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American interests in the region. >> the secretary also noted that the president gave japanese prime minister shinzo abe a message for iran's leaders when abe was in tehran last week. iran's leaders rejected the message from the president. they said they don't want to negotiate with the united states where the president says that he's willing to wait whenever iran is ready. the administration is expanding its military presence again in the middle east and democrats call the president's strategy erratic. >> it seems when the president wakes up one morning, he says something and two days later, ...

Now have differing opinions with atf whether they will decide to overrule that 2010 decision. >> julie: okay. my concern is that regardless of what the president does, it does not seem to satisfy all of his opponents because here we have a democratic governor of washington state, governor insly, after hearing the president come forward, this is his reaction, let's play it. >> we listen to people about it. maybe they don't look so good a little later. i just suggest we need a little less tweeting and a little more listening. >> jon: first of all the governor is referring to the president saying...

Have them at the table if they are willing. >> jon: the supreme court has taken the pressure off of them, has it not? >> that's a problem. while there are -- there might be congressional democrats who want to sit down, who want to in good faith engage in this conversation, i'm not seeing it from the leadership. i'm not seeing nancy pelosi rallying her troops or even privately showing interest to negotiate a compromise. what we're all seeing is publicly because the leaders of each party, nancy pelosi, speaker ryan, they get something called a magic minute. we saw nancy pelosi spend her magic mi...

The executive washington editor for the "wall street journal." i don't suppose you would want to be in the president's position right now, yes? the opportunity is there, but it is going to take the wisdom of solomon to get these two sides to come together. >> well, i think there are limits. i think as i wrote a huge divide. i think it can be bridgeed somewhat. i think it is not reasonable to think that anybody could bridge it entirely. i think the president has pointed toward a few things in which there might be agreement if not consensus, one would be expanding background checks, another woul...

He worked for the trump organization and got into politics and well liked at the white house. the president thinks he is brilliant. in addition to his 2020 duties he will be heavily involved in the 2018 mid-term campaign. so again get used to him. easy to pick out of a crowd. a big long beard, 6'8". he will be leading the 2020 trump campaign. the president meeting this hour with republican senators. the meeting about renewable fuel standards but no question gun safety will also come up. the president talked at length about that yesterday with the nation's governors. again promoting his idea of...