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Kind of contradictions. i think the reality is it is important to preserve as a long-term goal full denuclearization of north korea. but i think what weve seen in three summit meetings is not a sign that kim jong-un is interested in denuclearization. so the diplomatic challenge, as governor richardson knows very well, is how can you take a step in the direction of full denuclearization? and thats pretty much what we tried to do, what we did with the iranians after the secret talks of 2013. an in...

He ever went to singapore. >> policy equivalent of click bait. staying with you, lindsey, i know the "times" is reporting the u.s. may settle for whats being described as a nuclear freeze. you know, i was reading something you had written in "the times" before, how you had backed the ideas of the u.s. accepting a plan that is not full denuclearization, similar to this nuclear freeze, and you had written, quote, whether such a deal is possible depends on mr. trumps ability to embrace the art of t...

Missiles that threaten japan, or the united states. so hes -- the president gets a plus out of this, but kim jong-un is the big winner. >> noah, you tweeted this is another concession to north korea in exchange for nothing at all. you just heard what the ambassador said. he said there is a lessening of tensions. at least the fact that tensions are down and that they are talking, is that something noah? >> no, not especially. americans can be convinced of just the value of the process, the diplom...

Trump has talked about complete denuclearization. meaning he wants the north koreans to get rid of not only all the weapons that they have, but to destroy their programs and have inspectors and place so that they cant rebuild the nuclear weapons in the future. that in hear the would be complete denuclearization getting rid of what they have, not building any more and making it verifiable. most people who know north korea, the inspectors we have spoken to say the north koreans simply arent going ...

The presidents national court security adviser john bowlon wasnt each there. he was in mongolia. you know who was in the dmz as well was ivanka president trump and jared kushner. looking at all of those things what do you make of all of this? >> chaos. i have no idea what the end game is. i think your three points are on time, the question of time, leverage and the question of prestige. all of those have been compromised. i think thats right. i am not sure what the end game is. if you want to ta...

Than they would have had back at the beginning of 2018, had they really engaged in this kind of negotiation, a realistic sort of freeze cap, maybe eventually roll back north koreas program back then. its going to be much, much harder today. >> perfect segue to who has the leverage. i just wanted to show and then you can chime in, jean, because we have the pictures from the various -- the state-run media, what you were alluding to earlier. so you tell me what you think kim jong-un is thinking, bu...

Negotiate with north korea. would have had more leverage. >> would have, could have. didnt happen. so now as the "new york times" put it, glorified status quo may be what the u.s. could grab hold of. well keep watching and covering it. lindsey and jean, thank you both very much. hong kong. breaking news, police used tear gas and batons to disburse this massive crowd of protesters. well take you there and explain what this is all about. >> you can see, we came to the right there, justin, all th...

That may be willing to take all of their pressure and turn it into a policy. again, not a solution or not. the other way though, the iranians may be saying, oh, cool, we just hang tough and basically we could have our nuclear weapons as well. so this one i think i bet in tehran theres some interesting conversations. >> its always been a pipe dream to think that north korea was going to fully give up its nuclear program and its all its got in the world. the only leverage. the only reason the pres...

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Even though theyre noting shes also a senior advisor to him. but the questions are about what these meetings shes doing and compared to what other officials are doing. at one point when the president was sitting down with kim jong-un one on one during that he get with the dmz, ivanka trump and jared kushner went into one of the shelters and crossed into north korea. so the president wasnt the only person who made those historic first steps into north korea. his own daughter even though it was be...