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Work with him, but i explained you worked with president bush. so, how concerned are you that he might nudge this president into military conflict? >> i think the president has to have military options available to him if he's going to get good deals. you always have to have that threat of military action to back your negotiation position. john bolton having called for pre-emptive strikes against north korea allows the president to get a better deal on the nuclear deal, which is a terrible deal, and better deal on iran, which we've had a bipartisan 25-year policy that doesn't work. they have n...

Giving things away or do you start close to your bottom line? >> well, we had in the reagan period we had bottom line, we had what we wanted and we said what that was and you don't want to build things that you're going to give away that you think are going to please the other guy. you start thinking about his position, you're going to be negotiating with yourself. it's best to be for what you are for and hold onto that. when we started out in the intermediate range nuclear weapon's negotiation, our object was to have zero and people said that's crazy, the soviets have 1500 and we have none, w...

Giving things away or do you start close to your bottom line? >> well, we had in the reagan period we had bottom line, we had what we wanted and we said what that was and you don't want to build things that you're going to give away that you think are going to please the other guy. you start thinking about his position, you're going to be negotiating with yourself. it's best to be for what you are for and hold onto that. when we started out in the intermediate range nuclear weapon's negotiation, our object was to have zero and people said that's crazy, the soviets have 1500 and we have none, w...

Giving things away or do you start close to your bottom line? >> well, we had in the reagan period we had bottom line, we had what we wanted and we said what that was and you don't want to build things that you're going to give away that you think are going to please the other guy. you start thinking about his position, you're going to be negotiating with yourself. it's best to be for what you are for and hold onto that. when we started out in the intermediate range nuclear weapon's negotiation, our object was to have zero and people said that's crazy, the soviets have 1500 and we have none, w...

30 days. >> 45 days. >> he does adjust, he improves. >> we're waiting. >> we have seen a big improvement in the messaging. he had a great week last week. that speech before congress was amazing. >> there's a lot of things -- you said let's give him the benefit of the doubt. but when you read the list of things, from ted cruz's father, the birtherism, millions of illegal votes, the size of the inauguration crowds, and on and on, these are conspiracy theories. >> i wouldn't say conspiracy theory. >> they are divorced from reality, though. >> he overstates his position as a negotiation position. ...