will ripply on the scene for us inside north korea. joining us now senator ed marquee. he serves on the foreign relations committee. thanks so much for joining us. what s your reaction? did the president make the right call by scrapping this summit? this is really unfortunate. just three weeks from the summit, but what we re seeing is escalating rhetoric over the last couple of weeks. john bolton started it by commenting that they were looking for the libyan model, which meant that gaddafi at the end of that scenario wound up dead after he had given up his nuclear program. vice president pence then started talking about the same kind of scenario on monday. that elicited a response on monday from high ranking north korean officials which led to a collapse today. all of this was avoided, this
do, especially crude oil. and we should even deepen our partnership with the south koreans and japanese in terms of regional cooperation on these issues. so we should not take this as the final no. we should have a process that we put in place as immediately as possible in order to put a diplomatic pathway back into motion because the military option, which the president talked about today, is not a solution. it will become catastrophic very quickly. and so, yes, we do need to go back to the table as soon as possible. in recent days as you know, senator, president trump seemed to be suggesting that china had a role in changing the north korean attitude towards the summit. do you think the chinese leadership, president xi, has now met twice with kim jong-un.
for in order to get a resolution of these critical issues. finally, senator, before i let you go a very different subject. the president s legal team and the special counsel mueller and his team, they discussed a possible date for an interview with the president back january 27th of this year, five hours, camp david, maryland. before all those negotiations stalled, this is cnn s reporting. do you believe that interview will ever happen? i think only donald trump s lawyers and donald trump himself knows the answer to that question. it is the only way, ultimately, to bring this investigation to a conclusion. the president will have to answer the questions of what he knew and when he knew it. and when he is able to give that interview, give definitive answers, then we re able to talk about the conclusion of the investigation. but he keeps throwing out these red herrings, accusing the fbi
the president and what they re saying he s doing to their former colleague. thank you very much, dana bash. if that pans out, obviously that s the price the president cannot afford to pay, whether it s health care or his budget reform, the wall. outfront now, ed marquee. i appreciate your time tonight. it is the sixth day in the row the president bullied his attorney general. twice today in the rose garden obviously. and the president says we ll see what happens. time will tell, right? not going to say whether he s going to keep him or not. what is your reaction, senator? you don t have to be dick tracy to figure out what s going on. first donald trump fires jim comey. now he is asking jeff sessions essentially to resign and with kind of a threat that if you don t, you ll be fired and it is all heading towards robert mueller and his investigation.
legalization. that will be about $98 million a year. but the problem with sin taxes they make the government complicit. if more states legalize are going to be doing it for the money. james. paul, this is a miss to senator ed marquee of massachusetts. almost like an episode of house of cards. but basically the senator has been carrying water for a hedge fund which has been betting against a company called herbal life nutritional company. the hedge fund betting on this company s failure claims that this is some kind of pyramid scheme. and so mr. markey has taken the hedge fund s brief and is urging federal regulators to investigate for fraud. just completely amazing that this is now a market tool to get politicians to create allegations. all right, james, thank you. that s it for this week s show. thanks to my panel and to all of you for watching.