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Being floated. every president is frustrated by leaks, but past efforts to force newspapers to divulge sources were derald by something called the first amendment. that's why it's significant that team trump is suggesting national security could have been violated. keep in mind there's no evidence of that. but the primary mechanism used to prosecute leakers is the 1917 espionage act. that's what the nixon administration vote in their effort to block the pentagon papers and they got smacked down big time by the supreme court. dissent, including and especially leaks, is domestic safety valve and...

Print them number. one interesting thing this morning at 5:00 a.m. when you saw the president tweet that he's checking with the nra. that's pretty instructional is not to go to congress, not to go to the state department, his own administratio administration, his cabinet. i need to check with the national rifle association. that shows you where his priorities are. >> what's your message to the president? >> well, he should go to the state department, not the nra, and tell secretary state pompeo that should not have settled the lawsuit. these plans should remain restricte restricted that preven...

Any other president in the united states of america. and what we've seen is this declaration was definitely not up to what many others have signed. d i also think that it's a real shame that the partisanship in america. because other presidents have offered to meet with the north korean leadership and have been trashed. they were democratic presidents, like president obama and even recently president clinton was saying in 2000, he was invited, he would have met with kim jong-il, but he was so business seive doing at that time the camp david, trying to get the israelis and palestinians together...

I and secretary pompeo have had many discussions and we will continue to do that with her counterparts. >> bret: so you have heard the criticism from your opponents politically saying, if you tear up the steel, what's to say to foreign countries and leaders that any deal done by one administration really doesn't stick to the next administratio administration? >> steve: well, let's be clear, this wasn't a politically binding deal. the previous administration never took it to congress to have it passed, it was just a bad deal. the president has been very clear, we don't want a situation where ir...

Simple majority passage. >> i believe we need to keep our word, talking about on the omnibus, express or implied, the word is important and the agreement is important. i expressed that publicly and to the president. >> some people said well, we shouldn't support the rescission because we didn't make a deal. >> if the recession package passes in the house, it would put house leader kevin mccarthy in very good stead with conservatives in the house who he will need if he decides to for house speaker. mcconnell said he will take a look at the recession package if it passes the house. >> bret: let'...