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President do you think it's wise for president trump to be relying so much on china to solve this issue? >> well, listen, i think you only have so many tools in your tool box and i think he's trying to think outside of the box. first of all he's making sure that north korea understands that we're not going to send out a press release with president obama and president bush that didn't take anything seriously. he's making sure that he we watch it and pay attention but we're not going to tolerate it but the president understands the role china has with north korea and it's important that he put ...

Neighbors out there. china has got to know if he launches a nuclear weapon at the united states it will be devastating because you won't be able to drink milk. kids won't be able to because for years from all the nuclear radiation in the atmosphere. china needs to be told he fires a nuke we'll nuke him out and it's gone forever. the leverage points are one, economic dealing with syria with russia and a straight forward talk with the chinese, you guys have to stop this or we will. >> shannon: something tells me it won't be a quiet weekend. we know you're always standing by. thank you, sir, for ...

Care bill that they came up with that couldn't fly was, you know, designed to try to get the votes of the freedom caucus. that's never going to get even moderate republicans, much less democrats or anybody else on board and it's not going to satisfy trump's constituency. you're rig, he needs the mcmaster of domestic policy. i have no idea who that is. gary cohn is a smart guy but this is a steep learning curve and you need to know people as well as stuff. >> you need to know people, leverage points and you need to know how to treat them. threatening them not the way to do it. it's even more co...

This is using local authorities to be a part of immigration enforcement. that's controversial. some want it, some don't. the other slide i want to put up on the screen is all about the wall. this hasn't gotten as much attention today but these memos say we're going to build a border wall and quantify u.s. aid to mexico. why? it doesn't say in the memo. we've heard a lot about leverage points for getting mexican payments for the wall. >> sounds like it's going to cost a lot, charlie. >> it's going to cost a lot of money. once again, republicans don't have any answers. i find it fascinating with...

There yet. we should try to proceed in the near term in a deliberate and bipartisan manner. >> the intelligence committee is making progress. i am optimistic with what i've heard from chairman corker of foreign relations, senator graham who chairs one of the subcommittees of judiciary on which i serve, they could also investigate this. let's see if we're able to make progress, and if not, you just laid off a number of leverage points that we might be able to use to get the attention of the white house and of republicans in the senate. >> so there are ones who could potentially use if you need ...