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Back to you. >> shannon: will be watching for those. new pressures and tensions today as the new day begins. we will check back with you. thank you very much. so about that term, maximum pressure campaign, trump officials are using it to describe their strategies in iran, north korea and, yes, the middle east. garrett tenney has a report on that tonight. garrett. >> still leading a team working on a proposal for an israeli-palestinian peace deal. however with the move to jerusalem, palestines pr...

They are, there is still currency flowing, they have weapons throughout the middle east, the bunnies benefits them in many ways. >> a strategy the president talked about with north korea and iran as well, one of maximum pressure. maximum pressure means the us economy is so strong we can put such pressure on, sanctions as sledgehammers to the side of the head that we can crush a foreign economy like north korea, make it crumble. can we actually do that? will we actually do that. if you want to lo...

This is a big, we were saying is either? >> his first known trip since he was in power in 2011. president xi jinping held talks in beijing and kim is committed to a nuclear free korean peninsula and willing to discuss the issue with the united states. the white house notified on tuesday. in a statement, sarah sanders says we see this develop it is further evidence that our campaign of maximum pressure is creating the atmosphere for dialogue with north korea, the administration saying tough sanct...

>> good evening. tonight, that a family of one of the freed americans is thinking president trump. they believe this would not have happened without him. his campaign of maximum pressure. one republican senator tonight putting it like this. "for the first time, since 2009, we do not have an american citizen held by the regime. a true reflection of the success of president trumps campaign of maximum pressure. this is yet another positive indicator that the upcoming talks between kim jong un and p...

Months. they dont use the kind of incendiary language that raised the level of tension here on the peninsula about a year ago. but they do continue to defend themselves against the united states in terms of what their state media says, and they do continue to take the lead or take credit for having brought this moment about, this change in the nature of the atmosphere right here on the peninsula. so we have seen state news certainly fight back in the past and say that it is not the strong econom...

Campaign. >> i look forward to the day where i can take the sanctions off of north korea. i dont want to use the term "maximum pressure" anymore. were getting along. its not a term of maximum pressure. >> what an amazing interview. he talked quite a while. he was optimistic about what might happen in particular in the wake of todays meeting. i want to caution everybody, theres a soberness here at the white house, cautious optimism. the north has made promises and reneged on them. i go back to 20...

Goal of complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. i will be meeting with kim jong-un in the coming weeks. we look forward to that. hopefully it will be productive. i want to thank chancellor merkel for her leadership in our campaign of maximum pressure on the north korean regime which has helped us to reach this important step this moment where we are right now. its taken a long time, many, many decades to get here. lets see what happens. we seek a future of peace, prosperity and harmon...

Heard officials within the administration, within the united states saying repeatedly that this moment is a result of economic sanctions, and this international campaign of maximum pressure against north korea. they consider it a diplomatic success that has been led by the united states. certainly north korea is going to take a different position with their people and try to broadcast that on a more global level by saying that actually its their own demonstration of power that has led to this mo...

Mistakes of past administrations the campaign of maximum pressure will continue. not for his part president to macro joined donald trump in expressing concerns about the iran nuclear deal is that person washington would seek a better agreement with teheran in future yep and. its no mystery that we have different starting positions on iran and neither you nor i have a habit of changing our opinions weve had very frank discussions when you consider the iran deal negotiated in twenty fifteen to be ...