thing. he did the right thing by walking away. a bad deal is worse than no deal. harris: ellison barber at the white house with more. allison? hi, harris. president tripp said he and kim jong un are working toward something but that signing something in hanoi simply wasn t the right decision. it wouldn t have been good for our country, and frankly, he can look at the same way. maybe you can look at it the same way. but we get along really well. he is a different kind of a guy, and i just said, look, this isn t going to be working. i have a feeling something down the line will happen and it will be good. they want to de-nuke certain areas, and i wanted everything. the sections are there and i didn t want to give up the sanctions unless we had a real program. they are not ready for that. negotiations ended without a deal, and both sides offer different accounts of what happened. the new u.s. said that north koa
house reminding who is boss and whose messa i right? they re both right, or are they? kevin corke with more. secretary of state mike pompeo says washington wants to see major disarmorment of north koa s nuclear weapons during the president s first term. this is circumstantial. the president is trying to advance the agenda of the american people and for that matter the world s agenda. mike pompeo makth comments as well as the president trying to re-assure our allies that if the talks stall, for example, the joint military exercises that we heard about with south korea, they would resume if the talks break down. let me take you to twitter and show you what president trump said. he said the world has taken a big step back. no more rocket launches, nuclear testing or research.
territory. now meeting one-on-one. discussion expected to last 45 minutes is going to be followed by a joint meeting and a working lunch with advisors from both sides. now, the result matta goal in these talks is the complete and verifiable and by the way irreversible denuclearization of north koa. so we re going to show you why president trump has already garnered more diplomatic success right here in this region than any other administration in modern history. there is reason. it didn t happen by accident. we will discuss how the president s policies now force kim jong un tout negotiating table in the first place. the perspective and understanding, we have got to learn these lessons how there are democrats some in the media don t want to admit they are wrong. don t want to admit that the nuclear war we are predicting didn t happen and peace may happen in its place. by the way we do have to announce the president will be sitting down with us right here in singapore for a one-on-one in
all i can say is they want to make a deal. so, is this the same deal that every other president passed up that donald trump is taking and he s the first one to take a deal like this? or is he doing something different? we ve made not only a deal like this but a better deal with nortrea before that they have broken. the six party talks included an agreement not only for verified denuclearization but the idea they would halt all plutonium enrichment. he spoke about this was a comprehensive agreement but it s a series of fourhort bullet points. the word verified is nowhere in it. north koa has many, many times not just under kim jong-un but his father and grandfather promised denuclearization in ways that suggest when he says the word denuclearization it
have to while we squeezed north koa, find a way to deter it. they re crazy, they re not stupid. they re not suicidal. deterrents worked during the cold war. we may have to use them in the context of north korea. how important is that mar-a-lago meeting? it s important for a number of reasons. but obviously north korea, given what s happened here, will overshadow every other issue. if you thought north korea, china and syria were all things we were focusing on today, it s not true. we have more politics right here. democrats, they are not backing down in that fierce battle over supreme court nominee neil gorsuch. right now this is a live look at the senate floor. this always blows my mind. where senator jeff merkley of oregon has been speaking for more than 15 hours now. i thought gorsuch was tremendous for sitting in his seat for 12 hours. he s been outdone. he s calling on republicans to hold off on that final vote. the protest comes before mitch