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With you. paul manafort, i mean it, raises a question, of course, whether or not he is being squeezed. are they putting pressure on him to turn. there is some discussion tonight that michael cohen is getting closer to that as well. >> well, this is kind of maximum pressure on paul manafort. the mueller team has been very tough with manafort all along. remember that no knock raid where fbi agents served a search warrant breaking into an apartment in alexandria. there has been loot of this with ma...

But, you still have your engineers and -- >> sorry to interrupt. were going liste to mitch mcconnell, senator mitch mcconnell speaking on the senate floor about north korea, the senate majority leader. lets listen. >> resolving the 65-year-old international challenge will take a great deal of hard work. as president trump explained a few hours ago, today is the beginning of the arduous process. our eyes are wide open. i support the goals contained in the joint statement and i remain supportive o...

To restore the policy of maximum pressure. >> some democrats see the summit a bit differently, saying in their view, a double standard at play here. >> imagine if a democratic president had placed the flag of the united states next to the flag of north korea and met a dictator on equal terms. the entire republi party would be shouting grave warnings about the end of american leadership and the belittling of our country, about selling out an appeasement. >> phil mattingly live up on the hill. phi...

From the american side what the north koreans wanted, is deescalation and some level of development and how people define these four ds will really lead to the answers to what is going to become a diplomatic mad libs that were about to face where mike pompeo and his team really go back and do the filling in the blanks, what does this all mean and i think the big thing to watch, too, is what happens with china and russia? all along youve had this campaign of maximum pressure that the united state...

Denuclearization is essentially north korea repeating the same thing theyve been saying since 1992. they keep promising to denuclearize but in reality they keep expanding their nuclear arsenal and what reason is there to think that this time they actually mean it. theres no -- there is no complete to the complete verifiable and irreversible disarmament that the trump administration talked about. theres no timeline or verification procedures. theres nothing specific whatsoever, but donald trump d...

Denuclearize, we have to be sure that all the is are dotted and the ts are crossed. >> if north korea does not prove willing to follow-through, we have to be prepared of restoring the policy of maximum pressure. >> its imperative that we get action here, not just photo ops. >> if kim shakes trumps hand and receives more from president trump, look what happened to canada. >> neil: all right. after the sit-down, the fallout. glad to have you. im neil cavuto. so what now? what happens now? we have ...

Calculate whether he is able to achieve everything he wants without making a nuclear deal. im not saying thats going to happen but i think that would be a calculation that the kim regime would want to see. that will take some time. >> ed: jim carafano, what do you think? could kim jong un try to get away with that? member two, secretary of state mike pompeo told reporters, hang on a second, we are not releasing these tough u.s. sanctions until we get denuclearizing should, and we have more sanct...

Are working of anything to ease sanctions rather than to escalate them. i think that moment of maximum pressure is behind us cant be resurrected. i think it is hard to imagi imagine -- there were all kinds of thing that is we were expecting and we thought okay, north korea will free its plutonium program, it has done that before. why would it not do it again? it would promise not to have anymore missile tests or no more nuclear tests. there were all kinds of things that you would expected and wo...

Whether or not were going to keep our word. you heard secretary pompeo talk about the need to build up trust. i know from pompeos presentation and want to know if the others on the panel think this. he seemed to walk back a cpl things that trump put out there. first he basically said were going to do complete, ir fiable denuclearization before we relieve any of the sanctions. thats not exactly the tone that the president had laid out there. the president basically said i want to get rid of maxim...

Months. brian: we have sanctions ready to go. now, out of nowhere, lavrov goes to visit. vladimir putin promises a summit. what does he want? >> yeah, i mean the russians have been the biggest sanction busters in the era of maximum pressure. they want to play a spoiler role. they also want the united states out of east asia. brian: i just would say this. i think in one way they and china enjoyed being the only allies in the area. they just dont like the american military buildup to answer north ...