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Mr. mccabe, the fact that mr. trump was very rough on him during the election season. he was worried there might be bad blood there. and the flynn one also making his case for why he didn t think that general flynn had done anything wrong. that changes things. paul: what s your second point. you said that was one thing we learned. what s the other point? the second thing is you ve got to ask here what was the basis for a special council, because there s not a lot there, even in all of these long memos. paul: jason. my take is that we re not learning a lot here, either from the book or the memos. he testified before congress saying a lot of this. a lot of this has been reported. a lot of the interviews i ve been watching with comey is him telling the interviewer i can t talk about that, it s classified. we still want to know why comey relied on a steele dossier that he knew was unverified and was financed by the clinton foundation. we haven t gotten answers about that yet. there ....
That is not going to be fruitful, we re not going to go. if the meeting when i m there is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. paul: president trump on wednesday, saying he s prepared to walk away from talks with north korea ten til tentativelyd for later this spring. the white house confirmed this week that mike pompeo held a secret meeting with kim jong un over easter weekend, setting the stage for the historic summit between the two leaders. retired four star army general jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst. welcome. good to have you back. what do you make of all the cross-current on north korea? it s a lot of change that really is moving in the direction of a high stakes discussion between the president kim jong un. i think director pompeo s visit was really pivotal. i spoke to the director on north ....
Think china has made up its mind that this headache of nuclearized peninsula and this constant frustration that the north korean leader provides, not just to the west but also to china, this whole thing that s been on for years is a an i m pe i m impediment for china s ambitions. the north korean leader is an obstacle. paul: let s talk about japan. shinzo abe has invested a lot in his relationship with president trump. there is some cause to feel that maybe he s been left behind in the korean discussions. one of the reasons i think he came to talk to the president this week is to say look, what s going on here and are we on the same page. what does the president have to do to reassure japan? japan s always had a pause for concern here, because south ....
Do those arguments still apply? but i think this really boils down to what alicia was getting at. this is a money grab. they want a new source of revenue and they find a very rich vein in e-commerce. it s also a way to raise taxes effectively without putting it to a vote. is not just sales tax. other regulations they will try. such as? maybe they will try to tax online videos. in other words, - - this is just the first. i guess the argument would be since congress has the right to regulate state commerce, congress could pile in an layout parameters of what could be taxed and what can t. that s right paul. they already took a shot at making a more simplified taxing system and they failed. now they are dumping it on the supreme court to figure it all ....
Looking for. he hasn t been providing them, at least so far in the interviews he s given. essaying this is because it s classified stuff. paul: what about that, dan? i have a similar reaction to jason, that it didn t advance the ball all that much beyond what we knew. what do you think? i think that s right. one thing we can say that is if the idea at the center of this is that the president committed obstruction of justice, this will be one of the weakest obstruction cases ever brought if the base is inside the memos. one other important thing. what we have identified is that james comey told president trump perhaps three times it says, ann these memos that he, mr. trump, was not a target of the investigation. he did say they thought there was an investigation going into whether the trump campaign had involvement with the russians but mr. trump was not a target. the thing that trump kept asking comey to say. ....