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This does enter at some point in to the consideration of any retiring justice. i mean i remember thurgood marshall wanted to hang on until there was a democratic president and he wasnt able to. do you think anthony kennedy is comfortable with he leaves and this court moves to the right? >> i remember marshall left at exactly this time, right after the term had ended. so i had taken kennedys opinion in the travel ban case to indicate his discomfort with some of what was hamg. but happening. obvio...

>> again, matt, this happened, this most recent problem that exists with some 2,000 children -- >> zero tolerance. >> they chose that. they d. for the first 18 months, they werent doing it. then they chose to do it. then the children became separated. does congress need to pass law? absolutely. >> they sure do. >> this current crisis that exists with these 2,000 children is on this white house and its on this administration to get those kids reconnected with their families. >> i agree. >> if the...

Want that to be on a military installation, do we want to do that in communities across the country? those are all policy decisions. but what is lost still in what happened is that the united states government over a period of the last few months split up families and they are going to be children that grow up in the united states never knowing their parents again because of a decision by the president of the united states. >> and its irreversible. i guess what i dont understand about the republ...

Seen. >> reporter: statements he now says helped facilitate the eventual negotiations. >> without the rhetoric, it wouldnt have happened. >> reporter: but that he now admitted made him feelsilly. >> i think the rhetoric, i hated to do it. sometimes i felt foolish doing it, b we had no choice. >> reporter: meantime, north koreas state run media is touting trumps decision to suspend joint militaryxercises with south korea, without mentioning any concessions by kim jong-un. trump again tweeting, we...

Bigger nuclear button. he says those insults were by design. listen to what he told sean hannity -- >> i think without the rhetoric we wouldnt have been here. i believe that. we did sanctions and of the things you would do. other administrations -- i dont want to get specific on that -- butad a p silence. if they saidhing very bad, threatening and horrible, just dont answer. thats not the answer. thats not what you have to do. i think the rhetoric, i hate to do it, sometimes i felt foolish doing...

To do it. sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice. >> so strategically you were doing it? >> yes. and i think he gained respect. he was a strong guy, he has a very good personality, hes funny and hes very, very smart. he is a great negotiator and a very strategic kind of guy. >> one of the things i think that surprised everybody, i think every american should be very happy about this. the korean war which has gone on for so long, more importantly, there are still american remains...

I think that rhetoric, i hated to do it. it. sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice. >> so strategically you were doing it? >> yes. and i think he gave respect. he was a strong guy, he has a very good personality, hes funny and hes very, very smart. he is a eat negotiator and a very strategic kind of guy. >> one of the things i think that surprised everybody, i think every american should be very happy about this. the korean war which has gone on for so long, more importantly, t...

Video on it translated. trump later gave this assessment of kims reaction to it. >> i think he loved it. i showed it because i really want him to do something. now, i dont think i had to show it because i really believe he wants to -- i think he wants to get it done. >> at the end of their time together, the president also gave kim a tour of his armored cadillac limousine. the two men took great pains in general to show a good relationship. there were so many handshakes, change from the rocket m...

If they said something very bad, threatening, horrible, dont answer. thats not the answer. thats not what you have to do. the rhetoric, i hated to do it, sometimes, i felt foolish doing it, but we have no choice. >> is he wrong here? because on some level, trump does understand kim jong-un. theyre similar guys as absurd as it is to see dennis rodman wearing a potcoin shirt. this could work. re all similar beings. >> no, it went work, and it is wrong. rump it to pposition for those have summit th...

So i think were hearing a lot of complaining and i understand hes on the way out of the door, but one senator could upend the thing. weve seen rand paul do it time and again. so if hes that mad, go for it. but i dont think hell go all of the way. >> and turning back to the north korean deal and joan listen to some sound from president trump in which he seems to be suggesting that the harsher rhetoric we heard from him about kim jong-un last year was not how he really felt, but he felt like he ne...