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Away. venezuela is not very far away. the people are suffering. theyre dying. we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary. >> neil: all right. the independent general review, aaron mcpike. when the president said that, that alarmed a lot of folks with what was going on in the middle east, syria and telegraphing what could be happening in afghanistan. is the vice president going to dial that down, been told to dial it down or what? >> i think likely he wil...

Telegraphing that he thinks it is going to come to a situation where he will have to ratchet up and perhaps meet his rhetoric here. you get the sense that maybe his mind is partly made up. yes, well do the sanctions because thats what everyone says we must do. weve got to keep everyone on board. we need to keep china. we need to keep russia in our corner. because were going to need them to push harder. actually, i dont think thats going to work. actually telegraphing there that the fire and fury...

The intel agencies, is that correct? >> thats correct. they tend to be a little bit more aggressive in their analyses than some of the other intelligence units, but as you and jim sciutto discussed, it really is a question of when not if the north koreans are going to acquire the ability. >> so flat out, how worrisome is this report? >> of course its worrisome, but this is a punch that the north koreans have been telegraphing now for more than half a century. we knew that they were working on nu...

Behavior. anyone expecting public enmity between president trump and jeff sessions, if they were to happen, it would have happened all ready. hes known as a tough guy, likes firing people, actually hates face-to-face confrontations with people who hes close to. i wouldnt be shocked to hear him say really nice things about jeff sessions at the cabinet meeting and maybe turn around and say not so nice things in a different context. thats been the pattern with the president and a lot of people that...

Worried about being embarrassed. >> the chaos in the white house. some are leaking out of frustration. some are leaking to take out a rival which seemed to be the point of scaramuccis tweet last night, although he tells us live on air it wasnt. >> cain and abel. >> one of whom ended up being murdered. it becomes a cable news story and they know the president watchs cable news. theres some advisers who believe the best way to get their message in front of trump is to go through cable news. >> tha...

Every network at his disposal. jeff sessions looks like a pathetic character. i dont mean to say that he is or that the president certainly doesnt have the right to get rid of the guy-expression frustration with the guy, he certainly does. there has to be better ways of handling this on a people basis. >> id agree with you. the sitting down with attorney general jeff sessions would be first of all the first way i would go. this is something that president trump does though. hes very transparent....

Lawyer say people who are innocent dont ask about the power of the pardon. >> right, i mean what he is doing and what he is doing in -- in doing all on the op o research not just theyve done it for months on members of the media, now doing on people investigating. they want to fight everything in the recommend of public opinion. donald trump has proven good at that over the years. but i dont know this is going to be a successfully strategy the way they are doing it now because they loobl there i...

Daughters, very interesting their interaction and he also wanted arabella to show off and speak chinese for you. >> i do that with my kids. >> mine, too. >> but they speak pig latin. >> so well get into all of that in a second. john, i want to bring you in. this is a wide-ranging are fascinating interview. what jumps out at you? >> first of it all, the real unprecedented nature of the lack of support hes showing jeff sessions. however hes reconstructed the time lon in his own mind about his recu...

At the moment. your colleague elizabeth warren says shed be really happy if jeff sessions ended up quitting. >> well, listen, i think its all a matter of who replaces him. i mean, im probably 20% joking about being replaced by donald trump jr., but the point im making is that hes telegraphing to you -- >> youve got to be a little bit less than 20% less joking about that, really. >> i dont think you can put anything past -- >> okay. sure. all right. >> here is my point. my point is that he wants ...

The average voter is focusing on where the country is headed, and will they benefit from it. so you have a level of optimism among the working class, that you have not had in literally decades. >> neil: what keeps that going, though? i mean i always look at the markets, we talk about this in the past, the markets can sometimes be a great barometer, not all the time, but seem to be telegraphing were going to get our tax cuts, get regulations off the backs of businesses, off to the races. but they...