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Of russian, khrushchev wrote a partial letter to kennedy saying, hey, we cannot have world war iii here. the bureaucrats wrote another tough letter and kennedy chose to answer the first letter, the personal letter from khrushchev. that helped save the world. personal diplomacy through a letter helped save our lives. >> neil: yeah. choosing the letter that they did paved the way for deescalation.and i remember ronald reagan and gorbachev. ronald reagan was a fan of writing a letter, conveying his...

Face meeting when an american and north korean leader. those summits like the reagan gorbachev meeting took longer to arrange. >> reporter: it would be a historic summit. there are so many ifs surrounding this. you saw the president leaving the white house a short time ago. we tried to ask him questions about the update of this. he did not answer the questions. hes doing a rally tonight in tennessee. he might answer them then. theres still the sense at the white house the president more than any...

And i think now one of the reasons why this envoy, the chief of his intelligence vice chairman is coming to the united states, they want to stop talking through south korea and talk directly to significant advisors to the president of the united states. thats whats going to happen here. >> bill: very interesting. great perspective as always. jack keane there in washington we were reminded on sunday by rudy giuliani it took six months to figure out the details with reagan and gorbachev. >> sandra...

Talks. we also have confirmed the following statement the u.s. delegation in ongoing talks with north korean officials. we continue to prepare for a meeting with the president and north korean leader kim jong sunday. sounds like the summit will go forward. waiting on a date. leland: the public rhetoric we get from the north koreans strong times. president trump in his letter times and behind the scenes negotiations where they seem to have very different ends here of what is going to be accomplis...

North koreas nuclear process, verifying that every ounce of that material they had and ability development is gone, its not a good deal. and thats the difference between the rhetoric right now. abby: make sure they are on the same understanding before you ultimately get to singapore and sit across the table from each other and make that deal and shake shows hands 37 you remember back in 1986 -- we talked about this yesterday -- learning from history, ronald reagan dealing with gorbachev at the t...

Diplomacy or american politics in realtime. its the same story when we say congress cant negotiate leaders of different countries cant negotiate without us scrutinizing it. the question is, are the effects of these kind of fights and open, hostile interaction between leaders, are they more debilitating. lets remember there were many moments when reagan said he was going to walk away from gorbachev. that was covered. in the end, there was recovery. i dont know if thats going to happen now. >> eli...

It could be july 12 but i think at the end of the day, this will get done at some point in the next few months here, kim jong-un seems very dedicated to getting this done, so that he remains safe and in control and -- neil: what do you think of that, watch china as well maybe pulling some cards here. >> look i think to investors this summit has always been one part reagan gorbachev one part rodman and kim jong-un and im not joking but thats okay. you need a president whose half that to deal with...

And american conservative union chairman matt schlapp and florida congressman ron desantis. i will start with you, congressman. are they rooting for north korea? speak it was interesting, you remember obamas hostage deals when they said that taliban five to get bowe bergdahl, who was a deserter, all those people were saying what a great thing that was. trump has already broughtt in on president at pressure, we got hostages back for giving up nothing. when the conditions arent right, he got to ma...

>> there are people who think they were intentionally, both those gentlemen, opposed to the talks and trying to sabotage them by invoking that. >> you know there were many people inside of the reagan administration who did not like the idea of him going to the summit with gorbachev and they just wanted to see a continuation of the arms race. so yeah, its clear that there are voices and john boltons at the front of that line, who do not believe in a negotiated resolution of this issue. the presid...

He had people around him who could advise him. theres no process here. >> and reagan and the people around reagan understood that he could walk away from reykjavik and chances were good that gorbachev would go back to his generals and say "maybe sdi works, maybe it doesnt, but we dont have the money to make that chance." >> if youre looking at the walking away from rag eykjavik the walking away from the north korean deal, the difference is just like you are saying, theres a point youre trying to...