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That country. that gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. >> its a perfect metaphor. the economic need. the sanctions have hurt. but theres also cheating from china and russia, playing both sides against the middle. and there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than symbolic of him going through china, through chinese territory, paying respect to china on the way to this critical showdown with the leverage that china uniquely holds over whether any deal will ever be co...

And it makes a big difference to the united states in terms of the leverage that we have around the world to give up our values, to give up our moisture as the country in the world that stands for something in terms of values and democracy and human rights. so we give up something in the course of this. and the last thing ill say in response to your question, lawrence, is the president seems to believe vladimir putin and kim jong-un are somehow susceptible to charm incentives. thats not the way ...

Symbolic of him going through china, through chinese territory, paying respect to china on the way to this critical showdown with the leverage that china uniquely hold over whether any deal will ever be consummated or obeyed. and yet at the same time the cultive personality cultivated of course by kim jong-un and his entire dynasty going back generations. >> its a state and a cult really. >> and we have the president of somehow breaking through as no other president has with that shiny nobel pri...

We have all manner of reports about brutal killings and purges there. so this is a combination as i said earlier of a mob operation and a cult and a brutal dictatorship. and it makes a big difference to the united states in terms of the leverage that we have around the world to give up our values, to give up our moisture as the country in the world that stands for something in terms of values and democracy and human rights. so we give up something in the course of this. and the last thing ill sa...

He take other questions related to to whether the u.s. would help to negotiate a formal end to the korean war. president said simply we will see. you talk about the friendship, quote unquote, and the relationship that president trump talks about with kim jong-un. this is a president who a coup months of ago talked about how he fell in love. the president has this budding relationship between the two the something he hopes to use as leverage. there are real concerns frern experts and other observ...

Francisco. but i kid. 68 hours on a train in part because of the threat of assassination and in part because of the shortage of dependable aviation equipment in that country. that gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. >> its a perfect metaphor. the economic need. the sanctions have hurt. but theres also cheating from china and russia, playing on both sides against the middle. and there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than symbolic of him going through china, throu...

Economically and culturally and bring it into the developed world and is that a role the president should be playing here? >> that has always been the choice for north korea, they can have an economy or nuclear weapons or both. the problem is the president of the united states is offering them an economy without forcing them to give up their nuclear weapons program and danger to america, thats the challenge. >> lets raise the question richard haass said at the beginning of the show, why on earth...

Of -- what do you expect that he will do this week? >> well, there are questions when michael cohens credibilbiy which he will have to try to clean up the record of the lies hes already told. behind closed doors when he speaks to the senate and house intel againligence committee, t will want to know exactly what he lied about, have him correct the record. they are very interested in trumps various contacts with russian officials about whether he has any sort of susceptibility, whether any forei...

About any issues of russia or anything related to counterintelligence or foreign financial leverage in that setting, he will have an opportunity to talk about hush money payments, about what he knows about trump, what he knows about trump in terms of gist how just how he generally deals with the trust, with women, with statements considered unsavory. were expecting cohen to try to label trump as everything from a liar to a cheater to a racist to a criminal. and so that will be a fairly explosive...

Similar to that. hes even remarked he believes he should get the nobel peace prize for work and is sitting down with kim jong-un. the president really wants a lot of the focus to be on the summit and just the idea they are sitting down together. >> thank you very much. john kirby, to you. we know from top officials. although the tests have stopped they are still committed to developing a long-range nuclear missile. they see the ability as crucial to the regimes survival. is there any reason to b...