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Assistance your taxpayer dollars. $390 million. being with held because we were leveraging that against the ukrainian supporting president trump for a political campaign. >> he said in the meeting he didn't feel pressure. from that phone call. at least the transcript. if he didn't feel pressure, he could only get a meeting if he agreed? can you -- >> we had clear evidence now that the ukrainians understood that the only way to get a meeting with trump was investigate the bidens, chon rate russia. that was made clear. trump was using various officials to make it clear to the ukrainians. >> evid...

Meeting between president donald trump and kim jong-un. although yesterday i spoke to the foreign minister and she told me there will be that meeting. and of course after this summit between the two korean leaders ends and wraps up this evening they hope for a written, a written commitment from kim jong-un to denuclearization. they say, the foreign minister told me that her president will be in a meeting on the phone to the u.s. president to discuss the tone of the meeting, to see whether enough has been achieved to recommend that the united states goes ahead with its planned summit. but the f...

World trembled for weeks and months potentially on the brink of even what the united states was calling a bloody nose message to north korea. this has changed that rhetoric at least for the moment. and as you see this guard, as you see the red carpet, as you see frankly kim jong-un and man jay in acting like dads with their arms around two children and flowers being given and handshakes and smiles, this is for this moment an extraordinary change. and that's why it's important because it shows that there is a possibility of changing the dynamic from headlong conflict to potential negotiation. a...

Exactly what he wants. this is not going to fly with the public. a new pew poll shows 53% of the american people will blame republicans if the country goes over the fiscal cliff. only 29% would blame the president of the united states. house speaker john boehner has less support each day for a hard line approach. republican opposition to tax increases is slipping in congress. anti-tax lobbyist grover norquist no longer as a majority of supporters in either chamber. "the hill" says newly elected republicans refuse to sign the anti-tax pledge during the campaigns and another handful of returning...

Something we have never done and that's where the big money is at. shannon: doug schoen and grover more gift. thank you, gentlemen. you have taken the heat because you are accused of strong arming republicans into signing a pledge that they won't raise taxes and you are to blame for the gridlock and it will continue. how do you respond? >> the pledge is taken by candidates for office to their constituents and the american people it, a pledge they take to their constituents and they get elected based on that. a majority of the congressmen and house of representatives made a written commitment t...