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Facilities. think about how long we tried to find weapons of mass destruction in iraq. think about what his saddam hussein was trying to create, how difficult that job was. >> ed: the reagan example may be instructive, not just reykjavik specifically but a long arc, bill. >> no doubt. i will emphasize this, gorbachev, i believe, was looking for a deal in the beginning. he wasnt seeing the arc of history work against him and his communist system when he came to the table ready to deal. i think ch...

Wants them to give up their nukes. this is the last best chance for peace. if this doesnt work, were not going back to the status quo. so everybody in america and the world should pray for a good outcome here. but the reason that kim is at the table, he believes that trump is hell bent on stopping him one way or the other. and the best way is a win-win. >> sean: so theres always the expectations. and dan, you brought up a good point. when reagan walked away from the table, yet the media went ins...

>> neil: but things change. someone trying to zoom the other or embarrass the other. we learned that with john firefighter kennedy and khrushchev. so how do you prepare for that? >> actually, you know, your comment about president kennedy when he met khrushchev, he thought it was a get-to-know-you meeting. and reagan an gorbachev had a defined spectrum. they were redry to announce kind of a going to zero in terms of nuclear weapons. >> but gorbachev threw in there, by the way, whatever youre doi...

Dana perino. >> greg: you took that plane to mexico. >> dana: that was only one time. i learned my lesson. but im not leaving the country. if youre going to start a business or if youre going to grow a business, if youre going to make a leap of faith, if youre going to try to make peace with an enemy, you have to take a risk. if you do that, you might be rewarded. you also might have a news cycle that doesnt feel very good but in the long run, the long arc of history will benefit the risk takers...

Happens from here, neil. >> neil: thank you. meantime, new jersey democratic senator bob menendez blasting the presidents performance. >> i think what we saw in vietnam is amateur hour, but with nuclear weapons at stake. >> neil: thats a lot. amateur hour. i was it amateur hour when ronald reagan walk ad way with gorbachev and john f. kennedy with nikita khrushchev in the 60s? they had meetings that changed the world history after the cuban missile crisis. rebec rebecca heinrichs is here. mixed ...

Kim, iceland, 1986, he walks away from gorbachev, the world occurs as a failure but a year later, he gets what he wants. >> a great point. the two men met five times over a period of three and half years. they met before reykjavik, they met in geneva, neutral territory, kind of like singapore. then they came together in reykjavik. at the time, gorbachev wanted reagan to give up his "star wars" initiative. and reagan said, no way, i want to sacrifice the safety of the american people and i will s...

The two leaders meet. so after singapore, people wonder what came of that. in this second meet and greet, it would be more like a meet and greet. and now the expectations are the president wants to meet next month probably in mar-a-largo with the expectations that something will happen. this proves not necessarily. >> its unusual to be in situation. you had mentioned that reagan and gorbachev most famously when leaders get together and they fail. normally by the time -- the way these things work...

Never a direct parallel when we dig back to history. we hear people talking back to reagan and gorbachev and you hear reagan walking away, this is a big failure, but they made some progress behind closed doored and a year later they had a deal. >> and recent legal, in christmas, president trump walked away from the handed to him by dong keep the government open. said in the in the art in the l and other books, sometimes the best deal is the one you walk away from. he ended up with a worst deal t...

Personal diplomacy thing. this is the presidents style. reagan and gorbachev had personal diplomacy, and they like one another. they had five meetings. the second meeting is when reagan walked away. it was that reykjavik. he put on the table as the prize, "i want you to take down the strategic defense initiative or we are going forward." he went home to have dinner with nancy. he wanted to get home in time for dinner. one of the humorous stories that happened in big power diplomacy. it took five...

>> i think negotiations with north korea are running on an entirely separate track from anything we are looking at domestically, politically. over the long term, weve been looking to try to make progress on north korea. this has been a top foreign policy priority for the trump administration almost since day one. i think the president is genuine and sincere in wanting to reach a deal. im just not sure that hes asking for the right things. >> ed: we wanted about what you go with daniel hoffman, t...