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Professional. he knows his brief. he does follow the western press. hell probably watch this show at some point. he is paying attention to things that the world is saying. >> on the other hand, the u.s. president has g every rea to believe hed of winging it. is it possible? is it a diplomatic strategy that mac maybe kim jong-un is stumble around in the dark and somehow find the golden ticket? >> i was talking the a colleague and they used the phrase even a blind squirrel gets an acorn once in a ...

North korean leaders have been trying to sit down with our presidents for two decades, but they havent duped one of them yet because the very thing they want kim jong-un has already won. he wanted to sit down to gain legitimacy. so he has achieved his goal. >> youre certainly right. this is a good thing for kim jong-un to have the sit-down. but some people say he has to have the sit-down because economically he cant endure the sanctions any longer. he has to figure out a solution economically. >...

Also. this isnt a question of preparation, this is a question of whether or not people want it to happen. well know that very quickly. >> do you think the presidents approach to this matches that which kim jong un has done. bill neily was laying out the meetings, four big meetings with chinese heads and south korean heads. what do you think? >> i highly doubt that kim jong un is winging it. this is existential importance to north korea. something theyve been working towards for years this is goi...

Perez and i have been talking to some of these people and people in the circle and as if rudy giuliani threw a hand grenade into the middle of his own legal team having just joined a short while ago. nobody expected that he would go on fox news and say what he said last night about the president, about michael cohen, about the payoff to stormy daniels and how -- and how that was handled. and, you know, these people are kind of in shock saying that this is rudy giuliani winging it, that he was re...

Investigation and also speaks to what we saw for a long time, for many months, and you still get issues today the factions inside the trump administration, in the beginning of the administration, to the tail end, specifically jared kushner and ivanka trump versus steve bannon. there are some remarkable pieces to that when you read this, what michael wolff has written. wolff saying kushner had eventually come to the conclusion steve bannon was anti-semitic. and this came after months of, as wolff...

Approach should be to mueller. the white house lawyers said and reassured the president, this is going to be over soon. youre going to be exonerated. there are people around the president, the steve bannons, the other people outside of the white house who say this is a threat. you need to hit back and take a more aggressive tone. to this point, for the most part, the president has not gone after mueller. i think we saw he hinted like well, im at least considering the other option. >> right. he w...

Now you have set yourself a situation. you want to call it a red line, you call it whatever you want. but now hes going to have to do something, and we heard, senator ron johnson, he is here to talk health care, but said, hey, look, they cant threaten us like that. of course. of course you dont want to be threatened. but what are you going to do, what do these words mean? how much meat has to be put on those bones for the american people? >> well, thats what everyone is waiting to find out. it w...

Anti-election hacking thing? >> i can only imagine that rex tillerson, whos very well aware that many of his former colleagues in the energy industry, who got hacked in the last few weeks by, now we know, somewhat declassified russian sources have declassified our energy infrastructure, rex tillerson must have been tortured during this meeting. i can tell you, ali, that before this meeting occurred, i am sure that dan coats, mike rogers of the cia, h.r. mcmaster, these folks did not know that th...

And he brought along trump campaigns manager paul manafort and son-in-law jared kushner. donald trump jr. says he did not know the name of the person he would be meeting. but his account of the meeting was shifted since it was first reported. now the senate wants to question him about what happened. peter alexander is here. peter, to be clear, if one hasnt been following this story, much of the interest has been that donald trump jr.s response to this has changed twice since he first responded t...

Himself. it is notable that during that briefing today, the white house again tried to build a sort of wall around donald trump. weve heard from the presidents son, donald trump jr. and from the presidents outside counsel saying president trump was unaware of this meeting having taken place last june, that the president was not in attendance. today sarah huckabee sanders said she was under the impression that the president didnt even know about this meeting taking place until just a couple of da...