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Don. >> pamela, standby. i want to bring fareed back in. "the new york times" is reporting that following an early morning raid, mueller's team told manafort they plan to indict him. >> you know i think that mueller's team is clearly trying to figure out where it can find the sort of maximum leverage. and one of the things you often do in these kind of situations is you let somebody know that basically they violated the law. the prosecutors think that's a very likely prospect. in the hope you get cooperation. and it does feel as though the investigation has ramped up in this regard. it has alw...

Working with gop where congress failed on repeal and replacement. obama worked to pass that bill. donald trump made a few phone calls, gave a speech or two, come of which wasn't great. he did not work this. we need the trump white house to work hand and glove with congress. that didn't happen this time. >> paul, we've seen spicer and priebus purnged from the white house. is there anybody left to fill the role with the president? >> there is mike pence. he's a highly regarded guy. he haven't seen him much. he was there late this morning in case they needed his vote. the problem is the president...

Don't they have more control over what happens here, at least in terms of the government? >> iran has a lot of influence. that's part of what has been motivating maliki. and one of the reasons maliki didn't want to sign the status of forces agreement with america, which would have kept american troops in iraq in small numbers was the iranians told them they didn't want it. i heard that from several shia politicians in iraq who said this deal is never going to happen because iran doesn't want it. so the iranians do have influence. we could have some influence, particularly now. this is washingt...

The reason why this is a sucker's deal is. this it's quite simple. the only reason that the iranys are at the table the economic sanctions are so strict and harsh right now that the regime stability is threatened. the only way iran would ever give up nukes, ever, is if the regime has a sense that it is threatened. that's the only thing that would stop them. and they are now beginning to worry about economic instability in the country. here we are at a point of maximum leverage. what does this so-called deal offer? it relieves the iranians. it changes, it weakens the infrastructure of the sanct...

Not about the afghan people, we are talking about our own government. what you are describing, does that cost lives? >> i think ultimately there was a cost in lives. look, the cost is that we have 90,000 troops here today. they are fighting incredibly hard, serving honorably, they deserve the best washington in supporting them. the other big problem was -- the first group of troops we sent largely to parts of the country that weren't as important as other places. i detailed this in the book. how they manage to go off to part of the country with very few people. those are the sorts of issues th...