Running the Trump Organization. It worked that way in the campaign and in the white house. People like gary cohn, one of his chief economic advisers, peter navarro, he would have them battle it out about tariffs. Navarros side ended in winning. Thats also been trumps longheld view about tariffs. Gary cohn later resigned, mostly because of that decision made by the president. But he is someone who, in our reporting, shows in recent weeks hes grown more and more frustrated with some of the advice from his straf. Hes also grown more and more frustrated more of his staff is leaving, but at the same time, he feels a little liberated, hes been telling people close to him that he wants to trust his instincts, trust his gut. He thinks thats what won him the election in 2016 and thats what he waunnts to rely on more and more in the white house, and were seeing that this week in particular, the decision on tariffs and the surprising decision on north korea. How much does that thrill you, that he
highly unorthodox. obviously, they did this on the fly. his team did not discuss it. it s clear there wasn t a national security council meeting where they sat in the white house situation room and said, should we meet with kim jong-un to try to achieve nuclear disarm ament? they didn t do that. he walked into the room and made a decision. the second thing i want to say, i want to be clear, though. i hope president trump can achieve permanent denuclearization by this strategy. i just fear that he doesn t have a strategy to achieve that objective. if he can, i ll be the first to write one of his letters nominating him to the nobel peace prize. that would be extraordinary. i was looking at the column by nick los christophe. he said the pressure he has applied through sanctions maybe got us to this time. the president tweeting, north korea has not conducted a missal test since november 28th, 2017. and has promised not to do so through our meetings. i believe they ll have to honor that c