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Negotiations? >> we have several bits of pieces of leverage. one is that i still believe that we can use china. the fact that the president reinstated the tariffs in china. that is putting pressure on china to put pressure on north korea. north korea realizes that president trump is serious and he is not going to back down on the issue of denuclearization. for the first time they see they have an adversary that is willing to follow through if he has to. i dont want to go further than that but th...

I know this is part of it. and that is if we get them to pay their fair share and stop free loading the drug companies can lower prices for the american patient which is what we want. so thats part of it. i think association healthcare, i think your viewers need to know is allowing people to pool together of like mind or like industry and you improving your buying power and leverage and you get lower prices. >> rick: how much cooperation does the president need from drug companies to make this h...

Lasts. so i dont know if we should have that meeting between the leader of north korea and the leader of the united states until we have the commitments that secretary pompeo was talking about. because once that meeting occurs, a lot of our leverage or at least some of our leverage is off. >> so you think the north koreans need to agree to denuclearize before the president gets in a room with him? >> yes. they need to make a commitment to dismantle their nuclear weapons program, give up their ba...

We cannot be sassy here. theyre putting these tariffs in place because they believe theyre going to have some sort of leverage that will result in something else. what is it? >> well, theyre hoping to constrain the overcapacity of steel production around the world in the interest of u.s. producers. that is not likely to ultimately be a successful solution, because the steel industry has changed. it requires fewer workers. whatever changes in the u.s. share of the steel market around the world th...

What he is going to do in terms of their industry, tariffs and things. when they see him starting to take more serious trade war like tactics, they get a little concerned. >> what do you think happened with wilbur ross traveling to china trying to get countries on board. >> the last time we got this agreement between both sides it was vague on the chinese side. no hard commitments on what they say theyre going to do which is buy more u.s. products, so that might be something that wilbur ross wil...

Moves are expected to create additional leverage in upcoming trade talks. joining us, news desk editor dave waller. good to have you with us. lets talk about how the presidents move is being received abroad and on the hill. a lot of surprises this president after seeming to send signals they wanted to avoid a trade war has slapped tariffs on chinese goods. >> thats a big part of it, the fact that signals a week ago were that the trade war was ramping down. we were not going to see tariffs back...

No matter what. president trump seemed fairly confident back in april about this idea of denuclearization. what changed? >> well, the most significant thing that we learned from this cia report is the denuclearization piece, meaning that intelligence officials assessed what north korean experts have long believed, which is north korea has no intention of ever giving up the entirety of its nuclear arsenal. and why would they, because thats the leverage that they have on the world stage. what this...

Summit to become the goal itself. even though it is for me get people around president trump and himself saying, you know, just being there and talking is a great thing. >> i think thats totally right. as far as the marriott being booked, both have dibs on it for the week after that. it all seriousness, it is dead on right. if the end goal is just to meet then, then that may be achievable. is that enough? doesnt that count for something? isnt that exactly what kim jong-un wants? all he wants is ...

>> do you see it as the presidents letter of having been a successful tactic in getting kim jong-uns attention and putting these things into overdrive to make this summit happen? >> theres a few things going on here, a couple dozen. i do think his demonstrating his willingness to walk away is essential to maintaining some leverage here. the leverage is dissipating because the chinese are playing their own game. the south korean president moon is swooning over a peace treaty with north korea and ...

Peninsula, its -- i understand how the right-hand man of kim jong un, but i dont know that the north koreans are equipped for this. its kind of a backwards country, not a lot of statesmen over there, and they are going in with zero leverage. so theres a little hand-holding going on. >> they have nuclear weapons which i think they probably assume its pretty clever. >> all right, we have news for you. this is a fox news alert. embattled missouri governor eric greitens has resigned. he has been at ...