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What i think is a reasonably coherent strategy. the administration had a win over the weekend at the u.n. by getting the chinese and the russians to sign on to very tough sanctions resolution. now with this new war of words, we've pushed off of that strategy seems to me and tried to go back to threats, which are only going to get the north koreans to pursue their weapons programs and missile program more aggressively. so i think we should lower the temperature a bit and get back to what the secretary was doing before this last round of words. >> ethan, you said we can only really hope for half...

>> well, they may. and they may, they may not. there are many different ways to discover who is leaking. steve: are you going to get to the bottom of it? you know, people want to get to the bottom of it. >> this is incensing the people here to serve. that begins with the president and the vice president and our cabinet, obviously, our chief of staff because what are people gaining from this? you are currying favor with the journalists. brian: you are hurting the president. abby: you are hurting the country. >> hurting the president's ability to negotiate and discuss serious issues with other h...

Russia. ma mark warner gsd -- mitch mccon downplays the story but he says it's another distraction for republicans. >> well, i read "the washington post" story and i read general mcmaster's response which tends to refute the story. rep rebut the story. i think we could do with a little less drama from the white house on a lot of things so that we can focus on our agenda. >> our congressional correspondent phil mattingly is up on capitol hill. what's the latest you're hearing from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle? >> no shortage of questions. a little of scurrying for any type of answer fro...

By the way, jeff sessions basically say the immigration policy will go forward because the president feels so passionately about it. he cares so much about it. well, that's not the way it works. don't forget that donald trump covered the campaign from the beginning. he rangainst the republican establishment every step of the way. he ran against washington. he ran against the congress. he ran against the courts. he ran against the press. he had no interest in currying favor with the members of congress. most members of congress on the republican side ran away from him until the very end if they...

Months just what happened. >> as we said last week, this may be the 5% compared to the 95% russian story, but this 5% part of the story requires that we pay attention to it as well. david, i'm curious, i asked richard if this would hav happened with 41 or between 43 and 44. i'm wondering, do you have any examples of a national security adviser requesting the unmasking of several names and then spreading it across, as steve's report suggests, spreading those names across the government to other agencies. does this happen? has this happened before? >> joe, i did ask that question yesterday of in...