the chinese charm offensive. president xi's charm offensive didn't get very far. how we are going to take a hard line against beijing. tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern. next, shannon bream. >> shannon: thank you. new allegations of sexual misconduct rattles washington power brokers. charlie rose, "new york times" reporter glenn thrush. a second woman is accusing al franken of inappropriate conduct. how will washington elites respond? chris stirewalt is on the case. is rex tillerson on the same page as the president when it comes to north korea? investor john bolton on whether obama holdovers are interfering with foreign policy. from otto warmbier to ucla

basketball players, the trump administration is bringing americans home, raising questions about whether the obama administration could've done more. speak i think the results speak for themselves. hello and welcome to "fox news @ night." i'm shannon bream in washington. two more well-known media figures have been accused of sexual misconduct while a second accuser has come forward. as for cbs and pbs anchor charlie rose, eight women detailing years of sexual harassment. details from unwanted sexual advances, walking around them while he was, lewd phone calls, and groping. "new york times" white house respondent glenn thrush accused by women of kissing and touching

them without their consent. allegations thrush has disputed. meanwhile, a woman in minnesota describing in more detail and encounters yet without franken in 2010 after he had been elected to the senate. she says he touched her inappropriately and she believes there are many more franken victims who have yet to come forward. cbs, pbs and bloomberg moved quickly to suspend rose in a statement rose admitting he behaved insensitively in apologizing for his actions. "the new york times" suspending thrush saying "all accusations have to be treated seriously." muted reaction to the allegations against senator franken. responding that "he feels badly that she came away feeling disrespected." sarah westwood joins us. good evening. i want to read more of what we have from charlie rose. let's start there. the newest allegations detailing the years and many women saying there were various uncomfortable situations. touching all kinds of things.

he said "it's essential these women know i hear them and that i deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. i am greatly embarrassed. i behaved insensitively at times and i accept responsibility for that. though i do not believe all these allegations are accurate. i always felt i was pursuing shared feelings even though i now realize i was mistaken." do you think that will be good enough for the folks who now -- he is suspended. >> i think a lot of these apologies are starting to run together. they have the same elements. there is an apology in there, and acknowledgment that they've committed mistakes then the defensive crouch where they say they don't remember the incident the same way the women do. they don't believe every allegations edible. harvey weinstein still insists none of his encounters were not consensual. glenn thrush doesn't remember them the same way. that's what al franken is dead. he doesn't recall them the same way as his accusers.

these apologies are sounding the same and they are not enough to stop men from facing consequenc consequence. >> shannon: glenn thrush that i apologize to any woman who felt uncomfortable in my presence and for any situation where i behaved and appropriately. any behavior that makes a woman feel disrespected or uncomfortable is not acceptable." "the new york times" that he's going to be seeking treatment. he has had trouble with drinking, which he is admitted. going to be seeking outpatient help. he has been sober since june. these young women were in their 20s. they talked about the fact that they felt powerless against these men who they thought had a lot of control over their careers, over their lives. and they felt they are nowhere to turn. >> this is the exact kind of allegation that's causing democrats to revisit what was wrong with the bill clinton era. it wasn't so much that he had so many accusers of sexual misconduct but you see a lot of soul-searching about how wrong it was for bill clinton at the time to use his power to

pressure a younger, defenseless woman into a relationship even though it was nominally consensual. this is the kind of conversation we're having all over the place. in hollywood, in washington about when powerful men use their position to get a woman into bed essentially. that's wrong. that's a form of sexual harassment. that's sort of a new conversation that we are having a society. >> shannon: some of the allegations against president clinton include rape and sexual assault. we have democrats and he probably should've resigned. wished up and tougher on him, things are different now. but how convenient is it to make that statement when they don't have anybody running for anything would be impacted by this essentially. >> right, and it's interesting that the al franken accusations just happened to come to light at the same time democrats were having this national reckoning with the allegations against bill clinton because there were

lots of people in the chattering class on the left or were saying that if these sorts of allegations surfaced about a democrat today, absolutely we would ask him or her to resign. now they have a clear opportunity to exercise that kind of moral authority, and yet we don't see them doing it so far. it's kind of cynical to say but this sort of deferential reaction to the al franken allegations is kind of an unspoken recognition that he will be the last politician in washington to get accused and maybe they don't want to send the lynch mob after him because this is going to happen to more politicians on both sides of the aisle. >> shannon: there is an ohio legislator, state legislator put step down. he's a married man. married to a woman. he is facing scores of allegations that he pursued young men. he harassed and stocked them. he stepped down and this is what he had to say. "i sincerely regret my actions and choices of cut me from serving our constituents and the way that reflects the best ideals of public service. for those who live left on, i'm

sorry." he seemed to recognize his situation was overwhelming, the number of people coming forward. for him, he decided to back away. >> his was an egregious case. the volume and severity of the cases is breathtaking. in her new allegations against lawmakers. tonight we heard new allegations levied against a democratic caucus men from michigan. they come seemingly every slow day. it's interesting to see which figures choose to stay insight and which choose to resign. in these past few weeks, we've seen people in the private sector, in media are quick to step down. very few have stayed and fought for their positions in public office. that's usually very different, as al franken is illustrative of that. it'll be interesting to see if more politicians are as quick to resign as folks in the private sector have been when these new allegations are coming to light. >> shannon: i think we all know the story is far from over.

sarah westwood, thank you. cbs, pbs, and "the new york times" moving quickly to suspend rose and thrush. an ethics probe on senator al franken, even as a scandal deepens, that could take months. even years. let's talk about with fox news politics editor chris stirewalt. good to see you. really unpleasant stuff. the more immediate situation with private companies suspending these individuals, it's different than in the senate because now they start this ethics thing, you and i've talked about the fact that it could be years before there are any findings. >> the last time there was anything like this, bob packwood from oregon, it went from 92 295 before he said mercy. we would also remember of course there was a difference here. when fox news fired roger ailes for his misconduct, they fired him. he didn't say, you know, i think i'm going to admit to the gravity of my wrongdoing. they cashiered him and he went away. when you have a sitting senator,

there's nobody to fire the senator. you can add 67 people in the senate vote to remove him but that's different from what happens in private sector. when you fire somebody like roger ailes, who did wrong, they can fire him. you can remove a senator as easily. >> shannon: 67 to expel somebody. how many of them are going to want to step up and say a couple women have made allegations that seem to be credible. there is photographic proof. how many are going to be willing to bounce someone from a colleague on those allegations, knowing there might be something in their closet. >> we are watching them do it over roy moore in alabama. franken, the white house was playing a little tit for tat. if franken is in office, why can't we support roy moore for senate. both sides say even if it's true, they should be in the senate because we need their votes. people are intentionally surrendering moral authority, even the white house, because

they want to have the vote and they want to play the political game. by franken being there, that gives republicans an excuse to say then moore can come. >> shannon: moore goat lindsay menz, her husband is taking the picture. she is saying allegedly that franken is groping her. she says "al franken grabbed me by taking a photo at the minnesota state fair. asked me many others. don't let the survey. she's inviting others to come out of the woodwork. in the meantime, the senator says i thousands of voters at the stake are turned by hunters of people and i certainly don't remember taking this picture. i feel badly that missed menz came away feeling disrespected. >> i don't think he is going to make it for the ride. i think women in the democratic party saying if we want moral authority, we have to say what al franken did, even if he meant it as a terrible joke, even if he was being just a fool and not

a creep, that in order to keep the moral authority on this, they're going to have to. there is a blood price to be paid, and franken is the guy. of course, "the new york post," somebody pulled up pictures of him in a goof spread of photographs with areata huffington where he is playfully grabbing different lady parts. the franken stuff is going to keep coming. my don't think he's going to make it. >> shannon: you mentioned. we had a column last week by feminist who said yeah, stuff that franken is alleged to have done, before the second one came forward, bad stuff but the end justifies the means. i know he's going to vote for women's rights. but now we're hearing from some people out of alabama, roy moore will be a better bone on abortion and judges we have to vote on that. are both sites eating moral authority? >> they are not just eating it. they are shoveling it over the

shoulders. less moral authority, more crass politicization. if the republicans, the worst-case scenario for the republicans might be if they get roy moore is a winner in alabama, one vote less but as i wrote today, they will be running in 2018. immigrants are going to make sure roy moore's with every republican who runs for senate in 2018. >> shannon: ethics committees can be busy. senator menendez as well. it will give us plenty to talk about. stick a we've got to stay up late. >> shannon: that's her classic laugh. good to see you. a woman is as alabama senate candidate roy moore initiated contact with her many years ago when she was 14 is speaking out and extending her decision to now go public. leigh corfman told "the today show" that moore fondled her when she was in her early teens. she explained how she told people close to her what had happened even if she didn't go public until now. >> i did tell people.

my family knew. family friends knew. my friends knew. i spent a lot of time every time he came up railing against, you know, him. and what he had done to me when i was 14 years old. >> shannon: moore has denied the accusations of sexual impropriety and is focusing his attacks on his democratic opponent doug jones. says he is too liberal for alabama. over the weekend, the young republican federation of al diamonds suspended its support for moore. explaining in a resolution "they believe in innocence until proven guilty but not necessarily electability until proven guilty." our duty is not the individual candidates look to the long-standing growth and sustainability of their republican party. the president was optimistic in his cabinet meeting about tax reform but it's clear that their hurdles are mounting. what is the latest on the plan?

is it in trouble? fox news correspondent ellison barbara joins us. >> mitch mcconnell says he plans to take the belt of the senate floor after thanksgiving. the question is, can he find the votes to pass it. republicans on the senate finance committee pass their version late last week. every democrat on the committee voted against him and right now there are quite a few skeptical republicans. >> the biggest mistake was putting in the provision from the affordable care act into the senate bill that's not in the hospital. i hope that will be dropped. >> collins' main concern is repealing into obama cares indl mandate. the white house seems unsure about keeping it. >> if a good tax bill can pass with the obamacare mandate repeal is part of it, great. if it needs to come out for her to pass, we can live with that

as well. >> that might be a deal breaker for kentucky senator rand paul. he called for an amendment to repeal the mandate before it was even in the plan. others have concerns that are completely unrelated to health care. senators bob corker, john langford, and jeff flake say they are worried about the impact to the national debt. president trump seems to think flake is a "no" vote after flake was caught saying this. >> the party of roy moore and donald trump. we are toast. >> president trump tweeted: "sen. jeff flake(y), he'll be a no on tax cuts because his political career anyway is "toast." john mccain is a question mark. they haven't said how they will vote. republicans hold 52 seats unless they convince a democrat is for the bill, they can only for toulouse to call republican votes.

there is already one know. wisconsin's ron johnson. he says he's voting against it because he thinks it favors corporations over small businesses. >> i won't vote for it. it's that simple. doesn't mean i don't want to vote for a real solution. >> president trump a said he wants tax reform legislation on his desk by christmas. >> shannon: the repeal of the individual manikin be a real sticking point against getting this done. thank you so much. coming up, bill clinton faces four new accusers while he and hillary fay mounting calls for investigations into their dealings with russia. the latest of elements ahead. >> should have happened a long time ago, years ago. >> shannon: john bolton says president trump's diplomatic agenda might be getting ported by his own actions or lack thereof. the investor joins us next. -- the ambassador joins us nex

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>> shannon: president trump and secretary of state rex tillerson naming north korea a state sponsor of terrorism. president trump are doing the obama administration enable pyongyang, leading to the death of otto warmbier. the assassination of

kim jong un's half-brother. >> today the united states is designating north korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. should have happened a long time ago. should have happened years ago. >> shannon: critics denounced the move as a needless provocation. some critics came from within the state department where there was apparently resistance to renaming north korea a state sponsor of terror. fox news contributor and former u.n. ambassador john bolton joins us. good to have you. what are these internal deliberations like? in 2008, you didn't think they should come off the list. >> writes. look come in this instance, the state department is kind of like a stuck record. they took north korea off the list in 2008 to help induce north korea to honor its commitments to denuclearize. commitments north korea has made repeatedly over the past 25 years and repeatedly violated. today when somebody says look, they were a terrorist state in 2008. they shouldn't have come off. we are going to put them back on

for subsequent terrorist action, the state department can handle it. it's a real cultural problem. and it's not going to be solved simply by reorganization. i have that you need a cultural revolution at the state department. >> shannon: i want to play little bit up with the secretary of state had to say today about the decision. >> is very symbolic on the one hand because it points out what a rogue regime this isn't how b. how little they care. for the value of human life. the practical effects may be limited, but we hopefully are closing off a few loopholes. >> shannon: he referred to it as symbolic. he said the practical impact may be limited. so what are the practical impacts of putting someone back on the list? >> it authorizes additional sanctions but i think was a huge mistake for the bush administration in 2008 to take them off. as a political inducement for the nuclear negotiations. if the list is to mean anything,

it means you have to be objective. if the state meets the qualifications to be a state sponsor of terrorism coming up with them on the list whether you want to negotiate with them or not and let their behavior change, not ours. i think to say to direct the world this is a terrorist regime therefore we don't believe when they make commitments, as they repeatedly demonstrated for 25 years to denuclearize, because they're not going to do it. >> shannon: i know you think of the president's missing an opportunity because a lot of the top positions in the state department are not filled. in many cases, there's not even a nominee. we have some of these numbers. our research team broke down. 96, the number of unfilled positions, top positions. 73, there's only two coawaiting nominations and 21 awaiting confirmation. a lot of the people that are there are holdovers from the last of administration. here's what the president has said about the pressure to fill those positions. >> let me tell you. the one that matters is me. i'm the only one that matters,

because i want to come switch, that's what the policies going to to be. >> shannon: all right, so how much does it matter that he gets his senior positions my people filled. >> it matters a lot. obviously the president makes all the most serious decisions but state department and every other department, hundreds of decisions are being made at lower levels that affect and constrain his options when big decisions finally get to him. i speak from my years in the bureaucracy. if a president doesn't push his nominees down as far as he can to the assistant secretary level, deputy assistant secretary, it's very hard to get control of a large bureaucracy, especially one that's culturally hostile to a conservative republican point of view. there may be 200 or 300 significant political appointment at the state department. the total staff at the state department worldwide is 70,000. you are not saving a lot of money by not putting these top people in. what happens is there positions

are filled on an acting basis by courier people. what have the career people been doing the last eight years? following obama administration policies. you don't have to believe in conspiracy theories. you have to believe in human nature that someone going to continue the policies they've following until somebody else tells them to change. >> shannon: quickly, secretary tillerson has downplayed any talk of a rift between these two for there not on the same page. what's your sense of the relationship? >> it's always difficult when you have people who come from very different backgrounds, neither one of whom has been in government before. i do think it's critical in a national security area that everybody speak with one voice, that means the interagency process, a boring phrase but a critical process, has to work. i don't think it has worked as well as it needs to in a threatening environment such as we live in internationally today. >> shannon: it is no joke.

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angry with lavar ball, who refused to thank the president. trumpet tweeted: -- trump tweeted. "shoplifting is a very big deal in china, as it should be 5-10 years in jail, but not to father lavar. should have gotten his son out during my next trip to china instead." tonight during an interview with chris cuomo, ball was asked repeatedly while he refused to saying the president. >> i would say thank you if he would have put them on his plane and took them home. then i would've said thank you, mr. trump, for taking my boys out of china and bringing them back to the u.s. there's a lot of room on that plane. >> mr. ball raise the ante by saying he has seen worse things than shoplifting and indicated he would've gotten the players out of china with or without the president. people say it's -- they could've

spent months in china. may be the president deserved to be saying. morning joe called the tweet battle racist and sarah murray said "he still doesn't seem to understand being president isn't about people lavishing you with praise and telling you how great you are. former white house press secretary ari fleischer said i can't help but think of president obama had saved three people in china and the father of one failed to thank him, then mainstream media would've defended o and blasted the dad. mr. trump has launched a secondary battle against marshawn lynch who sat for the u.s. national anthem and stood for the mexican anthem. president trump said he should be suspended for the remainder of the season. the nfl's that i had no comment

on the president's comment. the wife of the raiders head coach said she regrets voting for mr. trump. >> shannon: and lots of comments on no comments in more comments. thank you. keeping us up-to-date. we are getting worried that he u.s. airman has died and another in this in the hospital after a training exercise in texas. air force official says their jet crashed just outside laughlin air force base in del rio texas. it happened this afternoon. no word yet on the cause. this era, authorities in west texas continuing to scour the area after the death of a border patrol agent and an attack that left a second agent in critical condition. casey stegall has the latest. >> federal law enforcement agency they're currently working to piece together a timeline of events to gain a better understanding of what exactly happened in this rural texas town over the weekend.

>> we lost a border patrol officer just yesterday. and another one was brutally beaten and badly, badly hurt. >> agent rogelio martinez was patrolling the big bend sector. officials say he was working alongside his partner when they responded to a call off interstate 10 and somehow got into trouble. moments later, one of the agents came over the scanner saying they had been hurt and needed help. both men were transported to an area hospital where agent martinez died. >> we talk about the wall. >> the recent violence prompted president trump to once again to tout what he thinks it's important to secure the border with mexico. at today's cabinet meeting, the president talked about how his wall plan will help curtail violent crime like this. >> we need it. it's rough territory. it's where the drugs are coming

in. a lot of things are happening along the border, the southern border. >> the fbi has confirmed agent martinez and partner did not come under fire but would not elaborate on how the agents were attacked. representatives with the national border patrol council say rocks were used against the agents but no federal sources will confirm that. agent martinez was 36 years old and had been a border patrol agent for about four years or so. according to customs and border protection, 38 agents have been killed in the line of duty since 2003. shannon. >> shannon: casey stegall, thank you. coming up, breaking develop instantly draining one case and new revelations about what an fbi informant may know about how the obama administration handled the nuclear deal, and it may not line up with what we've been hearing from the justice department. that's next. your ancestors are from...

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nuclear transport company to obama administration approvals that let moscow buy and sell more atomic fuel." comes amid pressure on the justice department to investigate the clintons for their suspected role in a controversial deal for uranium. here's health with the latest news means from their differing points of view, former speechwriter for george w. bush, marc thiessen. and adrienne elrod. essentially this informant who is free to speak publicly said i was alerting the fbi years before the deal was done that there was potential criminal activity, and yet it was passed anyway. what does that say? stick of it says two things. secretary clinton had absolutely nothing to do with the approval of the sale. >> shannon: marc is already laughing. >> you can laugh.

it was a decision made by and nine interagency decision that never reach the level of any secretaries. it was overseen by the secretary-treasurer. never reached the secretary of state. overseen by the deputy secretary level. >> her second-in-command. >> it never reached secretary clinton and it wouldn't. secondly, this is another attempt by the far right to muddy the waters, tried to distract from the mueller investigation which is reaching a very heightened level right now. we have had several indictments come down. we are hearing maybe michael flynn will be indicted. he's talking to some of the most senior aides a longtime senior aide from trump's campaign. >> shannon: so far the indictments we've seen have not been a direct connection between the trump campaign and russian collusion. not yet, just being clear about what's out there. marc, you're chomping at the bit on this. seems to be we are getting more and more information about this

or anyone deal that raises questions about all kinds of people, not consider the clintons but maybe including them. >> there's tons of questions. to put this in a bigger perspective, what's disturbing and should be disturbing to both of us, republican and democrat and all americans is that there was tons of russian cash sloshing around washington, d.c. republicans and democrats. in the case of uranium one, bill clinton right after the russians have announced they were going to acquire uranium one, bill clinton got $500,000 for speech in moscow from a bank that was pushing uranium one stock. the clinton foundation got $145 million in donations from people associated with the uranium one deal. that raises a heck of a lot of questions. how many speeches has bill clinton given in moscow for

$500,000 since hillary clinton lost? >> why are we talking about the clintons. she is not running for office again. >> the fact is the russians were trying to influence our democracy. they were playing both sides. none of this absolves the trump administration, the trump campaign. none of this clears them. doesn't change the intelligence community's findings that they wanted donald trump to win. that the russians thought hillary clinton was going to win, like all of us. they were playing both sides. they were feeding cash into clinton associates and cutting deals and pouring money. >> you didn't think donald trump was going to win? you and "the new york times"? i want to read more. lawmakers are going to be briefed on this 5,000 pages and more about what the informant had to say. they have questions about who was involved. source says will he, the informant, be able to prove we knew russian was engaged in

criminal conduct? you bet. with the russians using clinical influence to try to win stuff on the u.s. government? you bet. this has been going on for a long time and probably not over. >> we don't know what's in these pages. the story came out tonight. we know the gag order was lifted on this informant by the trump administration, so going back to what you -- i want to address something you said earlier about donations to the clinton foundation. the stakeholder in uranium one had sold his share several years before he actually donated to the clinton foundation. there was no relevancy in that. again, if republicans want to use this issue to distract, they can try but ultimately this is another way to try to muddy the waters to shift the focus from the mueller investigation. >> shannon: so far, people on

both sides of the aisle say they were seen concrete evidence of that. it doesn't mean it's not coming. we don't know. but no one either side of the a-lister that's been proven. >> here's the difference of what we are saying. adriana saying we should investigate the trump campaign and i'm saying we should investigate the trump campaign and the clintons. as americans, there was russian cash going to democrats and republicans. that's an established fact. they thought clinton was going to win. they were playing both sides. they were smart. the russians are smart. you are missing my point. i said they wanted trump to win but they were trying, they expected hillary clinton to end so they were preparing for that. as americans, republicans or democrats, we need to have the full picture of russia's influence operations in the united states. and that includes both the democrats and the clinton operation which had deep ties to russia and the trump. >> >> shannon: you are going tod

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>> shannon: since taking office, president trump has made it a priority to bring home americans held as political prisoners. recently he assisted in the release of three ucla basketball players from jail in china. the administration has secured the release of four other americans, including the u.s. student otto warmbier who came back from north korea basically in a vegetative state and died a short while later. last summer his fathers have the obama administration should've done more to get his son home sooner. >> the question is do i think the past administration could have done more? i think the results speak for themselves. >> shannon: joining me to discuss, charlie hurt of "the washington times" and sarah westwood. good to have you with us. let's start with the

back-and-forth the last few days with the president, these three young men admitted that they did things they should have not done in china and the president happen to be there and brought them, he says, was able to get them home. this was a quote from lavar ball. he said "what was he over their for? don't tell me nothing. everybody wants to make it seem like it helped me out." doesn't seem like he wants to give any credit to the presiden president. getting a little testy. >> it's a little irrefutable president trump was the one who took this to president xi jinping. happened to be in china at the same time as this incident with the ucla basketball players. it's a two-way street. president trump did elevate this criticism by responding to it. i think most people probably would never have heard the quote if president trump hadn't decided to fight back. both people are kind of at fault for making this an issue. >> shannon: here's one of the president's tweets. he says: :

"now that the three basketball players are out of china and saved from years in jail, "lavar ball, the father of liangelo, is unaccepting of what i did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. i should have left them in jail!" >> this is vintage trump. you're right. most presidents wouldn't elevate to criticism, but that is not donald trump. i think it's terrific. i sympathize with kids doing stupid things but my goodness. when you listen to the dad to take something like this and politicize it, it could have ended very, very badly for his son. and then to politicize it and make it into that, it made me stop and realize oh, wow. we now we know where the kid learned the kind of ethics to wind up being a shoplifter and embarrassing the country overseas. again, point i never would have brought up had the father not said that. this is what donald trump does and he likes to make his principled points by picking on

people that may be deserve -- via tweet. i love it when he does it. >> shannon: oh, okay. we will put you in that column. on a more serious note, having this conversation, this administration does seem to be going after these folks who are stuck in foreign governments. many hostile places. in a different way than the obama administration did. they felt like behind the scenes diplomacy and other means with the best way to keep someone from getting hurt and getting them home. we have heard other families speak out saying we were told to be quiet. we were told to leave it alone. there were families or talked about ransom issues and they were threatened that they were going to be prosecuted under the obama administration if they tried to reach out and save their loved ones. it's a different way of seeing the issue. >> critics would say the obama administration was maybe more concerned with the broader diplomatic picture not necessarily with people who were held. whereas the trump administration made extracting people its top priority. i don't think the trump

administration has really gotten the due credit for getting otto warmbier out. that is something the obama administration have a year to do and was unable to. it happened pretty quickly after president trump came into office relatively speaking and for whatever reason, there's always a controversy after another and other distractions and he never really got the recognition of what a big deal that was. >> for president obama, this was all kind of small ball. but it's right in donald trump's wheelhouse. i think it's why donald trump is successful. he operates as a mayor in a lot of ways. he loves the good symbolic victory like this where everybody is happy. everything ends in a happy way. >> shannon: not everybody. >> sadly, in the case of otto warmbier, tragically. but he did do, he did everything he could. i think that's the secret to donald trump's success. >> shannon: he likes to get directly involved in controversy.

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