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President's comments today discussing china, he caused some alarm when he spoke about xi's second meeting with kim jong-un. do you know any more about that meeting and why he is so hesitant to say that the chinese were helpful in that meeting? >> i don't have anything to add to what the president said there? >> are the chinese helping push forward the u.s./kim jong-un summit? >> the chinese have offered historic assistance in the pressure company, literally historic assistance. president trump has made clear and i've made clear too that it's important that pressure remain in place and that chi...

Welcome back. my favorite part of the show, money, power, politics. today, we are talking about a powerful nra lobbyist from florida who is literally driving national gun policy. meet 78-year-old maryland hammer. she previously served as the first female president of the nra from 1995 to 1998. she's responsible for helping push through the nation's first stand your ground law. the new yorker describes hammer as having unprecedented power and influence and is, quote, at the center of nearly every piece of gun legislation in florida and often the country. joining me now, the author of this extra...

Been lied to with nato expansion as a key element. they were told at the end of the cold war that we're not going to expand verbal, it was nothing legal -- >> not even the baltic states were going to join nato. was ukraine really on the verge -- >> gorbachev and reagan. tip o'neal was involved in terms of helping push this forward. in terms of helping to encourage steps forward. >> you felt that was a threat to russia? >> well, i think if the was a better relationship, could you imagine if tip o'neal tried doing what harry reid tried doing to me. >> what did he do? >> sending a letter to the f...

Punish them he said. russia started that by about bombing its capital in syria, the city of raqqa. >> the city of raqqa is now the target of the russian air strikes. entrance has carried another round of its own on the city. this latest wave of attacks comes as france makes an unprecedented demand for european allies to support the country's military action against isis. an. as for the u.s. it has been bombing raqqa for months. american-led air strikes are being credited with helping push them out of sinjar. joining me now by phone frommer be, iraq, sophia jones who has been reporting on the y...

I had a meeting last week to talk about the possibility of a safe zone where turkish and u.s. authorities from in order by the way to prevent the barrel bombs from being dropped by assad's air force there. i just think that turkey is at a point now where they have several million refugees as a consequence partially of what isis has done and partially because of brew taught of assad, so i think that they are beginning to go through a mental calculation that maybe they should cooperate with the united states in creating a safe zone there for refugees and in helping push back isis. a final ques...