Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. What happened with this meeting beyond just the meeting. Was there any sort of further contact, any sort of further conspiracy to disseminate any of this information. Because thats obviously what happened after this meeting. And also goes to this idea youve had President Trump basically saying, oh, the russians didnt help. The russians really wanted Hillary Clinton to win, theyre upset that i won. He said at his rally just recently. But here he is, admitting that there was this meeting with the russians, where the russians were trying to help his campaign. And norm, youve worked for the administration, you worked for president obama. The fact that a lawyer for the president of the United States says that he got Bad Information when it comes to jay sekulow, who would he have gotten that Bad Information from that he was so comfortable then going on tv and repeating . Well, kate, the Bad Information we now know originally stemmed from
like. i want to warn people that once he takes office, if he were to win, he doesn t have to worry about re-election anymore. he will be about revenge. he will probably have some pretty draconian policies that go on. i want to bring in mark murray, joining me now for all of this. let me start with what we just heard from the former white house press secretary. she is out with a new book. say when you will about her credibility when you think about that. it is a juxtaposition when she talks about the draconian policies she thinks trump would put in place. and listen to steve bannon f you are going to take over the administrative state and destruct it then you have to have shock troops prepared to take it over immediate yae. i gave him fire and brim stone. what does that sound like to you? you and i have seen the trump administration up close. really the first two years it took them that time to figure
mean, they seem to have hope of regime change, but there s very few examples in history of sanctions actually forcing regime change. south korea might be the only one. countries like north korea, venezuela and cuba have endured decades of u.s. sanctions without changing regimes or changing their behavior. so, you know, i don t see a well thought out trump administration policy in place here. i just wonder what the status of the relationship really is. because over the weekend, the president raised again the idea of meeting with the iranian president, much like as you re talking about, the meeting he had with kim jong-un. but how would you describe the status of this relationship, non relationship with iran right now. i would take trump up on his offer to meet, because given trump s track record, he is easily duped in these kinds of negotiations. he is prone to go into a negotiation like with north korea or the european union, you know, breathing fire and brim stone. and then it s a
that s how you really mess up the north koreans. i think we play into their hands when you engage in a tit for tat prior and brim stone threats which ultimately i think have no long term sustain ability. do you see president trump making that pivot from the rhetoric that we ve been hearing here in the last couple of days and being able he did say he didn t take negotiations off the table. we heard that yesterday. do you think that he can abandon what has been very fiery as he put it rhetoric and move towards a more productive strategy? it doesn t necessarily seem to be in tune with his style. there s no question president trump is not the one who caused this situation in north korea. it s been a bipartisan effort of republican and democratic administrations over time. it can be unbuilt i think
the buckle of the bible belt. my father was a protestant minister. he was charismatic, and he really could touch his congregation, and he was my first wow. back then he was a hell, fire and brim stone preacher to tell you the truth. he went very far with that because our church was very strict. dad was very strict, and he was brought up in a staunch family, and everything was a sin. we couldn t go to movies. we couldn t play pinball because mom considered that a form of gambling because if you played well enough you could win a free game.