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Dismantle his nuclear weapons program and do so by peaceable means. there was some talk about the libya model last week and as the president made clear, this will only end like the libya model ended if kim jong un doesnt make a deal. >> martha: some people saw that as a threat. >> i think its more of a fact. president trump made it clear the united states of america under his leadership is not going to tolerate the regime in north korea possessing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that th...

Ideology. are the mixed messages a problem or is it a winning strategy? the unpredictability of president trump as it relates to north korea, many have said, ian brehmer who goes after the president on 90% of his foreign policy initiatives has said this is a good example of its so crazy it just might work? >> i dont think its a strategy, i think its a spasm. i think he pops off and i think that there is no follow through. the point you were making where someone asked him about the libya model, h...

Know exactly what theyre doing. >> thats true. >> john bolton tore up the last agreement we had with north korea in 2002. he wants regime change. thats why he likes the libya model. thats what he wanted in iraq, and thats what we really feared now or should fear that theyre gunning for in iran. >> i want how you negotiate regime change with kim jong-un. >> exactly. i think its trump who has no strategic thinking who he is bringing on. trump is entering this with all of the thought he would if he...

Libya model, when john bolton talks about the libya model, what hes actually talking about is the fact in 2003, gadhafi agreed to give up his weapons of mass destruction so trump is basically confused on a very fundamental matter which makes you wonder, like, does he understand anything else thats going on? the other conclusion, by the way, i take away from this, is that donald trump prefers alfred nobel to john bolton because essentially the message from north korea, i believe that they sent ju...

Like the ballistic missile programs and all these other things. so these are kind of the two models that are out there. you got the libya model and the iran deal. okay. hes rejecting the libya model, but hes already rejected the iran model, too, so this is utterly incoherent. >> all right. thank you, ryan, thank you, max. when we come back, the fight between the president and the intel community goes all the way back to the trump tower briefing on the infamous dossier with three intelligence c...

Trump says no, were not looking at the libya model. discuss. >> yeah. theyre using the same phrase, libya model. but they mean different things. when john bolton said that at the end of april, he was saying the north koreans unload all their nukes, missiles, up front. and then we get the benefits. thats exactly what did happen. gadhafi gave up the elements of his centurifuge program. he was talking about essentially getting rid of gadhafi. now of course people are starting to put the two togethe...

Max, listen, you put out this tweet earlier. you said if trump isnt going to insist on libyas style of disarmament for north korea, does that mean hell settle for an iran-style deal like the one he just trashed? "whats the answer to that question? >> nobody knows. thats the obvious question when hes saying i reject the libya-style disarmament that john bolton wants which is complete instant verifiable disarmament with no rewards up front so anything less than that youre getting to the territory ...

Denuclearization. here it is. >> the model, if you look at that model with gadhafi, that was a total decimation. we went in there to beat him. now, that model would take place if we dont make a deal, most likely, but if we make a deal, i think kim jong-un is going to be very, very happy. i really believe hes going to be very happy. >> max, what is he talking about? >> thats a great question, don. its actually frightening that the president of the united states does not know what the hell hes tal...

Out of talks over the shall of denuclearization, the president also assuring kim jong-un he will remain in power if he abandons his nuclear weapons program. >> and contradicting john bolton, dismissing the notion of applying the so-called libya model. he was referring to the dismantling of the nuclear program and its weapons of mass destruction but the president seemed to be focused on the military operation that removed qadhafi eight years later. >> we have very much in mind the libya model fro...

>> but is it a requirement that kim jong-un agree to give away the weapons before you give any kind of concession? >> i think thats right. i think we are looking at the libya model of 2003, 2004. >> the libyan model was a much different model. we decimated that country. we never said to gadhafi, oh, we are going to give you protection. were going to give you military strength. we are going to give you these things. we went in and decimated him. >> now joining me is author of "nuclear showdown: n...