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The government funded as well. so theyve got a lot on their plate that the president just seems to be pushing over to them for them to ultimately decide on, but i agree with elise, it is sort of a partial way of saving face. >> if the u.s. vienna were to walk away from this deal, how do you think the north koreans would react because theres a lot of effort, a lot of pressure on them to enter into some sort of negotiation on their nuclear program. >> well right, what incentive is there from you c...

Operation if kim jong-un strikes first or there is intelligence he is about to. >> if we take that option, it will be devastating. i can tell you that, devastating for north korea. he is acting very badly. he is saying things this should never, ever be said and were replying to those things. >> tonight there are warnings about the presidents own comments, his increasingly personal insults of kim jong-un recently. >> rocketman is on a suicide mission for himself. little rockman, we cant have mad ...

For reince priebus for some time. you are at the white house. tell us what really happened. >> well, jim, first of all, you know, riens he is the former he the rnc. he also said that he and the president have been talking over time and that time is not more than seven months of, you know, they had outs. if either side wanted an out. so reince priebus did the right thing for the sake of saving face. reince priebus said that he resigned, but we know from very early on that reince priebus had been ...

They were here and they will be back. we have elections ongoing. we have to figure out, not only what happened but what we can do to protect ourselves in jurisdictions across the country. and it is shocking, no matter what you think of whether this president colluded and his campaign and all of that -- >> we dont know. >> it is shocking that this president is not more concerned about a fundamental attack on our democracy. >> i want you to respond to that. saving face. >> yes. i dont think thats ...

And we were committed to the one china policy. thousand its talking tough china, you better do something is about north korea. anyone who has lived in china for years knows that saving face is an important part of doing business and operating in china. one does start to wonder who on the foreign policy team has that level of sensitivity in the next tease to know how to navigate these complex waters. >> you set that up perfectly. im listening to you agreeing with clarissa. im wondering how this l...

Have contacts with russians, he wasnt thinking of himself in capacity as committee member meeting with ambassador, normal thing to do, but thinking in terms of campaign surrogates meeting about the campaign with russians. so he maintains that he did not still talk about the campaign in these meetings, but his mind was framing it differently. of course now in retrospect he says, he wished that he had been able to clarify it then. >> so many questions here. jeff, i understand were hearing from the...

Usually means theyre about to get their marching papers. whats different about this is the president did have criticism about his attorney general when he was supporting him. he says "jeff sessions is an honest man, he did not say anything wrong. heres the criticism. he could have stated his response more accurately but it was clearly not intention ainte this whole narrative is a way of saving face for democrats, democrats are overplaying their hand. they lost the election and now theyve lost th...

Kind of going at it. when reince priebus was head of the rnc. he would go after priebus either on twitter or, you know, publicly. and then -- saying that, you know, the rnc was rigging the election or something of that nature. and then a couple of days later heath have a phone call with reince priebus and say oh we had a wonderful talk. everything is great. they are being really helpful. so it seems. but there is also the matter of donald trump saving face. so it seems like it is partially him t...

Cnn white house producer, kristin holmes joins us now live from outside trump tower. kristin, the reporting is that rudy took himself out of the running in a meeting with trump in late november. is that just saving face? >> reporter: yeah, you know, boris, that is -- directly contradicts exactly what we have had sources tell us. that he was told himself that he would not get secretary of state. and this whole thing was done kind of as a saving face, as you mentioned. now, if you look at it, the ...

Hurt feelings about somebody elses words is sort of a remarkable moment, just for people that have followed his career but hes saving face. he wanted the secretary of state job for months. i report back in july that people would run into him and he would, you know, somebody would say good luck becoming the attorney general. he would say no, no, secretary of state. that was a job he had wanted and to not have that position now, to not get the one thing that he had really wanted is remarkable. giu...