evelyn farkas, how problematic is that? >> may i say -- i'm not a journalist so i don't have to source all this. i already said months ago i suspect manafort is actually a russian agent because he's refusing to cave. and the only reason you would refuse to cave or one good reason would be that you actually are a russian agent and vladimir putin will get you and so maybe jail is a better alternative. >> better than being in a federal prison.

evelyn farkas, how problematic is that?ay i say -- i'm not a journalist so i don't have to source all this. i already said months ago i suspect manafort is actually a russian agent because he's refusing to cave. and the only reason you would refuse to cave or one good reason would be that you actually are a russian agent and vladimir putin will get you and so maybe jail is a better alternative. >> better than being in a federal prison. >> based on this information he would not have been able to get a security clearance in a transition administration, much less in a regular trump administration. he shouldn't have been working for the campaign. >> jonathan swan, let's analyze what the president had to say just there and kind of in the context of he's issued several pardons recently, but he seems -- and frankly his defense there, saying he hasn't been charged with or convicted of anything yet. you could, in theory -- and he, for example, pardoned joe arpaio earlier in the process than he might have. certainly something he coul

evelyn farkas is a former deputy of defense for russia and msnbc national security analyst and ned pricend msnbc national security analyst and contributor. ned, i think the president has made clear what we just heard from bolton, that he believes you have to directly talk to other world leaders. there has been some question about what the president really got for what he gave in his talks with north korea. including giving up those military exercises. is it a good thing just to sit down and talk? or are many of our allies right now, balkan leaders in particular, nervous? >> well, i think both things can be true, chris, and in this case, both things are. it is true that there is utility in sitting down to talk with both our friends and our adversaries and vladimir putin whatever donald ump might think is, in fact, an adversary. we can ask ourselves why is it necessary that donald trump has attached such urgency summit, a stand-alone summit when we can expect great pomp and circumstance follows president trump's circumstances. calling into question why it's necessary to vet president putin

in nbc news pentagon correspondent hans nichols and msnbc national security analyst, my friend, evelyn farkasns, do you first, secre is didn't say the troops would be leaving but didn't rule it out either. what exactly is going to happen here, and how did the troops take this? >> what's going to happen is the president will make a decision and the policy will be translated to the pentagon and the pentagon will have to figure out some way to make that happen. we've seen this time and time again, where the pentagon appears to be caught flat-footed by a policy decision by the president. we've seen it with transgender, you saw it with the military parade. what's very clear from officials here, when the president makes a policy decision, even if they disagree with it, they will implement it. we saw a little of that with secretary mattis challenging president trump on the iran nuclear deal. eventually he fell into line and toed the party line. steph. >> let's talk about these military exercises. president trump dismisses them as expensive war games. i'm guessing that's not how general mattis feels.

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