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Iraq and afghanistan. their improvement in their defense spending. and their grave concerns about what president trump might give away to putin in helsinki a week from today. i do think there are things we can do. senator corker and senator flake were on the decision. senator flake was leading it. senator corker has made a strong stand for to us pull back some of the power that the senate should have to review any attempt by the president to impose tariffs, especially on close security allies. i ll remind you last monetary quebec at the g7, president trump picked a whole lot of fights particularly with canada and for us to be facing a trade war with china and at the same time have president trump be picking fights with our key allies in europe and north america, strikes me as just nonsensical and many republican senators feel the same. senator, you just said that you don t think that the senate should even be considering a ....
But, again, long range plan by the north koreans. they ve been planning this for decades. reporter: what was souterly predictable is that now secretary pompeo who is a very smart guy and a very realistic person about all of this but his leverage was damaged by the president s bragging after the summit. that boasting is what undercut our negotiating ability, and so now he s saying well we re going revert to maximum pressure. maximum pressure means going to russia, chinese, nato, u.n. security council, let s tighten up those sanctions. remember those sanctions. you got the president going to nato after d ircdissing the g7 quebec and take on nato and accusing them of being weak on defers and then he s going to vladimir putin after that which is so offensive to the nato allies, going to putin right ....