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And theyre actually tag teaming him. the congress itself, not the current one and not the very different one well see in january would approve us pulling out of nafta and going into two bilateral agreements. >> would or would not? >> would not. >> is there any issue the president is going to face with congress and who will like it more? >> both sides will approve it. its a very small positive everyone will agree on. democrats will be stuck on two particular things. nafta had provisions relating ...

Especially alan weisberg. one cannot underestimate the power of the chief financial officer of the trump organization appearing before a grand jury. that is bigger than michael cohen, it is bigger than any of the other witnesses. much is going to come out and i think were going to see it in september. >> well see if the defense handles it any differently. manafort didnt take the stand and nor did it, you know, the defense produce any witnesses. >> fred, weisselberg is going to know the sourcing ...

There can be no side agreements. we make that clear in court and in writing. and so i still believe that mr. cohen may cooperate at some point, and im sure mueller would want it. of course, he would, if its truthful and helpful. but i dont believe there are side agreements here. somebody who would know more about that practice in the southern district of new york than me would be dan goldman. but i suspect that mr. tribe may just be wrong about that point. >> and dan, when you hear the president...

But plea agreements in the federal system have to be the entire agreement. there can be no side agreements. let me make that clear in court and writing. and so i still believe that mr. cohen may cooperate, at some point, and im sure mueller would want it. of course, he would, if its truthful and helpful. but i dont believe there are side agreements here. somebody who would know more about that practice in the southern district of new york than me would be dan goldman. but i suspect that mr. trib...

Entire agreement. there can be no side agreements. let me make that clear in court and writing. and so i still believe that mr. cohen may cooperate, at some point, and im sure mueller would want it. of course, he would, if its truthful and helpful. but i dont believe there are side agreements here. somebody who would know more about that practice in the southern district of new york than me would be dan goldman. but i suspect that mr. tribe may be wrong about that point. >> and, dan, when you he...

Presidents performance in helsinki but his belief, hissy kw -- his equivocating on this. you have lawmakers democrat and republican that are afraid that putin is going to talk of side agreements that he made with the u.s., the white house not confirming any of the agreements, but that putin will do this, drive a wedge between the allies while the white house remains silent, while the president is set on arranging the next meeting with putin the fall. >> and while we see evidence of so much inter...

>> its historic. >> harris: what is wrong with raising expectations? you make it sound like setting a higher bar on 25 of diplomacy that didnt work is a bad thing. >> here is what i want. i want the north korea nuclear program to stop. if they take a pause for ten years im for that. but trump is saying that he will walk away from that deal because he just violated the agreement with the iranians because it didnt have everything he wanted. >> that is a talking point from his side of the aisle. th...

Pompeo, this has never really been about the nuclear program. it is also about stopping iran from all of its other malign activities around the middle east. that isnt covered in the deal. they think it should be. >> also boris johnson points out that whats the other alternative? ill let you listen to himself. he did say dont throw the baby out with the bath water but then what comes next. so listen to him. >> the president has legitimate point. he set a challenge for the world. we think that wha...

Dead, i guess, without that, that major underpinning, what are the consequences? >> well, the worst consequences are that iran will say that america is now not keeping their commitments into the deal, so therefore the deal is null and void and were going to pull out as well and begin to now enrich uranium at higher levels, bring centrifuges back online and start building a bomb. thats the worst case. i dont know that well get there today, alisyn. i suspect he will probably say hes not going to w...

These concerns that trump has with the iran deal. david mentioned them. one is their malign activities in supporting terrorism, the sunset clauses and the fact that he doesnt think the inspection regime is significantly strong as it should be. i think thats what boris johnson is talking about. but right now, you know, there is no plan b because they havent been able to agree on any of these side agreements. plus the iranians made very clear that it doesnt matter what else the euros might negotia...