sure that we may be doing something step by step we can do my way or the highway type of approach when it comes to north korea we'll be right back with more politicking.

and twenty forty you know bloody revolution to to correct the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be increasingly violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just a lawyer hiccup what if i mean your list book video put him in the. school in the middle of the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty fourteen. those who took part in this state over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these and other goals that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. i can tell you i have killed thirteen people with missile strikes and there are. one

thousand six hundred and twenty six unnamed enemies that were killed in all the missions that i completed and i know that i know that for a fact and i know each of these persons was a human being they had a family they had friends they had lives and we ended the possibilities are endless . politicking continue a discussion with our political panel our guests are jose aristide one yo former deputy national press secretary of the democratic party he joins us from washington and in new york amy holmes now co-host of the p.b.s. show in principle and a former staffer to senate majority leader bill frist ok other subjects on what do you say president in the instance of missile disclosure forms that he has repeated

turning michael cohen as much as two hundred fifty thousand dollars including one hundred thirty thousand paid to stormy daniels amy what's your reaction. so what president trump is coming to agreements with women he may have been involved with for them to be discreet they took the money they cashed the check now they want more fame and fortune i think politically this is a nothing sandwich for the president voters knew what they were getting when they voted for him november eighth sixty three million people knew exactly who donald trump was and they made that choice what does this mean in terms for democrats moving forward i would tell them to be very careful about trying to press this is a political matter because polling is showing and the public's reaction to this is it's just it's a sideshow it's a side story you want to get at some sort of federal election commission thing involved here that just seems to be trying to make a mountain out of

a molehill president trump we knew he wasn't a saint and he himself would say he was certainly no choirboy jose the democrats could run a commercial showing trump discussing stormy daniels as that crazy thing and dismissing it and saying he didn't know anything about any payoffs could not embarrass the president couldn't be used in a campaign absolutely and look i think it should whether the whole stormy daniels scandal will take four front and center come for the midterms no absolutely not i'm a good americans really want to make sure what are they going to get in terms of health care what are they going to get in terms of their economy their middle class what have you but this is important larry because he plays to the character of the president he's a liar he lies in day in and day out of this white house that's why there scandal after scandal not only the stormy daniels scandal we've got the russian investigation whether there was a section of justice or what have you so yes absolutely this needs to be this is

fair game when it comes to comes to politics jose nancy pelosi recently told the boston globe she think democrats will retake the house and she will run for speaker . for her democrats in the midterms i think it would help us nancy is an outstanding fundraiser for a party and i think that goes without saying larry that we need also new blood in the party and we have seen that we have won over forty state legislator races since trump became president we won a few important primaries on our side as democrats and we have seen many progressive candidates come out of the primaries so i can tell you that our party continues to reshape itself in accordance to or population of the people that join our party and we should continue to do so i am very to message that we can retake the house come november some of the latest polls that i've seen say that we have a little bit of over over six percent lead now we have we got to be careful we got

to make sure the democrats mobilize they organize that's the way that we will continue to win come november but i think i'm very hopeful number one because we have a president that truly doesn't care about the american people and we have seen time and time again the republicans who put themselves. close to the president continue to lose elections jose do you agree with closely when she says impeachment should not be an issue in the campaign races in twenty eighteen. i can tell you that the main issue should be like amy was saying immigration the economy health care you know millions of people larry have been losing their insurance their premiums their premiums have been going up because republicans continue to try to stop obamacare when they should be trying to improve it we got to remember and this is very important that under the trumpet ministration there advertisement of budget for open enrollment was cut they open enrollment period was cut by half so because they

were trying. to confuse the american people so they wouldn't get health care so it's very dangerous and very upsetting and i'm disappointed of the way that i mean instruction has has come forward and have handled the whole health care issue in america and we should the white house apologize and should kill him keep her job or have to sing about mccain he's dying anyway. that was such a crass and ugly remark for that young woman to make in the white house staff meeting and apparently she promised the mccain mccain family that she would issue a public apology i think she needs to deliver on that promise if you tell people i'm going to let the whole world know that i was sorry for making those remarks about your father dying of brain cancer then i think it's your obligation to do that but i also understand the white house point of view sarah huckabee sanders in saying look whoever leaked this information leaked this remark to the press they

weren't just hurting kelly's saddler which seem to be their intention they're also hurting the integrity of being able to have staff meetings where people can speak candidly and at the end of the day they're hurting the boss that now the white house is you know being dragged into this because one staffer made this remark in a private meeting and another staffer leaked it i don't know if that person had their knives out they've been trying to get this woman fired and this was their opportunity but at the end of the day it doesn't serve their staff and it doesn't serve the president and it doesn't serve the american people but getting back to kerry kelly saddler yes she owes mccain family a public apology just as she promised she would all presidents who said this but this week president trumps we did that leakers are traitors saying leakers are traitors and cowards and you'll find out who they are i think every president has said they will find out who the leaders are and i have never heard in my years on earth one leader revealed. well there you remember during the bush years there

was you know the manhunt for who leaked the name of the cia operative valerie plame etc scooter libby got in the crosshairs and it turns out he wasn't the leaker it was richard armitage not scooter libby's so these leaks const tend to be extremely destructive but you know you should be leaking in the first place we saw during the obama years that the leak khan's became quite legal and journalists were in the crosshairs with the obama skinny the obama administration department of justice with with them going after james rosen reporters at the a.p. reporters at the new york times so this thing can actually really snowball and get people involved who were never leaking in the first place jose form a second date rex tillerson in a. in a speech at the commencement address at virginia military institute one of a growing crisis in ethics and integrity in washington talk to the importance of

truth and political discourse and insists that a common set of facts was essential to maintaining a free society you see apparently talking about president trump. he sure it isn't because there's nothing. that comes to the truth when it comes of the way that trump has handled his presidency he's been lined from day one specially when it comes to the perfect example that he didn't know anything about stormy daniels and the payoff and then all of a sudden he does so he continues to do this bucking forward i think the former secretary of state. is basically just saying i feel good type of speech does not represent the coin ministration and of course we're going to talk about truth and fig he was right they love to blame the media when they say things that when the media says things that they don't agree with so the american people will judge the president whether he's a liar or not and we will see that come november and we will see that in twenty one amy will he sit down with mr miller well every lawyer in america particularly

defense attorneys including alan dershowitz would say that is a terrible idea especially when you know that mr miller is trying to set perjury traps far far apart and separate and away from the original mission of the investigation which is did the russians meddle in our election and was there any collusion which by the way is not a legal term but was there any cooperation with the trump campaign so most legal experts would tell you that mr trump sitting down with mr moller is a very bad idea but getting back to the former secretary of state mr tillerson in his speech perhaps he was talking about the president hard to know he didn't say but he very well could have been talking about james comey or james clapper our former director of national intelligence or for that matter john brennan our former cia director who we are learning every day has not been telling the truth both under oath and to the american people when it comes to the russian vest a geisha in the steel dossier what role that played in opening that investigation

all three of those gentlemen have been caught in some pretty serious lies and i think a lot of people are frankly sick of it. jose do you expect democrats to regain the majority in the house i am very confident larry that we can make that happen again we've seen the blue wave come in we've been winning elections left and right since mr trump became president i think we can do it but we've got to make sure that every single democrat does not stay at home they come out they mobilize they organize and they and they continue to represent and that we continue to represent the democratic values we move forward i'm very optimistic that we can make it happen but we've got to work for it and media expect the democrats to get back to gun control is an issue. you know i would be surprised if they did but within the democratic party there is you know this tug of war you have the progressive left that wants democrats to run as as the progressive left and as the hash tag

resistance anti trump anti trump but then you've also seen other democrats where they have had success in the special elections running away from the progressive left you saw in the pennsylvania special election in alabama those democrats ran as centrist they did not mention nancy pelosi stayed far away from all of that and actually did not criticize donald trump as they were trying to gain those you know high interest and possibly even center right on the i mean it's politicians have to go their own way in the on the other hand there's a strong poll out that young republicans are turned off by trump young republicans what do you make of that. you know that doesn't surprise me we saw in the last election cycle in twenty sixteen so many millennia as you love bernie sanders over hillary clinton and then of course in the exit polling democrats did very well with those young voters young republicans i think that there is a lot of conflict there in terms of what does trump represent is he conservative what is trump ism and donald trump has his own shall we say flamboyant approach to

governing that is not necessarily republican so that doesn't surprise me but come this november look it is an uphill battle for republicans historically it's against them to be able to maintain control of the house they only have a twenty three seat margin so you know they're going to be fighting you know fighting very hard to keep it to that twenty three but if they lose anything more than that then democrats regain control jose who's your favorite candidate a democrat in twenty twenty. i can't say i have a favorite yet larry but i have a few favorites i think there's a we have a lot of great candidates i really like willie and castro cory booker's really great potentially martin o'malley former governor of maryland so there's a few camilla harris was also great so we got a great diverse portfolio so i'm excited to see what happens and media what do you make of this apparent or supposed risk between tense and trump. i think that's

pretty overblown i think that we've seen the vice president handle his position very well actually that he seems to understand his role as vice president and he's building up the political infrastructure that he knows how to do we have to remember he's a former congressman former governor of indiana he understands a republican party and all the machinery of that very well and putting that machinery to work for the present united states for the midterms and for two thousand and twenty i think there's you know just a lot of water cooler nonsense that goes on in washington and i think we should the best thing to do is wait and see so far the vice president has been a total team player jose in amy thank you so much for joining us on this edition of politicking thank you eric thank you and remember audience you can join the conversation by going on my facebook page or tweeting me at kings things and don't forget use the politicking hash tag and that's all for this edition of politicking

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just after nine am on friday here in moscow welcome to this program. with an unprecedented meeting between north korean leaders for june both sides are hoping to get the most out of the upcoming talks. threats donald trump is pursuing a carrot and stick approach with. we make a deal i think kim jong un is going to be very very happy i really believe he's going to be very happy and he'll get protections that will be very strong his country would be very richest people are tremendously industrious if you look at south. or this would be really a south korean model in terms of their industry in terms of what they do the hard

work an incredible people you have to remember that for the last several decades donald trump has been very well known as a businessman he actually wrote a book a best selling book called the art of the deal so we shouldn't be surprised to see donald trump out front promising all kinds of riches to north korea if they agreed to his deal and furthermore we shouldn't be surprised with him indicating that things might not be so rosy if they don't go along with it i think when john bolton made that statement. i think that's what denuclearization means and we have very much in mind the libyan model from two thousand and three two thousand and four he was talking about if we're going to be having a problem because we cannot let that country have nukes we just can't do it the model if you look at that model with gadhafi that was a total disarray should we went in there to beat him now that model would take

place if we don't make a deal most likely to be a was the most prosperous country on the african continent until two thousand and eleven the government was overthrown and the country has been in a state of civil war ever sense you know people are fleeing it's just in utter chaos by bringing that up that's certainly a threat both sides are are playing it hard both sides are trying to see if they can get what they want out of the deal recently heard north korea threatening to pull out of the negotiations over the provocative military exercises that are taking place in south korea for a long time these drills have been taking place and they're essentially a rehearsal according to north korea for invading this is a provocative military exercise you have the u.s. forces there north korea is threatening that they might pull out so we're seeing both north korea and the united states kim jong un and donald trump you know playing a hard negotiation game in the lead up to this planned meeting. north korea has repeatedly demanded an end to the military drills in the region recently canceling

a meeting with the south over them despite john yang threatening to pull the plug on a summit with the u.s. as well the pentagon insists the war games will continue and the director of the nuclear studies institute at the american university peter because next things this could easily sabotage the summit is a real possibility the june twelfth summit meeting might be canceled drills had been planned long in advance of the summit however it was a mistake for the trumpet ministration to stage these kinds of drills on this scale at this point this current round of war games these military exercises going on between the united states and south korea so that seems another major provocation to north korea and the hard line statements by john bolton were enough to fuel to actually give more leverage to the hawks in north korea now he said that

could be not only depots but also killed in the same way that gadhafi was and so there are people in north korea who don't want to see him negotiate with the united states don't want to see these kinds of concessions on the part of north korea don't trust the united states and certainly don't trust john bolton. the european union is taking steps to counter act the u.s. sanctions against firms that deal with iran e.u. leaders have agreed to implement a so-called blocking statute after several major companies announced they would be cutting ties with terror ron amid threats from washington. because de of has the story no arguing with it america and europe had something special a relationship unlike any other they did everything together condemned. slow. norty countries with sanctions even they wanted to get we have

a very strong relationship with our friends and partners our friends and us administration we have a really great relationship both rand's allies and this is this very special relationship this is us almost too good to be true and it seems it was money trumps all now that america has unilaterally pulled out of the nuclear deal with iran it could start sanctioning european states companies that haven't the to do business with iran e.u. leaders merkel mckown others tried to change trumps mind with love. graduations and a great victory. thank

you. except love has nothing on money europeans a facing american sanctions that's not very nice is it not something friends would do looking at the latest of president. bush that. europe has had enough they stand to lose cash because of america and they won't let that happen. or put the work as the european commission we have the duty to protect european companies so we now need to act and this is why we're launching the process of activating the blocking statute from one thousand nine hundred six. what you're a business doing is using a statute initially developed to circumvent washington's trade embargo on cuba the

law basically protects european states from laws or sanctions implemented outside of europe you can see a political resolution look at america's new ambassador to germany hours after being confirmed he threatens german companies as donald trump said u.s. sanctions will target critical sectors of ron's economy german companies doing business in iran should wind down operations immediately my advice after a long ambassadorial career explain your country's policies and lobby the host country but never tell the host country what to do if you want to stay out of trouble germans are eager to listen but they will resent instruction prompts bully boy tactics haven't gone down well in europe the block is finally showing its teeth so the new different words we defend on this subject as all others is the trading sovereignty of europe and what we demand is to be exempted without any condition.

and limits it with new ones that you can't get what they want to be what a baby blindly to what american style new or do we want us europeans to say about how the economic interests of a move want to have economic relations with russia what can you say every relationship has its bumps it's just that some bumps and in divorce we should not overestimate the importance of trade with iran as a whole which in europe this is a matter that may be very crucial to specific smaller companies that for example have a large part of their trade with iran i mean the big companies of gold are going to choose to live for the better and they're going to see our interests lie more with the u.s. now with iran and they're going to not risk these kind of sanctions where the real impact is going to be that remains to be seen we should not forget that the e.u. on politically on foreign policy issues it has always been strong on words on

symbols but not much on real implementation. now the importance of keeping the iran deal alive is one of the things the e.u. and russia strongly agree on that issue among others is expected to be discussed at today's meeting between engler merkel and of light of my putting this will be an softer or bring your report on merkel's visit to russia in just a few minutes. more victims of forced sterilization under japan's now scrapped eugenics law are speaking out and suing the government for compensation here's the story of one of thousands of victims a seventy five year old man whose real name has been changed. because i was forced to have the operation in second grade on that show your high school that's what please return the life that i've lost my life has been made for thirty however in my heart i have a feeling that i want to tell a story.