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Trouble knocking down that idea, we should note. why then, natasha, won't the white house? why is there such a disconnect between the president and his staff? and what would be gained by offering up ambassador mcfall? >> nothing in particular in terms of yn on the u.s. side, but russian president vladimir putin, he has made this a top foreign policy priority. he is extremely fixated on these things that were implemented after an intense lobbying ca ii campaign and michael mcfall was involved in that lobbying campaign of course to implement these sanctions that would sanction high-level russian...

Calculations made here by this white house? >> everybody's made the point in the last three months since trump quickly decided to do the summit he was taking a big risk. normally you work up torwards a summit and make small agreements along the way. trump's doing it the opposite way. staked a lot of his political foreign policy capital on this. sort of elevating north korea to essentially his biggest foreign policy priority and jumped all in. i'm the master negotiator, will take it from here. kim jong-un is the only one that can make final decisions so let's get on with it. a major breakthroug...

Putin's position is he wants the sanctions lifted as his number one foreign policy priority. we know he got this agent, the famous russian lawyer, he got her to go to trump tower when trump was just nominated to go on a quest to donald trump junior, paul manafort and jared kushner to repeal the act. we don't know the trump camp's reaction to that. and so we're sort of sitting here, and it's an important month. this is the month more names get added to the list. trump will either do that as scheduled in the law or not. and this is a significant moment. >> you mentioned the russian lawyer, the w...

>> that's it. that's the thing that most upsets him. and he has made no -- there's no uncertainty about this. when he became president again after being sort of sitting in the secondary seat in 2012, he put out a white paper, a foreign policy strategy paper where he said getting rid of the act was the single largest foreign policy priority. there's no secret that he hates it, that this affects him personally, and there's no secret that this is what he was trying to get rid of. >> veselnitskaya denied he was working for the russian government although there's some e-mails that indicate she's re...

President obama told president-elect trump at the time and his whole team that north korea should be the new administration's top foreign policy priority. is that something you agree with, gordon? >> yes, i do. but we got to remember that it's not just north korea. north korea has been working pretty closely with the chinese and also with the iranians. and so, therefore, it is a challenge which is broad based. you put it all together though, i think that that is the number one foreign policy goal right now -- threat right now for the united states to deal with. it's the one threat that we've n...