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Undertaken and very hard to undertake it when weve got 56 ambassadors still not named by the trump administration. we dont have people at the state department, people at the pentagon or treasury to really undertake the worldwide effort thats needed here. >> one quick question about north korea. im now reading that according to "usa today," that russian our so-called new relationship, you know, all that that entails, russia has increased its exports, coal and other economic support to north korea...

A very productive meeting with the chinese president down in florida -- and were seeing positive steps in terms of looking at north korea. so i think youre having a president who ran a campaign. he was very explicit in what he was going to do as president. and hes taken a lot of steps toward all of those goals. leland: in that vein, is the liberal outrage a little much when it comes to the donald trump flip-flops in the sense that hes, quote-unquote, flip-flopping to a position that is far more ...

Little bit premature. but if i can quickly pick up on what the congressman said. im with him 100% in the way that devin nunes, i dont know why we sort of need to believe anything he says now, and i mean that as a national security person. what he did was so absurd, is a safe way to put it, that, you know, adam schiff took the time to try to right-size the house intelligence investigation given what none nest hunes had done. but nunes believes or has proof of incidental, remember, the law recogni...

Job is to give him a nay. theyre not doing anything, not check this stuff out. they say, oh, were going to buy xerox machines and hire some lawyers and get officers assigned and in six months well get down to business, ten years later we might have -- congress does not move lickety-split. >> i mean, i thought their response to the whole wiretapping thing was really awkward. all of them were put in an incredibly awkward position of saying i dont believe what the presidents saying, hes still the p...

Conference where he does call on the nbc and abcs of the world. what was your interpretation of it in. >> i think the idea of reaching out beyond like the big four paper, networks is fine. my concern, to me its at the center of a lot of this and why i think the words matter. what donald trump is saying to his supporters is when you hear things on the news that challenge me, dont believe them because they are fake. what were talking about is basic factual assertions or false assertions where ther...

Speaks the thoughts of the president, he says no, it was the media. oh, yeah, it was the intel community. >> well, to paraphrase a question, why is this event not different from any other event? if you watched trump in the last 15 months and you came out expecting a kind of studied, rational, coherent, consistent response to various realities, you werent watching what was going on. this is who he is. sharks got to swim. bats got to fly, and donald trump got a lot further than any of us thought w...

Seeing a pattern emerge at all of these joint news conferences the president has with foreign leaders. >> reporter: thats right, wolf. going back several administrations, not just the obama administration but the bush administration, clinton administration and so on, typically what you have on these two plus two news conferences, two questions for the american press and two for the foreign press. what you would see take place is perhaps a wire service, associated press or reuters or major networ...

Moment. theres so much going on, and the presidents national security advisor, as you point out, michael flynn, he was just fired only three weeks into this administration. go ahead. >> thats right, wolf. president trump, according though this white house, fired his national security advisor, michael flynn just a couple of nights ago as all these questions are now swirling about whether or not the presidents aides or associates during the campaign had contacts with russian individuals who are kn...

Perceived as more credible, so when i hear you try to tell me, two plus two is seven, i kind of consider it. i really do. versus if youre from the south like myself, our accent, were always thought of to be dumb and not smart. >> tom: but trustworthy. [laughter] >> okay, fair enough. >> tom: look of boston, thats kind of evil. in all of those boston movies -- >> theyre all kind of heroic and away. i think its more of a pc move to make english people the bad guys, a white male is going to play th...

Asked of the other foreign leader for these joint news conferences, but as you know with donald trump, normalities go out the window, and so the question is if he is finished with the two plus two here as we call it and other questions are asked, does he indulge himself and indulge us and take more questions, and there are lots of questions, of course, to be asked about. you mentioned that call with jeff zellany about the phone conversation between enrique pena nieto and president trump that hap...