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Everyone stand by. i want to bring in republican congressman peter meyer of michigan, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. i know you served in iraq, later worked in afghanistan for an ngo based in kandahar. you know the challenges there. but do you accept the argument from president biden that this wasnt a failure, this withdrawal, that the chaos were seeing now was simply the price the u.s. had to pay in order to withdraw after 20 years of warfare there? >> i don...

Trump, theyre not able to resume negotiations. if you remember at the inter-korean border, at the dmz, trump and kim agreed to resume these working level negotiations. this is back in june. but they still have not started yet. and so what were seeing, what we have consistently seen actually even since the singapore summit last year, especially ahead of the hanoi summit this year, the north has always tried to bypass the bureaucracy the working level and go straight to president trump and try to ...

Tests it doesnt bother him. however, americas british ally, the united kingdom, their foreign office has said these short-range ballistic missile launches are a violation of united nations security council resolutions. president trump has said he just received on friday a very beautiful -- another very beautiful letter from kim jong-un where the north korean dictator said he was unhappy about the joint military exercises but, again, these launches dont seem to bother him. but here is one strikin...

Warheads putting 28,000 troops stationed there in the line of fire. this raises a question what is north korea doing right now? just a couple of days ago, they released these images of kim jong-un standing by a new larger submarine that could potentially also carry submarine-launched ballistic missiles. their capabilities seem to be growing as diplomacy hits a stand still. there are questions what is going to happen after trump and kim pledge to resume working level negotiations. but mike pompeo...

State tv? ive been looking at north korea for over a decade and never seen anything like that. the presidents approach is working and he deserves a lot of credit. >> jon: if they want sanctions relief, cant they take more positive steps to end their nuclear program or end their ballistic missile program? >> absolutely. i think what will happen here is well have a tough round of working level negotiations. what the north koreans are desperate four is sanctions relief for coal exports and textile ...

Himself than getting results for the american people. he has repeatedly elevated kim jong-un, a murderous tyrant, on the international stage in exchange for almost nothing. in this case all trump achieved was a mere promise to restart working level negotiations, negotiations that should have never ended." the statement goes on to return to iran as well. joe biden is returning to his comfort zone a little bit. his campaign also thinks maybe theres more being made of the fallout from the debate, t...

Clearly established some kind of very unique relationship, but the question remains as it has for the last year, whether that relationship can actually be used to advance in core american interests of reducing the nuclear threat out of north korea. >> bill: they have chairman kim on the ropes. i think you would agree with that. he did not get them. so what next? >> well, we have had for months now in which negotiations have been in the deep freeze. probably the most important thing coming out of...

Lat dictator, kim jong-un, the president emerging from that discussion, escorting the north korean leader, back across the border. called the meetings positive. they have agreed to restart working level negotiations. they said, time is not of the essence. he will take his time with these negotiations. jim acosta, previous summits that i have. i found it notable that one word the president did not say in any of his comments to the press over the last couple of hours is the word denuclearization. ...

Now up and increase the sanctions. he wouldnt say that. and he also didnt want to say that it had been an unfriendly breakup, the meeting handed on a handshake and all the rest of it. he kept trying to preserve this personal relationship as if believing that this is the holy grail oig and onand only with t deal could be achieved. only the experts know that it has to be hammered out over long periods of time. >> and again kim jung-un leaves with the status company which is north korea as a nuclea...

This is why many of us cautioned that perhaps the best way to approach this summit would be to start at lower level negotiations, figure out what exactly they mean by denuclearization which they have traditionally always meant first you end the u.s. south korea alliance. you get rid of american troops. then we feel less threatened and dont need as many nuclear weapons, et cetera. >> thats traditionally the preamble to the summit. traditionally there is legwork and meetings before the two leaders...