of sanctions, because of chinese pressure, because of the president sunconventional rhetoric, they may feel a need to have a pr offensive . i have no doubt their hope is to divide us from our allies in south korea. to ease some of the sanctions. to ease the pressure coming from china. so that they are not so isolated in the world. so there s a military aspect and then there s a world opinion aspect of what s going on here. chris: so when there s talk about complete denuclearization and according to the trump camp, we had john bolton on last sunday. that would mean shipping all of the nuclear bombs out. all of the fuel, all of the missiles. you don t think they re going to do that. i am very skeptical. but it also means is inspections to make sure they don t restart the program. i think you can hope for the best. but we have to prepare for the
chinese pressure, because of the president sunconventional rhetoric, they may feel a need to have a pr offensive . i have no doubt their hope is to divide us from our allies in south korea. to ease some of the sanctions. to ease the pressure coming from china. so that they are not so isolated in the world. so there s a military aspect and then there s a world opinion aspect of what s going on here. chris: so when there s talk about complete denuclearization and according to the trump camp, we had john bolton on last sunday. that would mean shipping all of the nuclear bombs out. all of the fuel, all of the missiles. you don t think they re going to do that. i am very skeptical. but it also means is inspections to make sure they don t restart the program. i think you can hope for the best. but we have to prepare for the worst.
white house officials were on a pr offensive promising tariffs will not hurt the broader economy. adding no countries will be exempt. even key allies. here is trade adviser peter navarro. an exemption prior for procedure for a particular case where we need to have e exemptions so business can move forward, but at this point in time, there will be no country exclusion. that is peter navarro. navarro was backed up by commerce secretary wilbur ross. he says no exceptions. as far as i know he is talking about a fairly broad brush. theresa may said about tariffs that experts are warning it could cause a trade war. the eu is slapping tariffs on
which he said he would be willing to speak to robert mueller under oelath. it was really about hillary clinton. if you listen to the audio. he said did hillary clinton talk under oath? it doesn t matter. if you lie to the fbi, it say federal crime regardless under oath or not. is this a pr offensive or a legal move? dave, you know, i think we have come to expect when president trump is asked a direct question, he actually answers it which is something we re not used to from politicians. he manslaughtaged to throw in t caveat if my lawyers are okay with it. certainly, you could imagine that his lawyers saw the comments and scrambled to figure out what they will do. he is open to testifying under oath and it is harder to walk that back. at the same time, if he feels he
longer shutdown than was originally anticipated. this is being played out in the court of opinion here, alex, and really the way this is going to be broken is whichever side blinks first, whichever side emerges behind in that battle for public opinion. we see republicans led by president trump trying to boil this down to a fight between those young immigrants, so-called d.r.e.a.m.ers they re holding out for. they want anything that passes to fund the government to allow those that were brought here at a young age to stay in this country. republicans are down to a simple fact this is the military, getting their paychecks on time, men and women in uniform versus a relatively small population of those d.r.e.a.m.ers. meanwhile democrats are on the pr offensive. we saw chuck schumer any number of times yesterday trying to say that president trump is unreliable as a negotiator. senator schumer saying negotiating with president trump, remember he sat down with