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See a lot of gridlock, too. everybody who complains about it but we have the foundations of gridlock when you have the divided congress. i think the senate will put the breaks on a lot of ideas. the democrats have every leverage point in the house in the first part of january but it will be tough sledding to get anything meaningful done. things that both sides should care about like balancing the budget and reducing the national debt. those types of things are going to be very difficult going forward. >> jon: congressman andy biggs from arizona, good to have you on. >> sandra: brand-new. repor...

It's who he was. divisive. angry. and ultimately victorious for him. joining us now director of domestic policy studies at stanford university and research professor. where do you want to begin? president trump apparently doesn't really have any problem with being in love with dictators, even when leslie stahl puts out in front of him what that means, the type of destruction and human indecency. how does it impact the united states on the world stage? >> i think the challenge, mika, is that the president's conduct of foreign policy is fundamentally transactional. it's a question of what relati...

Help in coming to terms with north korea or criticizes china for not doing enough. the bottom line is china, by most people, is expected to be a pretty strong leverage point with north korea. >> correct. and we need china's help with respect to north that's one of the reasons in the past we were -- the president was very effective with north korea. and now there's questions whether china's even still imposing the sanctions it agreed to impose against north korea with the same vigor. and many people believe this is all attached. you have a relationship with a country. and, you know, it's hard t...

With moving things around but until secretary of state mike pompeo in the administration have said until there's a verifiable denuclearization permanently which means we are going to have to go in and inspect the entire country quite frankly, then we will seem if they will yield results that are long-lasting. >> dagen: it wasn't long ago, just a matter of weeks ago that there were new satellite photos that showed that kim jong un regime is continuing to develop a nuclear weapons program, we've had china essentially allowing losing its enforcement on the trade sanctions after the summit, so the...

Creates additional leverage point and standing to keep an eye on this and see about the humanitarian part. >> could change the game. it could change what ultimately happens with these people. as we know right now, 2053 young kids are sitting in detention tonight in hhs custody. the questions before were where are the girls, where are the toddlers, those questions still apply. next question is where is everyone going next. >> we are indebted to your reporting. appreciate your legal handicapping of another weird legal day. coming up, we turn to reverend al sharpton with me live to talk about h...