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feel like 50? how can i share new plans virtually? how can i download an e-file? virtual tours? zip-file? really big files? in seconds, not minutes... just like that. like everything... the answer is simple. i'll do what i've always done... dream more, dream faster, and above all... now, i'll dream gig. now more businesses, in more places, can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. welcome to "inside politi politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. japan's prime minister due at the white house any moment now. shinzo abe's top priority, keeping pressure on north korea. but he is also learning, like other global leaders, that friendship and flattery only goes so far when president trump
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is in the mood for trade fights. plus the justice department turns the tables on the boss. it now wants to share classified documents with key members of congress. that after gop leaders say the president is wrong and that there's nothing to back up his claim that the fbi illegally spied on the trump campaign. house republicans huddle for an election year immigration summit. moderates want citizenship for the dreamers. conservatives want the border wall and limits on legal immigration. do not hold your breath for compromise. >> the republicans are meeting on immigration. lord knows what will come out on that. hopefully the lord knows. we've been praying very hard on it. >> we begin today on two stories that are important on their own but also together thanks to the president's penchant for tackling law enforcement and spinning conspiracies. he says the fbi illegally planted a spy in his presidential campaign. leaders of his own republican party and congress say that is
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not true. now the president's own justice department is prepared to share classified documents, confident now those documents are more evidence the president is spinning a reckless fantasy. the president also says the root of all this is a biased fbi led at the time by james comey. that, in the president's view, was determined to go easy on hillary clinton while dropping the hammer on him. the second big development deals with that. it isn't quite ready for release yet, but cnn has learned a highly anticipated report from the justice department inspector general is expected to sharply criticize comey and accuse him of failing to follow protocol in the hillary clinton investigation. i want to bring in jeff zeleny at the white house, laura. laura, let's start with you. why don't they say bring in the gang of eight and say, here they are. >> it turns out lawmakers actually had the opportunity to review at least some of these documents late last month. just to remind our viewers of
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the timeline here, you'll remember in the beginning, they were resistant to turn over the documents, fearing that it could put the source's life at risk. then the president started tweeting about it and the justice department held two classified briefings, one which is known as the gang of eight, top leaders, democrats and republicans. they brought top documents, at least some of them, for lawmakers to review but they were left untouched. after additional negotiations, the justice department will again brief them with those documents and more as well as answering outstanding questions for lawmakers, john. >> and laura, tell us about this ig report, why it is so important that the big headlines our reporting tells us to look for. >> the critical issue here will be a flouting of traditional norms and processes at the justice department. sources say we can expect to see a thorough report running over the course of at least 500 pages, and it will zero in on a
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series of critical moves leading up to july of 2016 when james comey came out to the public without justice department authorization to announce that he found that hillary clinton had been extremely careless in her review of classified information, handling of classified information. but also recommending no charges, all without justice department authorization. and, of course, when he came out just days before the november 2016 election, reopening the clinton investigation, again without justice department authorization, john. >> laura jarrett at the justice department, appreciate it. let's go to jeff zeleny. the president talks about both of these issues. he once pressured the justice department to share these documents. he may regret that now. he and his conservative allies are saying, where is this ig report, is this slow foot dragging at the justice department? what do you make of this? >> there's no doubt that the president has talked a lot about this, but they certainly are
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calling his bluff on this. the reality is we saw speaker paul ryan, as laura was saying, pulling back from this and other republicans have as well. so the president, at the very least, seems distracted by all this. of course, he has a big summit coming up this weekend and next week as well, but he seems very focused on the justice department and james comey in particular. look at this message he sent out this morning. very few number of words here, but certainly very interesting. let's take a look. he said, when will people start saying, thank you, mr. president, for firing james comey? not any time soon, probably. at least the republicans in washington who believe that the firing of james comey led to the special counsel and started all of this. so the president is clearly trying to frame this debate, frame all of this as that was something he had to do more than a year ago, is fire the fbi director. but it certainly is not helping his argument, i would say, that there was a spygate, there was other things happening here. but all of this is going on again. as i said, many people here at
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the white house i talked to said they certainly wish the president would focus on the matter at hand, and that's the visit from prime minister shinzo abe who will be coming behind me in a few minutes, and of course that summit next week. the president will be heard this ta afternoon at a press conference. he certainly will be asked about james comey, the doj and other things. >> thank you for being in the studio and sharing your insig s insights, my panel. is this a case, forgive my language to a degree, but where the dog chases its own tail, and in two cases might be about to bite it. let's start with the documents. the president is saying, you're hiding these documents rerks le, release the documents, give congress these documents. the justice department was unwilling to do so. now it's more than willing after
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members of congress say, we were briefed on this and we see nothing there to support the president's wild allegations that the fbi spied. in fact, yesterday agreeing with trey gowdy saying the fbi did nothing wrong, they did everything right. >> this is an instance where he sort of made a situation for himself that will end up disproving the theory he's put out there, disproving the argument he's put out there. we've seen this from this president a number of times, and he always seems to move on to the next thing. we saw this with the house intelligence committee memo, right? he wanted to release the memo. he wanted to have proof that this wire tapping of his former campaigning was not justified. what came out in the course of that was that it actually was justified, that he had contacts with the russians, that there was a reason why that fisa warrant was issued. and so that didn't look like it turned out in his favor, but now he's turned to this. he will continue to raise these questions because it undercuts the investigation, in his mind,
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and that's his goal. >> in his mind it's important. these two are good friends. things to discuss, the upcoming north korea summit. they have huge interest that the united states keep up the pressure and get security commitments. that's priority number one. priority number two, trade pressures as the president and shinzo abe move to canada for the summit meeting. we'll take you back to the white house chlts let's get back to this theory again. the whole idea of the spies. there is a fabulous, ladies and gentlemen, if you haven't seen this, a fabulous "time" cover and stories inside about the president, about how he goes about his job, about his views on executive power, about his spinning wildly at times these conspiracy theories that he thinks help him. i just want to read a piece of it here. donald trump's claim of discrediting the campaign is
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maybe working. it's almost like he uses fox & friends to vet which topics are good enough or are legit, and he will go ahead and attack those and light those up, says a trend of trump's who is familiar with his social media use. >> to julie's point, it's somewhat surprising he hasn't actually moved on from spygate. it's now been three weeks he's spent trying to make this a thing, continuing to use his nickname for it, and to double down on these claims that now so many even usually loyal members of his own party are saying just isn't the case, right? the idea that theories or that will put conspiracy theories into the mainstream by putting question marks on them, that's nothing new. and the goal, as we write in our "time" cover story this week is
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to undercut the investigation, create a cloud around it so people aren't sure what is true and what's not, what they can trust and what they can't, and at the end of the day, they just throw up their hands and say, well, the whole thing is illegitimate. >> and we're told it has some language in there not kind to the attorney general at the time, loretta lynch. will it say anything about political motivation? when james comey first came out and shut the hillary clinton investigation down, you can make the case that when he came back so close to the election and said we're reopening it that he hurt her. so a lot of the conduct that's being scrutinized hurt hillary clinton. >> i'm not certain that the nuances of that matter to trump. i think -- >> he just wants to say incompetent fools are after me.
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>> right. on the comey thing, he's been trying to develop a counter-narrative -- to the narrative comey has been putting out, that he's this sort of honest truth-teller at the fbi. the whole book is about making the right choices. trump has been trying to set up this case that comey is not that person, so anything that feeds into, you know, an idea that it discredits him, that he made the wrong choices which apparently is what the report is going to say, that he didn't make the right choices by coming out and doing these things, whatever the political nuance is, i don't think that matters to trump. this is probably good and it feeds into his narrative. to molly's point on the ig report, the idea that -- on spygate the idea he's continuing to say spygate, it may not convince everybody, but his 32, 33% of the base will believe spygate no matter what we say, no matter what ryan says, no matter what any of the other republicans say, those 33% are going to believe it.
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two-pronged strategy, i would say, that has a legal component and a pr component. the legal component is to say the only potential recourse of crimes by a president is impeachment. the pr strategy is to make sure that never happens by convincing a number of republican voters that this thing is justified and you see it show up. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, doesn't want to touch this at all. paul ryan is a little more willing to go out there and say, i haven't seen evidence for this. but on the other hand you have conservatives like a foreign congressman who was on "lou dobbs" yesterday were attacking leaders saying, we're not adopting these conspiracy theories. so the pr may be working. >> the pr may be working, you say 33%. you are a subject of this n and
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investigation, follow this advice. >> he wants the phones turned over. even tax that are on what are called encrypted apps. if i advised him to follow hillary clinton's lead, delete all your e-mails and then acid wash the e-mails and hard drives on the phones, then take your phones and bash them with a hammer into little, itsy-bitsy pieces, then take the handpiece and hand them over to robert mueller, saying this is equal justice under the law. >> it's colorful. i don't think it's good legal advice but it's colorful. but it just proves they can inflate the truth. hillary clinton did some questionable things. people around her did some questionable things. the president's boom box then uses that to say bob mueller is somehow bad, too, when the two have nothing to do with each other. >> and that doesn't matter.
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president trump tweeted out pictures of hillary, it doesn't marry. it's all about muddying the message. >> to the question of whether or not this is working, it depends how you look at it. on the one hand, the number of americans who don't trust the special counsel is rising. it's risen about five points in the last five months. now a majority of the public feel there is some motivation to this investigation. trump is win ning in that regar. a number of republicans support him. however, a number of americans also believe the probe should go forward. only 37% agree with trump that it is a, quote, witch hunt, so he is succeeding in showing up his base, he is succeeding in consolidating americans, he is not succeeding with overall americans in saying this is just a plot. >> there are documents filed in
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president trump will be meeting with leaders of the g7. abe is a friend, so he has somewhat of a soft spot. especially with these other european leaders and the ka d d canadian prime minister, the president has a lot of differences with this meeting. the disagreements are more front and center because, remember, they were mad when the president backed out of the paris climate deal. that sort of poisons the well a little bit. and they were fierce critics of the president when he walked away from the iran nuclear deal. s so big disagreements, especially with the europeans, but also the canadian prime minister says, hey, we're neighbors. we're just across the border. mr. president, why do you try to pick a fight with us? >> there are questions about what is going to be the dynamic
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around the g7 table, and i can say it will be very similar to other g7 tables in which we highlight and discuss many things we're agreed on and have differences of opinion on other things. there's no question that on trade, on climate change, on some other issues, there will be differences of perspective. >> how much have the others, abe and these other leaders, learned a lesson that we've all talked about for a year, that if you want to get close to the president, you say nice things to him, you buddy up with him, you have dinner with him like with president macron. with president abe, you play golf. >> was it the first nato summit? it was near the beginning of the presidency more than a year ago. there were different things being discussed on policy with
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european leaders. there was trump seeming to sulk on the sidelines while others were chatting, like keeping him on the sidelines. what's different a year from that is that they've figured out it doesn't matter what they do. they really -- this is not -- and this may be a feature not above him, but this is a president that cannot be handled. he's going to do what he's going to do and they'll have to deal with it and pick up the pieces, because that's what he views as progress. >> especially now because he knows there will be so many disagreements. he knows they'll sit there and say, mr. president, we told you you were wrong on iran, you were wrong on the paris climate, and now you're wrong here. trump was talking to aides about spending two days in canada with summit world leaders, believing the trip is a distraction from the singapore summit.
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he doesn't believe it's a good use of his time because he doesn't want to be lectured by his counterparts. he especially doesn't like being around prime ministeray and chancellor merkel. i think you can figure out at home what makes him different from the other leaders there. what is this i don't want to be with people i disagree with? does he not understand you have to talk to these other countries, these economic powers, these national security allies? >> i think there is that. i don't think what sets this summit is part is that singapore comes next and he's focused on north korea. he has never liked this kind of a venue. he has always understood from the very first one that he was kind of going to be the odd man out, sometimes by design, sometimes by choice. but he also doesn't like to sit and read briefing books and prepare for things. he doesn't like a long list of issues which is what this summit is about. i remember barack obama didn't
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like this very much, either, at some point, sitting there issue by issue and taking on things on the list. he has poked some of these leaders in the eye, and he knows he'll get incoming from them and that's not how he wants to spend his time. i don't think he thinks of these summits as opportunities to get something accomplished other than to come out and say i stuck it to these other leaders. >> at some point they do have disagreements. if wryou're going to move the bl forward on those issues, you have to do the work, don't you? and on the flip side, something is going to happen in the world where he's going to need their help. something we aren't thinking of today, and he's going to have to pick up the phone. doesn't rapport and respect, even if it's tense, matter? >> no, because he doesn't see the value, the idea of multilateralism in the world and confronting. there are a lot of people out there who believe the very best way to confront china and
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china's bad trade practices and china's bad practices at large is to have a unified front against western democracy. >> like the tpp. that was one piece of it. >> right. but it's not only that he doesn't see the value or he doesn't get it, he actively thinks that's not the right way to go, right? he actively thinks united states action alone is going to be more productive than kind of what he would think of as a watered-down version of action where you sit in a room with all these people and you end up watering it down to the lowest common denominator, and he doesn't agree with that. it doesn't fit in with his world view, and when you add what julie was saying, that he doesn't like it, either, he doesn't want it to happen. >> look at these headlines in france. figaro, all america is going it alone. trump thumbing us, he doesn't care. >> he views everything through a personal lens. this is what makes president trump different from his predecessors. he cannot separate his own feelings and his own chemistry
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from institutions and the fact that he's representing the entire country. the g7 summit will be awkward for him for a variety of reasons. president trump is motivated by domestic politics, and he's motivated to please his core supporters and that has meant thumbing things like the iran deal, pulling out of the paris accord which will put him on an island entirely by himself. he's not going to get a warm welcome. >> again, we're waiting. the president and prime minister talking to reporters in the oval office. up next, though, returning to domestic politics here at home. house republicans trying to find common ground on immigration.
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to capitol hill now and today's mission impossible for republicans. in one house gop's opinion, the discussion was very positive. >> our deadline is to get things done and avoid disposition. time is of the essence if we want to have a legislative process that we can control, which means a shot at law versus what i wou call a futile gestu gesture. >> speaker ryan has been trying to head off a revolt by moderates. they are demanding a vote on legislation to protect the so-called dreamers. those moderates have said they would work with democrats to use the rules and force a vote if necessary. so the speaker's emergency plan was to lock everybody in a room for more than two hours today and hope the republicans emerge with a consensus. the possibility of that is the
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same as winning the powerball. we're hearing there was progress. some moderates have agreed to put that discharge position on hold. tell us about that. >> reporter: absolutely, john, and we have to remember a two-hour immigration meeting doesn't seem possible when they are all in that room. coming out, moderates feeling very upbeat. a member of the house of representatives told us, quote, i think we have a path forward. that's obviously very significant. they continue to want to work with the house freedom caucus and leadership to try to bridge that divide that has exist ed i this conference not just for a year, not for two years, but for a decade now. they're trying to reach a decision on daca. on this issue of daca, republicans have gotten close. these negotiations have fallen apart time after time. there are regional and
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idealogical differences, and within that conference meeting, there were a lot of diverse views. that's what this meeting was about. it was making sure everyone felt hurt from steve king to carlos c carbello. that was this meeting and moderates coming out of there were feeling optimistic. >> we'll see where optimism takes us in the days ahead. we know where it's gone in days past. you walk the halls all the time. this is a victory for the speaker in the sense that if they pull back on the discharge position, he won't be embarrassed. moderates won't get to the floor, get enough democrats to sign on and force action on a piece of legislation that the moderates think they need to vote on this year. so the speaker gets a tactical victory today. this optimism? are they going to vote on legislation this year that will be passed and signed by the president? >> no. >> my powerball odds are better than that, huh? >> the question is will the moderates hold firm and push
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this position. they have 218 votes to go around pa>> paulpaul ryan and vote aga law. paul ryan wants to put in a vote on something that will not necessarily be signed into law. >> to that point, then, there will never be a vote with this group of republicans. i'm sorry, but there will never be a vote on this group of republicans. the moderates want a daca bill that protects the dreamers' citizenship. then there's the border wall funding, which you limit legal immigration. there is a whole lot of other stuff in there. you can't square this circle, can you? >> there is not a path that i see for these moderates and conservatives. i think speaker ryan is in the
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same boat that says give them temporary citizenship and then at the border cut legal immigration. this is steve king. anything that gifves any lenieny that gives these people a path to citizenship is not okay. >> the clock keeps ticking. this is the "wall street journal." health care first, economy, jobs, taxes, spending, immigration down in the middle to low part of the pack right there in terms of issues that matter to american voters. but that's nationally. that is not to motivate republican voters. republicans think this is a big issue for them. >> this is a big issue for them and it's a huge issue for the president. to the degree they are wondering where the president is going to come down on this because he's given them good reason to wonder, that is a political risk that a lot of them do not want to take. the issue here, i think, with this temporary victory as it was described by paul ryan is he
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knows there are votes in the house. if you put together all the democrats and moderate republicans who want to vote on this to get a daca bill maybe with border security, maybe with wall funding out of the house. he clearly doesn't want that to happen because he doesn't want his members to go on the record with a measure like that if it's not going to become law or have a majority of republicans behind it. if that's the case, he has to come up with a consensus vehicle, and there isn't one right now. >> if they have to push it off to the fall, the president will look at these numbers, and we're just seconds from hearing from the president and the prime minister of japan. the president wants his government to crack down on border crossings. the president is mad about this, which is going to make the president dig even deeper on the give me my wall money, and he's not so much concerned about the other stuff. >> well, he is, though, because there was a point last year when the democrats actually offered him wall money in exchange for some kind of daca compromise, and he turned that down. >> they're here, so let's go to
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the white house. >> i think i'm very well prepared. i don't think i have to prepare very much. it's about attitude, it's about willingness to get things done, but i think i've been preparing for this summit for a long time, as has the other side. i think they've been preparing for a long time also. so this isn't a question of preparation, it's a question of whether or not people want it to happen, and we'll know that very quickly. >> if they put it off, what do you tell them? >> it's more than a photo op. it's not a one-meeting deal. it would be wonderful if it were. they've been doing this a long time. there's a lot of enemies out there, a lot of dislike, a lot of hatred between countries, ask this will not be just a photo op. at a minimum we'll start with perhaps a good relationship, and that's something that's very important toward the ultimate making of a deal. i would love to say it could happen in one deal, and maybe it
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can. they have to denuke. if they don't denuclearize, that will not be acceptable. we cannot take sanctions off. the sanctions are extraordinarily powerful. we cannot -- and i could add a lot more, but i've chosen not to do that at this time. but that may happen. by the way, with iran, we're adding tremendously powerful sanctions. they understand that very well. i think iran already is not the same country if you look -- i don't think they're looking so much to the mediterranean like they were two months ago, so it's a big difference. it was number one nuclear, but also you get the side benefit that iran is a different place. we'll see what happens and maybe ultimately something will happen with iran. but for our meeting next week, i think it's going to be a very fruitful meeting, i think it's going to be an exciting meeting, i think we're going to get to know a lot of people that our country never got to know. this is something that should have been handled many years ago
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by other presidents. it shouldn't be handled now, it should have been hdled years ago, but it is being handled now thank you very much.f it. thank you. >> any chance you'll play golf at the summit? >> no, i'd love to. thank you very much. thank you. [ inaudible ] >> that's the question and answer portion of the president of the united states with the president of gentlem prime minister of japan. it was hard to hear because microphones were being pulled away from the president, but in the event you did hear, the president didn't think it was a question of preparation when it comes to the summit with north
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korea. he said he hasn't done a lot of preparation because it doesn't need a lot of preparation. it's not a question of preparation. that's a quote from the president saying it's mainly about can he build a relationship and build trust. that might alarm some people watching this summit. this will make the conservatives a bit more happy. the president said we cannot take the sanctions off until north korea denuclearizes. we've been talking about the trade meeting with the prime minister of japan today and meetings in canada tomorrow and the summit next week. >> he said it's all about attitude. it's not all about attitude. this is a complex meeting he's going into which you said he doesn -- you heard him say he doesn't need to prepare for. he said what was a pre-condition to this meeting was they would have to be willing to denuclearize. this is about getting to know
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him, him getting to know kim jong-un, ultimately. if that's all this meeting was about, they'll come away from a meeting where they set a pretty high bar. you heard him say, i'll handle it, i'll take care of it, without anything they essentially need. >> that's why conservatives, skeptics -- everybody should be skeptical no matter what your political beliefs of n korea. he said he didn't need any preparation? how many centrifuges do you have? if you're going to denuclearize, what's the timing? how many examples do the specters need to commit? if the president's point is i'm going to leave this with my team, this is more eyeball to eyeball with kim jong-un. that's a somewhat different interpretation. >> i think that was quite revealing of the president's mindset, because he did give us a window into how he's thinking of this summit which is not a
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structured meeting over details. he said forming that relationship, this is reporting we had in the past couple weeks where advisers to the president were annoyed he wasn't doing a lot of studying, because he doesn't feel like he has to. he doesn't feel like that's his role in this negotiation. i also think that, you know, we were talking earlier about how he sees the g7 as distracting from the summit. what he means is not that it takes away time that he would otherwise use as preparing for the summit, but that he sees this summit as a photo op, a performance. it was almost like he was hyping up the event, everybody wants to come and watch. he just wants it to be a big public relations coup, and what's troubling about that with some of his critics who don't think he's tough enough on north korea was that it was a performance coup for the north koreans to also have this photo op. >> if that's the case, he has an incredibly short-term attention
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span, that this day or two in singapore matter as opposed to days, weeks, months, years after. if you can get on a constructive path to north korea, you have to do the work. >> the work is done ahead of time and the leader-to-leader meetings are what sort of seals the deal and caps off the agreement. i think there is a lot of worry to your point that if the president agrees to a framework that then locks in the negotiators -- you know, that it pre-prescribes what can happen, and that might not be the kind of deal you want to get to at the end. >> if you're the prime minister of japan -- forget us at the table here, if you're the prime minister of japan sitting next to the president of the united states, and your concern is the intercontinental ballistics that could reach the united states, you're saying, wait, wait, wait, they lob these over to our country all the time. are you going to talk about
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that? so preparation actually does matter. >> it's the relationship theory of diplomacy. we'll sit down at a table, the chemistry is good, we'll agree and everything will be fine. i think to your point it will be much, much more complicated than that. one thing the president noted which struck me was he said the sanctions will remain until north korea denuclearizes. i still don't understand how the white house plans to close this loop. what do you give north korea as the right thing is to denuclearize? >> if you're going to give back economic or military or food aid, what are you getting in exchange if a nuclear conversation is going to take years and years and years. the north korea summit in the news, the g7 in the news. china has some democrats and republica
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republicans disagreeing with the zte. that's not what the president wants to hear.
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really going to get hurt. >> if you haven't been tracking this, zte was officially walled out of buying american parts because it violated u.s. sanctions against iran and north korea. but that cheating is a secondary point for zte critics in congress. they say the company is part of china's intellectual property theft and china's global espionage network. the president cutting this deal knowing, and we see it already, that both democrats and republicans in congress are saying, we will try to stop you. >> color me skeptical that there will be a serious revolt in congress. there will be a lot of sternly worded statements. i think the democratic leader is saying the president want to make china great again. the question is, is speaker ryan going to put something out there to try to challenge the president? is majority leader mitch mcconnell going to take him on? i think no matter what the agreement is on tariffs, they're not going to try to legislative
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stop him. so call me step cankeptical. >> the one time they did that was in russia. that was a sanctions issue. that was a policy that really motivates a lot of conserve tifrs atifconservetives and republicans. aside from any private agreement they have with the president, free trade in china is an area where you do hear them speaking out much more overtly and more u more overtly disagreeing with the president. it's a fascinating dichotomy that on the one hand he's not afraid to be tough with the europeans and following through on his isolationism and unilateralism. on the other hand, with china where he had so much tough rhetoric, probably tougher than
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mexico, he has these other objectives that he wants. he wants this north korea summit. he wants to achieve this breakthrough that other presidents failed to achieve. we can sit here and say he's not doing this normally but the normal channels haven't worked. he's doing something different, but those objectives are at odds and it's been fascinating to see him try to split the difference, or in the eyes of some, go soft on china. >> going soft on china also predates president trump but it's been exacerbated under president trump because of this zte thing. they say americans fail to take seriously this smartphone maker. now congress needs to act to keep america safe from china. i assure you with 100% confidence, zte is a much greater national security threat than steel and aluminum in
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europe. he uses these technology companies to listen, to snoop, to spy and to steal. >> the irony of this deal announcement on zte coming the day before he leaves for this g7 summit where the europeans and canadians are already furious that the president would say that somehow they're steel and aluminum imports are national security threats when then he goes, and on an issue that there is great consensus really is a national security threat, he says, that's okay. i don't mean to minimize the deal, but from the view of the europeans and the canadians, that's crazy. >> that's an excellent standpoint. >> china is on hold. the trade allies, china holds the key with trade with north korea. the president's polls are
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the "wall street journal" pullout today gives us new insights into the midterm landscape. they asked this question, who would you prefer to be in office? for the gop? and will you vote for someone that will be a check on trump? 48% more likely, 23% less likely. the check on the president and the 10-point split tells me democrats should still be reasonably optimistic. >> there is some tension there, right? the president's approval is going up but it's not transporting to his approval of his party. democrats have a 10-point lead on the generic ballot. if true, other polls have shown
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less than that. health care is the number one issue for voters. democrats have a 3-1 advantage over voters on that. that's why the republicans want to talk about nothing but health care from now until november. >> so far it's also a flashback to 2010 where a lot of democratic voters who liked barack obama didn't feel like showing up on a tuesday in november for some random democrat in congress. and that's the problem the republicans fear they could be having. >> they don't like congress much to begin with. >> it's also true that trump, more than most republican presidents, is a totally separate thing in the minds of voters than the republican party is. if you're a republican looking at those poll results, it's not much comfort that the president is ticking up when you have someone who is not necessarily seen as an ally. >> the democrats' ballot going up a little bit, too.
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