countries imposing a blockade on cata for refusing to engage in talks rex tillerson says there's an unwillingness on the part of the saudi led quartet to negotiate despite being ready to engage. from washington d.c. . tillerson gave this interview martine to bloomberg news in which it was marked a change in tone from the u.s. secretary of state you know back in july we heard optimism from tillerson as he went into his last round of meetings in the middle east he was practicing shuttle diplomacy between qatar and saudi arabia he expressed hope that the resolution would be reached very soon but that was three months ago and there has been very little progress to show and so today his statements to bloomberg expressed that frustration that tillers and has and in the words of the secretary of state laid the blame for this stagnation in talks at the feet of these walk hating nations european leaders are backing spain is the castle and crisis escalates in brussels the prime minister mariano rajoy won the support of the french president emmanuel mccraw and the german chancellor angela merkel but the e.u

countries imposing a blockade on qatar for refusing to engage in talks rex tillerson says there's an unwillingness on the part of the saudi led the quartet to negotiate despite kassab being ready to engage well mrs phyllis is due to visit the gulf in the coming days here's the state department spokeswoman we want to see these couple hundred keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terror terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is you know certainly discouraged that nothing has been resolved just yet he's talked pretty consistently although folks haven't haven't paid much attention to it reece recently about the disappointment that the nation's haven't been able to solve the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they well we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet. european leaders are backing spain as the catalan prices escalates in brussels prime minister mariano rajoy one support from the french president and the german chancellor the e.u. itself says it won't interven

i understand why some of our colleagues want to leave the eu, indictment favor of it, but the unwillingnesst it was a complex issue with arguments on both sides i think played badly for the government side because it played to the issue of trust. how can you trust these people when they are saying things that no one could conceivably know? francine: thank you so much for your time. mr. king: thank you. ♪ are you on medicare? do you have the coverage you need? open enrollment ends december 7th. so now's the time to get on a path that could be right for you... with plans including aarp medicarecomplete insured through unitedhealthcare. call today or go online to enroll. these medicare advantage plans can combine your hospital and doctor coverage... with prescription drug coverage, and extra benefits... all in one complete plan... for a low monthly premium, or in some areas no plan premium at all. other benefits can include: $0 co-pays for an annual physical and most immunizations, routine vision and hearing coverage, and you'll pay the plan's lowest prescription price, whether it's your co-pa

i understand why some of our colleagues want to leave the eu, indictment favor of it, but the unwillingnesst it was a complex issue with arguments on both sides i think played badly for the government side because it played to the issue of trust. how can you trust these people when they are saying things that no one could conceivably know? francine: thank you so much for your time. mr. king: thank you. ♪ is this a phone? or a little internet machine? it makes you wonder: shouldn't we get our phones and internet from the same company? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you get up to 5 lines of talk and text at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit, or go to xfinitymobile.com. ♪ emily: i am emily chang. emily: i am emily chang. this is "best of bloomberg technology." where we bring you all of our top interviews from the week in technology. coming up, mark cuban speaks out, weighing on bitcoin and trump. also, how a.i. and technology can

but the fall goes to joe johnston's inability or one willingness -- unwillingness to meet with davis, explain it to him, send him the letters, explain what he is doing and why he is doing it so that he may have gotten the political support from the government to execute a strategy. instead of that, he allowed davis to draw his own conclusion as to he is fortifying the city, he is going to give it up. i will pair that with as he is falling back over the chattahoochee river, he sends orders back to atlanta, fortify the city. it can be held by small groups so i can maneuver, blah blah. once again, davis concludes that is it. he is not fighting a battle. he is falling back into the city . are we done? i bet everybody is hungry. it is time for lunch. thank you. [applause] >> ok, lunch will be served at 12:00 and the pavilion outside. be back here before 1:00. there are still tickets available on that [indiscernible] so you will to find those as well. see you back here at five minutes to 1:00. [indiscernible conversation] >> this is american history tv on c-span3. after the lunch break, we

says there is little hope of a resolution and it's time soon he says there seems to be a real unwillingness on the part of some of the parties to want to engage it's up to the leadership of the quartet when they want to engage with cas or because qatar has been very clear they're ready to engage. well mr tillotson as you to visit the gulf in the coming days his the state department spokeswoman. we want to see these countries keep their focus on the areas of mutual cooperation that we have and that includes the fight against terrorism and other things of that nature so i think the secretary is certainly discourage that nothing has been resolved just yet he's talked pretty consistently although folks haven't haven't paid much attention to it recently about the disappointment that the nations haven't been able to do so of the g.c.c. crisis we hope that they will we hope that they'll sit down and have talks but it seems like they're not ready to do that yet or we can do it to our correspondent. in washington d.c. tell us more than about the state the secretary of state had to say about the disp

>> i don't know he is against them but he certainly indicated his unwillingness at this point to really step forward to work with the administration on getting things done. we hope he will come around and vote for tax cuts as people in his state demanded, requested and pushed for him. francesca. reporter: flake, mccain, corker will eventually vote for tax cuts all three of them, because you need all three of them? >> i certainly hopes america wants them to. reporter: i asked you if president wanted senator corker to resign you didn't want to go there. if everything that happened since, has the white house changed his position? at the very least that senator corker should step down as head of foreign relations committee especially since senator corker told cnn today, i quote, he wants to investigate some of the things he is purposely breaking down, he being president trump? >> that is decision for leader mcconnell in terms of who has those championships. that is -- chairmanships that is not something for the president. reporter: do you think he should step down or resign? >> i haven't sp

understand why some of our colleagues want to leave the e.u., and i am in favor of it, but the unwillingnesst that it was a complex issue with arguments on both sides i think played badly for the government side, because it played to the issue of trust. how can you trust these people when they are saying things that no one could conceivably know? francine: lord king, thank you so much for your time. lord king: thank you. ♪ ♪ tear, thef's on a blackrock ceo seeing huge inflows in part because of mifid 2. >> we look at it as a net positive. mifid ii is creating more transparency. nejra: bitcoin boom or bust. we discuss the future of cryptocurrencies and if regulators can work fast e

understand why some of our colleagues want to leave the eu, and i am in favor of it but the , unwillingnessadmit it was a complex issue with arguments on both sides i think played badly for the government side particularly badly for the , -- government side, particularly because it played to the issue of trust. how can you trust these people when they are saying things that no one could conceivably know? francine: thank you so much for your time. mr. king: thank you. ♪ ♪ >> from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: we begin this evening with the continuing search for answers in las vegas. here is the cbs evening news. >> investigators are no closer to understanding what allowed stephen paddock to create some of the carnage. his preparations were so elaborate, including placing cameras outside his room and -- room, that investigators believed had a -- paddock may have had an accomplice. >> stephen paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood.

administration has said the new policy was based on objective assessment of each country and its unwillingnessnformation with the u.s. >>> back to the fire coverage, you might recall this video patient's vakted last week from the keyes are hospital. there in santa rosa. tonight we get the first look at the chaos that developed outside of sutter regional hospital. we have new time laps video released by the hospital today. you can see there people scurrying away from the hospital with hot spots scattered around. you can see embers blowing everywhere. sutter santa rosa shut down during the fire storm and evacuated 77 patients in the early hours. nurses jumped into action putting patients onboard the buses. the hospitals had its own well water system where firefighters used more than uzÑ7jju to fight the flames. the sutter hospital is fully stapd a and reopened today. kaiser remains closed >> for many in the north bay things will never be the same. butúpnw3 they are holding on t and items that give home like ñ that's all that's left of the santa rosa couple home. sam brock caught upÑ.' with the

understand why some of our colleagues want to leave the e.u., and i am in favor of it, but the unwillingnessmit it that it was a complex issue with arguments on both sides i think played badly for the government side, particularly because it played to the issue of trust. how can you trust these people when they are saying things that no one could conceivably know? francine: lord king, thank you so much for your time. mr. king: thank you. ♪ who knew that phones would start doing everything? entertaining us, getting us back on track, and finding us dates. phones really have changed. so why hasn't the way we pay for them? introducing xfinity mobile. you only pay for data and can easily switch between pay per gig and unlimited. no one else lets you do that. see how much you can save. choose by the gig or unlimited. xfinity mobile. a new kind of network designed to save you money. call, visit or go to xfinitymobile.com. ♪ announcer: from our studios in new york city, this is "charlie rose." charlie: we begin this evening policy agenda and facing headwinds in the wake of ons -- ongoing discord wit

they just saw a -- i think i used the word a moment ago, an unflinching general bad-asserring, an unwillingness away from what is clearly right, which is the full equality of girls and women and boys and men, and that we're just full participants throughout all aspects of the political and social and cultural, intellectual life of the world. >> i listen to you talk about this role in bb that you play. it occurs to me that we have never had a woman run the cia. this year we've had, obviously, all kinds of drama with the guy who used to run the cia, and for that matter, drama with sessions, you know, earlier this year as a.g. how different do you think the agency might be, the way we see the cia might be, the way the world might be different, if there were a woman running our spy agency, a woman running the cia? >> well, i think it speaks to leadership styles and how gender may or may not come into play with leadership styles. i mean, we know, for example, in for-profit businesses that when women serve at higher levels in the executive, and certainly on boards, those businesses are more profitabl

>> i don't know if he has said that he is against them, but he has indicated his unwillingness at this point to step forward to work with the administration to get things done. we hope that he is going to come around and vote for tax cuts as the people in his state have demanded and requested and pushed for him to do such. francesca? >> what about flake, mccain and corker will eventual willy vote for tax cuts? >> i certainly hope that america hopes they will. francesca? >> last week, i asked you if the president wanted senator corker to resign, and you didn't want to go there and in light of everything that has happened since, has the white house changed the position on, that and at the very least, does the president think that senator corker should step down as the head of the foreign relations committee especially since senator corker told cnn today that he quote wants to inve investigate some of the things that he is breaking down. >> well, look, that is a decision for chairman mcconnell on the chairmanships and not for the president. >> do you think that he should step down or resi

visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in. progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that they're ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u.s. policy on this gulf crisis started back in june if you remember that's when u.s. president donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership and in achieving this blockade and trying to claim credit that was a direct result of president trump's visit to the region since then the white house has been more silent on this topic while the state department has taken a lead here with tillerson returning again in this coming week. the executive director at the arab sent to washington and he says that isn't usual for seeing a diplomat to low expectations with these types of statements before a visit. comparing this trip. with the previous one going back to say the la

trade representative here said there was frustration at the unwillingness of mexico and canada to compromise we have seen no indication that our partners are willing to make any changes that will result in a rebalancing and a reduction in these huge trade deficit now i understand that after many years of one sided benefits their companies have become reliant on special prove preferences and not just comparative advantage countries are reluctant to give up unfair advantage. expressing their own set of frustrations top ministers from canada and mexico accuse the u.s. of having a winner take all mentality they said there are at least two u.s. proposals that are nonstarters here one requiring north american made cars to have fifty percent of its of their parts originate in the united states another u.s. proposal a five year sunset clause to any renewed now after agreement now the fact that these negotiations have been extended and the deadline moved beyond the new year does show that there is some willingness and some hope for a compromise to be achieved but looming behind all of this is the u.s

the racism that he feared would dominate black and white relations, what america's unwillingness to share power with what it believed was an inferior race characterized the united states. even if he had remained president until march of 1859, jim crow -- 1869, jim crow was still a reality and the north looks the other way. the ku klux klan would have raised their torches in the night. the march across the bridge would have occurred, this is ferguson, dallas, most recently charlottesville would have still happened. the racist alt-right and nationalist movements would have risen. melancholy and pessimistic as he was by nature, leaving off the stuff would have been a heavy man, happiness was not in his nature. it wasn't in the historical reality either. this hard lesson in lincoln's dilemma, the neo-nazis, the kkk and the anti-semitic, antigovernment, armed militia groups, deplorable as they are with the tip of the iceberg. they are not a formidable problem. they are marketable hate groups, they make in your face public appearances as they are entitled to do under the protection of the first

it's the statements that don't seem to add up with what we know the facts to be or the inability, unwillingnesspacity to advise congress on how to defend our next elections or this nonassertion assertion of executive privilege, it's very, very hard screen to penetrate through and i think that the senate has the right to, a lot more answers than we're getting. >> senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, thank you for your time tonight, sir. really appreciate you being with us. >> my pleasure. >> all right. stay with us. so this one says ... ... dealership has great customer service ... (muffled voice) ... and has great deals! ... and has ... ... complimentary donuts. ... that's the one! cars.com. over 5 million expert and user reviews. whstuff happens. old shut down cold symptoms fast with maximum strength alka seltzer plus liquid gels. >>> we got tape in the newsroom. just came in. i think we're the first to have access to this. remarks of former attorney general john brennan. the first public remarks in several months. he took this question from nbc's andrea mitchell about the 201

during the campaign eliminated -- illuminated the difficulties and it was another indication of his unwillingness to conform to someone else's idea. it placed them in a better position than capturing bowling green and nashville -- the confederate army escaped. beulah was associated with slow movement in the failure to meet and defeat the enemy. while john beatty perceptively characterized the failure to capture the confederates as a significant missed opportunity in the war, arguing the enemy still is as organized and ready to do battle on some other field. in the summer of 18 six to two, the culmination of a series of political and military factors directly affected buhl's reputation. -- in the summer of 1862. journalists had followed his army. he had difficulty adapting to the strategy of an expansive war that included prohibiting return of fugitive slaves to their masters. he accepted his soldiers at -- he more politicized failed to accept the political realities that the war was fundamentally changing. buhl thelock's orders, parted in june of 1862 and moved east to chattanooga. political pres

it's statements that don't seem to add up with what we know the facts to be, or the inability, unwillingnesspacity to advise congress on how to defend our next elections or this nonassertion assertion of executive privilege, it's a hard screen to penetrate through. and i think that the senate has the right to a lot more answers than we are getting. >> sheldon whitehouse, thank you for your time. stay with us. hi. when you clock out, i'll clock in... sensing and automatically adjusting to your every move. there. i can also help with this. does your bed do that? i'm the new sleep number 360 smart bed. let's meet at a sleep number store. every year we take a girl's trip. remember nashville? kimchi bbq. amazing honky tonk? i can't believe you got us tickets. i did. i didn't pay for anything. you never do. send me what i owe. i got it. i mean, you did find money to buy those boots. are you serious? is that why you don't like them? those boots could make a unicorn cry. yeah, tears of joy. the bank of america mobile banking app. the fast, secure and simple way to send money. anyone who calls it a h

most important there's an unwillingness to be able to sit down and work together. look, i commend lamar alexander and patty murray for trying to sit down and try to do something on healthcare. the president initially supported that and backed away from it. well, you know, very frankly, both sides need to work together on these issues. tax reform ought to be something supported by both republicans and democrats. the time has come for both of them to work out that kind of approach. >> neil: i'd be remiss if i didn't ping-pong you again. back to north korea. the president did sort of tease about whether or not he was going to visit the demilitarized zone. it's not on the schedule. i want you to react to this. >> the dmz, yes or now are you going? >> i'd rather not say. you'll be surprised. >> neil: you think he should go? >> well, you know, this is one of those things where i think he ought to ask his key military types, his intelligence types as to what kind of signal would that send to north korea and could it be incendiary in any way. this situation is tense enough

what's deeply wrong is not only the sense of violence, but our unwillingness of the political system, whether it be in state capitals or in washington, d.c. to do anything about anything. >> the foundation works to promote change, education and the arts across philadelphia. >>> turning to your weather now, the stormy skies that started the day. nbc 10 caught this guy hitting the water in boat house row enjoying the day. >> then it will taper off and we will start to cool down considerably. let's go to cape may. you can the dark gray skies in the distance. but bright sunshine right where the camera is. that's exactly what we're looking at on radar. it's likely going to clip along the jersey shore. that's why it's sunny now, but we're going to watch the clouds move in in the the next half hour. and then some showers. we can also see a few showers across the area because the main body of this system is still well to our west. isolated to scattered. that's all we're going to see. it will be out of here by mid-evening. look at the damage reports. these are from nonsevere thunderstorm winds

visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in personal progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that they're ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u.s. policy on the gulf crisis started back in june if you remember that's when u.s. president donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership and in a shooting this blockade and trying to claim credit that was a direct result of president trump visit to the region since then the white house has been more silent on this topic while the state department has taken a lead here with tillerson returning again in this coming week the white house chief of staff has come to the defense of u.s. president donald trump's phone call this week to the widow of a slain soldier trump is accused of making insensitive remarks and during the call to the widow of the soldie

it is an in ability or unwillingness particularly on the part of congress saying this is not dialogue we ought to be having. what the president is doing is lashing out, scapegoating, trying to make up for the fact that he is not accomplishing anything in other areas. and the substance of this, getting to a place where clearly there's an unraveling going on in the white house. we see how disfunction al his left wing is, let alone his entire cabinet, to deflect away from that, he simply goes back to what he thinks will keep his core base together, to go on open warfare with the news media. as alyson said, thanks to the news media, jewish other and other restraints on the president, his rhetoric and threats have not gone on. we have cnn reporting about the background in which it was said that the president was a moron. it was a july 20th meeting at the pentagon. it was described as difficult and tense. it was where the department of defense was briefing the president. and he was either not sort of fully digesting everything or taking to task commanders he thought weren't doing the job we

his unwillingness for praise. or at least praised without a counterbalancing criticism. ooker engaged in damning his progresspeded toward success. i would imagine joseph hooker byk his seat this weekend having will premature him a green cheer- will him up a bit. we would have enjoyed having him here. he was famous for being a fun guy. he could be entertaining. when aes injudicious format like this could have a welcome injection of fun. always in a amusing sort of way. hists historians -- we as orians have come to know his way of thinking. his calculated machinations. -- aspirednspired for the director we would have learned the underbelly of joseph hooker. 'sfore the civil war reputation and the army was his perfectly capable service and mexico and a raucous behavior in california. he served well in mexico and enjoyed his time in the postwar period. he would not marry until 1865. he was a bachelor, not lifelong but almost. in california where he was until 1853 and then resigned in 1853 he gained a reputation. he gambled and drank. war he was looked upon as a good soldier

continues to alienate himself from republicans who expressed that he's just, you know, shown an unwillingness to work with them on other issues. i'm afraid when backed into a corner, he's going to believe that, you know, military action rather than diplomacy or sanctions or working with china is the way to go. and we need the members of congress to exercise our co-equal branch of government status and keep him from doing that. >> do you believe president is undermining, undercutting the secretary of state rex tillerson's ability to do his job, which is diplomacy? >> yes. rex tillerson is also undermined the state department's ability to do its job by not filling out key posts like having an ambassador to south korea. and, wolf, one other issue that is looming in washington right now is the iran nuclear deal. if we walk away from that deal, that denuclearized iran, there is no way we can in earnest try to strike a deal with north korea. they'd think we're crazy and it would be in no interest of theirs to strike a deal having walked away from the one we struck with iran. >> the president is goi

it's a total unwillingness to deal with the facts straightforwardly and instead to put out the lie and then if he's pressed on the lie, he might back offp pit he's planted the seeds and made the case, and he's slammed somebody else. i think the obama people were right, listen, obama called people, he went to dover how many times has trump been to dover? >> once after the yemen raid. >> right. but not for these -- it's a fair -- >> he's been there once. >> yeah. >> it's a fair point. he lashed out, molly ball, how many times over benghazi, right, and there's four americans as well, we know that the president, president obama, went to andrews after that, as they were being brought home. this is about four americans. if we have those photos let's show people. their names, these young men that served this country, are getting lost in all of this. that's what this is about. how can this then turn into a i did better than my predecessor? >> the striking thing, it still hasn't been explained. we don't understand why the president hasn't addressed this and if anything, his deflection and his l

in thing room but it did won him an emmy, i'm sorry, he was part of a joke about his ability or unwillingnessis now the sara sanders room. the briefing room still a fact free zone. one current example the tape doesn't lie. john kelly'srection of a 2015 of speech by frederick wilson was faulty. kelly standing at the white house podium said the congresswoman said things that a tape of the event proved she did not say but no acknowledge.. just another effort at taxpayer expense to redefine truth. >> i don't believe that general kelly mischaracterized. he gave his account of what took place. eligible kelly and his family have made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. i think he's led with honor and integrity. i think he's doing a great job of chief of staff and i don't think he has anything to correct or apologize for. >> general kelly served with distinction. he's an american hero. he's a gold star parent and had tragedy in his family. what he said was not true. so then using his military service to say therefore, you cannot question him i'm sorry, that is equal to if not a greater violation

he indicated his unwillingness at this point to really step forward and work with the administration on getting things done. we hope that he will come around and vote for tax cuts as the people in his state have demanded and requested and pushed for. >> i don't know that flake and mccain and corker will vote for tax cuts because you need them. >> america hopes they do. >> last week i asked you in the president wanted senator corker to resign. you didn't want to go there. in light of everything that has happened since, has the white house changed its decision on that and at the very least does the president think that senator corker should step down as the head of the foreign relations committee especially since he told cnn today that he wants to investigate some of the things that he's breaking down, he being president trump. >> that's a leader for mr. mcconnell who has those chairmanships. that's not for the president to determine. >> the president doesn't think he should step down or resign? >> i haven't spoken to him about that. in terms of how the chairman's chair should be resid

all the last nine months have been a testimony to the president's unwillingness to acknowledge the ruleance of the constitution. that's a democrat talking, but as you pointed out ben sass, john mccain, bob corker, those are all senators. >> he's been reporting on the chaos inside the trump white house. let's listen to this. >> general kelly has speculated talk about what would they do if the president actually did act on these out bursts, and you really have to ask yourself you physically may need to restrain this man. and that seems shocking, but at some level you need to boil down exactly what would go down. >> and he actually had a source saying we actually would tackle him. is that something that worries the republican house of representatives? >> you know, that should worry every american. and i think, you know, that quote gets to one of the things we worry about most, which is that that the president is in commander in chief of the united states armed forces. even our constitution says war and making power resides within my constitution, we go to bed at night and they're worried t

this is a president who has shown over and over and over again an unwillingness to not talk the high road. he can nephew just leave well enough alone. he could have very easily solved the situation. haedz and what they heard seemed to be very different. he could have placed another call. he could have said these are difficult times. i did the best that i could. but if my message wasn't received in the way i meant it, i want to make clear that i mourn for you. i celebrate your husband's service and the country stands behind you. the end. instead, tweets about congresswoman wilson, general kelly comes out and attacks congresswoman wilson. and another tweet about congresswoman wilson. this oned, that oned. now it is a -- i don't doubt that we wind losing in this. >> here's the tweet. the fake news is going crazy with wacky congresswoman wilson democrat who was secretly on a very personal call, and gave a total lie on content. >> concepts like dignity, humility, valor, those are things the presidents in the past aspired to. that was a tradition. that seems like a museum piece in the era

there is an unwillingness on the part of people to say, whoa. my pre-existing conditions. you know? those out of my cold, injured hands. and so the willingness to make those kinds of fundamental changes, i think, is not there. and the president has set us up for yet another debate about that. >> i was going to say. when it comes to health care, all health care politics is personal. right? everybody applies their own personal experience and therefore, this is the way the law has to be. let me ask this -- will these subsidies, dead forever, matthew, or the president's way of saying, congress, you want them, pass them and i'll sign the law? >> a carrot for democrats to come to agreement with trump how to change obamacare. the issue, though, is really cost. cost of health care. especially cost of health care for the people on exchanges. a very small number of people in the country. >> two types of cost. cost's health insurance but the cost itself -- haven't talked about that. the cost of the actual health care. hospital costs. >> how do you lower costs? trump's executive order yesterday

return to congress every 180 days, which would of course deal with this problem of the president's unwillingness to go on the public record and have to actually certify that iran is indeed certifying with the deal, which it is. >> the fundamental question is does mr. trump want to dulactua leave the deal if the deal doesn't become more favorable to the u.s. in his words? and he has leverage. we know he's capable of pulling out of these deals regardless of the sconce defenconsequences. think of the paris accord. so does that give him leverage both with respect to congress and with respect to iran to for them to accept a tougher deal? >> it didn't seem to be giving him a lot of leverage right now over either iran or perhaps more notably over the european countries that were deeply involved in these negotiations and remain heavily committed to it, have gone on record yesterday saying they remain committed to it. and as well as the eu. but with respect to congress, of course he's put congress in the position where congress now has to decide and congress was never originally very favorable towards th

>> i don't know he said he's against them, but he certainly indicated his unwillingness at this point to really step forward and work with the administration on getting things done. we hope that he will come around and certainly vote for tax cuts as the people in his state have demanded and requested and pushed for him to do such. francesca? >> does the white house think that flake, mccain and corker will eventually vote for tax cuss, all three of them. you need all three of them. >> i certainly hope they do. francesca? >> last we've i asked you if the president wanted senator corker to resign and you didn't want to go there. in light of everything that has happened since, has the white house changed its position on that? and at the very least, does the president think that senator corker should step down as head of the foreign relations committee, especially since senator corker told cnn today, and i quote, that he wants to investigate some of the things that he is purposefully breaking down, he being president trump. >> look, i think that's a decision for leader mcconnell in terms o

those are the people who are being hurt by this unwillingness to pass the cost-sharing subsidies. it's not the insurance companies at the end. >> but lonny, it's one thing for democrats and republicans to differ on health care policy, of course, but lamar alexander, republican, doesn't think this is a bailout, susan collins, republican, called the characterization that it is a payoff or bailout disturbing. how can republicans be so far apart on this? >> well, you know, kate, it comes back to the fact and we've known this all along if you look back at the failed efforts to repeal and replace obamacare, what you saw were significant divisions between republicans on health care policy. the reality of this is, the affordable care act requires these insurers to offer these essentially breaks on cost-sharing to lower income americans so what president trump did is he said look, congress needs to actually appropriate this money, congress never appropriated money for the cost-sharing subsidies so it is congress' job which is why lamar alexander and patty murray deserve credit for engaging

trade representative here said there was frustration at the unwillingness of mexico and canada to compromise we have seen no indication that our partners are willing to make any changes that will result in a rebalancing and a reduction in these huge trade deficit now i understand that after many years of one sided benefits their companies have become reliant on special prayer preferences. and not just comparative advantage countries are reluctant to give up on fair advantage. expressing their own set of frustrations top ministers from canada and mexico accuse the u.s. of having a winner take all mentality they said there are at least two u.s. proposals that are nonstarters here one requiring north american made cars to have fifty percent of its of their parts originate in the united states another u.s. proposal a five year sunset clause to any renewed now after agreement now the fact that these negotiations have been extended and the deadline moved beyond the new year does show that there is some willingness and some hope for a compromise to be achieved but looming behind all of this is the

interview he said that he that the countries that are initiating this blockade are showing a real unwillingness to engage while qatar is willing to open that chain of dialogue now there has been a lot of frustration on the part of of tillerson as you heard from the state department spokeswoman regarding how long this dispute has dragged on we are now into the fourth month and tomorrow when he heads to riyadh and then on to doha he has indicated that we initiating these talks and pushing toward sooner resolution will be his goal was the same time today setting that expectation pretty low saying that this will likely drag on for a while clearly the fact that he's bothering to undertake this mission to come to the go that would signify that he thinks that there is some room for maneuver that he can possibly effects of positive change. that's right he certainly is doing this with some hope of a positive outcome he did this in july when you employed shuttle diplomacy between saudi arabia and qatar but it is also notable that this is a very different stance than what the u.s. policy toward this gulf

visited the region instead he expressed his frustration saying there appear to be a real will unwillingness on the part of the quartet of blockading countries in. progressing with these talks in contrast saying qatar has been very clear that they're ready to engage now the fact that tillerson is returning to the region this following week and to push further these talks is a long ways from where the u.s. policy on this crisis started back in june if you remember that's when u.s. president donald trump was quick to come to the aid of saudi arabia praising its leadership and in a shooting this blockade and trying to claim credit that was a direct result of president trump's visit to the region since then the white house has been more silent on this topic while the state department has taken a lead here with tillerson returning again. the produce a session of scroope of the national cattle and assembly is calling on supporters to withdraw their money from five of spain's largest banks in its response to the spanish central government's plans to suspend the region's autonomy on saturday catalon

given the reaction of the europeans, given what looks like an iranian unwillingness at the moment to negotiate and so they have been basically pushing back and trying to figure out a solution that would allow the president to walk away from the deal publicly while preserving the deal. that's what last week's rather confusing announcement was all about. but each time the president as he did this morning says he's willing to walk away, willing to terminate the agreement, it casts more of a shadow over the deal. so that even if it stays in place, the one danger that i see is that companies that might be interested in investing in iran, european companies in particular, might worry that if they do that, they're going to face the possibility of american sanctions down the road. so something you hear is that the deal doesn't necessarily get blown up. it sort of gets starved, that companies start steering clear of iran. iran starts becoming frustrated that it feels it's not getting its side of the deal. so you don't necessarily have to rip it up to do a lot of damage to it. that's what i th

it speaks to an unwillingness to do what 90% of the american public wants us to do — make sure that theret the instant background check that everyone goes through when they go to a local gun shop is also the same kind of background check that you have when you go online to purchase a gun. it does seem that congress is almost going in the opposite direction. there was a bill that was supposed to be debated this week, called the sportsman's heritage and recreational enhancement act, which sounds innocuous. but if it were passed, it would ease restrictions on silencers, on gun suppressors and on armour—piercing rounds. and you wonder why a sportsman or a civilian would need something like that. this is the nra at its biggest bravado. this is their dream bill. they can't go far enough. they can't expand the rights far enough. armour piercing bullets that we have prohibited so that law enforcement officers will not be killed doing theirjob is trying to protect life, they want to loosen it. they want to have silencers, arguably so that when they are shooting in the wild, they are not going to s

the unwillingness to speak out is striking at this point.t now republican voters, trump voters, are still behind him, and there's no up side. the courage of jeff flake was writing that book, the reason why he basically ended his political career, he found out there was no particular constituency but the values he was talking about, at least in republican primaries today. >> in arizona at least. you know interesting is senator shelby was pretty diplomatic when i asked about roy moore, said he would support the party. not a glowing endorsement of that senatorial candidate. does this extend to just about everything, charlie? just shut your mouth and hope poor the best and wait for this to pass? >> a really resting quote in the "new york times" this morning about tax reform, and somebody -- can't remember who said it. like, the republicans are passing tax reform is equivalent to having a baby to shore up a troubled marriage. this is the one thing that's kind of pulling them together at least for the moment, and so they're not going to buck him,

the racism that he feared would dominate black and white relations, white america's unwillingness to share power with what it believed was an inferior race would have characterized the united states. i, at any rate, concludes that even if he had remained president until march 1869, jim crow would still become a new southern reality and the north, as eventually it did, would look the other way. the ku klux klan would have raised their torches, burning in the night. the march across the bridge of selma would have occurred, it would have been in america's future. this is ferguson, dallas, most recently charlottesville would have still happened. the racist alt-right and white nationalist movements would have risen. i do not think this hypothetical lincoln -- melancholy and pessimistic as he was by nature, leaving off the stuff would have been a particularly happy -- would not have been a particularly happy man. happiness was not in his nature. but it wasn't in the historical reality either. lesson for us now in lincoln's dilemma, the neo-nazis, the kkk and the anti-semitic, antigovernmen