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Calling trumps decision high risk, high reward. for more, lets bring in jackie calmes, white house editor for "the los angeles times," and peter baker. jackie, let me start with you. you broadened the lens for us and shared some thoughts about how the president miscalculated by telegraphing just how vital this potential achievement was to him politically, personally, to his ego in terms of a peace prize. can i put to you the same question i put to the ambassador? is it possible as director brenn...

And thats what they did to the president. but i think they overplayed their hand. >> bill richardson, were so grateful to have your insights on a night like tonight. thank you for spending some time with you. as we just mentioned, we have an inside look tonight at exactly how the summit with north korea fell apart. nbc news reports, quote, it happened less than 12 hours since trump and his team began grappling intensely with the prospects for shelving what would have been an historic meeting b...

They dont operate like we do. ive been there, negotiated releases of prisoners. they keep you waiting for a week. they keep you in a safehouse there, not talking to you, frustrating you. thats how they are. and thats what they did to the president. but i think they overplayed their hand. >> bill richardson, were so grateful to have your insights on a night like tonight. thank you for spending some time but the president, fearing the north koreans might beat him to the punch, wanted to be the fir...

Rosenstein knows how perilous his position is. i talked to rudy giuliani in the last day or so. i asked him, are you concerned about the chilling effect this may have on confidential sources, confidence informants? will people be afraid to work for the department of justice or the fbi considering the pressure from the white house that their cover may be blown and so on? he basically said, im the presidents lawyer, thats not my concern. my concern is donald trump. this is a president that is cons...

Result, to be in a position to potentially do what he wants to do, which is make changes at the justice department. and the goal for him and potentially you see this now from rudy giuliani, is to get the public to where that doesnt seem like such a red line and such an egregious thing. >> condition them for an unprecedented move. you spent time with rudy this weekend, interviewed him. here he was -- or heres the president actually on fox and friends talking about the high bar it would take for h...

The back end of this deal, whether the president is honest on whether the north koreans comply. >> you fall in love with your own deal. as some would say. sam, you may not totally agree, president obama got to a point he really wanted to get that deal with iran, who knows whether it was the best deal they could get. i know you think it was. with president trump, this nobel peace prize, its something funny, he himself has laughed at it. but it keeps coming up again and again. here he is. >> i wan...

Million people. >> didnt brief you, here are the facts, sanctuary counties have your crimes, high median household income, lower poverty and lower unemployment. if is the case why are you fighting back against this? >> im hoping he is in telegraphing what could come if he wants to be elected governor, we hope to have a governor who will work with us on city council. we are bipartisan and need to work with both sides of the aisle, we are reasonable, what we are hoping to do is lead by example. th...

Right now its a different debate. youre talking about a deal thats been imposed. theres reasons that i think people on both sides, republicans and democrats think its better to fill the deal than to just walk away. theres an intellectually responsible and compelling case to just walk away. you wouldnt know that -- if you look at the media coverage, its taken as an assumption by most journalists covering this debate that walking away from the deal is walking away from peace. its not the case. >> ...

The process, we shouldnt gloss over the significance, ive never before heard a president talk about pardons so much. and the pardon process, maybe you can help our viewers understand this. it goes through the justice department and the white house counsels office. and donald trump, in deciding to pardon scooter libby, would have had to involve his white house counsel don mcgahn who we know spent two days with bob mueller investigators. if donald trump said anything about the purpose of that pard...

Hopefully will stop using the power of the tweet to send these messages to these potential witnesses. thats not how the justice system should work. witnesses should not be getting the smoke signals from the president via tweets. >> from someone who says he doesnt like telegraphing, he sure was like telegraphing. all right. kendall, jeremy, areva, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. all right. next democrats hit the trump campaign and russia with a lawsuit. why the dnc is alleging a...