctions would be essentially the shortest lived sanctions ever is that he made -- he essentially made the eventual russian response that much worse. because the russians care a lot about face, about saving face, about not being humiliated and not being made to look weak. so th...

I think whether youre an evangelical or a bannonite or a trump voter, whatever you call yourself, this is the fight, i think, of the individual there in the tape put it best, he said, this is about, you know, the first senate election after trump has become president. this is also a little face saving, as well. steve bannon calling the president is all about saving face. because, remember, steve bannon went out there and jacked up roy moore and said, this is our guy and the president was not wit...

That in a way thats safe space. neither side wants to say that theres anything wrong. theres pressure from the united states. the hope is that they are at least talking about this behind closed doored. eric: you point the magic formula, saving face. how can they back away from this? does kim jong un, im not going the to test missiles for some reason to foster world peace and better relations with beijing against imperialistic americans that we hate or do what they want us to do, stop joint milit...

Or vietnamese shirts with all this embroidery. it makes them feel a bit strained and its always a debate, i recall, in some of president clintons trips whether the president should simply say im not going to use those shirts. but then you have to do it because you dont want to insult especially in asia, where saving face, not insulting people is very important. so you just go ahead and use them. >> you got it. all right, ambassador bill richardson, thank you very much for covering the gamut of a...