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To revert to the sunshine policy, to show deference to the north to get them to open up at the negotiating table and this is just another hand fisted trump way of trying to do that. >> the question is, does it help us get to the end goal? does it help toward denuclearization, right? >> that remains to be seen. playing devil's advocate. there's a logic here. his most own charm offensive might lead to the north loosening up a little bit. i would remind your viewers that the sunshine policy in the past hasn't worked. i'm all for engagement and discussion, but i do think that president trump is go...

General mcmaster comes to mind, secretary mattis. new chief of staff, john kelly, and perhaps gary cohn feels the same way. if he leaves, who will be chair. playing devil's advocate, see you rolling your eyes, need to be there to do the patriotic thing for the country. >> when you take senior level jobs in the white house, you don't take an oath to serve an individual president, you take an oath to serve the country and the constitution. so i think people take these jobs out of the sense of public service and they want to contribute what they can contribute to our national economy in gary cohn...

>> when they booted out russian diploma diplomats/intel folks. >> exactly. they want to talk about the crisis in syria. one of the places they could find common ground, fighting international terrorism. the kremlin has sort of set out their parameters. what we haven't seen and the would us has, seemed to have indicated that is not going to be brought up is election meddling, and while the president is under pressure here at home to discuss this and perhaps look putin in the eye and pull an obama and say, cut it out, he might leave that meeting and not do that, and what will be the fallout ther...

Founder, head of murray energy, says he's warned the president, don't talk about creating more coal jobs because it's not going to happen. we have sacrificed our leadership, we sacrificed our leadership as a producer of clean energy. five years ago we were number one, we're now number four, and this is going to make it worse. it's going to diminish our influence around the world. our allies and friends know now after the foreign trip in this that donald trump has willingly and purposefully compromised our role in the leader of the free world. >> we have a number of businesses and mayors and go...

Move along the learning curve as president, new to public office, that will be on display this week? >> i don't know if it's on display this week but i look at the syria strike, developing relationship with china, additional pressure on north korea and have to give the president and his national security team exceptionally high marks. the other thing after this week, there's going to be a point where we can sit down with democrats. that never happens, by the way, the opening part of a presidency. i don't know of any president that's ever had bipartisan cooperation because they're busy trying t...