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This dialogue, how important is that? >> thats an important historical point. reagan met gorbachev multiple times before we had an agreement. and reagan talked about being the evil empire going back to 1983. i would argue when the relationship is particularly contentious like it is right now, thats when you would need arms control. if you look at a takeaway from this summit, i would like to see working groups work on extending the stark treaty. ed: for our viewers what does that mean substantive...

Of blowing up what we all recognize as the world order? >> there are genuine concerns. nato ally i spoke to who expressed the following fear. they hear one thing from a secretary mattis, who is on the nato in terms of the russia threat and the president will make a public comment to the contrary, but substantively, too, raising the idea of recognizing russias annexation of crimea which is something nato vehemently opposes. now you have this new york times story the president in effect throwing h...

Presidents pleasure at implementing the presidents allege agenda, rolling back regulations and withdrawing from the paris climate accord, i believe the epa inspector general will be looking at whether or not the investigations should proceed now that pruitt has indeed resigned. i think there will be a number of questions that come up even as the weeks and months go on following his resignation that a lot of members of congress will want answers to. >> lets switch gears and talk about the politic...

Insubordinate. comey said he cut attorney general loretta lynch out of the process in part because of her tarmac meeting with former president bill clinton but the ig concluding that none of his reasons justified withholding his decisions from the attorney general and other top justice department officials so this is directly from the ig report that says while we did not find these decisions were the result of political bias we concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from fbi dep...

Table multiple times a week for a period of time. this is the period of scenes, little light on this, but it has been the kind of negotiation that really is the backdrop for anything substantive that can be had when two leaders get together. tonight, of course, this is a time when kim jong-un may be out enjoying the sites and getting that first selfie that bill talked about, but this summit really has to amount to more than that. sightseeing and selfies will not cut it on the international stage...

Schumer tweeted and senator mccain tweeted as well and he said to canada americans stand with you even if our president does not. how much weight do words like that from senators carry to perhaps have any influence in soothing over some of what we saw happen in the last 24 hours? >> i think those words are appreciated but they dont do anything to soothe canadians. canadians understand that the republicans in congress even if they are offering kind words, are doing little substantively to check p...

Blanks, too. the president isnt saying he will walk away. it is going to hurt when he walks away. >> sure. i believe we have only begun to scratch the surface in terms of what we can do with the allies like the japanese to turn up the pressure. not just on the north koreans, but on the chinese. i hit the would -- i think out would be a good idea for the treasury department to send letters of inquiry to certain large chinese banks that i believe are engaged in money laundering and evading sanctio...

Stage. kim jong-un, too, like american president, has domestic audience. and hes very sensitive to their perceptions. namely the military and the political party. so both leaders have had a great desire to have the summit meeting, the personal desire made this meeting happen. however, substantively, the difference in terms of denuclearization, what kind of denuclearization are we talking about, is a complete irreversible, viable, its going to be very difficult to accomplish. the united states mu...

Thank you for joining me. >> for more on the presidents turn away from american allies im joined by ambassador wendy sherman, and former congressman mickey edwards hods represented oklahoma as a republican. >> wendi, i want your reaction to watching what happened at the white house today where the president rolls out the red carpet for a representative of north korea which again, peace talks and north korea seem like substantively might be the right thing to do on the same day hes declaring a tr...

>> putin critic garry kasparov tweeting in january 2017, i gave putin ins wish list to explain what he most wanted from trump. trump blew it up, a trade war with nato allies was number two. thank you for joining me. >> for more on the presidents turn away from american allies im joined by ambassador wendy sherman, and former congressman mickey edwards who represented oklahoma as a republican. >> wendi, i want your reaction to watching what happened at the white house today where the president ro...