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Bilateral. >> t.p.p. gave abe cover to open up long protected markets in japan. it was a strategic agreement. it didn't include china. it was a way to call countries of the asia pacific closer to the united states at an important point in time. president trump's issue on the bilateral deal seems to echo the deal where he uses the tariff as a lever to press japan to open up their markets. in south korea that resulted in so-called managed trade where they basically agreed to quotas, we buy x, you buy y, and not the kind of broad opening that t.p.p. achieves. i hope that's not where we going with...

Saying. clearly he acknowledged himself he was lying to trudeau. >> our cnn colleague fareed zakaria wrote a post saying the president was not so much a liar but bs artist. when you listen to this recording, you see if you buy the idea that he is a bs artist, he's also proud to be a bs artist. the problem with trying to bs the canadian prime minister is twofold. it is not just the next door neighbor you try to renegotiate nafta with, this is a close security ally, country that went to afghanistan with us and works with us around the world. the idea you insult them even in what you think is a p...

Facilities, which are run by the uae and yemeni forces and include an airport, military bases, ports, private villas, and a nightclub. the prisoners there routinely tortured with methods reportedly including, but not limited to heavy beating, and that includes the use of weapons being blind-folded for weeks, electric shocks, sexual abuses, foot cane and a method referred to as the grill where victims are tied to a spit and spun in a circle of fire. one former detainee tells the a.p., "i would die and go to hell rather than go back to this prison. if it was bin laden, they would not do this. th...

Norman eisen. i want to first just get your initial thoughts about what we're hearing about this ballistic missile launch. >> well, ana, having had the privilege, but also, the responsibility of sitting in an embassy and trying to calculate the actions of foreign governments with respect to the united states, this is a test of donald trump. and it's intended, of course, japan is our other major security ally with south korea and the region. and the north koreans are well aware of donald trump's remarks during the campaign that perhaps japan should get its own nuclear weapons. so i think they a...

Security trumps whatever their anti-immigrant views are. >> senator, some of your republican colleagues in the senate and house decided not to go and witness the prime minister of israel's speech today. you are going to be there. why? >> i agree with many fellow democrats that the process and political timing of the prime minister's speech to congress you know are problematic, but i am going to go because in fact this is the elected representative of the people of israel, the one true democracy in that part of the world, a major ally of the united states major trading partner of the united sta...