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josh, you cover this every single day in your role as the foreign policy reporter for the associated press. you have admiral -- former admiral who evelyn knows well who was out this morning on "morning joe" talking about where this goes. i want to play that and i'd love to get your analysis on it. >> we can still land this thing if we are taking a relatively nuanced, reasonable approach to the negotiation. and that woin cluuld include ge better intelligence right now, talking more to the south koreans. we spend so much time yelling at the north koreans -- >> so can things still be salvaged? >> i think he's right in the administration's officials that i've spoken to have been saying we expected if not this particular hiccup but at some point there would be a breakdown in the is the north korean playbook, this is how it works and that they've built into their planning 8 sthaufrption they were going to have to get things back on track. what they're less confident in is whether the president will be able to restrain himself, play it cool and not overreact in a way that makes it impossibl

august i invited ambassador barbara stevenson, president of the american foreign service association, to minnesota farm and policy forum that wrist together about 40,000 people out on the rich soils near redwood fall, minnesota. her message was simple yet important. the work and policy forum that wrist together about 40,00 officers throughout the globe has a direct and substantial impact on the citizens of our great nation n that case, promoting export markets and food safety throughout the world so the world's greatest producers of food and fuel and fiber are able to find those markets and able to grow our economies. but what often goes unnoticed are the thousands of foreign national employees who work at u.s. embassies in support of our diplomats. as they build and strengthen democratic institutions, create and sustain markets for american products, and promote democracy in some of the most hostile, austere environments in the world. these dedicated professionals are called l.e.s.'s among the service. locally engaged service. locally engaged staff. that is exactly what they are. they are engaged locally in a ay

not because of his insane foreign policy ideas but because of bolton's brush-like mustache. with one associatenald was not going to like that mustache. [ light laughter ] so if trump is thinking, of taking bolton's advice on iran. i would just like to say, "mr. president look at that mustache." [ light laughter ] can you really trust a guy with a mustache like that? he looks like evil mark twain. [ light laughter ] john bolton is dark twain. he looks like he walked into a barber shop and said give me half of wilford brimley. [ light laughter ] so trump is surrounding himself with people who made clear they want regime change in iran which undercuts one of the central claims of trump's presidential campaign that he, he was the anti-war candidate. as you may recall he repeatedly went out of his way to claim falsely that he was opposed to the iraq war which he said over and over again was a disaster. >> george bush made a mistake. we can make mistakes. but that one was a beauty. we should have never been in iraq. we have destabilized the middle east. they lied. they said there were weapons of mas

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foreign policy experts and he feels it is approach has paid dividends. laura: niall stanage, thanks for joining s . niall: alwpleasure. speech weer that mentioned before, the national rifle association. presidentru embraced the organization today in the remarks. poour corrent gary o'donoghue send this report. grandma there he is, donaldum j -- >> there he is, donald j. trump. the nra convention ha become an animal pilgrimage for president trump. today the president remains staunch in his defense ofhem and their rights constitutionally to own a gun. president trump: yout second amendmghts are under siege, but they will never, ever be under siege as long as i am your president. ofy: but after the shooting 17 students, teachers at the school in parkland, florida, on valentine's day, the mood has changed. young people around the country keeping gun control at forefront of the debate. >> my daughter has nooi. she was murdered last week. gary:rt s after the shooting, the president seemed prepared to stand up to the organization. little action followed. president trump: let's talk labout guns, sh we? ucgary: there was notough talk for the nra today. the president also suggesting that havin

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boldin, chair of the national bar association pact and allison stewart a political comernmenta and former communications director for ted cruz. let's add to the foreign policy achievements of the president. the domestic achievements. unemployment rate 3.9 and lowest in 18 years. the tax cut republicans pushed through. you've got the strong economy. are you concerned? does the republican party have a strong enough narrative to take to the people in the fall that this blue wave is not going to happen? >> well, those are certainly pluses for the trump administration. the problem with trump and his administration over the course of the last couple of years is they find a way to step on the message. so you have these domestic and international successes hard for me to concede that but i will without -- because i know allison is coming after me, but the reality is you still have the russian investigation and you have the senator mccain comments, you have lack of apology. and so that, alone, isn't enough to say there is not going to be a blue wave. arizona was very close. you have virginia. you have pennsylvania. and other states where you've had republicans versu

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associated with the election of president term but a provocator you have got nothing to do with chance election campaign and you are not a natural. i believe in french foreign policy that's based on independents there are things that really tires very closely to the u.s. like foreign security. emanuel said that europe and the u.s. have mutual obligations in europe depends on the us in the room of security but you don't have to worry about that it will help. to provide security. so day to has officially wrapped up cabin but still more is to come on saturday good will be back to full latest on things from there and some papers. and as soon as it was same will continue to check in live on the east serve day almost second the third day of the forum as it wraps hearing from delegates and getting more updates from our team in some papers but. here in moore the big news tonight the u.s. state department is calling on russia to admit that it was behind the downing of flight m.h. seventeen over eastern ukraine in twenty fourteen it's off a strain and the netherlands directly accused russia of involvement despite the fact the investigation is still ongoing russia's foreign

association of international educators. among the many -- the jurisdiction of european court of human rights, ask a part of the canceled your. i like to bring up a different aspect of foreign-policy which is human rights can uk is played an important voice in this area at a time with the united states is clearly abandoned its realtor i wonder about the voice of international human rights issues if the uk is less local as well after brexit? >> ed or matthew or jennifer? jennifer. >> was unhappy to comment. part of this if you remember back to the lead up to brexit one of the issues that theresa may at least was commenting on is one of the things that she initially had said she would love to see is the uk out of the jurisdiction not of the court adjusted of european union. or in addition to getting out from under the court of justice for the european union. she wanted out from under the court of human rights. because there's been a number of decisions handed down of european court of human rights that were anti-uk, and the review was i would like to be out of that jurisdiction. we haven't heard a lot more of that talk. part of it will depend i think, so don't think there's been a d