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Strengthen his bargaining position before talks begin. the problem is that this is the game of nuclear chicken, and you can't be sure that the pressure will lead in the direction that you want toward diplomacy or in the opposite direction. what i do know is that underneath all of the rhetoric we hear from president trump, there is a lot of thought going on about precisely what issues would arise in the diplomatic negotiations, what positions the u.s. would take, and quite good cooperation not simply with china but also with the other key allies, japan and south korea. robert, given the fact th...

Nancy pelosi. they didn't want to play politics with harvey funding. it was not that difficult to agree to the deal. we heard from nancy pelosi and got her side of the story. she described it as democrats being in a better bargaining position. she could deliver her voting block, if they agreed to a three-month extension of the debt ceiling. then it was the republicans who said they wanted to add a continuing resolution to avoid a government shut down and harvey funding. they wanted 18-month extension and the democrats weren't able to go there. she said voting is the currency of this realm, ech...

Headlines off the wall street journal. trump makes deal on debt irking gop. are you irked? >> i'm sort of thrilled. this is what i've been arguing for. i think the president made the right decision. i think getting the three months buys you the time to deal with the natural disasters right now. i think it also gives you the time to negotiate a larger appropriations bill. today we'll pass all 12 appropriations bills across the floor of the house setting us up in our bargaining position. the senate will have a different one. the administration will have another one. we'll have a three-way deal. ...

When his efforts with north korea hadn't worked out, he seemed to have president trump putting the chinese on the defensive. the u.s. policy on north korea centers on putting pressure on north korea through china. that means using trade through china as a weapon, and if the president is saying president xi can influence north korea, china won't have a very strong bargaining position at the table. it's a message to the chinese we need to step it up, jake. >> thank you very much. dangerous weather in two parts of the u.s. temperatures are scorching the west at 119 today. airlines in phoenix canc...

Other places. qatar's strategy basically is to expand the crisis to maximize its bargaining position by internationalizing the crisis. the qatari foreign minister was in russia yesterday. also, turkey has sided with qatar because qatar is now isolated within its own space, within its own family. the gulf is politically and physically the only land crossing with saudi arabia is basically now shut down. what qatar is trying to do is play for time and maximize its bargaining position. i doubt it very much whether russia can help qatar a lot in the gulf because at the end of the day, qatar's posit...