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Direct discussions with each other, this should have been months and months and months, bureaucrats at different levels of the state department conversing with each other from sort of undersecretary level all the way up to the secretary of state and the president. months in preparation. lots of paper, lots of e-mail -- well, e-mail may be tricky, but lots of paper going back and forth. lots of intermediaries going back and forth. thats how its meant to work. if you remember, those of us of a cer...

Three-point singapore where he talked denuking with world leaders ahead of the june 12th summit with north korea in singapore. brian: next guest says it will be happenin could take a pe from the president reagans playbook. steve: the president will see you now, my stories and lessons from ronald reagans final years joins us now from los angeles. peggy, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: i read your op-ed regarding the upcoming summit. and, you know, given the fact that president reagan...

Important because we know this is a regime that has a history of broken promises. ronald reagan believed in face-to-face diplomacy and believed there wasnt nothing that couldnt be solved or accomplished if two leaders sat down across the table from each other and talked about their differences but also their shared goals. so thats something president trump has been committed to. and i think were going to see that happen in just a few days. brian: peggy, its kind of interesting, before the presid...

Pressure, maybe not off the table, but he doesnt want to talk about it right now. prematurely close enough to north korea or is this how things need to be done with the rogue regime? >> each party to the talks is conduct in their own shadow boxing in of the talks and seems to me a little bit of a good cop bad cop performance, kind of like what reagan did with gorbachev. the key is to see what can we offer north korea to get them to be neutralized and the nukes are so important to their security....

A lot of credit goes to pompeo. >> also seemed to lower expectations of the meeting singapore suggesting we start along the diplomatic process. does that make sense in your view? it does. we are embarking on the pathway we relation. and people want to say, why cant we have one meeting and get this stuff? let me tell you, look at reagan and gorbachev. the first time in geneva. one year later they met and everyone thought it was a failure. one year later they signed the treaty. and it was the end ...

And kennedy did something very smart. he totally ignored the bellicose message, and decided to pay attention and respond to the pacific message and it worked. neil: and going a couple of decades later to ronald reagan and people didnt realize how fond he was of a simple note and he got simple notes and then some back from others including gorbachev. but that cemented it, didnt it? >> yes, reagan first reached out to gorbachev when he first took office via letter and reagan said at the time, not ...

Leaders sit down together. what can we expect if this does come off -- this summit does occur? dr. grant is a national security and military analyst and also president of an independent research. dr. grant, you have a twitter photo which is fascinating it shows gorbachev and reagan meeting for the first time in 85. you write in it -- can you tell us about that and it is enticing to think of president trump. hes a new yorker. hes blunt, direct, very frank. hes going to take no guff, you know, fro...

They thought it was the right approach. they criticized ronald regan when he walked out of iceland against gorbachev. i think president trump is taking that same approach. hes making sure that for this negotiation to go forward that the tone is set correctly. to have an agreement means that you have to. hes been very clear. you have to end any nuclear weapons that you have or any development of that for any agreement to go forward. and he would put that into stone by going forward with a treaty....

Well have more than one meaning. i think there is it two different definitioning. >> i know about summit and wrote about reagan and gorbachev. it sometimes takes more than one. >> there were no lines of communication open and back channel lines were not open. and here visiting the white house a top north korean official a bad guy visiting the white house. >> bret: spy chief. >> i think it is good that people are resetting expectations and the fact that people are meeting and that is significant ...

We remember reagan and gorbachev, it took several meetings. >> no. hes already making excuses. >> do you think thats fair, zach? >> absolutely. look, were talking about somebody who said hes the great deal-maker. >> hold on. zach, do you hope that he comes home with a deal that promises the things that you -- >> oh, absolutely, absolutely. >> why is it so difficult for both sides to be positive and sort of cheering this process on in the hope that its a very good thing for the people of north ko...