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Eboni: sure, a lot has been made of low level talks and high level talks. and historically, as leland was talking in his interview as well, the past administrations have had low level talks up to that level. president trump is doing something totally different here. hes starting at the very top. from what we know historically, abigail, could there be a benefit from starting from the top down here? >> well, i think one thing when youre looking at the history of this, you know, as theyve touched u...

Least according to south koreans that theyll be no more missile testing, no nuclear war head testing prior to the time that the meeting takes place, so there you have the main good things that come out of this. to go from there it all becomes unknown. we have after all had two different administrations negotiate two very different agreements with the north koreans in 1994, in the clinton administration in 2006 with the bush administration and six-party talks and obviously those didnt pan out and...

Of you and your regime. he is chairman of the house foreign affairs subcommittee on asia and the pacific. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on. this is the first time a president is sitting down with a korean dictator face-to-face. >> i think its historic, its monumental, and i think this is a president unlike any weve had who is willing to be on the front line, leading, and i commend president trump for doing this. in the past, if you look over the past decade, over th...

Into it this way we make it easier for kim to work against us and drive a wedge between us and republic of korea. were there to protect them. so weve saturday of played kims game by putting our president leading. it is like a chess game in which your opening move is move a pawn and put the queen out front. we usually dont do that. >> especially if you have the questions, okay what is the united states? what do we have to give up? when it comes to that. when it comes to sanctions here. and given ...

If hes prepared do that i think they can come up with some very good people. but president trump shouldnt be allowed to just wing this and go in alone and be his own council on this. >> and given that, general clark in this final question to you, how does the trump administration avoid being played by a regime that could be easily using this as the stall tactic, to buy time when it comes to them and their arms. and you are talking about here a regime that cheated with the past administrations. >...

More for that than there are to be job gains in the steel and aluminum industries. but right now the u.s. economy is producing about 2 million jobs a year. even in the worst case scenario estimates of 100,000 or 200,000 net job losses is actually pretty small. >> and i want to get a sense frtd problof the problem here. i think there is grets this agr china produces a lot of aluminum, there is overcapacity. how have administrations in the past tried to tackle that? >> thats right. so china does p...

Quarter of his expenses at golf courses. the president alone told 2,000 lies in the first year. im not believing it. i think the inspector general should look into the case of expensive doors. >> david, are these republican values? >> no, of course not. and look, this may have happened before in incidents in past administrations. but that doesnt matter because its happening right now under donald trumps administration. you mentioned several examples. listen we have interior under scrutiny, h.h.s...

>> thats something that will be determined through national security and intelligence community. >> the president has said his predecessors have mishandled this and misplayed this. why cant he be so confident when just in october he was saying it would be a waste of time. >> i think it is clear theyve misplayed it or we wouldnt be in the position were in. the president wouldnt be cleaning up the messes of the previous three administrations. the president is getting promises out of north korea ha...

Before we start to questions the explanations they offer? the president alone who after all is the spender in chief, a quarter of his expenses at golf courses. the president alone told 2,000 lies in the first year. im not believing it. i think the inspector general should look into the case of expensive doors. >> david, are these republican values? >> no, of course not. and look, this may have happened before in incidents in past administrations. but that doesnt matter because its happening righ...

Positive but also some karld with that. almost miraclerous was the description used by the president of south korea. president moon has been instrumental in pushing this process forward to this sage stage. he is saying this is a step one step in a long process. the meeting is a good start. japanese are much more basically weve got to keep maximum pressure, economic pressure on north korea. that is the point the u.s. and south korea both agree on, as well. the japanese saying weve been down this ...