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Negotiators had dropped a requirement that north korea make a full and transparent accounting of its nuclear missile, its nuclear research program and enrichment facilities. president trump criticized the deal made with iran as being terrible and weak. im concerned there doesnt seem to be a follow on or next step to transition this to professional diplomacy between technical experts. we need to stop with the reality tv summits and move towards real and serious diplomacy with north korea. >> sena...

Sometimes you just have to walk away from a deal approximately. >> the only thing i can think is the person who is been managing this portfolio from the beginning, mike pompeo, said the one mistake we cant make is the one our predecessor did, which is to give up too much, to ease our sanctions, ease our leverage against north korea too early. ive heard that over and over again from people doing these negotiations. and its clear that president trump has heard that, too. he hears it from john bolt...

Pompeo was there, the guardians were there to say, you cant rely on this guy and keep talking about him as, quote, your friend. nick, am i -- >> andrea, i very much agree with michael. i think that president trumps been right to try diplomacy with kim jong-un. i also believe hes made the correct calculation, we need to engage this regime. clearly want buddy philosophy, i can become kim jong-uns best friend, he describes the love letters they write to each other, that hasnt worked. kim has not be...

Totality of it. so i was concerned from the beginning that the hard process of laying the foundation for a potential summit did not take place. that obviously was on show at this summit. and i am concerned that a significant amount of the leverage that we created to our maximum pressure campaign has been dissipated because china, russia have slowly eased off, engaged more economically. our allies, japan, south korea, need to be engaged for vigorously throughout this process. so where we go from ...

Have permanent interests. and kims interest is staying on top of the chernle house hes built in his country, not making friends with the president and having a nice press conference. >> your colleagues phil rucker and josh dossier had written incredible stories and reporting about the complete meltdown on this trip. talk about some of the that great reporting in your paper the last 24 hours. >> my colleagues have captured the transactional prism in which this president operates his foreign polic...

You wanted to do more than that. >> theres other things you havent talked about that we found that the people didnt know about. >> including the uranium enrichment plan. >> exactly. and we brought many points up. i think they were surprised we knew. if we did the one level and gave up all of that leverage thats been taking a long time to build -- >> so youre not willing to take off the -- >> david, i want to take off the sanctions so badly because i want that country to grow. that country has so...

Now the person who did it for him has admitted to a felony and our president amounted to an unindicted co-conspirator in the indictment. thats a problem. now tomorrow we find out whether or not how he was paid and who made the decisions and in what context cements why he had to plead guilty to that and if so, and it leads to the campaign, that leads to the president, thats problematic. thats why im saying tomorrow is going to be significant no matter what its about. >> listen, i agree. what kind...

Had to plead guilty to that. and if so and it leads to the campaign that leads to the president, thats problematic. thats why im saying tomorrow is going to be significant no matter what oats about. >> listen, i agree. what kind of proof he could offer could be extremely significant. but to that point, too, again i challenge the premise. just because michael cohen pled guilty to campaign violations doesnt mean they actually happened. >> and suggest that it did. >> he was over a barrel. >> he was...

Dont want people seeing your country is this to crippen regime that runs a prison state. you want them to see it as one of the great countries of the world so he treated like that already and an appeal to his vanity to get him to that. it is a smart boy for someone like him. >> even if he wanted to agree, how difficult is that going to be in north korea? >> is generals and people in power are tremendously worried they lose their leverage and ability to saber rattle. it is a dangerous situation a...

The north korean regime. its that they cant feed their military. if their military cant be fed and paid, then they have a serious problem. economic growth. we have a lot of leverage here. and trump knows that. thats why he keeps -- do you notice he keeping emphasizing the economic angle in this. thats for a reason. not just a business guy but tactical reason, too. steve: sure, at the first summit they put together video where it showed what it would be like if kim were a world leader and joined ...