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Flag and american flag flying together. hes got the loosening and lessening of the pressure. hes got president trump to say hes going to cancel our exercises with south korea, defensive exercises that have been going on since the end of the korean war and for what? a piece of paper that commits him to very little and certainly is not even as detailed as commitments hes made before. >> tony, let me ask you, theres an interesting twitter debate right now, which is what if president obama had come ...

Perspective. id much rather be on balance where we were than where we were a few months ago. it looked like we were heading toward war and conflict with north korea, now at least were talking. diplomacy, peace, denuclearization. so thats good. but whats bad is this, north koreas made commitments before, far more detailed than the very, very loose commitments we heard today and reneged on them promptly thereafter. were not going to know for some time whether theres any there there, whether theres...

Do you think the financial incentive is something that appeals to kim jong-un is it more about security and him maintaining his own power? >> well, kim certainly wants to relax the international pressure which has been ramped up, particularly in the last two years. but north korean officials have told me that, you know, they have nuclear weapo violation of u.n. resolutions and previous commitments because of what they say is the u.s. hostile policy, their fear of being attacked like a rock in yu...

Agreement negotiated by presidents, democratic and republican presidents, so theyre track record is not good. trump has confidence that he brings a certain strength to the table, that those presidents did not. that said, if you compare based on the specificity of past agreements, this has none of that specificity and if you compare with what the u.s. -- granted this is the beginning of the negotiation. lets look at what came out of this meeting. the u.s. made specific commitments to end those mi...

Doles out flattery. what he cant stand is any open disagreement. thats why hes seething at others who are willing to disagree with him face to face and say hes wrong when hes wrong. what he really rewards is kind of the mo of somebody like kim jong-un who flatters him to his face, but then doesnt deliver on these vast commitments that he makes, basically lies to trumps face, which i would assume is probably the case now because north korea has promised to denuclearize since 1992, without ever ac...

Abuses. this is someonehats executedhi his own family. back to the statement, the overall effect of this summit and what we got out of it, there are a lot of questions being raised because the president said they were going to stop those joint military exercises. he left the door open for awing there are no new sanctions. it really is leaving the -- creating the question of what did the united states get out of all of this and secretary of state mike pompeo when he briefed reporters in the build...

Verifying where they are today and a plan to dismantle. so there is still a long way to go and i think well be judged by whether he could get to the next step and see action by north korea recognized that the government before has made commitments and not lived up to the commitments. >> if the north koreans dont take steps toward denuclearizing couldnt they quickly resume th moment? >> well certainly we can resume the military exercises and that could be done but the challenge that weve heard no...

It can begin launching missile, testing nuclear devices again. it can begin other means of rattling -- what does it offer that is irreversible? is it willing to give up its missile material for example? iran did, 80% or so in the iran nuclear deal. is it willing truly to dismantle its nuclear systems? this will be the test that the relationship between these two leaders appears to have bill spl what face to face, thatll be the test. i tell you, don as they sit there now, the words of this joint ...

Mike discussed it very strongly with his counterpart in north korea. they knew this was -- lets say they did not agree to that and i could not sign any agreement. they understood that. it wasnt a big point today eally this had been taken care of more than any other thing because it was all about this. this has been taken care of before we got here. we brought that up before today. you see the loanguage which is very strong and its in the document. yes, maam. >> thank you, mr. president. could yo...

And they -- sure, they got a meeting, but only a person that dislikes donald trump would say that ive agreed to make a big commitment. sure, ive agreed to take a period of time and come here and meet and thats good, but i think its great for us as a country and i think its good for them. >> he agreed to a meeting. that down plays the significance of this meeting for kim jong-un and appearing on this stage as an equal to president trump, the equal number of flags, the equal placement of all the d...