let's get right to it with my guest today, susan rice, who was the u.s. ambassador to the united nations for the first obama term and part of the second, until she became the president's national security adviser. welcome back to the show, ambassador rice. >> great to be with you. >> so president trump now says that there is no nuclear threat from north korea. do you feel that way? >> obviously, that's a laughable statement, except it's not funny, because the situation is so serious. no, that is a blatantly false statement. in fact, the threat from north korea remains as clear as present today as it did a week ago. it's quite disturbing to me that the president would continue to repeat the mantra that the nuclear threat is eliminated when, in fact, we haven't seen begun serious substantive negotiations. all he got out of the summit meeting, which was better than no summit meeting in the sense that now we are talking to one another and diplomacy has pontial, was in fact, a very, very, very vague commitment that north korea would take steps towards complete

first they lied about benghazi and a new bombshell for the obama administration, susan rice order to ignore russian meddling in the election, the brand-new testimony you have to here. the homemade text reader that could win this teenagers some cold, hard cash. "fox and friends first" starts right now. ♪ ♪ >> dark and rainy morning in new york city from avenue the americans to your home, thank you for joining us on this thursday morning. our brand-new studio first week here. our top story, another busy one. today the house will vote on two immigration bills hours after donald trump signed an order stopping family separations at the border. >> the democrats want open borders, let everybody come in. we are not going to let it happen. today i signed an executive order, we are going to keep families together but the border is going to be just as tough as it has been. >> from the port of entry in texas top republican lawmakers fight over what comes next. a busy day yesterday and another one today. >> if you ask kirstjen neilsen, she says it is time for congress to act. >> we ask them to do

president obama's national security adviser, susan rice, joins me again. susan, what do you make of this? is it -- you know, 50 billion compared to u.s./china trade is not that large a number. what is going on, in your view? >> i think this is the start of a tit for tat economic conflict that could escalate well beyond $50 billion on each side. what is unfortunate is, the president gave up a very strong card he had in his hand with respect to zte, and zte's theft of u.s. intellectual property, and its violation of sanctions. and now got seemingly nothing in return for that concession and in the imposition of now these new tariffs on the chinese and the retaliation by the chinese. we are walking down a potentially quite slippery slope. we have very legitimate reasons to be concerned about china's trade practices, theft of intellectual property among many other things. but the way to resolve this is not at the expense of american workers and manufacturers and farmers, by getting into a trade war that has potential real global ramifications. at the same time,

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jesse: at the same time we have susan rice's cyber chief, and he testifies that susan rice, obama nationalecurity advisor told him to stand down in 2016 on russia interference in our election. listen to this. >> but as far as your cyber response, you were told to stand down, is that correct? >> those actions were put on the back burner, yes. jesse: that is huge news and the media did not report that. all they wanted to talk about was melania's jacket. >> there is russian collusion in the 2016 election. the $145 million russia pays to the clinton foundation. john and tony podesta are making millions from the oligarchs in russia in banking and gas. there is your collusion. instead we are running fbi stings on trump operatives. jesse: donald trump never took half a million to speak in russia, and his foundation did not take half a million in russia-connected money. there is a complete double standard how the media treats this president and i don't think that's ever going to change. i think they are so invested in his defeat, they will not allow any good news to the american people because the

arrested in 2012 trying to go to turkey. 18 minutes after the top of the hour and game changer, susan riceunder fire accused of ordering the former cyber security chief to stand down against russian election metallers. our next guest worked in the state department while the obama administration was the kremlin's biggest enabler for years. sleep disturbances keep 1 in 3 adults up at night. only remfresh uses ion-powered melatonin to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number 1 sleep doctor recommended remfresh -- your nightly sleep companion. available in the natural sleep section at walmart. and it's time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don't like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll your credits to the next month if you don't use them. so take audible with

obama was still the president and susan rice was still the national security adviser, why not try toussian meddling? they needed cover. so bring in those very reliable people at the fbi and make it look like trump's the bad guy who got russian help. hey, the media will buy it. they'll buy anything that supposed hi makes trump look bad. when susan rice gave that stand-down order, hillary clinton was widely expected to win so nothing would come out. it's like the irs targeting conservatives. obama was president, so nothing would come out. but it has come out. and it confirms the view long held on this program that the obama team used the mama chienly of government -- machinery of government to beat up its opponents. that's not the way this constitutional republic is supposed to operate. the second hour of "varney & company" is about to begin. ♪ ♪ stuart: all right, let's get to money. we'll get away from politics for a second. i think this is the high of the day. now we're up 170 points. how are the big techs doing odd? most of them, actually, are lower. only apple is higher. amazon, f

jim comey and susan rice, national security adviser. what do we know about that meeting?ll, we know, mark, that about two weeks after the fact, as she was packing up her office after president trump had been inaugurated, susan rice, the national security adviser for obama, wrote a memo to the file to cover that meeting and cover in the sense of cia. mark: minutes after trump is inaugurateed? >> correct. what she says in the meeting is two things that are important. one is that president obama stressed that everything in connection with the russia investigation had to be done by the book. because when you've been doing things by the book for eight years, it's important to constantly remind each other it's important to do things by the book. mark: and get it in writing. >> the other thing that is more important than that is she said that president obama raised the question of whether they needed to withhold information from the incoming team, meaning the incoming trump administration. and i think there explains virtually everything we need to know about what happened afterw

susan rice said stand down. don't do anything about russian interference. come on.ious is this? >> juan: can i respond? >> kimberly: he was looking directly at you. >> juan: i didn't want to interrupt. sometimes the garbage is so heavy you have to watch your head. i want to say remember that the obama administration, president obama, i wish he had done differently, decided that it would come across as partisan if they went before the american people. >> jesse: obama would never want to come across as partisan. >> juan: i didn't interrupt you. they decided first to approach majority leader mcconnell and say do you want to join us in saying there is russian interference and we are taking steps to combat so people don't view it as somehow favoring clinton over trump. >> jesse: but they never even even -- why not tell them? >> juan: the second thing to say here is that when strzok and page, there has been an inspector general report. it's not subject to "we don't know." the inspector general of the united states in the trump justice department said there was no indicati

if we sit back and allow someone like that, someone like susan rice, someone like the first lady to justd dehumanized in silence, then we become part of the problem. >> tim, i think a lot of people don't understand what the minister just said. the deep pain that many feel. when you can compare valerie jarrett, a well-trained -- you couldn't get a more refined american -- to an ape is saying to all of our kids, no matter what you do, you're not going to be anything. i don't think people understand how painful that is. that's a lot deeper than, oh, they're just running out, they're looking for a camera. this hurts. >> and also we have to keep in mind the historical context. in the wake of the comments about valerie jarrett, a lot of defenders of roseanne will make a false equivalence and say, people call donald trump an orangutan. there is a difference between comparing black people to monkeys. there is no such troup ere regarding white men. it is not a racial attack. it does not strike a historical nerve that is not directly aimed at the entire community. we have to put these things in th

historic summit at singapore former obama officials however including national security advisor susan rice declining to give president trump any credit for breaking ground with north korea let's watch. >> do you give the president some credit for being willing to take this high level of risk? >> well i think it's clear that the past set of efforts have not succeeded. i am a believer in diplomacy and i am open to new methods of trying to accomplish the consistent objective that we have of full denuclearization. i think the question is are we walking in prepared? are we walking in with our allies behind us? are we in a position to understand that one meeting is not going to be one and done. this is the start of a serious negotiating process. liz: wall street journal editorial page editor james free man joins me now. just talked about, you know, a lot of preparation, pasta tempts have failed, wouldn't mention president trump by name. did you get that? >> yeah, i mean, she's right to be skeptical, given kim's history that we're going to get any progress here. this is a brutal dictator. liz: bu

david: yeah. >> there was long list of things, i think it wasn't just susan rice.he administration more broadly really dropped the ball on this, ironically picked up the ball after the election and started talking collusion, collusion. david: congressman, very strange. we hope you get the answer to the question. chris stewart, appreciate you coming in. >> thank you. melissa: more breaking news for you right now. white house sources telling fox business, national economic council director larry kudlow is expected to return to work last week after suffering from a mild heart attack last month. david: we pray for larry. wish him the very best for larry kudlow and his family. >>> meanwhile the trade war taking the first corporate victim. escalating tensions between the u.s. and china causing a major automaker to sound the alarm on tariffs. ♪ about your retirement savings. talk with your advisor about shield annuities from brighthouse financial- established by metlife. at crowne plaza, we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. a bit of this. why not? yo

ambassador susan rice, ambassador it is good to have you 0 here on "face the nation". >> great to be with you. >> this is a historic summit, for you, what do you think the best possible outcome could be? >> i think the best possible outcome is that we have more than a photo-op or even a thle very concrete steps that they can then pass on to their negotiators in the form of a framework, that the negotiators can then flush out into a substantive agreement. it is going to take quite a while. this is very complicated set of issues. and success can't be declared on the basis of a happy meeting. >> brennan: president obama liked to embrace diplomacy, why did he choose not to try to negotiate with kim jong-un? >> well, in fact, there were efforts at discussions, we had them during the clinton administration and during the bush administration. and we even had opportunities and efforts during the obama administration. the problem is that at every turn, the north koreans would make commitments and then break them. and we need to be mind of that that is, again, what might happen in this context

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. >> in 2013 another person who worked for barack obama she says, "susan rice is a man with big swinging ape balls." and this is an african-american woman. >> okay. then she needs to atone for that as well. she needs to repent for that as well. i can only speak to my experience with roseanne. i've known her for 20 years. >> roseanne's career has been built on raising eyebrows beginning with her stand-up act in 1980s which took a frank look at family life. >> this is her first appearance on national television. would you welcome roseanne barr? roseanne? >> reporter: she then got her big break on "the tonight show." >> i hate that word, housewife. i prefer to be called domestic goddess. >> reporter: that national exposure eventually led her to her own sitcom, where her character often freely spoke her mind. >> i put in eight hours a day at the factory and then i come home and put in another eight hours. >> reporter: but in recent years it's been her comments offscreen that have been getting the most attention. just recently in response to i apicture of former parkland student and activist

our guest will include president obama's national security adviser and ambassador to the u.n., susan rice. massachusetts senator ed markey. white house economic director, larry kudlo, and former independent counsel, ken starr. jeff glor is heading up our coverage from singapore and he will have a report this evening on the "cbs weekend news" and will anchor the "cbs evening news" livem sre tomorrow and tuesday. i'm margaret brennan >>> my father died when i was 1 by gun violence. this affects me, being brought into this situation. so i wanted to shed light on that. they are not the only ones being affected by this. every day we have to go to school in this neighborhood. that was a golden opportunity. >> in my introduction, i talk about the possibilities that you bring as a young person. you are activating that right now. thank you for being with us. we will hear more from you. thank you, regina, for all of the work that you do. you been called to do this. and you have the calling. thank you for all of you do and we are going to hear more about the program in the next segment. please join

have expressed deep concern about this ongoing dispute form a national security adviser susan rice said president trump's decision to shun traditional allies and to back at the stories such as china and russia was a terrible thing to happen and she described it as downright dangerous thank you my kind of that life is in washington. the national. teams to abandon the. rescuers say there's little hope of finding anyone else to last sunday's eruption one hundred ten people nearly two hundred are missing and thousands of homes have been destroyed correspondent marianna sanchez joins me now for. one of just caught one of the most devastated areas marianna what we. will see we just came out of. the middle of a lot to see just up the road here. a couple of kilometers there and we we went. and the scene there even one week later it is over powering there were about two hundred people working there hard there were rescuers were leaking very hot ash plan in that it is. a field the bottoms of the houses and they have to be given.

. >> reporter: susan rice was national security advisor under president obama. she said others have cut deals with north korea only to see them fail. >> the problem is that at every turn the north koreans would make commitments and break them and we need to be mindful that that is again what might happen. >> reporter: mr. trump is slated to meet with kim tuesday at 9 a.m. in singapore. that's 9 p.m. monday in washington. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. senato >> tuesday's summit will mark the first time a sitting u.s. president has met with a north korean leader. >>> senator diane diane fine -- dianne feinstein is criticizing president trump and his approach to the g7 summit in canada. she said it's critical for the nation to work together wir tha entity. >> we don't need to stand alone in the world. we need to stand with our democratic allies. will there be differences of opinions? will there be a statement we don't like someone makes? of course, but that doesn't mean you reject what the g7 stands for and just move out and ignore it. i mean i think that is a hu

he said that susan rice had said don't get ahead of us on this.campaign, so to speak, and she said don't get ahead of us. >> well, you know, it's very odd because i don't know what they thought the russians were doing. if they thought the russians were helping trump, that was profoundly against their interests. if they thought the russian were going to reveal dirt about hillary, that was against their interests. but put aside politics. their job is to run the government. the states run the election. but if they're aware of an entity that is attacking each of the 50 states' ability to run a fair election and count the votes accurately are and they do nothing about it, that needs to be investigated and exposed by criminal investigators, and mueller is equipped to do that. stuart: real fast, i've got to get to this. the supreme court says states can require internet sales tax collection. now, i asked you about this earlier. i didn't quite catch your response. does that mean that if this afternoon i living in new jersey go on aman and buy something fr

this is something -- >> bret: we would later learn the comments by then united nations ambassador susan ricen all five sunday talk shows were met with shock by state department employees. but those comments were backed up by secretary of state hillary clinton who maintained it was unclear at the time what was behind the attack. later an email she wrote to her daughter surfaced. an email written within hours of the assault that makes no mention of the video and, instead, blames a, quote al qaeda-like group. >> this was the fog of war. you know, my own assessment careened from, you know, the video had something to do with it the video had nothing to do with it. >> fox news tried to track down the man who made that video. the last time he was interviewed in 2016, he was living in a homeless shelter in california and told fox news he doesn't believe in democracy anymore. it was the administration's initial blaming the video, the time line of events that led up to the attack and word that ambassador stevens himself warned that the security situation in benghazi was deteriorating fast, that fueled

roseanne made comments about susan rice in 2016 similar ting what she said about valerie jarrett in 2018. donald trump wasn't even a candidate at the time. jesse: roseanne botched "the national anthem." she did the hitler mustache. cnn is blaming donald trump for ruining the white house sports and fitness day because they say he's not fit. listen to this. >> the president is having this event at the white house highlighting health and fitness while questions are being raised about the president's own health and fitness. the chef in the white house kitchen has been told to limit the fat in the food he eats. now his cheeseburgers only come with the.com bun, not -- the bottom bun, not the top bun. jesse: cnn fat shaming president trump. >> no one is raising these questions. they do this all the time. we have inside sources. no you don't. you are the on person who cares about this. you and your four editorial producers who want to destroy this president. reporting live from the white house, his caloric intake is being watched. >> or that he only drinks 9 things of diet coke. jesse: remember

the ongoing dispute over these trade tariffs one of them is a former national security adviser susan rice who says that the g seven allies are critical to the u.s. as national interests and she says that this dispute being fueled as she puts it by president trump and his advisers is deeply dangerous mike hanna thank you very much indeed a large fires broke out at a warehouse storing ballot boxes from last month's iraqi election apparently not been destroyed because of the blaze is not yet known but the country is preparing for a manual recount of around ten million votes following allegations of electoral fraud charge stratford has more from baghdad. thick black smoke over the reason for districts in eastern baghdad iraq's ministry of interior say the fire started in a building used to store ballot boxes and electronic voting machines from the disputed parliamentary election a month ago. iraq's parliament voted last week for a countrywide to manual recount of all ballots after allegations of voting fraud one in peace that the fire was started deliberately and called on the government to b

. >> national security adviser susan rice. more on the shocking revelation. >> pres.r security coordinator michael daniel confirmed what was reported in the book, testifying before the intelligence committee and asked about excerpts from russian roulette and they knew about cyberattacks in the 2016 election here and planning to respond. don't get ahead of us in 2016, another staffer responding, quote, i was incredulous in disbelief. >> is that an accurate description of what happened? >> that is an accurate rendering of the conversation at the staff meeting. >> as far as your cyberresponse you were told to stand down. is that correct? >> those actions were put on the back burner. >> reporter: of the range of actions to impose costs on the russians which when asked if those recommendations were accepted he couldn't get into details during open session. obama era officials were quoted that the administration choked in russian interference. many people commenting. >> a lot of surprising details people have opinions about. >> robert on facebook says the unpunished trees i

roseanne made comments about susan rice in 2016 similar ting what she said about valerie jarrett in 2018. donald trump wasn't even a candidate at the time. jesse: roseanne botched "the national anthem." she did the hitler mustache. cnn is blaming donald trump for ruining the white house sports and fitness day because they say he's not fit. listen to this. >> the president is having this event at the white house highlighting health and fitness while questions are being raised about the president's own health and fitness. the chef in the white house kitchen has been told to limit a worry about it wanted he's keeping an unbelievable schedule. and the media has this ridiculous questions are being raised. jesse: didn't his doctor say he's the most of fit president of all time. >> genetics. >> it was the doctor under three presidents. he was attacked for his report as if he was lying for him. jesse: the boys, i'll check in with you later. up next spy gait outrage. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla

what was the likelihood that susan rice oor obama or ben rosen had any idea it was going on? >> i think it is highly unlikely. my importance is mainly through the iran deal. when russia gate popped up i know what it looks like. it is not just simply in the f.b.i. or doj. >> laura: this could have been cross- intelligence agency and dia, cia, f.b.i. or management who knows at this point? >> i don't think we know exactly who yet. but one thing i come back to is when john brennan is screamingality james comey through harry reid testifying him to get on this and look at trump- russia connections, i think that points to the fact that john brennan may have a hand in this. >> laura: we find out that the initial reporting about george papadopoulos and the first contact he had with alexander downer where he said the australian diplomat, where it was initially reported that there are thousands of lost emails that russia has from the clinton campaign. it turns out he gave an interview, he said they have dirt. gosh the trump campaign official said he knew before this was released and the

a tort suit and a suit against individuals say john brennan and susan rice and mr. clapper.ucker, it's clear coming up empty handed of any evidence of russian collusion or any hijinks with wiki links, this special council will go through every aspect of my life to conjuror up some offense to pressure me to testify against the president. it's the police state. i am being persecuted because i supported donald trump. >> tucker: let me back up. we are often told that the bar for a fisa warrant is really high. you have to demonstrate someone is betraying his country. what would be the context on which the mueller people got a fisa warrant to spy on you? >> the u.s. citizen with only be subjected to a fisa warrant if they are actively involved in espionage against the united states. fisa warrants were used by the obama administration for political purposes. this is a scandal that makes watergate look like a second rate burglary. >> tucker: are the people around you drawn into this? >> that's the extraordinary thing. associates of mine have been questioned aggressively by the fbi.

and that's what roseanne barr not only did in this instance, she had done it previously with susan riceanother obama official. >>chris: samantha bee has said all manner of horrible things about all manner of women working in the trump white house. >> one of these items speaks to tearing at the social fabric in a way that can't be undone and puts us in great danger. therefore, it's not about teams for in terms of i am a trump supporter and i will therefore support roseanne barr or i'm an obama supporter and i will support samantha bee. that's really juvenile compared to the seriousness of what's taking place. you think about the nfl players, you think about charlottesville, i can go on. you understand they are playing two separate us as a society. >> i think you can defend what abc did with roseanne barr. i am not calling for samantha bee to be fired by tbs but i am wonderinher there will be any consequences for samantha bee aside from a few advertisers temporarily suspending their support of the program. tbs, the only thing they said publicly is applauding samantha bee for apologizing f

you think that's bad, they're so much more. 2012, any supporter of susan rice is sexist and racist. you might remember that rice lied over and over and over and over again on national tv about benghazi being out of a protest over a youtube video, a talking point live. remember 2008, john mccain? he was also accused of misogyny again and again, despiteping sarah palin to be his running mate? we could go on and on. today we have more proof that these claims of sexism and misogyny are merely a political tactic. we see it every two and four years. the left claims the monopoly and a compassion for women. take a look at how they are treating many women who are now in positions of power in the trump administration? there too and has changed. take a look. >> i was asked to leave the restaurant this weekend where i attempted to have dinner with my family. my husband and i politely left and went home. i was asked to leave because i work for her president trump. we are allowed to disagree but we should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm and this goes for all people without regard

susan rice had to say this. >> it'sng to take awhile. this is a complicated set of issues. be declared on a happy meeting. the critical thing for the north korean point of view is to come to the negotiating table with having demonstrated to the world that their nuclear capacity and missile capacity has been perfected. >> dana: bruce, you wrote that trump must hard enough to get real concessions but not so hard the diplomatic process breaks down entirely. more thoughts on that. >> right. it is a bit of a goldilocks, not too hot, not too cold. as the president said in april, it would be easy to just call it a success. but he wants to get the nuclear weapons. so i think we need to hold him to that standard. since then, he's been lowering expectations, watering down the u.s. policies. that was driven by some statements by north korea in may. if you set aside the insulting and the threatening ones, the most important is one where a senior official really just reiterated what had been longstanding north korean policy on denuclearization, which is different from what the white hou

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. >> susan rice was national security adviser under president obama.ls with north korea only to see them fail. >> the problem is that at every turn the north koreans would make commitments, then break them. we need to be mindful that could happen again. >> reporter: mr. trump is expected to meet mr. kim on tuesday at 9:00 p.m. singapore, 9:00 p.m. on monday in washington. meg oliver, cbs news, new york. >>> the first time a sitting u.s. president has met with the north korean leader. >> senator dianne feinstein is criticizing donald trump to his approach of the summit in canada. she says it is important for the nation to work together as a single entity. >> we need to stand with ourdemocratic allies. will there be differences of opinions? will we not like a statement one or the other makes? of course, but that doesn't mean you reject what the g7 stands for and just move out and ignore it. i mean i think that is a huge mistake on the president's part. >> trump lashed out at canadian prime minister justin trudeau yesterday after announcing canada would i

times" about trump's antagonism toward america's long-time allies, former national security adviser susan ricevidence that putin is dictating american policy, but it's hard to imagine how he could do much better even if he were." and if you want reported confirmation of just how bad those relations are between the u.s. and our strongest european allies, today there's also this sobering new piece, the latest from susan glasser, who now writes for the "new yorker." she spoke to a slew of european officials, and the quotes she got are remarkable. not just because they reveal how fraught american alliances have become but also because the feelings about it are so raw. "the rift between the world's great democracies that trump's election portended is coming to pass. senior government officials in london, berlin and other european capitals and in washington have told me they now worry that trump may be a greater immediate threat to the alliance," meaning the western alliance, "than even authoritarian great power rivals like russia and china." in berlin susan glasser spoke with several german officia

john brennan, susan rice and others, mr. klapper.ntended to do that but in the meantime it's become abundantly clear having come up empty-handedar with any evidence of russian collusion, no proof of any hijinks with wikileaks, it's now abundantly clear that the special counsel seeks to go through every aspect of my personal, business, and political life to try to conjure up some offense to pressure me to testify against the presiden president. it's orwellian, it's the police state. i am being persecuted because i supported donald trump.k >> tucker: let me back up for a second, we are often told that the bar for a fisa warrant is really high. you have to demonstrate someone is betraying his country. what wouldld be the pretext on which the mueller people would've gotten a fisa warrant to spy on you. >> a u.s. citizen can only be subject to a fisa warrant if they are actively involved in espionage on behalf of a foreign power against the united states. clearly it was used for political purposes. it makes watergate look like second-rate

bret: former national security advisor susan rice talking about this up coming summit between president trump and kim jong-un, both leaders traveling a long distance. obviously coming from canada, the g-7 summit, the president did, but washington, d.c. to singapore here and pyongyang. this is the farthest that kim jong-un has traveled since taking power in 2011. no sitting president has met with a leader as far as we know, a north korean leader or spoken to one on the phone as far as we know. what about the expectations here? what are the possibilities? let's bring in our panel from d.c. molly hemmingway, senior editor at the federalist, susan page, washington bureau chief at usa today. and tom rogan, commentary writer for the washington examiner. tom, i think there has been a setting of expectations, a little bit of saying this could be the first of several summits. what are you thoughts heading into tuesday? >> well, the first thing i think that is clear now that this progressive step process that the north koreans in particular wanted will be the case. but i think on the part of the

and she said the same thing about susan rice in 2013, calling her an ape, so i think it's almost disrespectfulcomedy to even pretend that was a joke. that was just a racist statement. one of the things we have to do of course is to address these things. i think we have to reject racism and discrimination at every level and we need to start with education at very young ages. you know, and as we've seen with students that it's, it's multiculturalism and multicultural environments help all students, we need to push for that. and try to end some of our segregated schools right now. >> last word to you on this, crystal? >> at the ballot box. we see powerfully it matters, who is in leadership and who is in power if you don't like what you see in the country, get engaged, run for office, be an activist. make sure you and everybody you know, your family, bring them to the polls and get out and vote and let's change it. >> we have another topic of controversy. samantha bee and what she said, we'll discuss that after the break. powerful potential... signature toughness... and one more thing... the world

what was the likelihood that susan rice, or obama, or ben rosen, or any of these people had no idea this stuff was going on, what are the chances of that, in your mind? >> i think it's highly unlikely. my experience in looking at the obama administration is mostly through the iran deal. so when russiagate popped up, i said, i know what this looks like. it goes up very high, a lot of significant people are looking at this. this is not simply in the fbi or doj. >> laura: this could have been cross-intelligence agencies, dia, cia, fbi, military -- who knows at this point. >> i don't think we know exactly who yet, but there seems to be a lot of prominent figures who come in and are involved. the one thing that i come back to, which i've written about, is when john brennan is screaming at james comey through harry reid, telling him to look at the trump-russia connections, i think that points to the fact that brennan may have a hand in this. >> laura: we find out that the initial reporting, about george papadopoulos and the first contact he had with alexander downer where he said the australia

motion here is unprecedented, and where everybody was saying it couldn't happen ever, you know, susan rice an op-ed six months ago saying we got to live with it, and now what we've got, we're on the path to denuclearization. connell: so you're comfortable of the path. idf no threat from north korea, that language is okay by you? >> in the president's mind, he's a leader communicating strategically to kim jong-un. let's not forget they have had strategic communications here for 18 months, whether positive or negative, and n the president is being very reinforcing for kim jong-un, leading him down that path, showing him where he can go as a leader both economically and to denuclearize. that's what i think that is. that's strategic information messaging there that the president is doing, and so what's going on with these exercises, you know, mike pompeo is over thereig now establishing a timeline of the denuclearization timeline, possibly reunification, possibly a peace treaty. all of that is put into motion and it's going to be event driven. connell: to suspend the military exercises or war

and goat susan rice. she wrote this in an op ed. if mr.utin were calling the shots he would advise withd from the tpp. pull out of the iran nuclear deal, there is no evidence that putin is dictating american policy but it's hard to imagine how he could do much better even if he were. not mentioned was cancelling military exercises with the south koreans, and cutting a -- basically cutting your own deal with the northans. >> this has been deeply unsettling for u.s. allies. trump's movet the g7 to alienate our traditional closest partners and adversary back in i particular was upsetting. i think people should remember, in this period of seeming uproar, houses turned upside down that there are elements of power, especially on military tionships that remain pretty much as they always have been. nato continues to operate. the u.s. military continues toffoli ason every day arouto h day around the rld. there are elements of continuity. the inteigence relationships similarly continue. i think what i hear from diplomats that i talk to is that that'

and from a national security advisor under president obama susan rice had this to say.because the g7 partners are our closest allies in the world and for the president of the united states to walk into that session and to essentially blow it up and disrespect our allies is very worrisome and very destructive and it leaves the united states isolated in the world and our allies wondering if they can count on us and we on them. >> melissa: 'se go back and fact-checkedome of these people throwing all these numbers out there and kellyanne conway was on earlier talking about the cheese in the dairy and all that type of stuff. that is true. under our current system, there is a quota and above that, canada doesn't impose a tariff of 225% on cheese, 298% on butter, i don't think those dairy farmers in vermont like that very much. and justin trudeau was talking about reciprocal. this is what he's doing to us right now as we speak. what you think >> knedy: i think all of this is a huge distraction. i think this is the problem when you talk about there is an obsession with trade de

. >> it was recidivism with susan rice, the same animal connection, the same awful thing. it goes back to the primordial racism of nature practically in western civilization. it justifies colonialism. liz, thank you, ted johnson, this is a big conversation in this country this weekend. sophia, wisdom, that means wisdom nelson. up next, exclusive reporting from nbc news. mueller is now zeroing in on one of jared kushner's close buddies. he was in the seychelles about the same time that will trump allies held a secret meeting to set up a back channel with the russians. this goes on. this is "hardball" where the action is. new car. nobody's hurt, but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get your whole car back. i guess they don't want you driving around on three wheels. smart. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, we'll replace the full value of your car. liberty

. >> i want to play this sound bide from former national security adviser susan rice. she issued a warning. >> at every turn the north koreans would make commitments and break them, and we need to be mindful that that is again what might happen in this conexit. i think the question is are we walking in prepared? are we walking in with our allies behind us? >> so, greg, will the r.trump administration also fall into another pyongyang ploy? >> well, i think we're very likely to see that. again, there is this long track record going back to the '90s. look how much kim jong-un has gained in the last year. a couple of meetings with the president of china, a couple of meetings with the south korean president. he's being normalized as an international leader. it would very much in his interest to at least dangle something to keep these talks going, to keep himself on the world stage and try to front load it where he could get some sanctions relief or something up front and keep pushing to the back end any serious full-fledged commitment on the nuclear issue, so i think he'll