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Abusing staff, the president's doctor for v.a. secretary reacts to new allegations against him. the president cabinet insists the president is not naive when it comes to north korea. we'll talk with david ignatius about that and what look like a new iran deal. "morning joe" is coming right back. people said it just made a mess until exxonmobil scientists put it to the test. they thought someday it could become fuel and power our cars wouldn't that be cool? and that's why exxonmobil scientists think it's not small at all. energy lives here. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient ori...

>> jeffrey sacks, you want the president to follow his instinct, to go with his gut and to leave syria. you've been very critical of american foreign policy towards syria for some time, including the encouragement of many of the forces that were rebelling against assad that have launched the civil war. talk about that. talk about how this began and where we are now. >> well, we actually launched the war in effect in 2011 because america's regional allies all wanted assad overthrown. and so, back in 2011 turkey, where erdogan said let's put in muslim brotherhood regime actually at the time, sau...

Our primacy. it's been a very prickly relationship. the french famously disagreed with george w. bush about weapons of mass destruction in iraq. opposed the u.s. invasion of iraq. that criticism from france looks better, i must say, with the passage of time. but at the time it led to a real crisis, and you remember people were boycotting french restaurants and calling french fries freedom fries to show how angry they were at the french. it was all kind of crazy. misfiring of a traditional relationship. macron has very cleverly brought that back to the center. i think part of it is a traditiona...

Want to have a very, very strong -- we want to leave a strong and lasting footprint. and that was a very big part of our discussion. >> that's the president speaking yesterday at the white house. joining us now professor and director of the center for sustainable development at colombia university, economist dr. jeffrey sacks and columnist for the new york times and msnbc contributor brett stephens. brett, let me begin with you. macron comes to america trying to convince president trump to stay in the iran deal, some version or another. the president sits at a press availability in the oval of...

Entertaining negotiation with the north koreans. so with this president you never know. i mean, i argued strenuously against the iran deal back in 2015. i think it has critical, critical flaws, including allowing iran to continue to field and test ballistic missiles. the real question is whether he can renegotiate the agreement. the iranians say they are flatly against it, but my colleague tom freedman pointed out, the iranian economy is in free fall and we learned with the obama administration that there are, in fact, ways of imposing punitive sanctions that really hurt -- that really hit the...