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Up with a one sentence agreement where when we work it out we realize that their interpretation of that one sentence uttered by the president putin in our sbepgs is fundamentally different. that's where i think the president will get worked. >> by the way, jim, just very quickly, sorry, just quickly, one point to add to phil's exactly right on point is, donald trump got elected in a lot of ways because he didn't have any experience. he didn't have elected off his experience. first person to be president not to have either of those. but putin has been at this a long time. putin does know exactl...

Potential. north korea is out of control. it truly constitutes a clear and present danger. i have heard ambassador john bolton say, i think he's right. it sounds bold. but at some point there's got to be a reunikaeugs of korea. this can't continue. it doesn't get better. i think we have to understand this. we've seen this movie before. the ending is not one we want to sit all the way through. >> eric: sanctions haven't worked. 20,000 american troops there. finally, briefly, back to the putin meeting friday. it's going to be dissected. it's going to be analyzed, from the length of the handshake...

But i would be the first one willing to say, you know what? that was a very interesting bit of stage craft if the president were able to pull that off. but the negotiation that h.r. mcmaster is saying we don't have an agenda, it's whatever the president wants to say is a very scary thing because vladimir putin does have an agenda, he does have a well thought out game plan about how he wants to split the trans-atlantic alliance, how he wants to stroke donald trump's ego and how he wants to get things that russia wants and we need to be very, very cautious about this meeting. >> in the meantime,...

Here which is try to get put on the fight isis? >> quickly, that is the big question here, who does trump think his audience here the skeptics here who say he's in cahoots with putin or is he going for a different audience here? that will be the question. >> right. also if he acts presidential and doesn't address some of the issues that have been raised about the interference and tries to get at the policy issues regarding isis, if he treats this as a normal meeting and doesn't become very careful about the stage craft of it, he will add fuel for the fire for democrats and independents. >> tha...

Achieve or doesn't help achieve what they are trying to achieve they will go after them. this is the thing. 2016 showed that the russians have greatly amped up their sophistication. a few years ago they didn't know what dnc was. they have figured out the subtleties of our democratic political process. they couldn't even lobby the hill before. in 2012 five years ago they didn't know who to lobby on the hill. now they have gotten very sophisticated. if the republicans think that come 2018 or 2020 they are not going to go after them or this won't effect them they are sadly mistaken. >> i wanted t...