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Told jake tapper trust, but verify. so there are still questions here. let's listen to how secretary pompeo described the decision to eventually call off the talks that were supposed to take place at camp david. >> we've been working on those for a while and it was the case that when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to say that's not going to work, we're going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends in a negotiation. it's not right, it's not appropria...

And sacrifices americans had made would be properly honored. >> when did you find out the taliban were coming here and when did you find out the meeting had been canceled? >> we were working on those for a while and it was the case when the taliban tried to gain negotiating advantage by conducting terror attacks inside of the country, president trump made the right decision to say that's not going to work. we're going to walk away from a deal if others try to use violence to achieve better ends to the negotiations, not rights or appropriates for americans and there's no reward for that type of...

Do, by the way, during the campaign. we're now two years into the administration. i think it's time for leader pelosi to continue to play hardball and she clearly has the upper hand. she clearly has the negotiating advantage. because from my perspective, joy, i go back to the comment that benjamin made, very astute one, when he pointed out in reaction to the "new york times" story that he's starting to believe that obstruction of justice is the collusion if you look at this from the frame that says donald trump is a hostile foreign russian agent, which believe he is and which congressman eric ...

Should also matter to the country and to the world are policy successes. all of this destabilization he's introducing into nato and europe right now to get a negotiating advantage is not take the bigger picture into account. which is he's making the stage in europe easier for vladimir putin to intrude upon. if you're in latvia estonia or lithuania right now, you don't have any assurance that if putin decides to spread westward to the baltic, you don't stand up. >> and if you live in ohio, oklahoma or niagara fall, you couldn't give a flying fig what's happening in lithuania or estonia. >> that...

But we ought to have a very very high bar for when we finish this deal and, remember, of course, that iran needs this deal a lot more than the united states does. that might give us a negotiating advantage. but as secretary albright said it does cut off their pathway to a nuclear weapon. the iraq heavy water reactor is going to be neutralized. the enrichment is going to be scrutinized. the verification provisions here are very strict. i think what makes it different, mika from north korea is this iran's a trading nation. they need capital investment. they need export their oil and gas. and tha...