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And that's code for, they should rise up and change the regime. >> i had an e-mail from president macron's ambassador to the united nations, a former french ambassador to the u.s. here in washington, who is so aggrieved by this withdrawal, as are other europeans, and talking about it as a real isolationism by the u.s., and the fact that now europe has to act on its own and try to reform and expand the u.n. security council, which is a wish list that's hard to n navigate. but work without the u.s. >> we're seeing more and more of this from europe because we're seeing more and more of it from pr...

>> we've had talks at the highest level. let's leave it a little bit short of that. but we have had talks at the highest level. and it's going very well, but we'll see what happens. >> reporter: okay. so we'll see what happens, dana, as you know is a bit of code for, we're not promising major deliverables on this. certainly not beforehand and maybe not even after. but they remain cautiously optimistic, especially if something can happen in the interim. maybe you can come to an agreement on something. that is something they would like to look forward to, but they don't want to oversell in the m...

Department, and it's the state department that normally would get engaged in doing this. >> that's a big question. to the point about can we trust, those who remember the history are very skeptical, and you should be very skeptical. everyone should be very skeptical, however the president looks at least willing to try here. tom cotton, a republican hawk in the senate, frames it this way. >> it's another thing to bribe that adversary to sit down and talk with us. >> talk is cheap. >> so we shouldn't play charlie brown to their lucy once again on that football. >> there has been a football. ther...

He understood the pleas that were being made to him just before they came to vote in a lunch in the capitol with the president of the united states and all of his republican colleagues. pleas to at least move the process forward. that's code for, please vote for this in committee so we can take it to the senate floor. he told me that senator toomey, for example, pat toomey of pennsylvania, was very persuasive. obviously one of those who was really trying to convince him, please, you know, move forward with this. it doesn't mean that his concerns have been answered, though, and they still have ...

It's them. it's the trump team because they give a little piece of information where they think that will be sufficient and then more facts come out and another piece of information. >> the other thing i don't understand about the way the white house handles things is all their move along. there's nothing to see here, it's all based on the idea that everyone's an idulate and doesn't see what they're seeing. we know what those emails said. it didn't talk about email -- and she continues to say it's about russian adoption, which even donald trump jr. said was not an issue during the campaign. so...