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>> well, i think it is an analog for his hopes of dealing with vladimir putin. that is to say, you cant change another personals behavior. excuse me. their character. but you can try to influence their behavior by the incentives that you give. so when biden is dealing with putin, he says, let him know that we have significant cyber capability. and if he crosses certain lines that we have laid out for him, he knows that we have the ability to hit back. he hopes that will have an affect. we will s...

Saying is yes. mitch mcconnell will want to block any supreme court nominee that i offer. the question is, is mitch mcconnell going to have the throw weight within the republican caucus to make that stick? he could with obama if 2016. could he do it against joe biden? who has been consistently popular? maybe. maybe he can, maybe he cant. and one of the things weve seen on infrastructure. we saw a deal today where 11 republicans said they were going to sign on to this bipartisan deal. if that sti...

If there is any person difficult to predict it is rand paul. in this particular situation i think the throw weight of mike pompeos qualifications and fact that so many republicans look at him favorably i think that will apply sufficient pressure. >> lets say senator tom cotton was out with senior adviser to the president talking about exactly this. it was a remarkable conversation and that it was clear that they were pushing hard to get messaging out that they believe mike pompeo will pass the s...

What he can discuss? >> well, certainly in open session he has the classification problem. you probably do have and director comey even in these circumstances has to respect the office of the president. i think there will be some limits but at the end of this, john, well know more about this relationship than we did going to in. >> comey is well-known for taking contemporaneous notes, an inveterate note taker. thats his version of events, just as he remembers it or how he wanted to preserve it. ...

Pay attention to what is happening here in the united states. you have a good sense of what people focus on and how much attention they pay to the u.s. what do you make of that characterization as the president heads a broad? >> do they know that hes so emotions battled here? >> yes without a doubt. this is front page news all over the world. i was in germany when the issue of firing comey and then the special prosecutor and in germany here in london, these are front page news top of the televis...

>> now, christiane 100% right. they have no throwway in northeast asia. what they have been able to help us with, what we hope they will continue, is with the tensions in the south china sea. we have a mutual security alliance with them, that dates back to 1951. they are relevant in that part of the world. they have no throw weight at all in northeast asia. i thought the argument that the call was about north korea and about building this international coalition was completely empty. there was n...

>> yeah, look. your diagnosis about obama being able to talk about climate change, finally, after being silent about it for many years is correct. the problem is we really need a lot more than talking about at this point. well find out when he makes decisions on things like the keystone pipeline, whether its mostly just a matter of trying to one-up the republicans rhetorically or whether were really in this to fight it. i mean u.s. carbon emissions we found out last week, end up last year which ...

Sisters in arms and our oath to the nation. [ applause ] >> the world was watching and listening very carefully. what did you think? >> this was billed as a speech by his administration to face down critics that said this american foreign policy has been too weak to get people like assad or putin or name any one of the leaders around there to listen to americas leadership. this was not a muscular speech, a robust speech that would assuage those critics nor a muscular speech commensurate with ame...

Much concern? >> this is a syndicate. north korea and syria, and even other nations in the region, like pakistan have been involved in a rocket and nuclear weapons making syndicate now for almost 20 years. recall that the attempt by syria to build a nuclear reactor was designed and built by north korea. this is truly and axis of evil that many of the components are shared between these countries, which in some ways so the of explains why north korea has been so successful recently in getting the...

the president was he heading on this, theyve always said, look, were the ones who got rid of dont ask dont tell. the justice department no longer defends the defense of marriage act. so you knew what direction the president was heading. i think there were conversations about whether this would be good politically or not good politically for the president because this could rally mitt romneys conservative base. this could hurt the president with some voters in battleground states like o...