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I breathe the president nearly every day we have shared every bit of information we have about the country, its economy of how kim jong-un might react. and how north korea might respond. how the globe might respond. the president has built an enormous coalition aimed at a singular outcome which is the denuclearization of the peninsula. >> so where do they need? >> i dont know. >> what needs to be taken into consideration when discussing where they would meet? i assume they wouldnt me to north ko...

Throw himself into a contest. richard nixon went to china in 72 and opening the diplomatic door for us to beijing. ronald reagan forged a historic personal tie with gorbachev triggering an end to the cold war. in the midst of the korean war with 20,000 americans already killed in that conflict five-star general dwight eisenhower made this promise on the eve of the 1962 presidential election, i shall go. he made an armistice that has sustained to this day. he made that promise based on a certain ...

And carter wouldnt let go. he kept going from one cabin to the next cabin and knocked heads. he got it done and it shows that personality does still play a role in diplomacy. its not just the state department people and issuing facts and numbers and metrics. ed: good point. i wonder how that applies as well to 1986. reagan, gorbachev, iceland. >> ed, this is one of the greatest lessons of all because after it was over, the media said it was salute disaster and they faulted reagan for being stubb...

Welcome back. president trump is going to sit down with kim jong-un. is this going to be a reverse munich where the president explains in his style that it is his way or no highways for north korea. not just no highways but no infrastructure left standing at all, just rubble. or a pr windfall for the north korean dictator. i sat down with edwin meece the night of the announcement of the new summit and brought up the summit with president reagan and the ussr gorbachev in october of 1986. there is...

Offers, meece recalled to me. all the big cuts in the nuclear arsenals would only come if reagan would abandon his strategic defense initiative. meece recalled that a began knew his own mind so thoroughly that never was going to happen. reagan knew going in he would never agree to that. and when gorbachev demanded that, there was no going forward. resolve matters at the summit. if kju gets a source of something he never had before, denuclearization or destruction, it could work. it is useful to ...

More specifically the state department and the secretary of state himself even knowing about it, what is the potential that those possibilities have been thought out? >> good critique. but all of these summits are dangerous. go back to reagan/gorbachev. here reagan and gorbachev finally sat down and talked, lets not blow up the world. and they came up with some ideas that were quite strange like zero ballistic missiles, lets do away with all ballistic missiles. well, the military went nuts and t...

>> where will this happen? that seems like the first issue to negotiate if there is going to be a face-to-face meeting in which the president of the united states and kim jong-un for the first time ever in the history of north korea and the united states, where is it going to happen? what is the answer to that? >> my advice would be the president should not go to pyongyang nor should he invite kim jong-un to washington. we have had ship summits with gorbachev. one of the reasons we had the balka...

Start with low-level meetings. >> yes. >> often with people called sherpas. then with secretaries of state. then leaders by the end. by agreeing to meet kim first, donald trump is upending all of that. look, this isnt like any other summit. i covered clinton/yeltsen in 1993. then, there was talk of these strong, unpredictable leaders. closer to reagan and gorbachev. a meeting discussing ridding the world of nuclear weapons and failing to agree. yet, they were two men who took a risk, and within ...

Into compliance or counter them. it looks to me like first they want to still try somehow to get them back into compliance, and the best way to do that when it comes to the russians is to threaten youll do the same thing. well have to field some intermediate nuclear weapons and hopefully the russians will negotiate a treaty to ban them again. they did that with ronald reagan at the head of the u.s. government and gorbachev on the other side. that was effective. so maybe well have to go down that...

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