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To want to do whatever russia wants. >> thats the big question. no one seems to know why that is but i will say that one concern that ive been seeing is that trump wont want to blow up two summits in a row, so is that going to give kim jong-un more leverage as trump walks into this summit because hes going to want some kind of success and victory after he became, you know, the pariah in terms of our g7. is he going to walk into that meeting determined to make something happen and will that give ...

Associated with paul manafort. also smart enough to get close to the money. whatever anyone thinks of all of this, that sounds like business. at what point does someone like this in that world potentially do both business thats personally enriching but also do something else that could tie back to one of the issues under muellers investigation, which is whether this was money and also putin goals? >> all the time in that part of the world. and, again, i dont know the details of this particular g...

President trump wants this meeting. since both sides want to have a successful meeting or at least have a great optics of having a successful meeting, that i think the meeting will be an okay affair. but i think the devil will be in the details in terms of how were going to move forward on reducing the north korean threat. and for president trump, hes been vague whether he can stay in the meeting. he says hell walk out if he doesnt see possibilities for moving forward with kim. you know, and tha...

And to the years of the korea experts are looking at this, its great that hes acknowledging that this will be a process and that nothing will be magically solved over night at this summit. so, i think for the summit, i think its important to get kim jong-un to at a minimum, at a minimum say that hes willing to give up his nuclear weapons. and lets hope for more than the minimum, right? lets try to set up some details about how that would be implemented and what kind of accountability that were g...

And the piggy bank. >> its going to change. its not a question of i hope it changes. its going to change, 100%. and tariffs are going to come way down because we -- people cannot continue to do that. were like the piggy bank that everybody is robbing, and that ends. >> so, linette, you disagree? >> i absolutely disa -- well, you can argue whether or not we should renegotiate our trade agreements. you can argue about that. what i am here to argue about is the way that were doing this, which is co...

So i think a little bit of it, we get along really well country to country. but they have to play on their team in order to get leverage. somebody who served in congress and fought a lot of trade wars. there are subsidies. and there are nontariff trade barriers that have to be addressed. particularly when youre dealing with a country like china. >> so alwaice, what is the measuring stick on these good relations when the majority of the g-7 dont like that the u.s. has pulled out of the paris, you...

Good to see you both. >> hi. >> lynnette, you first. he is proposing there are two potential ways in which it would go. how smart is it to post it that way? >> seems like the negotiators in nafta are running circumstanlesd our guys. and, you know, i think that the president and his staff are not dealing with the new reality. even just looking at the size of global economies now, the g7 used to be 50% of the global economy back in 1980. now its 30%. globalization has made countries that used to b...

Discuss, cnn political commentator and former senior adviser on the trump campaign, jack kingston. cnn political commentator and republican strategist alice stewart. and our cnn presidential historian tim neftali. good to see you. jack, weve heard this tough rhetoric from trump on trade, our allies, before summit, and then hes talking about potentially no tariff, free trade, no barriers. he said his relationship with these allies is a ten. is he talking on a personal basis or talking about count...

The last word tonight. >> well, what we are going to see, sean, next week is five rounds of the initial conversations between the president and kim jong un. this is the beginning of a process. rome wasnt built in a day. but i think the fact that this president, the new sheriff in town was able to get to this point is an astonishing achievement and it has to do with the maximum pressure. not just on the north korean regime but also on the chinese regime as well. >> sean: that is a big untold part...

Just have leverage. the united states is the leverage. he is willing to act on that and he is willing to walk away if the united states does not get the total verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. he is willing to walk away. he is bringing carrots as well for the economic insensitives. so if they do the denuclearization the united states will permit the economic investment. not aid like obama gave to iranian regime but allow the economic investment to north korea. that is something that ...