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And how this is playing out, well stipulate that north korea bears a lot of blame. but this is how they roll. theyre duplicitous, erratic, untrustworthy. but thats all the more reason that president trump should have been more careful than he was in going into this in the first place with just abruptly accepting the invitation to a summit in march on the say-so of southern emissaries without any spade work by his own american diplomats. so less than being duped, he simply bumbled into this and m...

Committed on being super tough on china, made a bunch of promises that he has then walked away from. he also said when he became president he was going to declare china a currency manipulat manipulator. he did not that. >> he didnt because its factually incorrect. lets talk about all the things they want to do or theyre engaging them. none of them address splek chul property. and people -- our agencies think they were using their devices to spy on us. >> these things are hard to do. right? so se...

A freudian slip that the trump administration after a year of making veiled and not so veiled threats about taking out the kim jong-un regime actually still had that in mind. and then undid some of the spade work that then cia director mike pompeo had done, reassuring kim behind closed doors that no, we are not trying to take you out of power. but in a sense, what it could do is inoculate the june summit against instant failure. we understand that the white house aides have been trying to explai...

Destroyed in the bush day, and e most of the materiel and the missiles and the uranium are in hidden sites underground, but it does not surprise me that the site may have been decimated and this is why kim jong-un is giving it up. now, kim jong-un, and you have to give him credit, because he is leading the negotiations with south korea, with the president, and i meanings he has gone from being an international pariah into an international diplomat. you have to watch them, because they are very g...

That progress. >> jackson is a long list of failures, why do you think the confirmation process has been so challenging for this white house? >> because president trump is a genius at doing the fighting part of politics. of the in fact, thats one of his chief calling cards and some people in the republican base like that. they say he fights and thats great. what he doesnt really know how to do is the spade work of leadership, where you have to vet people before you appoint them to high ranking p...

With allies to achieve a better outcome and a better deal. >> dana: senator gen. jack keane questioning on the stance of the iran deal. this is white house officials set to meet soon to discuss the situation in syria as the administration says it is confident that syria used chemical weapons. lets bring in retired four-star general gen. jack keane, strategic analyst, start with iran, sir. we are a month from today, when the president has to make a decision about re-certifying the iran deal. lots...

Been a much tougher line, no doubt has been a line that has attempted to pressure the chinese to do more, has been open at times to negotiation but with some trepidation, and you saw and heard that in the presidents tweet, and a theme that maximum pressure needs to be placed on north korea even if there are talks to be had. so i think this is an important opening, a good question that you have raised though is are we prepared to do the hard diplomatic spade work and can we do that closely in coo...

Investigation where it would probably likely lead if they were more interested in following all of the information to a logical conclusion. its been shocking to see republicans in congress and the house and senate start to trash bob mueller himself, basically helping trump and his legal team and his political team really soften up the ground so that if and when something comes down from this special counsel that they can discredit mueller. that theyve already done some of that spade work. so a l...

Bob mueller himself basically helping trump and his legal team and his political team really soften up the ground so that if and when something comes down from this special counsel that they can discredit mueller. that theyve already done some of that spade work. so a lot of people out there dont believe whatever is found. i think the dossier is the key to this pr argument, this public relations pitch, that trumps defenders are making which is that this is obviously just a witch hunt, this was s...

Investigation where it would probably likely lead if they were more interested in following all of the information to a logical conclusion. its been shocking to see republicans in congress and the house and senate start to trash bob mueller himself basically helping trump and his legal team and his political team really soften up the ground so that if and when something comes down from this special counsel that they can discredit mueller. that theyve already done some of that spade work. so a lo...