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Personnel on the ground in seyra at the invitation of the syrian government. that is how russia is making its case. the united states is doing this, using far fetched and fabricated pre-text for military intervention in syria where russian service members are deployed at request of the legitimate government. it is absolutely unacceptable and can lead to the most serious consequences. the words from the foreign ministry here, again, ratcheting up the possibility of a response should president trump decide strikes are necessary at this time on syria. >> interesting, nic, the russians said a coup...

Obviously, the white house has been asked about this, has sort of deflected the questions, how does this play in? the idea of this major, as bill was talking about, sport as a pretext for bigger discussions between these two countries? >> i would be very surprised if the white house decides to take that approach. if for nothing more than shallow reasons where trump doesn't want america to lose and north korea to possibly win at some opportunities. but i don't think that's a strategy that is going to significantly change what is happening between korea and the u.s. >> "the new york times" has a...

>> reporter: there is a world of distrust between the two koreas. these talks start slowly and carefully and are choreographed. nine hour, absolutely right. at 9:30 in the morning here, the north korean delegation will walk into the demilitarized zone, one of the most dangerous borders in the world. and at 150:0:00, they go to sit down with the south korean delegation. five delegates each, the north koreans head by a hard liner, the south koreans led by the coordinating minister. south korea wants the olympics to go well, but north korea wants to be a part of it. but the olympics are only a pr...

Like nelson mandella in south africa, the fall of the berlin wall and collapse of the soviet union. how can that same thing happen in iran? >> well it is in fact happening and if you have observed carefully, you see that in most cases, the iranians have been quite disciplined in avoiding any kind of violent behavior that would give a pre-text for the regime to come and crack down on them even more. the reason why it is important to have a movement that is based on non-violence civil disobedience is because it doesn't give you a sense of a result of vengence or any kind of settling of scores. w...

Obviously, we know that this memo that rod rosenstein drafted initially was used as a justification for firing comey. we later learned by trump's own admission that this was just a pre-text, that he was ready to fire comey all along. so my question is, what did -- >> nick, i have to interrupt you. my apologies. paul ryan taking questions on bob mueller. >> do you think it's wise for the republican party to be having this discussion right now? >> all i have heard are rumors, but i think, in the best case for the president, is to be vindicated by allowing this investigation to go on thoroughly a...