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Their first trade talks in over eight years precisely because japan views america as an unreliable partner. >> putin critic garry kasparov tweeting i gave putins wish list to explain weather 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 hods represented oklahoma as a republican. >> wendi, i wan...

Diplomacy with north korea. >> but you are skeptical? >> but i have concerns. there you should always be concerns going into diplomacy with north korea as the long history of that diplomacy makes very clear. what i am wanting to see from president trump and his team going forward now is a focus on the substance and not the summitry. my concern is that again we have seen president trump not just on north korea but on lots of other issues focus on the pomp and circumstance. and as some of the othe...

Congressman eric swalwell who is on the house intelligence committee. congressman, weve laid out in our reporting tonight and other nights what is bad about this. but even if thats clear, dont the democrats have a problem in arguing that this meeting is a bad sham, but they should also be able to go to it? >> good evening, ari. we dont want the meeting to occur at all. it is a sham, but we dont want to be locked out and allow the republicans to continue to reach into the evidence locker and then...

Welcome back. it has been a major week for the white house. diplomacy certainly, but also chaos in the cabinet. and a presidential interview that left some white house aides wincing. here to discuss, national political reporter for real clear politics, caitlin healy burns and molly ball. quite a moment yet on "fox & friends" with the president. there are some issues for him in the cabinet yet again. first of all, on the v.a. hes got to find another pick and quickly, molly ball, after the jackson...

Not clear what the ethical lines are in this administration. >> i agree. >> some people cross them and you get fired and some people cross them and you dont. >> so you know as well as i do that the white house has not leaned in to defend the administrator for these hearings. so i think the jury is still out in terms of what the white house will or wont do. right? i think reports that the president -- >> on sunday, for what its worth, mark short, you know him well, chief congressional guy is on o...

Michael cohen is largely focused in his private business dealings and personal financial dealings. if that remains the case, there may be no reason for jeff sessions to consider recusal from aspects of the probe. tell me why it would make sense that he wouldnt recuse himself from this. >> hes recused from the russia investigation because when it came out he had spoken to the ambassador, he became a witness at least and possibly a subject of the russia investigation. so thats why if its separate ...

Comes occupy substantively after the encounters together. >> and there you see the greeting. the line the president and first lady are going through, presumably the president will not make reference, as he did in france, to the age of the first lady of france, who is 24 years older than her husband. thats about the same age difference of he and melania but in the opposite, obviously, but a lot of people raised an eyebrow or had a few words to say about his reference to how the first lady looks. ...

Story, and i would like to ask you which parts of this i screwed up. did get it wrong? >> you got it absolutely right. everything old is new once again. when david brinkley dismissed that in that broadcast, he was sitting about 100 feet from where i am in the nbc bureau in washington. >> when we think about lawsuits in politics, sometimes they are scurrilous. sometimes they are just used as political weapons. substantively some of the things that we won eder about is whether the lawsuits can be ...

Scandal. even today it led to the president making an online statement attempting to undercut stormy daniels credibility. the presidents online statement attacking stormy daniels on that matter led to stormy daniels and her attorney today threatening yet another lawsuit in this case. now theyre threatening to sue the president again, not just over the initial agreement, but now for defaming stormy daniels today based on the presidents online tweet. the stormy daniels part of this is like very, v...

>> what was your mission? if the mission was to look tough and dominate a news cycle, you did that but if the mission was to bring the civil war to an end to save the people of syria, then there is no way the mission is accomplished. evidence suggests that these surgical missile strikes end up just quickening the pace of assads assault on his own people. thats what happened after last years strike, and the politics of escalation in which american actions get met with equal or greater reactions f...