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Farce. >> and, elise, how does the state department, someone like mike pompeo trying to get a fresh start there at that department, how does he go back to work after the performance donald trump gave at the white house? >> well, just yesterday mike pompeo said he was leading the negotiations, not john bolton. and then today abruptly that rug has been swept out from under him. you look at how donald trump has approached this whole process and it's been completely on the fly. he accepts the offer in a meeting with the south korean president. he doesn't notify them about the letter because he's w...

Fit right there now in north korea. kim jong-un is the big winner. >> i hope what we're hearing today is a strategic decision made by the president rather than rejecting diplomacy because diplomacy is the only way we can proceed. >> this is the example of what happens when you don't understand the nature of the diplomacy that has to take place, the deep preparations that have to take place before you even agree to enter such a summit. >> democratic reaction to the president's news about pulling out of the north korea summit in june. "the new york times" reporting president trump citing a flurr...

Mission. the agency saying let's appease them. we've done nothing wrong. threats' be as transparent as we can and not give them any excuse. the problem with that, nicolle, how far does this go, where does this end, how many briefings are they going to be demanded to give. >> we just heard from adam schiff. he went to the cameras after the gang of 8 meeting. let's listen to that and talk about it on the other side. >> today's gang of 8 briefing was conducted to assure protection of sources and methods. nothing we heard today has changed our view. there is no evidence to support any allegation t...

Pressure, he's not aware of things happening on the world stage. do you think he'll be more aggressive seeking the interview? >> he's going to have to make decisions that have political consequence. whether it's around the election, and more acutely the north korea thing. if the president was going to north korea and mueller said, look, i've had enough of these negotiations, i want to subpoena him. would it be in the back of mueller's mind, if i did this during these negotiations before or even after while they were hammering out the details, is that unfair to the president? is it going make i...

Opposition he had where they're trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. you know that. it took a lot of guts. i really disagreed with him. i was not his fan, but i'll tell you what, what he did, he brought back his reputation. he brought it back. he's got to hang tough because there's a lot of -- lot of people want him to do the wrong thing. what he did was the right thing. >> so, what changed? well, jim comey is now a key witness in the obstruction of justice investigation into the president and donald trump's legal team has landed on a smear comey campaign as their best strategy to ...