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The president from an opposing party no lonr gets tout anybody on the supreme court and seats just get held open? if another supreme court justice retired or died on the bench and there was another opening on the supreme court, if democrats were in charge of the senate, would they not allow trump to nominate anyone? is that what we do from here on out? is there any other remedy at this point given what we just went through? joining us is the great dalia. senior editor and legal correspondent for slate.com. great to see you on this first day of the new world order. >> hey, rachel. i feel like i...

Told the "financial times" that the u.s. is ready to deal with the north korean nuclear threat if needed asking, quote, if china is not going to solve north korea, we will. the president is hosting chinese president ping and north korea will be a major topic of discussion. >> gordon chang, the author of "the comes collapse of china." gordon, thanks for being with us. the backdrop of this missile test, is the meeting between president trump and the premier of china, what should the posture of president trump and the united states government be at this point given what's happening in north korea...

We have not locked at trump contacts between trump associates in other countries. it may be they are extensive as well. on the russia piece, at this point, there's no reason to think that jeff sessions should resign. the oldest rule in washington is not what you do that gets you in it trouble, it's how you respond when it begins to become public. and i think the reason at this point given what we all know should not resign is there is nothing wrong in having contacts with the russian ambassador and there seems to have been nothing wrong with what he said. the problem is i think he muffed the a...

Ability to act consistently. >> but, peter, it seems inevitab inevitable, doesn't it? we know where this is going. mcconnell gets 60 votes or gets rid of the filibuster. >> yeah. there doesn't seem to be much chance at this point given what we know that judge gorsuch won't be on the court. the only question how ugly will it be between now and then? it can be pretty ugly. and, you know, you're right. i mean, the democrats are feeling pretty bruised by the last year and the republicans, you're right about that too, by the way. i think republicans -- who voted for donald trump a lot of them holdi...

But apparently he decided to help himself year after year to basically the farm's bottom l e line. rerepeatedly took the retained earnings from the farm, basically took money out of the business year after year until it ultimately attracted the attention of republicans in congress who persuaded the department of justice to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the peanut farm to investigate if president carter was using it to hide some political slush fund because where was all that money going out of the business? yeah, it turns out there wasn't a slush fund. it was billy! billy was not...