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Decides. is it to put back sanctions? do the sanctions depend on whether the europeans will be in sync with us? if not and we put back sanctions, are they going to go along with us and say, we're going to tell our companies not to do it? if we don't put sanctions back, are we nothing but a toothless tiger? these are the critical questions that i'm looking to understand what you will advocate for. and it's not that you come as a candidate here who hasn't had dealings with this issue, because in a different context as the cia director, you have had dealings with this issue. that's what i'm tryin...

Nullify him. >> president xi does not particularly like kim jong-un. i don't think it's a surprise, but he probably saw some opportunity here that he's improved relations with kim jong-un will open some new leverage for china to have over the situation in the korean peninsula. >> reporter: despite the apparent tension, analysts believe chinese has given kim leverage against president trump if and when they meet if president trump tries to scale back sanctions, kim can show trump he's got a powerful ally in beijing backing him but he's not alone in taking on the united states. wolf. >> brian to...

The important point is to get this bill up and out of the senate soon. >> let me ask you this, if he did veto this, you guys passed this with veto proof voters, they would override that. >> yes. >> so he's in a no -- he almost has to accept it. >> correct. there is a little bit of a occur if you feel between you on the house side of things and senate foreign relations chairman bob corker who doesn't like what you did on the north korean sanctions front which is the senate would like to have congressional oversight before the president could pull back sanctions. the house bill doesn't do that. ...

Adoptions -- no, this is a russian lawyer who is prominent, who has worked on issues favorable to the russian government, who was going there to roll back sanctions. the magnitsky act has been frustrating for the russian government, they want this overturned. that's what this is about. she wanted to get support for rolling back sanctions. >> steve rattner, i mean, i'm glad the topic's to russia because it actually remind eknee, sean spicer yesterday and i know you'll remember, what we used to hear from the old soviet union spokespeoplethey would come out and say things that had already been di...

This meeting that the lawyer had to talk about and hack the dnc and hack john podesta's e-mails and do whatever they could to help donald trump get elected president and he, in return, helped them by changing the platform as their timeline lays out and once he got into office trying to roll back sanctions. something that ultimately fell apart when mike flynn had to leave the administration. >> peter? >> the sequence that makes things more interesting. you know, did donald trump jr. and jared kushner in the summer of 2016 really understand what they were doing with this one particular meeting? ...