komi said i thought his answers were weak and i thought he shouldn't of clearly with hindsight ever have got involved publicly in the presidential race so. whatever. do you think do you think only heard it was more than her trump i think he did because it has a little bit of a feel of being vindictive i'm not quite sure what the point is if the point was nobody's looking at trump so i got to go out of my way to make sure people look at him he's being looked at and lots of different ways so what i was uncomfortable was i began to ask why wasn't a grand jury impaneled to look at hillary clinton the purpose of a grand jury is to be able to gather information the fact that he said she didn't lie is is part of the issue the other part is that she committed a criminal act and you really don't know that it to the extent you need to

without a grand jury and i began to think that he didn't want to impanel or the prosecutors didn't want to panel a grand jury because they thought it would unfairly impact her presidential race but. fairly impacted her history but having said that she has only herself to blame because she she and her husband always go to the edge of what is appropriate and if she knew she was running for president why did she do some of the things she did when she left state department why did she chargin aversive connecticut two hundred fifty thousand dollars to give a forty minute speech i mean those things just don't add up if you want to be president united states. what do you make of the pardoning of scooter libby. i think it was a message i think it was a message that one scooter libby was treated one way and others were not treated the same but i think it was a kind of a message to potential witnesses who were trumped that you know you know maybe if

you keep quiet you can get a pardon and the only thing that could save in my judgment what you're hearing about cohen is because i think he's in t. trouble would be a pardon now he can only pardon for federal offense or so cohen will have to deal with. state offenses as well your reaction to strike against syria some are implying that he may have done to divert attention away from his other problems well my sense was i would usually say that particularly if it happened right after but it seemed like a measured approach it seemed like the military had an impact and my sense is that we probably were in communication with the russians to say please don't be here don't be there no need for us to be hurting each other but we have to respond and this is the response we're going to have to you know our comprehensive plan is regarding the middle east no i mean when you ask me what is our strategy and plan

in as well the president doesn't articulate that when he gives a speech it's usually about what he's done that he's proud of or the things that he's angry about in the people he thinks don't measure up so it's not the kind of president that. gives me a lot of comfort because i do want a president to outline what we what our strategy is and how we're going to get there and elicit the support of both republicans and democrats to support that strategy and that policy there is no trump doctrine. no there is no trump doctrine why do you think he has such a hard time. criticizing. the recent incident we discussed about nikki haley why can't he come down tougher on russia well i have to feelings about this one feeling is that we pushed russia over you know after the cold war it ended

and we had won and that wasn't good enough we had to go all the way to ukraine and knock on their door and putin earlier on said why are you doing this to us back off why didn't we have ukraine for instance be a neutral party that the russians wouldn't feel threatened that we were going to work our will on it so that's one part of the feeling and i think president has that sense that we did things that we shouldn't have and have are causing problems that we don't need to have but then the other part of it is that given his behavior nothing would surprise me and what he did in in moscow and and the financial dealings with the russians when i travel to russia as a congressman to china i was always told there are no secrets anywhere there's nothing you will be able to keep from the russians or the chinese when you're in their country the implication was make sure you are leading

a very moral life there make sure there's nothing that they learn about our country or about your own personal conduct that would embarrass or disgrace you or harm you and your country we're surprised by paul ryan's retirement i was surprised that he didn't because he had to know that it was. not helpful not helpful at all. and you know if there was someone immediately who was going to jump in it was going to become the speaker and he could announce i'm leaving so and so is taking over if i'm going to help that would have probably been the best you could hope for but the way it's turning out i know what happens in a political environment everybody now so he leads everybody is now thing it's not just the speaker so if the majority leader now leaves who's going to be the majority leader if the whip becomes the majority leader who's going to become the whip and all the vacancies that are happening on the hill people are saying am i

going to be the next chairman of this subcommittee in appropriations am i going to be the chair was or maybe should he have quit should he have way or should he have done well he may have had some real challenges in his own district but i think he should have waited. not made any announcement not made any of us do you know kevin mccarthy who's indorsing i know kevin and you know he was he's an ambitious person that and a talented person. you know he was a it was a leader in the in the california senate with just very little tenure so he's very capable but he's married to trump and and i have to say that's a risky game when people when you asked me earlier about the majority leader you know wanting to make sure he protected. the investigation of trump. the members are taking a real risk when they're saying that he's not going to fire me i mean he may and

then they're going to look like jerks. and more or the things are going to happen in the drink russian elections this fall. well usually the other side picks up seats and race where the white house is held by one party and so i think you're going to see some obvious losses and then multiply it times two or three so if it. is twenty four they could lose more. always great talking with you chris i love talking with you larry chris shays as always we thank him for his time today stay right there we got more politicking after the break.

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kampala to get more now on that super secret trip that secretary of state designee might pump aoe made to north korea over the easter holiday and how it teased president trump for his upcoming summit with kim jong un police who triggered an expert on asia and north korea columnist for the daily beast he's going through the book nuclear showdown north korea takes on the world he joins us via skype what do you make of the pump aoe meeting over the still weekend well i was stunned along with most everybody else i think it says a couple of things first of all you know pompei about kim jong un which means that kim really is serious about meeting with president trump and it also says that the

trumpet ministration is taking this potential summit seriously and they're doing their homework which is something that people are concerned about laying the groundwork i think that we have at least a little bit of cause for optimism you know of course larry things could go wrong but nonetheless i believe that situation is moving in the right direction i think it will happen soon. well president trump said that it would occur or june or maybe even earlier who knows you know it could slip by a month or so when the president first talked about this on march eighth when he accepted kim's offer he had talked about may so you know it could be july but i think it's going to occur pretty soon because it seems like the discussions have been ongoing and so therefore they probably had a pretty advanced state right now seven q it sounds pretty good to me triggers a meeting with the japanese prime minister in mongo this week and will say that the interests of japan and north korea are not aligned is untrue you know our interests

are not perfectly aligned with japan so japan for instance is concerned about short and intermediate range missiles united states is less concerned about you know tokyo is not concerned at all by intercontinental ballistic missiles because it's in within range of other missiles that the north has also the united states is much you know not much less concerned about people who have been adopted by north korea in japan this is a very important political issue whereas the united states even though we have at least three americans held by north korea you know we don't really talk about it so the interests are not perfectly aligned and that's why i think it's good the president trump is meeting with the japanese prime minister because that when they can bug it on the same page and i have to trump meets with alone apparently the chinese. leader will travel to north korea how do you think this is going

on ravel. well i think the chinese right now are concerned about being left out of all of these discussions and so they're trying to make themselves relevant i think they're also trying to give more support to north korea in the last month we've seen more evidence of china's sanctions busting and that's not good so china is putting itself into a process where they have so far been excluded and i think they're exclusion is probably a good thing because i think we need to talk to the north koreans directly instead of going through beijing where sometimes those messages when they go through the chinese get a little bit garbled and so talking to. directly is a really good thing for us here think there's a split between younger south koreans and older south koreans these of the north korea. oh definitely the president is sixty five he's part of the so-called three eighty six generation that fought for democracy in south korea they

view the united states as a bad actor and many of moon's close advisers are very pro north korean but you know you look at the south korean electorate it's sort of like a donut because older and the oldest south koreans remember the united states in the korean war they're very pro washington and younger south koreans they don't really care too much about us but they don't think that they're the same state as north korea they don't see this korean nationalism that their president espouses younger south korean voters they're just more pro south korea south korean nationalist and so you have a very different population miss mix and the one thing that's going to help the u.s. in all of this is although bluejay and doesn't like us and working very hard to undermine american interests and indeed the interests of the international community there are a lot of south koreans who are not on board with their president gordon as always i

appreciate your time today thanks larry on wednesday knowledge from broke his media silence about porn star stormy daniels who claims a consensual sexual encounter with mr trump more than a decade ago mr daniels whose will name is stephanie clifford and her attorney my go have a lot he was here last week who are least a forensic sketch of a man she claims threatened her and her infant daughter several years ago alleging telling her to forget her claims on donald trump trump sent out a tweet raising questions about the sketch criticizing news organizations for covering the story legally has he stepped into something he should stay very clear of as told friend trent copeland the criminal defense of.