douglas: they need to choose what kind of nsc model they want. do they want a weak nsc where state and defense get a lot of erogatives -- for example, the early bush administration, where condi rice had little power over donald rumsfeld and colin powell. or do they want a strongsc like the last administration that, although they were complaints about fineign policy all run from the white house. you have to choose and move forward. jane: doug ollivant, tinnk you for jome. one of the major foreign-policy issues facing the trump administration is syria. officials have urged people to leave the last rebel-held areas of easternhouta as dozens have died in government shelling and russian airstrikes. some 20,000 people have been forced from theihomes. the syrian army says it has retaken 70% of the territory from rebels. meanwhile, in the north of the country, turkish armed forces and their allies have almost completely encircled the city of afrin. some 30,000 people have fledhe area. l st six people have died in the bridge collapse at floridaio internl

mcmaster contrary to reports they have a good working relationship and there are no changes at the nsc. we will discuss that later in this hour and balance it with what we have learned from "the washington post" tonight. that is simply a tweet from the white house press secretary, so its credibility is whatever you want to assign to it. here is what the president told the "new york times" last july about the special prosecutor investigating his finances. >> if mueller is looking at your finances and your family's finances unrelated to russia, is that a red line? >> would that be a breech of what his actual charge is? >> i would say yes. >> when asked if crossing that red line would lead to firing robert mueller, donald trump said, quote, i can't answer that question because i don't think it's going to happen. well, now it has happened, so what is the president going to do? in order to fire the special prosecutor, the president would have to fire the attorney general first, because only the attorney general has the authority to fire the special prosecutor, the current attorney general h

>> this would be a lot of turnover at the nsc.he's looking for people who were leftovers from the obama administration, he's looking mostly at career people who are running the inner workings of the nsc and have the deepest experience, who were in the obama administration nsc and stayed over during the transition. movab most of those that i know of have returned back to their main agencies, whether the state department or the cia or defense department. i'm sure there are still some around. i think the bigger issue is going to be this. does he clean out the people who h.r. mcmaster, his immediate predecessor, brought in? and general mcmaster cleaned out a lot of people who had been put in their posts by michael flynn when he came in, and you'll remember he lasted just around a month. in fact the ones who stayed past that time were called flynn-stones. and the question they had at the white house last year was, gee, are they getting rid of the flynn-stones. now the question will be are they getting rid of the mcmaster employees. the

when i left the nsc and was a private citizen. i walked to the shrine and usually see the old imperial japanese rising sun flag. to my surprise when i walked in, there was a dpp flag flying. which proves the old adage the enemy of the enemy is my friend. the dpp on most issues is aligned with japan's opposition power, nuclear, power. on this one strategic questions, the dpp kind of aligns pretty well with abe. so, you have the u.s., japan, taiwan all kind of aligning, but -- then i'll end -- i mean, there are some obstacles. i think for japan there's frustration with taiwan over the fact that taiwan will not import food from fukushima where the nuclear crisis happened which hurts the feelings i think of a lot of japanese. taiwan's position on other territorial issues aligns with beijings. that's frustrating. i think for taiwan's side, there's some frustration. i think the current -- former self-defense officers are quite active. the current government of japan is very careful. i think there's more intel sharing, more cooperation,

incoming national security advisor john bolton maybe making sweeping changes at the nsc. he is going to begin at the top. the idea is to stop the leak. they have been dogged by rumors being the leak factor inside the trump administration. the thought is, cleaning house maybe the only way to ensure more message discipline. the president directed mr. bolton to do his part to clean things up at the nsc. >> shannon: kevin corke from the white house. multiple military bases hit by suspicious packages. aftersafter vehicle packed with propane tank exploded in northern california. jennifer griffin had latest from the pentagon. >> senior u.s. defense official confirms multiple packages that contained explosive materials were sent to military installations in the d.c. area today. at about 8:30 this morning a package addressed to the national defense university arrived fort mcnair. that package contained a fuse but an army explosive unit neutralized it. another suspicious package was sent to dahlgren naval center. the story is developing as we speak. the packages are being examined

so what president trump in a normal situation should have done is convene a nsc meeting and talk about pros and cons about having a meeting with kim jong-un and then coordinate the policy and then announce it. >> so stanley, what's wrong with trying this? the trump argument, i suppose, would be, look we've tried all that kind of thing. why not do something out of the box? >> there's nothing wrong with trying this. i think extraordinary times require extraordinary measures. and in my view, president trump had no choice. first, this had been clearly orchestrated by president moon, whoed a invested enormous political capital and prestige, sending his national security adviser to personally brief the president, carrying the invitation. it would have been a massive insult to president moon had he nod accept not accepted. it would have been a massive insult to kim jong-un. furthermore, i think the president, because of the way he runs the white house, does not have the luxury that president clinton had, where he could send secretary albright, ambassador sherman, and a very large team. we had

what can you tell us about the nsc's recommendation at this point?> reporter: something will happen, in particular if it's a major ally, the u.k. would certainly qualify. there is a trans-atlantic conversation about what to do to demonstrate vocal support but also substantive support and the u.s. is obviously prepared to do just that, although nothing to announce specifically at the moment. let me share just a bit of what we've gotten from the state department and from the white house today. first, at the state department, a statement was issued that reads in part this way. the united states is considering a range of options to respond to russia's outrageous actions in the u.k., both to demonstrate solidarity with oura ally and to hold russia accountable for its breach of international norms and agreements. of course, this in relation to that devastating and awful poisoning attack. meanwhile, the white house with a statement out today saying this, united states stands firmly with the united kingdom in condemning russia's outrageous action. the presid

at the nsc level, at the principals' committee level. >> what about now? -- i can't count them all. now i'm concerned this is not getting sufficient attention at the top. i think what the treasury department did the other week is a good sign. but the message has to come from the top. it has to come from the president of the united states in terms of issuing sufficient deterrents. president obama had a direct conversation with president put been this in 2016. and they're still at it, they're still doing what they are trying to do to interfere with our democracy. >> president trump, after his meeting with vietnam with president putin, seemed to indicate his denials -- at least he repeated his denials. yesterday the president ignored explicit capital letters warnings from his own national security team. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i can understand the temptation sometimes to want to try to establish a warm personal relationship with another leader, and then your staff gives you -- here are five things you must say. and sometimes you feel like, well, i don't want to say those

it could have come from the nsc staff, people clearly upset this happened.could be the state department, and of course beyond that, the department of defense. these kinds of things happen where you have competing views about how the president's approaching an issue as difficult, as delicate, and as serious as russia. i think the president's mind, let's look across the board here. the process is not something he cares about. maybe he didn't even read the brief. maybe he doesn't. maybe he likes to freelance a little bit. he's clearly trying to feel out his way with relationships with foreign leaders, and that includes putin. he certainly doesn't want to give into all the screwny utiny him that he's going to be tough on putin. if anything, he's so mad about that he'll keep him a little closer just to get people in fits even though the administration has levied sanctions. he hasn't spoken out about the apparent murder of a former spy by putin. the president doesn't think about this in terms of the presidency, in terms of u.s. goals and morals. in that way, he's

they have interviewed numerous current, former, high-level officials from the white house of the nsc, the department of homeland security, the fbi and other intelligence community agencies. they have secured and analyzed countless products both raw and finished assessments. me say this with a great deal of confidence. it is clear the russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system. and highlighted some of the key gaps. there is no evidence that any vote was changed. russia attempted to penetrate 21 states. we know there were successful in penetrating at least one voter database. to the department of homeland security alert estates to the threats warnings did not provide enough information or go to the right person in every case. alerts were actionable they provided an ip address to professionals, but no clear reason for states to take this threat more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence of our election system. we are here to express concerns and also confidence in our state local governments. what's important to understand

, the nsc being foreign policy and a new economic policy was supposed to synthesize cabinet positions and come up with a policy. how does that contrast with the war between gary cohn and steve mnuchin on one hand and peter navarro on the other hand and the way this whole trade policy was announced? >> that was a great explanation of how it worked. i actually spent time with them in the clinton and the obama presidency. it puts itself in an organized manner. in this situation it doesn't seem to be a process, a whole lot of organization. i guess this is a pretty hard job for someone like gary cohn to have. at the end of the day, though, i don't think it matters a whole lot who is in this job. there is one person in the white house making decisions. with all the turnover the one person in the white house making that decision has not changed, and that's president trump himself. >> and, jason, i know you're a professor, but i don't want to be too professorial and lose me, but the president does not have an understanding, to put it kindly, about what a trade deficit is and the difference be

the other thing i think the nsc would be recommending to the president right now is actually to chinait's unusual that china is publicly silent on this. china doesn't let anything happen in the region without being involved in some way. president xi is about to be put in office for potentially a third term. my gut is china is doing something on this behind the scenes and nsc is going to want to work to see what that is. >> colonel, they seem to be giving the united states a little bit. not that they'd denuclearize altogether before they sit down, but they are saying it's part of the discussion. >> i think it's a breakthrough. i'm very skeptical on what north korea does. they've promised things before and not delivered. the china aspect is key here. what are the chinese doing? are they going to guarantee this? my initial thought is this is a breakthrough. the strong rhetoric has worked, the sanctions are biting. i tend to think it's the latter. i don't like hearing this from south korea. i would prefer the north koreans make some sort of announcement. if you read the south korean state

there are no changes at the nsc currently. but there is a clear sense among people in the white house and outside of the white house that the president wants this change to be made and the decision that is left here is whether it is going to happen sooner rather than later, brianna. >> abby phillip at the white house. thank you. i want to discuss this with our senior political reporter nia malika henderson with us. sources are telling cnn that trump is ready to replace the national security adviser. it makes you think of for instance rex tillerson whose ouster was rumored for some time and seemed like he was safe and it seemed like perhaps he was safe because the president wanted to prove the media wrong as they surmised he was going. could that happen here? >> it could be. we know that the president likes to spend a lot of time watching folks on cable news, how the reviews are, what people are saying and also sort of prove them wrong, right. with the tillerson thing, for instance, there are reports he was on his way out, he c

but this does take a toll on the nsc ability to coordinate the different national security organizations within the government. and that can leave us unprepared or less prepared for national security challenges. i do believe that at this point it's starting to take a toll. >> amanda, i want to ask you about this, because it has been conventional wisdom by some folks -- as well i think that may -- a lot of this stuff in the past couple weeks have been to change the headlines. people may not have been fired today because they're going to be fired sand. when the stormy daniels interview runs. there's been speculation in order to distract from the interview set to aaron sunday the president is going to announce reportedly maybe the va affairs, the hud secretary ben carson supposedly next on the chopping block until the mcmaster announcement caught them off guard. mcmaster's firing was on the same night of the karen mcdougal interview. what do you think we'll hear when the president speaks? >> probably nothing. he needs to sit and see what she has to say. as we know stormy daniels lawyer is t

waen that because they have a water cooler at the nsc.the honest broker, to balance the different government agencies, departments, and give a consensus to the president to let each person, each party speak their case in making policy. bolton is not a person who has ever shown any ability to do that. so i think it's going to be tough to make the process work. i worry most about our allies. we are depending now on the strong alliances we have around the world, especially to deal with north korea. boltenon need to reassure japan we're not going to do anything crazy here. is bolton the person who can do that? if he isn't, he's going to fail on a central piece of the job of being national security adviser. so at the end of the week, you know, so many instances of chaos, this is the one i think allies look most closely at. >> and, david, let's be very clear. there were a few neocons trying to bolster this saying this is a man who wrote an op ed in the "wall street journal" not so long ago calling for preemptive first strikes against north kore

with the president, i think these two appointments at state and the nsc have both moved the center ofe position on north korea and iran. it looked like the president was tilting toward getting out of the iranian agreement. i think the chances have gone up a lot he is going to get out of the agreement. they're going to go in with lower expectations on the north korean talk. john bolton is a very smart man. and he's had a lot of interesting statements. but he is not going to be able to put his beliefs behind. he is not going to go and be a neutral arbiter. he has views he will advance. he's done that all his life. he is going to be trying to advance his policies. i think it's really significant now that the president on a series of personalities, everything has moved toward a harder line, a more combative line. whether it's trade or north korea or iran. you can go down, you can go down the whole series. even his personal lawyers. >> there have been controversial people in this position. i mean henry kissinger has very strong viewers, absolutely. he had a huge impact on policy. it's the

is a very -- you worked in the white house, obviously, in the white house counsel's office, not the nsc, but the position is a very powerful one. it is a person that is essentially coordinating, if i'm not mistaken, right, the process by which the president makes national security decisions. >> yes. it is. it's a very important position. and when it comes to making a decision about whether to go to war, whether to attack north korea, whether to attack iran, or launch some other military operation, the national security adviser is going to be a very important part of that decision making process. and if you have someone like general mcmaster in there, you have someone who understands our military capability and the limitations on our military capability. and also can explain to the president the likely casualties that will ensue on the battlefield and for civilians. you have someone who is a hothead like bolton who just, you know, everything for him is theoretical, and he has all these theoretical constructs that have nothing to do with reality. he's going to encourage the president to g

they've interviewed high-level officials from the white house, the nsc, the department of homeland security, the fbi and other intelligence community agencies. they have secured and analyzed products, both raw and finished products. i say this with great confidence, it is clear that the russian government was looking for the vulnerabilities in our election system. and highlighted some key gaps. there's no evidence any vote was changed. russia attempted to penetrate 21 states. we know that eric's successful in penetrating at least one voter database. the department of homeland security alert estates, warnings did not provide enough information to go to the right person in every case. alerts were actionable they alerted officials but no clear reason for states to take more seriously were given. russia was trying to undermine the confidence our of our election system. were here to express concerns but also confidence in our state local governments. it's important to understand is that tomorrow we will have an open hearing specifically on election security. mark and i will be joined by four mem

potus and contrary to reports, they have a good working relationship and there are no changes at the nsc. >>> the investigations into russia's meddling in the presidential election is expanding. yesterday abc news confirmed the special counsel has issued subpoenas demanding president trump's family business hand over all documents related to russia. analysts say it's a sign robert mueller's investigation will continue for several more months. a source tells abc news mueller has information that raises more questions about the trump organization's financial dealings. >>> san francisco is installing more bike lane barriers to protect cyclists from cars. the examiner reports safety posts were put up along the valencia street bike line. cyclists have long complained uber and lyft drivers swoop into the bike lane to pick up passengers. the barriers are a short-term solution that city supervisors have requested a study to find ways to make valencia street safer in the long run. >>> wants to ban restaurants from using plastic straws. under a proposal by city council member, you can still get a

sunday morning, former nsc director jeffrey edmonds the double poisoning of an agent in britain and his continued meddling in u.s. elections. then the debut of our series, 1968. a discussion of the major political and diplomatic developments in the vietnam war. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal." join discussion. >> monday, on "landmark cases," plessy versus ferguson where plessy, in african-american, was arrested in new orleans for taking a seat on a train reserved for whites. the decision established these equal doctrine. this narrow interpretation of amendment was not overturned until brown versus the board of education. examined this case with ted shaw, director for the center of civil rights at the university of north carolina. and michael gorman, a constitutional law professor at her law school and the author of the 2000 four book "from jim crow to civil rights." watch on listen c-span.org, or with the free c-span radio app. for background in each case, order your copy of the landmark cases book. it's available at c-span. org/landmarkcases. senatehursday, the intellige

coming up sunday morning, former nsc russet director gregory edmonds discussed russia's alleged role in the poisoning of a double agent in britain and meddling in the u.s. elections. then, the debut of our series, 1968: america in turmoil. marinissand david talk about the major political and diplomatic developments in the vietnam war. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on sunday morning. join the discussion. c-span's q&a, colorado college professor talks about his book "imagining a great republic." >> i think the reading of major political classics is very empowering in terms of this country stands for something, very special, and the great they are- storytellers, saying our tribe wants to be something special. not just a city on a hill, but a city that cares and loves one another and wants to work with one another. and understands that politics is indispensable to bringing about progress for as much people as possible. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. next, the hearing of space a national security. general john raymond who heads the air force space co

john bolton is now taking over at the nsc.ple out? what's going on? >> look, i think since day one have you seen a process. this president came in as a disrupter. is he going to continue to do that. and he will continue to bring in people that i think understand how to implement the strategy that he wants. one of the mistakes that a think a lot of people in the media and pundits have made is try to figure out every person and what -- where their views are. at the end of the day, this is less about individuals' views than their understanding of what the president wants to implement and their belief in how to implement that. this is more of a relationship that the president is trying to establish with key staff to make sure that they understand hits strategy and that they have the tools to implement it. that's it plain and simple. not about whether or not they agree whole party heartedly about every position he takes. goodness knows you arener going to find thearn. continue to be church because that's who he is. is he a disrupte

housee nsc of the white and for others. there are ongoing discussions as part of the whole range that we face. as i have said there has not been yet a formulation of a lead that would work with the congress on legislative action and putting a policy in place relative. there are kabul get issues -- there are complications. i asked admiral rodgers of our response to russian cyberattack has been adequate enough to change behavior. he said we had failed to change their calculus and that behavior is not changed. would you agree? >> i would agree. >> do you believe it's possible to change someone's behavior, particularly someone like vladimir putin without losing some for cost for their actions? >> >> i believe that. >> how to impose those costs? >> that is the question. how do you assess the retaliation in impact and what it might lead to and i think that is the operative question that has to be addressed. >> would sanctions be an appropriate response? lawuse this body passed a nearly unanimously the required that the president

rice allegedly told nsc officials to stand down and quote mark it off other obama officials admittede-unquote choked when it came to response to russian interference. charlie, good to see you. it strikes me there are three possibilities to account for rice's behavior. sidity, incompetence or coward cowardice. which would you choose? >> d, none of the above. the accusation is being made by a couple of far left authors who interviewed a lot of people in the obama administration. and it raises a real question, why would they tell them to stand down and actively work to prevent the previous administration from dealing with the russian attempts to interfere with the election. the only thing i can couple with that either a they feared some of it would somehow come back now haunt them which of course it is, or they didn't want to do anything to disrupt the collusion, the conspiracy that i think was going on at the time. >> i don't think she is smart enough to know any better. let me turn to the dossier. another day, another connection that is direct from the dossier to the obama admin surpr

and potus, contrary to reports have a great working relationship and there will be no changes at the nscating under the assumption that at any moment, the announcement could come. >> there are only two to purchase would be earth shattering. one would we jeff sessions, a sign that trump is thinking about firing robert mueller. the other would be the chief, general kelly. otherwise, i cannot see it having that reagan impact. >> i think there are only -- that big of an impact. sucralose trump is cutting regulations like nobody has in history, and the market is applauding that. anything that would make you think that trump was going to change that course would probably be taken as a negative in the markets. mcmaster's firing, larry kudlow coming, none of that changes the dynamic. i don't think it is anything for markets to be concerned about. >> still ahead, as you review the week on bloomberg best, canada's prime minister, just into growth -- justin trudeau explains what he is optimistic that a nafta deal be done. also, the bigger picture on global trade and more of the weeks top business h

let's take the nsc's advice, when president trump said quote let the other people take care of it. did he know these people were likely to be iran and russia, we don't know. and when the president said we will be coming out very soon. he himself railed against on the campaign trail and boasted that he would never do. >> i don't want to tell the enemy how i am thinking. they used to call it the element of surprise. i keep saying, whatever happened to the element of surprise. we are too predictable. we need to be unpredictable. we want to be unpredictable. i'm not going to tell you about what response i do. i don't want to be one of these guys that says, yes, here's what we are going to do. they shouldn't know. >> and yet, here we are. just like you can make a case for or against involvement in syria, you can also make a case for and against strange surprise. sometimes it is better to send clear signals. sometimes it is not. is it better to have your inner circle out of the loop or not. it is however whether he is even listening. not only does the president get the last word, the pre

nsc sponsor released a statement saying i was with president trump and h.r. mcmaster in the office.p said that the nbc news story is fake news and told mcmaster that he's doing a great job. according to the spokesman. joining me now, rebecca grant along with retired u.s. marine corps gunnery sergeant. let me start with you on this, rebecca. what would the implications be? i don't think it's a secret that the president and mcmaster don't necessarily see eye to eye with respect to policy. >> mcmaster has done a great job. he's gotten all of the reports out, the new defense strategy, nuclear posture review. today this is fake news. this is twisted garbage, an attack on the west wing. but in the future it's time for mcmaster to leave and get his fourth star. so i would expect to see him rotate out on a normal basis, maybe sometime in the summer or further on and go back to the army and get promoted to the four-star position. charles: what would this do -- we know one thing in the past we've seen as military moral. would this upset that at all? >> i don't think it will have negative impl

dreer reports, they have a good working relationship and there are no changes at the nsc. stay mcmasters met with the president and briefly made an appearance in front of cameras on the white house front lawn. despite assurance that's he's going nowhere, sanders said she, not the president, informed mcmast better his status. >> .drei spoke directly to the president last night. >> even kelly may be on the way out but the president has said he is 100% safe. and he said reports of staff changes are not accurate. >> a very false story. a very exaggerated and false story. >> but speculation persists. it seems as throw the white house is setting the stage for a dramatic end to all this talk of these staff shake-ups. if that tension is increasing things here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue, the president seems the revel in it. our sources say the president is enjoying all the attention this story is getting. in part, wolf, because he is the only one who knows how this story ends. >> thank you very much. >>> there's a stunning turn in the stormy daniels story. she is suing the preside

what i would be worried about is what the future nsc meeting would look like. i urge you and your viewers to think about it now. you have a meeting in which mike pompeo, if confirmed, first in his class at west point. meaning he comes with a military background. you have general kelly, former general. you have former general mattis, the defense department. you have current general mcmaster and see if he survives. then the operational generals who are running our military. you'll have a meeting in which -- and i'm not saying this voice isn't important but i don't think we want our president to only have a military's point of view. >> you're saying diversity of thought matters? diversity of thought? >> yes. and we need somebody who has some experience in diplomacy, somebody who understands that gray area between the use of force and nonuse of force. and our military will be respectful of the problem and it will be hard for former military or current military to stand up to the commander in chief. it's harder to do that if you're in the military versus a respected

they have a good working relationship and there's no changes at the nsc.nsifying and zeroing in on the president's business practices. robert mueller has subpoenaed the trump organization to turn over documents, including some related to russia. president trump saying once that any investigation into his businesses would cross a red line. the lawyer for stormy daniels, the porn star that is suing to tell her story, publicly says daniels was physically threatened but didn't get into specifics. take a listen to what he told "morning joe." >> was she threatened in any way? >> yes. >> was she threatened physical harm? >> yes. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: now, we reached out to the president's attorney handling the matter. so far, no response. craig? >> kristen welker, from the white house this morning. thank you. >>> the food and drug administration is unveiling a new plan to prevent millions of tobacco-relate ed deaths. it wants to propose new rules to reduce the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. about 15% of american adults still spoke. while the fda does regula

. >> sarah huckabee sanders away concrete viable actions before the meeting takes place.the nsc says she was importing putting preconditions on the meeting but shouldshe be puttin preconditions? >> i think it's important was the fact we step back to see how we got to this place. this leader continued to develop their nuclear weapons program. this administration came in. the president talked about putting enormous pressure on the north korean economy and leadership. that gave us this opportunity where kim jong-un now has committed to stopping nuclear testing. stopping missile tests. allowing exercises to go forward. some think that been incredibly contentious in the past. at the same time saying denuclearization, complete, verifiable, irreversible the authorization is a topic for discussion. that's when kim jong-un said i'd like to meet with the president and he decided it was the proper time to begin the conversation. >> should there be preconditions put on the meeting? what do you think kim jong-un needs to do to get that big meeting? >> that's what he needs to do. he can't conduct

mcmaster and the president have a good working relationship, and there are no changes at the nsc. people look at how this has all been handled from around the world and they're thinking what? >> i think they're thinking we have a white house in chaos, we have musical chairs happening every second of every day, which really undermines the credibility of our national security counsel system. and plays to putin's advantage. he's not playing around with his national is security counsel, he's not pushing people out. from one national security advisor to another, you're more vulnerable because you just have more work to do. so none of this plays to a message of stability in the national security space. >> this is a conversation that will go on for some time, a revolving door at the white house, just hours after his lead lawyer on the russia investigation resigns, what this r legal shake-up means and the strategy for the special counsel. and a former playboy play mate says that donald trump told her he loved her and also this. >> after we had been intimate, he tried to pay me. and i actu

there will be changes at the nsc? just not immediately. >> we'll keep a close eye on that. major new development in the russia investigation. robert mueller subpoenaing the trump organization. that appears to cross that red line president trump had said about not going into his finances. >> reporter: the president was asked directly back in july if going into his personal finances unrelated to russia would cross the red line. now, this looks like personal finances, but related to russia. certainly very close to the red line, if not over it and, george, perhaps more significantly this indicates that the special counsel investigation is nowhere near over. it is expanding into new areas. >> not even close to being over. jon, thanks very much. as the news broke about those subpoenas yesterday afternoon, i was sitting down for an exclusive interview with the businessman in the middle of one deal mueller is examining. felix sater is the man who partnered up wit trumpo try to build a hot in moscow while trump was running for president. >> started making phone calls to some of the

we did not even get to the shakeup at the white house, john bolton coming in to nsc.hades of the bush era. hrry: we were hearing that mcmaster was out and now it did happen. it is thought to be a snap decision by toluse:. now time for the biggest -- snap decision by trump. now for the biggest business stories in the news right now. target and kroger are discussing a possible merger. the talks began last summer about a partnership. now the reports said that the committees are trying to decide if the merger is the best option. together target and kroger had $195 billion in revenue last year. glaxosmithkline has dropped out of the bidding for pfizer's consumer health care business. blackstone was said to make an offer. it added up to $20 billion. now the company says any acquisition must meet its for returns. apple wants to return to its roots in the education market. next week the company will introduce new low-cost i hads and education software. the goal is to impact students and teachers from microsoft and google. it will be the first time apple has had a product laun

topo tus, contrary to reports, they have a good working relationship and there where no changes at nscthere you go. my solid gold party panel joins me right now to react. republican strategist noel, jimmy faye da and michael malice. i used your dweet i tweet in qug the ambassador. did you see that? >> i was sitting right here. i had a shi sieve in a shif in . >> it wasn't like let's bomb them now. >> but it was like if china doesn't agree to the regime change, he said a strike is option. we're going to hit north korea and then have them decimate seoul but it's fine. the president ran against the iraq war. i remember clearly during the debates where he blames bush for 9/11 and everyone booed him to jeb bush's face. one good thing about the nomination besides the fact that we all know him, we get to see him fired in a few weeks on twitter while he's in the bathroom or in the most humiliating fashion possible. >> jimmy, you think he would be fired short term? ambassador bolton? >> let me tell you something. i love this hire. there's an old saying in sports that you have to play the teams

mcmaster, contrary to reports, they have a good working relationship and there will be no changes at the nscny moment, folks are operating under the assumption that at any moment, the announcement could come. >> there are only two departures that would be earth-shattering. one would we jeff sessions, a sign that trump is thinking about firing mueller. the other, i think would be the chief of staff, general kelly. those are the two big ones. otherwise, i just can't see it having that big of an impact. >> i think there are only two things that matter when it comes to washington. trump is cutting regulations like no president has in american history, and the market is applauding that. anything that would upset that or maybe make you think that trump was going to change about or upset that, would probably be taken as a negative in the markets. mcmaster's firing, gary: living, -- gary cohn leaving. i don't think it is anything for markets to be concerned about. david: still ahead, as you review the week on bloomberg best, canada's prime minister, justin trudeau explains what he is optimistic that

and that preparation requires a lot of experts in a state department that isn't staffed and the this nsc that isn't fully staffed. what i'm afraid of is that we're ening up with a poorly prepared summit in which the north korean plan -- and i think this is what they are planning on is to get some kind of vague declaration about denuclearization down the road and then have this drag on months after month year after year. i think that's their plan. if president trump doesn't go for that and everything is you know background certainly john bolton suggests he won't, then you have a real risk of a catastrophic failure that becomes harder to remedy when it's failed at the top. you can't try another route. >> kim jong un is playing long chess game here, saying, well you're going to legitamize me because i'll possibly meet with me and put me on a world stage but i'm mot doing anything differently just thinking that i'm doing something differently. >> i think we're. >> is this stage craft. >> we're beginning to see the north korean strategy which is to talk about denuclearization in the long run

sunday morning, former nsc russian director discusses russia's alleged role in the poisoning of a double agent in britain and its continued meddling in u.s. elections. "en, the debut of our series, 1968: america in turmoil." militarybout the major and diplomatic about -- and theomatic elements of vietnam war. join the discussion. >> this weekend, american history tv is joining our spectrum cable partners to showcase the history of winston-salem, north carolina. citiesn more about the visit current tour, c-span.org. >> there's a real sense of history in this town, because we've been here a long time and we been a successful city for a long time. >> we took a driving tour of the city with