President trump on a tear this afternoon tweaking the republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee, richard burr of North Carolina, for issuing a subpoena to compel his oldest son, donald trump jr. To testify after donald trump jr. Failed to do so voluntarily. I was very surprised. I saw richard burr saying there was no collusion two or three weeks ago. My son is a very good person. Works very hard. The last thing he needs is washington, d. C. The Mueller Report came out. Thats the bible. The Mueller Report came out. And they said he did nothing wrong. The only thing, its Oppo Research. The Oppo Research is a clear reference to trump jr. s meeting with a meeting with someone promising dirt on hillary clinton. The Mueller Report, to be clear, did not say that trump junior, quote, did nothing wrong, as the president just said. Mueller and his team spelled out that episode in intricate detail and explained clearly that they did not charge trump jr. Or anyone else involved in that meeting because it was not clear they were aware that they should not have held the meeting. And because they did not seem to obtain anything of clear value at the time. But, of course, no charges filed does not necessarily translate to, quote, did nothing wrong. The president who also once claimed the Mueller Report was a total exoneration is now qualifying that claiming that Robert Mueller essentially cleared him on obstruction. And he stated that on the matter of obstruction, quote, while this report does not conclude the president committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him. That sentence appears in the Mueller Report three times. We are in unprecedented times, and as manu raju now reports, sources close to donald trump jr. Say the president s son is seriously considering defying the congressional subpoena again issued by the republicanled Senate Intelligence committee. Reporter the president s eldest son, donald trump jr. Now weighing whether to obey a subpoena from the republicanled Senate Intelligence committee. If donald trump jr. Defies this subpoena, he ought to be jailed. Reporter a source tells cnn that trump junior may take the fifth or not even show up. Despite being compelled to do so by gop chairman richard burr and democratic vice chairman mark warner. I was very surprised to see my son. My son is a very good person. Works very hard. The last thing he needs is washington, d. C. Reporter the president today defend his son. My son testified for hours and hours. My son was totally exonerated by mueller who, frankly, does not like donald trump, me. Reporter a number of Senate Republicans also sided with trump junior, not their own gop colleague. I think the rationale to keep the investigation, the Intelligence Committee open is wearing kind of thin now. If i were his life, id be reluctant to put him back in this circus. Reporter burr refused to talk about the subpoena today. Will you hold someone in contempt i wont take any questions. Thanks. They seem to think your subpoena is voluntary. Is your subpoena voluntary . He testified previously on capitol hill, trump junior declined to be interviewed by the special counsel. Who did not subpoena him or charge him with a crime, but the Mueller Report raised questions about his past testimony when he told a Senate Judiciary committee that in 2016, he only informed Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort that they planned to meet with russians ahead of their 2016 meeting about possible dirt on the clinton campaign. Yet the Mueller Report puts former Deputy Campaign chairman rick gates saying trump junior announced at a meeting of top Campaign Officials and family members he had a lead on negative information about the clinton foundation. Plus, there are questions about the pursuit of the trump tower moscow project ahead of the 2016 elections. There does seem to me to be troubling public evidence that donald trump jr. Has not been truthful about the familys business involvement in russia. Reporter democrats are bound to ask the same questions to mueller if he appears before the house judiciary committee. Today trump said that decision is up to his attorney general who has previously testified he has no issue with mueller appearing. Im going to leave that up to our very great attorney general, and hell make a decision on that. Reporter some of the president s closest defenders were saying some senators were up for reelection in 2020 and who need the president s support and are siding with the president s son, including tom tillis who is a republican senator from North Carolina. The same state of richard burr. He said today, i personally believe the democrats are just trying to keep this whole issue alive. But when i said, well, richard burr, the chairman of the committee, what about the criticisms of him, he said i stand by my comment. You have to speak to senator burr. Manu raju, thanks. Lets bring in my experts. Nia, a very trumpian outburst in his remarks earlier today, to say the least. Thats right. A very wideranging outburst in many ways, talking about all sorts of topics, including the subpoena of his son, the Mueller Report, north korea. He talked about iran as well. Puerto rico. This was a president who we hadnt really heard from in this way. It was unexpected. He was really there to talk about the medical pricing and medical billing. And so there he was Holding Court for, you know, 25 minutes or so talking about any number of topics filled with untruths on any number of topics as well. So well see. I do think its interesting, this where we are now with this idea of richard burr basically issuing this subpoena. Basically trying to compel donald trump jr. To testify and where this goes. Weve so far seen republicans willing unwilling to stand up to this president. Not willing to stand up to one of his children as well. So well see where this goes. I think so far weve seen republicans, particularly somebody like Mitch Mcconnell essentially say its time to move on from the Mueller Report. But this is an interesting moment. It will be interesting to see where this goes and how richard burr, if hes willing to sort of pursue this any further. And kristen, the criticism of senator burr from his fellow republican senators and republican members of the house has been withering. There are lots of things about this presidency that divide the republican party. That put some members on one side and some members on the other side. This is no exception. What i think is going to be interesting is to see when senator burr is further pressed on sort of why subpoena donald trump jr. , is the focus more on trying to understand more about the Trump Campaigns role, which is the sort of thing we know democrats are quite interested in learning more about, believe they want to build upon in addition to what was already laid out in the Mueller Report, or is the goal to get some sort of deeper understanding of russian efforts to contact campaigns . The Mueller Report found russians made many overtures toward the Trump Campaign but found limited willingness to do things with them. Are there things they think they can learn from don junior about what the russian efforts to reach out to them looked like . That would seem to be more germane than continuing to build on, what did the Trump Campaign do . Phil, we dont know specifically what the members of the Senate IntelligenceCommittee Want to question don junior about. We have a couple ideas that don junior has said in his Senate JudiciaryCommittee Testimony that was made public that have now been contradicted. One of the subjects is about the trump tower meeting and who we told ahead of time. Another is about how well briefed he was on the trump tower moscow project. Listen to Michael Cohen testifying before the House Oversight committee about who he had briefed and briefing ivanka and don junior about the trump tower moscow project. And who are the family members that you briefed on the trump tower moscow project . Don trump jr. And ivanka trump. Now were these in the regular course of business or did the president or family request the briefings . This is the regular course of business. Do you recall how many of these briefings there might have been . Approximately ten. Approximately ten. But, phil in his testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee, trump junior said he was peripherally aware of it. But i have to say, if there are two people contra dicting each other, for one of them to be Michael Cohen who is in prison right now for lying, that doesnt really, to me, and im just a layman, spell like real trouble in terms of perjury because don junior could just say Michael Cohen is a liar. Thats why hes in jail. And so he should. But i think you put your finger on the critical issue. Its the second round weve done with this. Rudy giuliani told us the outcome. He didnt want to put him in front of mueller personally because hed be afraid the president would Say Something different than other witnesses would say and, therefore, the president would be in a bind. Now we have the second round of this where the president s son has done exactly the thing that giuliani was worried the president would do and why the president refused to speak to mueller. He said one thing to the committee and clearly the committee learned in black and white through the Mueller Investigation and the 450page report that the facts from other people appear to be different. The capitol hill is making this look political. Can you imagine being richard burr and looking at the sidebyside of the testimony in your committee and what the Mueller Report found and discovering one of your witnesses might have said something substantially untrue . What is burr supposed to say . Doesnt matter if you speak the truth to the committee or not. This looks like politics on the hill. Weve got to talk to the guy about what the facts are. I think don junior is going to say that makes me really nervous. Paul begala, the president also went after house Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff and Committee Chairman jerry nadler. Nadler in his committee on party line vote, voted to hold attorney general barr in contempt of congress yesterday. Take a listen. Guys like jerry nadler, who i fought for many years successfully, i might add, back in new york in manhattan. He was a manhattan congressman. I beat him all the time. And i come to washington and now i have to beat him again. Over nothing. When schiff goes to the microphone, hes conning this whole country. And he knows that. It was interesting to hear the president accuse schiff of being a con man because thats what democrats have been saying about President Trump, especially with the New York Times story about his not paying taxes. He does seem to have the problem of projection. That is an astonishing thing that were hardly even talking about. We learn the now president of the United States who was elected, kind of, by saying he was a great businessman, turned out to be the very worst businessman in america. The biggest loser, i guess he could call it. What hes trying to do here does make some political sense. Hes trying to muddy the waters and make it look partisan. Back to phils point. Richard burr is not only a republican. He was an official of the Trump Campaign. He was a National Security adviser to the Trump Campaign. When donald trump was running, burr campaigned for him in North Carolina and used this phrase. Theres no separation between me and donald trump. When a lot of other republicans were run away from trump. So this is not a guy out to get trump. Hes a loyal republican. But i suspect phil is right. Hes looking at the testimony saying this doesnt jibe. You wonder why donald junior may want to please the fifth because he did in his defense, testify, i think Something Like 27 hours in front of the house . A long time. So he has testified and he should be, i think, respected for that. But why is he going to cut and run now . Why is the first family acting like a mafia family . Its not a good look. Stick around and tune in to a special cnn live town hall with former fbi director james comey. 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Reporter at a medical billing event turned impromptu press conference today, President Trump letting off steam as he struggles to make deals on the world stage. We can make a deal, a fair deal. Reporter with whina we were getting very close. They started to negotiate the deal. We cant have that. Reporter north korea they want to negotiate. But i dont think theyre ready to negotiate. Reporter and iran. What id like to see with iran, id like to see them call me. Reporter trump also pushing back on his National Security adviser john bolton as sources tell cnn his frustration is growing that bolton is pushing toward a potential conflict with venezuela. I actually temper john, which is pretty amazing, isnt it . I have john bolton and other people that are a little more dovish than him. And ultimately, i make the decision. Reporter but trump is the one talking tough on iran. Risk a military confrontation, sir . I guess you could say that always, isnt it . Always. I dont want to say no, but hopefully that wont happen. Reporter even calling for former secretary of state john kerry to be prosecuted for allegedly violating the logan act which prohibits unauthorized people from negotiating with foreign adversarial governments. John kerry speaks to him a lot. John kerry tells them not to call. Thats a violation of the logan act. And, frankly, he should be prosecuted on that. Reporter a spokesman for kerry saying everything President Trump said today is simply wrong. End of story. Meantime, as north korea provokes the u. S. With missile launches, trump is urging kim jongun to come back to the table. North korea has tremendous potential, economically. And i dont think hes going to blow that. I dont think so. Reporter and if the administration fails in their 11th hour bid to salvage talks with china today, trump plans to slap higher tariffs on 200 billion in chinese goods at the stroke of midnight. As he takes a swipe at his predecessors. I blame the people that ran the United States, and i blame their trade representatives and, frankly, i blame our president s. Reporter President Trump also said he received a beautiful letter from chinese president xi jinping today. And those talks are supposed to go on starting around 5 00 p. M. Eastern time here in washington. Theyre also supposed to continue on friday, but, jake, if those 25 tariffs are put in place at midnight tonight, theyll land like a thud both in beijing and here on wall street. Jake . A lot of wall street jitters. Abby phillip, thank you. Lets talk about this with the experts again. Phil, the president spent a solid 40 minutes today, i think it can be fairly called, going off on china, north korea, iran, among the long list of other matters. Do you get the sense the president is worried about his next move in iran . I am not sure id say worried but he understands what hes understood since day one since he was born. If hes the first out of the box with the message whether its on iran, north korea or venezuela, then he can control the news cycle and control how americans perceive the problem. He did that with the Mueller Report. Most people arent going to look at the details of whats happening with north korea. The president can say this is whats going on. I was right. Ill protect our security interest. Look at whats going on with north korea, missile tests, the contrast to when he walked off the plane is dramatic. Hes controlling the message. A lot of people listen to him and wont read the newspapers. Niathe president accusing the former secretary of state, Democrat John kerry, of telling iran not to call his white house and violating the logan act. A spokesman for kerry calling the president s claim simply wrong. I mean, if john kerry is breaking the law, one would think the charges would be brought. Is he just making this up . It certainly sounds like he is just making this up, having a foil in john kerry. And again, this is, to phils point, this idea of a president who can set the narrative and that narrative of often believed, often amplified by the conservative chattering class whether its cable news or fox or rush limbaugh. Its something hes done. Something he hasnt paid a political price for at all in terms of trying to shape this narrative. And sort of blame other people for why things arent going his way. I mean, thats essentially what hes saying that somehow john kerry is blocking any sort of progress that he could make with the iranian regime. Well see if theres any sort of pushback or clarification from this white house. Typically there isnt. You go and ask what the president is talking about and theres more obfusication. It does remind me of an exchange from the testimony that bill barr had with Kamala Harris basically asking bill barr whether or not the president asked him to go after anybody and prosecute anybody. Is this something that the president is asking . If he believes that john kerry has broken the law. Is it something hes asking bill barr to look into at the Justice Department . Speaking of falsehoods, the president was asked about the fact that several members of the 2018 world series champion Boston Red Sox team, which today visited the white house. A number of players on the team skipped the visit. Lets play that exchange. I like the red sox. What do you say to those that argue youre too divisive and its interesting, puerto rico, just so you understand. We gave puerto rico 91 billion. Now the president immediately switching to puerto rico because thats one of the reasons the manager is not coming. In reality, we should point out President Trump keeps saying that they gave puerto rico 91 billion. Congress allocated 42 billion for puerto rico for recovery. Of that, 12 billion has been spent. Some government estimates that the budget will include another 50 billion over a 20year period. Thats a very rough estimate. In any case, kristen, the president keeps repeating this 91 billion, 91 billion. Weve given puerto rico 91 billion. Its not true. Its a lie. Does that matter anymore . I think its unlikely that the president s comments on this will lead to any sort of immediate political price, but it is important to note that, say, take a state like florida where during the Gubernatorial Race you had ron desantis who was victorious. A strong trump reporter. Tied himself to the president. On the issue of Hurricane Maria recovery in puerto rico, that was one area where he put distance between himself and the president. So in somewhere like florida, that could be the sort of place where if the president s response to what happened with the hurricane in puerto rico is viewed as deficient, thats the sort of place where perhaps regionally hed pay a political price. Paul begala . He only carried florida by less than 115,000 votes. Estimates are that anywhere from 50,000 to ive seen estimates as high as 200 or 300,000 Puerto Ricans have moved to florida. Theyre our sister and brother americans. They have every right to vote if in florida. So why does he do it . Why does he lie . I think hes trying to redefine truth itself. You and i, normal people, we believe that truth is fidelity to facts. He believes that truth is saying sometimes racially inflammatory things that no one else wants to say. Like Puerto Ricans are undeserving, like mexicans are rapists. Hes convinced himself that he can say these really inflammatory things that somehow that makes them true, even though theyre factually false. 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District officials urged the Charter School to investigate the phone call and they are looking into whether warning signs were missed. Reporter surfacing in this denver area community, still mourning the latest School Shooting, potential signs missed that warned of a columbinestyle attack months before this weeks tragedy. A letter obtained by cnn shows the Douglas CountySchool District urging the stem school to investigate serious allegations, listing more than a dozen complaints from an anonymous parent including concerns about student violence that could lead to a repeat of columbine. The parent called the situation at the school the perfect storm. Blaming a High Pressure environment and citing an alleged recent bomb threat and added that several students have reported Sexual Assault in school and that nothing is being done. It was sent in december, five months before the shooting at Stem School Highlands Ranch left one student dead and eight others injured. Its extremely disturbing, but i havent heard of anything like that, you know, through my son at all. Reporter the schools principal called the allegations at the time an attack in a letter to parents saying they were false accusations and that an investigation by stem board and staff leadership revealed no evidence of these allegations. The school even filed a defamation lawsuit against a jane doe since the parent remains anonymous. The grounds of the lawsuit are far from clear and School Administrators have not returned calls to clarify. A group of parents wrote a 240page report asking the county to intervene, describing an atmosphere of distrust, uncertainty and hostility about issues ranging from safety concerns to special education programs. The county board of education even wrote, we urge you to consider a change in leadership. Meanwhile, students gathered to mourn the loss of kendrick castillo, the 18yearold killed trying to tackle one of the shooters. The vigil quickly turned political as students walked out in protest when some speakers pressed for more restrictive gun laws. At one point, students were chanting Mental HealthMental Health reporter with just three days left of school, students are pledging to push on. You dont stop your life just to just because of one bad thing. You cant let that get in the way. You have to band together as a community. You have to stay strong. Stem strong. Reporter the County School board had a Public Meeting scheduled for this afternoon to discuss tuesdays shooting. That meeting has now been canceled because of logistical challenges. And we are also learning that, according to a Law Enforcement source with direct knowledge of the investigation, the 18yearold suspect had gotten the two handguns in this case from his parents who had purchased them legally. Both suspects are due back in court tomorrow. Jake . Scott mcclane in colorado, thank you. 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South bend, indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg with 9 . And jessica dean reports, President Trump is clearly taking notice. Reporter with his political star on the rise, south bend mayor Pete Buttigieg headed to hollywood today. Thank you, and good morning reporter buttigieg headlining five los angeles fundraisers today alone. Ending at an event hosted by Gwyneth Paltrow and bradley whitford. Based on the reception so far in l. A. , this will be a great area for us to build support. Reporter the pull of tinseltown also drawing in former Vice President joe biden. As he continues his swing through l. A. , stopping for tacos yesterday with mayor Eric Garcetti in between two big money fund raisers tended by hollywood heavyweights like Jeffrey Katzenberg and eric schmidt. Hell headline a third fundraiser today. I really do washington alexandria and working with me on this issue. Reporter senator Bernie Sanders joined bith alexandria ocasiocortez to unveil new legislation targeting the credit card and banking industries. The bill would cap credit card Interest Rates at 15 . We think that some things are just wrong to make a buck off of. Reporter and would allow for post offices to provide Banking Services for lowincome americans who otherwise wouldnt have it. Reining in the Financial Sector is a hallmark issue for fellow 2020 candidate senator Elizabeth Warren who has used it to criticize biden. Joe biden is on the side of the credit card companies. Reporter warren appears on Time Magazine with her signature slogan i have a plan for that. He h she has a lot of plans. Rolling out 12 policies or proposals, including yesterdays plan to combat the opioid epidemic. Will policies help her break through in this crowded field . A new mon mouth University Poll in New Hampshire showsed bien maintaining a doubledigit lead. Biden at 36 with sanders at 18 , buttigieg at 9 and warren at 8 . Just some of the 21 democrats trying to unseat President Trump. Ill take any of them. Lets just pick somebody n lean lets start this thing. Lets start it. Reporter back here in los angeles, were just now getting word. A source telling cnn that biden pulled in over 700,000 at that fundraiser last night. And i talked to a Campaign Strategist here about the fundraising dollars in los angeles of which there are many. They told me big donors are taking one of two approaches. Theyre either hedging their bets and donating to several candidates or waiting, hanging back and just seeing how the field will narrow. But, jake, the one thing that person told me theyor the lookout for is how do these candidates combat with and interact with President Trump. Jessica dean, thanks so much. Lets bring our experts back. Kristen, as the pollster in the gang, is there anything in this new New Hampshire poll that shows joe biden with a commanding lead that stands out to you . Its just one more data point that shows that former Vice President bidens entrance to the race, it wasnt just sort of a temporary bounce that hes really in a commanding position. And not just in these national polls, but in places like New Hampshire where you can bet that the name i. D. Of someone like Elizabeth Warren and senator Bernie Sanders is pretty high. This is their turf, their media market. The fact that joe biden is in such a commanding position not just nationally but in a crucial early state has got to be very positive news for him. That poll standing where you had that top four or five folks matches what youre seeing nationally. Also very good news for mayor pete. There was some question whether his sort of early flurry of support rise in the polls was that just temporary . Was that just a sort of viral moment that would fade . But hes looking like more and more that he has some staying power. But well see how this lasts until we get to the very first debates. In this poll, more than half of the Democratic Candidates got less than 1 . Joe biden suggested last night that the field could slim down pretty quickly. Take a listen. This field is going to be winnowed out pretty quickly. Here in california as well. In order to get any delegates from a congression aal district you have to get 15 of the vote. Coming out of iowa, you need 15 of the caucus. Its going to work its way through quickly for all of us. Paul, do you agree . You think after the first contest or two the field will go down from 20something to maybe even under 10 . It will come down significantly, yes. Keep in mind when joe biden ran the last time, he didnt make it past iowa. He didnt make it to New Hampshire. This has to be gratifying for joe. Still on the ballot in New Hampshire and got like 638 votes. Hillary won the state with 112,000. Bernie, who ran the last time in New Hampshire got 60 of the vote. Hes down to 18. But the most important number in the poll, kristen will agree with this, is the date. Were a long, long, long way from that primary. So its interesting to look at, but its still anybodys race right now. And nia, senator warren on the cover of Time Magazine this week. I have a plan for that is the cover. You heard jessica mention the dozen proposals that warren has put out this election cycle inspect the cnn latest national poll, warren is nearly even with mayor Pete Buttigieg who has been criticized for talking more about values instead of going into any sort of policy detail. Is there an exchange here . A risk for buttigieg to not follow warrens lead on policy . You know, well see. So far its worked for him. I think his issue is he basically does well with about 30 of the democratic electorate. 30 , College Educated white voters and thats why hes able to do really well. So the question for him is whether or not hes going to be able to expand beyond that. Thats one of the reasons that joe biden is doing so well is because hes able to do well with black and brown voters. About 40 of the democratic electorate. And whites who went to college as well as noncollege whites. So i think Pete Buttigieg is doing well. Obviously hes out in california, vacuuming up some money out there which will do him some good. Hell be able to hire folks. But the question for him is, where is he going to be able to win some states, right, in those early contests . How does he broaden the base that he has so far which is this kind of boutique liberal college, White College elite kind of voter at this point. But hes hanging in there so far. Well see what hes able to do. Everyone stick around. 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The launches come just five days after kim jongun tested several new Weapons Systems which has not happened since 2017. And just moments ago, President Trump said hed nominate patrick shanahan, the current acting secretary of defense and former boeing executive as the Permanent Defense secretary. Cnns Barbara Starr is at the pentagon. So much going on in the world. Is shanahan going to be another yes man to President Trump . Well, this is really the question at hand, jake. Shanahan talking to reporters just a few minutes ago said his biggest challenge is going to be balancing all the things going on in the world against other longterm priorities like defense spending. But that is exactly what you pay a defense secretary to do, to balance it all. And shanahan has had a very tough couple of days as crises around the world have emerged. First up, iran. The rising military tensions. He has sent troops into potential harms way. 5,000 troops aboard the Aircraft Carrier lincoln. Dozens of air force crews for the b52 bombers that have now arrived in the middle east. He says secretary of state mike pompeo will have an additional statement on the iran situation upcoming. So that will be one thing he is going to have to continue to deal with. Venezuela. Look, pompeo, secretary of state pompeo, National Security adviser bolton, hardcore on military action possibilities. The pentagon not so much. Will he be a yes man to whatever the white house wants . Mattis, of course, said nice things about shanahan so i guess well see. Barbara, what about this latest missile test by north korea . That must be alarming individuals in the pentagon. They havent done that since 2017, north korea. A couple of additional shortrange Ballistic Missile launches by north korea. Shanahans job now is to keep the military ready to defend if the North Koreans take additional steps. He is saying that he will deforepompeo on the diplomacy question. Thats pretty much the position the pentagon has had but behind the scenes, very concerned the North Koreans arent about to make additional moves. Barbara starr, thank you. Lets bring back former cia and fbi analyst phil mudd. Youve been saying that north korea, to you, is the most pressing threat. Its what obama told trump was the most pressing threat. If you were advising President Trump right now, what course of action would you suggest they take in response to this. Keep talking. I dont dispute what the president said. No surprise that kim jongun goes to moscow after the failed talks with the president last time. Thats pressure valve for him. You have to figure out how to bring the chinese, the russians and South Koreans in and, number two, easy. The American People and president wont like this but were the big dog on the block. The North Koreans of the peikinese. Well have to show some leg to persuade them were serious. That means doing something early on sanctions. Are we going to give something without getting a lot . I think well have to and face up to that one, jake. North korea has not conducted a nuclear test, rather theyve done these missile tests. As an intelligence analyst, is that intentional, and is that significant by north korea . Both intentional and significant. I wouldnt view these as tests. They are indications of intent. The North Koreans are saying, its like a high school kid. Were going to break curfew by an hour. Were going to test the limits. Lets see if the americans come back to the table. If they dont, maybe a more serious missile gets launched into the ocean. Right now theyre just testing the limits trying to see, because they need us. They need us for sanctions relief trying to see what will bring us back to the table. Maybe it gets ratcheted up more. President trump tweeted last weekend after the north tested its weapons system, i believe that kim jongun fully realized the great economic potential of north korea and will do nothing to interference or end it. He also knows that i am with him and he does not want to break it. I think this is pretty interesting. I think it indicates how americans typically mirror image. They think the other guy thinks like we do. Kim jongun, i dont think, has any interest in dumping missiles and Nuclear Weapons but he has to for money sake. Thats where this is going. If we give him money, hell show up. If not, no deal. Phil mudd, thank you. Well take a quick break and be right back. They dont give two and a half stars to just anybody. Here you go. Whats this . Its your piano. Hold this for a sec. We dont have a piano. No. But the neighbors do. Just ok is not ok. Especially when it comes to your network. At t is americas best Wireless Network according to americas biggest test. Now with 5g evolution. 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