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Every one. and, really delicate issues with each and every one. >> it's a really full schedule. nine bilateral meetings with president xi of china, you had the meeting yesterday with the south korean and japanese on the north korea issue. you have to prepare extensively. you have to know exactly what you want out of these meetings. they're short. you have to be able to express your views. get that feedback and keep that process moving. the challenge here is the administration is not filled out in its senior positions. we have not developed those policies so it's high stakes without the prepara...

Fred. you can make the case it's a sign of strength. the president is standing up to bullies in the media, being tough. seen those comments on social media. the flip side, acting very weak. not promoting policy objectives. he's not trying to lobby to get this health care bill through congress. instead, just beating up on the media. today it's cnn. who knows who it will be tomorrow. because that makes fans feel good about him, appreciate it and enjoy it. creating a show, creating drama. to me, it looks like an act of weakness than strength. >> here it is. independence day weekend. >> yes. >> an...

Policy? this came yesterday, an all-encompassing story in the middle of a pitched health care battle where mitch mcconnell are trying to cobble together a coalition of republicans to pass this bill. does this have a real world impact on republicans and which way they may go here? >> even before this tweet republicans in washington were talking about missed opportunities with donald trump when it comes to the platform that he has. as president, you always have the bully pulpit. trump has this unique ability and command and capture the country's attention but he uses it for score settling, for g...

Disaster and this composite as trump essentially handed over authority to the pentagon to essentially run the show and decide what we're doing in terms of the way we're using our military in the middle east. is that comforting to you or disturbing? >> it's not comforting at all because ultimately the policy objectives, the strategic policy objectives have to be set by the civilians. so the turn things over to the pentagon is to do just what i intimated, to turn it over the people operating on a tactical basis, a day-to-day basis. the only strategic objective i can see in this is ensuring the s...

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