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saying no laws existing or proposed could have ) what happened yesterday in nashville. >> such a deeply offensive thing to say. it really is. if this had been a muslim shooter, we would have seen a thousand bills proposed for more things for homeland security to do. willie, the idea that every time a horrific tragedy like this happens, if you even talk about trying to do something to make our school safer for our children, people say, "oh, there's nothing you can do." they say you can do something for everything else but this. that's why you find ourselves in a position where our chi...

The quality of person he is hiring. that said, what the output of his office is very important to a lot of business leaders, conservative groups. so do not take that into account. that is more important than that $50 a night apartment here in washington. >> thank you both. i appreciate your time and you reporting. i want to bring in national correspondent for the atlantic. james, good evening to you. the president floated the idea rev placing attorney general jeff sessions with pruitt. with all the scandals swirling around him, is there a tone deafness here do you think? >> i guess the calcula...

People who are originally behind him and just keep playing this same theme. i guess we won't have -- we've had incremental market tests of that with the special elections, most of which have gone the democrats' way. for the next six months we're talking about the stakes in the midterm election. that is the real market test of the strategies. >> james, let's talk about there are a few themes that you're seeing in president trump's favor recently. tantrum, strategy and vengeance. >> i was thinking about this in the trade negotiations with china. as we discussed before, i lived in china for a lon...

Though they're vulnerable to trade wars and they have lots of trade practices that need to be addressed, they're much more strategic and calm and revenge the best sort of cold and saying okay we're going to target boeing which is your leading exporter. we're going to target soy beans and pork which is the farm states. and so they're just doing it as if they have a plan as opposed to sort of an emotion. so i think that difference between emotion and plan is the one we're seeing with the trade threats coming from one side and the other. >> mr. james fallis, appreciate your time. thank you so muc...

Note the clock on the bottom right. in fact, cnn has been reporting on north korea all weekend, including interviewing ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley on north korea. so here to discuss all of this, this is james fallis, correspondent for "the atlantic." thank you, sir, welcome back to the program. >> thank you, don. >> so with north korea, the threat and the russia investigation, what does it say that president trump is tweeting something that is 100% false about the media rather than focusing on more pressing matters? >> to look on the bright side, maybe it shows that he wasn't watching t...