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Pressure, maybe not off the table, but he doesnt want to talk about it right now. prematurely close enough to north korea or is this how things need to be done with the rogue regime? >> each party to the talks is conduct in their own shadow boxing in of the talks and seems to me a little bit of a good cop bad cop performance, kind of like what reagan did with gorbachev. the key is to see what can we offer north korea to get them to be neutralized and the nukes are so important to their security....

Against china mid-june. when you look at the numbers here, im scratching my head trying to figure out why. why slap such broader higher tariffs on u.s. allies than even on china if this is a president that said china was raping us on trade? >> it feels like this could be shadow boxing or strategic maneuver in some sense. a lot of this is theater because i think that china is the ultimate goal here. and so if you show that youre willing to impose tariffs on your closest allies, then surely you al...

Your paper, people familiar with trumps thinking said the president was frustrated with the bill and the coverage it was receiving on fox news where critics took aim at the level of spending in the bill. heres another case of where he seems to be -- its all this shadow boxing and performance art like hes out in the street corner doing performance art just to keep us talking about his latest craziness. >> well, to keep us talking about his latest craziness and to keep us from talking about the la...

Would not always have that. a lot of poking around of what this was. i will say this, this was several weeks ago and he continued to speak out just as aggressively. this has not tamed or made him nervous enough that he backed down on any of those statements. >> the possibility of more economic sanctions against venezuela now when you look at the political response, betsy. >> make more sense. the notion that we would send the military into venezuela. that said, i think, speaking to the question o...

Week when trump has the possibility of meeting with the russian president vladimir putin at the international summit youll be attending. >> kristin, thank you for setting us up for this discussion. we have questions coming out of her reporting. first, these tweets from the president. josh, it is kind of a return to the im rubber, youre glue defense that the president employed again and again as a candidate. now were seeing against president obama, he himself, president trump, our reporting says ...

Shade it or perjure himself. hes unlikely to pe per jure but well fact check. the notion he made a mistake i dont think speaks to veracity. lot of days in washington, have a lot of punches, counter punches and shadow boxing. today hes sworn in under oath and if trump officials come in under oath well listen to what they say. i havent heard any evidence that would suggest mr. comey is about to perjur himself. >> thank you, matt. you sure engaged everybody on the panel. we love a chance to talk to...

Can rosenstein limit his authority? even if he doesnt, how do you really clearly and forthrightly investigate your own boss? well, tonight the news here on the record for the first time in an interview, is rosenstein saying he will get out of the way. he will recuse himself if need be. maybe the russia probe will die down and none of this stuff that theyre putting out will be relevant. maybe rosenstein wants a secondary kind of a public reason not to talk about any of this again. by calling up t...

The f.b.i. continues despite any changes in circumstance, any decisions. so there has been no effort to impede our investigation to date. >> bill: that comment no effort to impede is getting attention here. chris stirewalt here to analyze this. good morning. we have not seen the memo as i like to say to you, big picture where are we this morning on this? frame it. >> were in this larger sense in terms of the investigation, we have no idea where we are because we dont know -- not only have we not...

Influence to spread in the pacific rim. >> the first executive order trump signed is in effect a gift to china. there is great irony here, a lot of the talk about the trump campaign and now the new trump presidency has been how to get tough with china. >> trump says hell still pursue bilateral trade agreemented, but those could take longer to negotiate at a time when countries involved in tpp are already making moves to join a regional trade deal with china. all of this potentially complicating ...

Post" and nbc contributor, and leon pa net at a. trump went over there because of all the b.s. and shadow boxing with the intelligence people, he knows right now he needs them. >> and the people on capitol hill know that as well. this is the an ally trying to keep those relationships alive. understanding they cant have a war with the intelligence community even though they just had one a few weeks ago. hes president now. >> why does he keep holding up the press like stooges? like they also have ...