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Can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. >> okay. so remember when congressman trey dowdy was on "new day" and announced his house oversight committee would be investigating the rob porter security clearance scandal? well, now that committee says the white house is not implying. they have not provided key details to the committee about former staff secretary rob porter's background check, timeline, as well as information about the security clearance process. the white house instead sending

On north korea, those were passed in 2015, we had a coalition of countries through our own efforts and through the united nations efforts to impose more sanctions on north korea, and so it has been a process of imposing these kinds of sanctions. that has had a negative economic impact on north korea. and i think we should also acknowledge the role that south korea has played recently to make sure that we have an environment. now, these are serious negotiations, i hope that we do not have what i would characterize as the tuesday trump, who goes in and has the one on one talks with kim jong-un, ...

The secretary of state, the secretary of defense had no idea, the vice president contradicted his policy earlier in the day, tells you there is not really a strategy here. so there is a lot of problem with chaos and lack of progress and process, i should say, and that is a determinant of whether to be successful. >> as a former state department spokesperson, did you break out in hives when you saw the secretary of state was so incredibly out of the loop on this? >> i did. frankly, because that's a pivotal person and there has been -- the fact that the state department has been gutted, that the...

Their terms. all of those things are nonstarters. but where there may be an opportunity is to see if we can give them at the end of a process if they take the steps to denuclearize credible guarantees for their own security and survival. that's where the rub is. we have to keep this in mind. when we engage in these kind of negotiations before, for example, with iran, on its nuclear program or cuba on diplomatic normalization, it has taken years, tremendous preparation, taken a very detailed and lengthy process, taken the right people and experts. none of those are in place. so i think we got a...

In spite of it all? would he be better served, more what you consider to be success if he got the act together inside the west wing? >> most people don't care what happens with the drama inside as long as things are getting better. they certainly are getting better. i remember 1978 with the new york yankees, the chaos in the locker room, all of them went nuts, george steinbrenner, it spurned one of the greatest sports books ever, the bronx zoo, and they won the world series that year. >> again, jen, there is fair criticism for the chaos we have seen in the west wing over the last few weeks. ye...