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National security advisor john bolton announced a trip to the region to meet with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. bolton is dominating iran policy keeping a tight rein on information that gets to the president. that's pretty scary. house republicans called for a measured response for iran's actions. nicolas christof warned we are facing very real risks of a cycle of escalation without face saving for trump or kamcould h . nick, thank you. this is real, right? this is not a trumped up wag the dog situation by this administration, right? >> the risks are very real. i mean, you know, w...

White house has told the american public do not support that. revision of history, many in the white house believe. >> brooke, i could just say, according to sources who i've talked to, just to kind of bounce off that sentiment, people i talked to are saying there's great, deep frustration. never mind as a transparency question for the white house and the president and the presidency and people closest to him but just as a place to go to work that there's great frustration that the guy who is in charge in the white house chief of staff may be in this meeting this morning but in a formal way al...

Sense encourage north korea to talk to south korea because they think our country may be insaid so they should turn towards south korea? >> not exactly. the intelligence agencies warned him not to do this, not to personally insult kim jong-un and not to talk to him in these ways. it has the opposite effect. it pushes you to take stronger actions. it pushes the north koreans to test more, be more resolute. we can't talk to these people, they're the crazy ones. but pressure overall, the risk of war overall, yes. that is a factor. prer o pressure cannot comply. if you give them an off ramp. >> fa...

>> i totally agree. we saw the energy for tax reform begin to melt away when the republicans could not pass the repeal and replace measure several weeks ago because inside the caucus they understood that a large amount of the opposition to it from the freedom caucus was based not upon the merits of the bill but based upon excuses designed to help bring down the republican leadership and foil the direction the conference wanted to go. now that that group has had pushback from their constituents and from their colleagues, they've now come up with their own face-saving amendment which says if sta...

Clear that if and of course that's a big if they can get a final deal that looks like this framework, that is a huge step backwards for iran's ambition to develop a nuclear weapon. the secretary was passionate about, you know as we have to do every time we consider anything here don't compare this deal to the perfect. the idea that iran was going to capitulate 100% with no face saving measures you know complete capitulation but compare it to the alternatives. that said to answer your question chris, i would say that and i think this was both you know,people acting and thinking in good faith an...