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Conservatives eric ericson tweeted if obama had done what trump just did, republicans would be demanding his impeachment. is that unfair? >> well, i think the difference is obama was never prepared to go all the way on sanctions or go all the way on the military option. that is the core difference here. is that trump was willing to do more than previous administrations to punish these north koreans into being better actors on the world stage. so that is -- hes welcome to his opinion. i just happ...

Possible path forward? should president obama have done it differently? >> i think it is fair criticism to say that a succession of american administrations have failed to subdue north koreas nuclear program. that is a fair statement and so a different approach is something that should be embraced, but only if it leads to something that is real and tangible. right now kim jong-un went back to north korea with winnings in his pocket and all we got were vagaries in exchange and the question is, wh...

>> the circumstances are different. we have a different leader -- >> but in the agreement. >> theres nothing different. no doubt about it. its going to take a very long time. i go back -- my first summits were in europe in the 1980s when i was covering reagan gorbachev. it took two years to get to that summit and two years past that before we got to a treaty on nuclear weapons and missiles with the soviet union. we have a long way to go, a long path to go before we get something concrete that we...

Korea. scott jennings, let me start with you. obviously president trump is trying to convince kim jong-un to denuclearize and for that reason hes flattering him a lot. did you find it excessive at all? way donald trump does thi business. he flatters people that hes trying to get people to see things his way and he see him do it in washington and before he entered politics and trying to apply the same kind of diplomacy. it makes me uncomfortable. the north koreans are liars and murder people in w...

It. i think we have it. lets listen. >> the other groups may be it wasnt a priority. i dont think they could have done if it was a priority, frankly. it would have been easier. for me, it would have been much easier and im not just blaming president obama. this goes back for 25 years. >> he clearly thinks other administrations could have done this but didnt do it. is he right or is the situation markedly different now because kim jong-un has developed this nuclear capability and therefore that g...

Give us our respect or else, and now here he is sharing the stage with the president of the united states. tricky message. >> its a real problem. its a grave concern for everybody just to see whats going on here as to how we got here. we got here through appeasement on the part of both democratic and republican administrations for quite some time, and now we have not only a nuclear north korea, but a nuclear north korea that has the missile capability to deliver the nuclear weapon to the contine...

Meeting with him is not an achievement, an achievement comes if he agree to complete denuclearizatiion. so far theres very little indication that hes going to do that. i do have to give president trump for his maximum pressure policy on north korea. i agree with scott there. increasing the sankings was a good move and it may have brought kim jong-un on to the table. if you look at whats happening in the last couple of months, president trump is succeeded he is not talking about the maximum polic...

And here we have kcna providing minutes away. it is extraordinary, a huge press preference here. and it goes to show, i think the fact that they are talking about the summit inside north korea even before it happened, there is some degree of confidence that this is going to go well. conversation i had with a north korean official essentially told me it will go well. having not go well is not an option. and in fact it already has gone well in a sense when you think about tat kim jong-un is going ...

>> why wouldnt you? were a service economy? >> his focus is on manufacturing goods. im not saying thats right, im just saying thats his focus. but the other aspect is that they havent held up their end from a national security point of view, that they havent contributed their defense as part of nato or even beyond the boundaries of nato. so thats the attitude. im not saying its a good one. ive heard a lot of people criticizing him hes mean to the allies and nice o to our enemies. what hes saying...

Cruel, inhumane issues. the absence of due process and the rule of law. punishment for three d jagss and the extensive use of forced labor. not a word of human rights from this administration. and on top of that, the u.s. president is saying kim jong-un will be invited to the white house. >> theres no question that kim jong-un is a bad guy and hes committed atrocities that are unfoble. weve been running, what? nuclear drills in guam and other places because past administrations have been kicking...