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Up disappointed that, we have gotten ahead of ourselves that we doesn't mean it. obviously there's a history of going back on these things in the past. >> sure, like lucy with the football. taking a kuk at it for several -- kick at it for several decades. here's what i think might be on the table that could be realistic. i think for north korea's part they would want an end of the war in a formal declaration of its end. okay, since 1953, it's probably time. then they hold the keys to it, to much of that in terms of their behavior. the other thing is normalized relations. where they have embass...

Asked him about why the president hasn't been more forceful himself or if he was concerned repeatedly pivoted to other people in the administration. so the administration in whole or talked about mike pompeo. what does it say that a republican cannot point to the president as the le-- the leade on thirks s. >> we don't know. but they simultaneously expelled hundreds of diplomats. it is not that we did it, we did it in concert with 14 countries in europe. that is -- for a unilateral relations and no functioning state department, that is an impressive piece of state craft. poo-pooing it is stupi...

Communications we're having with russia since or when we -- >> has donald trump had another phone call with vladimir putin that hasn't been reported. the white house tells us or the russians tell us. >> i'm saying we don't know what the level of state craft is going on between the united states and russia involving this expulsion. we didn't know it was happening until 12:30 this morning. >> he is right to say that this happened in response to an event. the event wasn't true a month or two months ago. so again -- >> but it was true when they had the phone call. >> if you want action for tou tou...

>> here's where i disagree with you. i do think the relationship between our countries has become much more adversarial. the relationship between donald trump and vladimir putin is quite strong. i see no evidence whatsoever that donald trump has taken one adversarial move against putin, and i have never seen putin say anything bad about donald trump. >> except for 200 dead russian mercenaries in syria. >> has donald trump ever spoke been that personally? has donald trump ever said a bad thing about putt cnn. >> you understand in state craft, vladimir putin knows exactly what donald trump did. ...

Found his stride either at for you bottom working with the state department and in diplomacy nor did he find himself in sync with the president as indeed the president has just said so you know you and your you viewed rex tillerson as being very much outside the tents and. unfortunately yes i mean there is a man who went to the pentacle of his career but spent you know decades in the oil industry and it turned out that that was not transferable knowledge to rapid public service in state craft and in the plum a c. may be given more time it would have worked out differently but we didn't really ...