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They criticize this president for a meeting, it rings hollow. >> juan: dana, what is your measure? >> dana: i am comfortable with this is a slow walk and they establish a rapport and decide to meet again. if that is the only deliverable, i would be comfortable with that. this deal has to be better than the iran deal. by the presidents own measure and the safety of the world. >> greg: bret owes me an apology. there are power sixes in singapore. they are all over the country. i dont want north kor...

Its possible a year or two, when we want to deal with the other issues, maybe the leverage isnt there and the north koreans around at the table. mark: china, china is not going to sit and watch all this. china is invested in north korea. china is invested in the nuclear program. they wouldnt even have a nuclear program but for china and despite the sanctions, china still cheats. weve seen the satellite pictures with the oil freighters on the high seas and so forth. whats chinas deal here? what d...

Irans other nefarious terrorist activities. north korea, learning the lessons on the verification front, barack obama said its not built on trust, its built on verification, referring to iran. the iaea and iran that when secretary kerry testified before us, admitted he hasnt read then. we did learn they collect soil samples and inspect nuclear sites. the leverage that brought the iranians to the table and the north koreans to the table is that they want money, they want to be able to do business...

Because his isolation of the u.s. is actually weakening the countr thats taking away that sort of global superpower role or diminishing it, and those are the sorts of things you use as leverage with a rogue state. >> i think president trumps policy is driven by blowing up multi-lateral deals as we saw with the g7. you are absolutely right, i am struck by how he is literally leaving one deal he is out of for this weekend at least, and going on the world stage trying to forge one of the most diffi...

>> i think that kim jong-un has wanted to move toward a summit with an american president pretty much since he took power. he is seen building up a nuclear program as a way of getting enough leverage to move toward the united states. >> president trump immediately agreed to the summit. but its a move that some advisors believed may have been made in haste. >> it was incredibly risky, because it had not been properly analyzed. suddenly, even before they had briefed him properly, he just said, yes...

You know, out of friendship. and with his trade policies, he actually in a way is making it moficu f the u.s. to have leverage to compel that sort of compliance by the fact that were the reserve currency and the biggest economy and everything like that. these trade policies are making, you know, potentially people turn away from the dollar, turn away from the u.s. financial system in a way they havent before. >> so it seems like the phrase leader of the free world might be obsolete based on what...

Administration is missing the opportunity to move from tactical to strategic leverage on these trade issues. >> and richard haass tweeted this alis. the veling of the g7 summit works in north koreas favor as donald trump will not want to bust up two smits in a row lest people conclude he is the problem. increases incentive for kim to up his asks and limited his compromises and for trump to do the opposite. hardly the ideal context. >> and jeffrey. this is actually exactly what donald trump would...

Violation has really surpassed many countries. >> what does he mean by babbling. >> by calling it babbling, its the rhetoric that russia tried to project, even though its not economically strong. theres a lot of noise here, and most of it is coming from president trump. >> i think the reality is how do we view russia. i think russia is somebody who is propping up a regime in syria, thats attacking american troops. there are so many things going on that russia is bad for. i think we need a presid...

He cant have a second summit fail. it is going to further temp him no mattert happens. it is dangerous in so many ways. the more it says to china with go ahead and lift economic pressure. it reduces our leverage to keep them at the table and keep them focused on doing something concrete. the real problem is we have demonstrated at t g7 that america first is america alone. it means it is harder to put pressure and to confront common challenges together. confidence has gone down. it is down about ...

Is rewarded for meeting president trump. something else very important for him to be able to take back or at least know he can get further down the road and that is money because sanctions have been biting the economy is hurting and its widely believed what is brought to the table here, so he cant really leave without having found leverage or openings to get some of some money. the meetings he has with xi jinping of xin achina and the russian leader all of those he could be exploring and they wi...