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Well, it may not happen after all. >> harris: we werent the first people to say that. kim jong un was. he waited until the information was put in. maybe that helps him propaganda wise. i wont -- dont know. >> are they trying to exert leverage over one another? the thing about the president, president trump wants this to happen and he is motivated in large part by being able to do something his predecessors werent able to do. he talked about that a lot. everybody involved in this knows that. so i...

Trying to drag the f.b.i. through the mud and keep going over there and trying to pull them down. so mueller feels that pressure acutely. and the president knows the leverage that he has. there is leverage the other ways. there will be bad stuff that comes out for trump and his campaign when mueller finishes his work. maybe it wont relate to trump himself but satellites, may be in for some trouble. if i were a republican i would want to get that out before labor day and get it done and not have ...

President trump will meet with president moon tomorrow to prepare for the summit with kim jong-un. joining us rick, stengle, your reaction to the latest of it. >> well, barack obama used to say about any negotiation with the other country, we cant want it more than they do. president trump wants it more than kim does. president moon is desperate for it. that is the problem, they have leverage over us. i want to make the case for good old facted pain staking diplomacy. that means you have to nego...

The president has acknowledged china with help with the meeting. it could give china more leverage with the u.s. on trade. the president might want to take some advice from a book written in the 80s, the heyday of cooperate deals. the worst thing you can possibly do in a deal is seem desperate to make it. that makes the other guy smell blood and then youre dead. were sure mr. trump can find himself a copy without giving him the title. it was written by the same guy who said this. >> they cant be...

And we have talked about that from the beginning, he will be safe, he will be happy, his country will be rich. >> and white house officials have been very clear that their ultimate goal is not regime change, that it is denuclearization. what does that look like? what would the terms be? of course thats what all the questions lie and whether this summit actually happens. >> all signs point to kim jong-un equating denuclearization with regime change, that is his only safety net, his only leverage ...

90% of the external economics goes through china. in fact, we both know kim jong-un has been the china twice since announcing he will meet with president trump. these are the only two times hes been out of country since he became leader in december 2011. >> would you buy into the speculation that china wanted to slow this down and that led to kim jong-uns second thoughts and the statement last week. i think china has an interest in this going forward. whats more likely is china was using the lev...

And it ended badly for him but you say that just four years ago, erdogan, the autocrat that runs turkey tried doing the same thing. >> theres many parallels with erdogan. he tried to fire the people investigating him, he called it a witch-hunt, he said it was a victim of the deep state then he purged the justice department in turkey. he also uses the same strategy to go after media outlets that trump tried to do with the post office because soft authoritarians, as theyre called, use financial le...

Do they have? >> the point is, our president has the ability to force them to do what they dont want to do. but the president has to exercise political will, he has to go after the chinese banks, hes got to go after some other things too that he hasnt been lg willing to do. it doesnt matter what kim wants the president has the leverage in this case. >> does the president have to do something short of denuclearization? what about a freeze? >> reporter: the answer to that is no, hes been pretty ac...

Theyre going to get rid of their nukes and were going to make them rich. and so far now, the tone is that well, you know, because he has to. what negotiating leverage does he have if kim knows hes so desperate for a deal. >> im hearing one word, unilateral. im hearing no unilateral. what do they want from us? >> what do the north koreans. >> what do they want from us and south korea? do they want to take our umbrella and troops from south korea which are basically the trip wire? we keep our troo...

>> well, barack obama used to say about any negotiation with the other country, we cant want it more than they do. president trump wants it more than kim does. president moon is desperate for it. that is the problem, they have leverage over us. i want to make the case for good old facted pain staking diplomacy. that means you have to negotiate before you deliver the president. you have to say what do you mean exactly by denuclearization? i would wager what we mean and north korea means is wildly...