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Experts into the country known as the mer hit kingdom for a very good reason. president trump for his part isnt committing the united states to anything just yet but hes confident that no matter what, hell do better than his predecessors. >> whatever happens happens. look, i may go in, it may not work out. ill leave. im not going to be a john kerry who makes the horrible iran deal. $1.8 billion in cash. you know what they got? they got nothing expwhr the >> the president letting the world know s...

South korea. u.s. president is saying he is due the credit for the openness with kim jong-un with regards to talks. heres his take on it. >> i dont think its ever had this enthusiasm for somebody -- for them wanting to make a deal. and yeah, i agree the united states has been played beautiful live like a fiddle because you had a different kind of leader. were not going to be played. okay? were going to hopefully make a deal. if not, thats fine. united states in the past was played like a fiddle....

And i have to say that president trump, despite everything else and all the criticism, the one thing he has been so consistent about is on condemning north koreas human rights. so well see and i think if he continues to press north korea on this, thats great, except it will make the denuclearization process that much more difficult. >> i wonder, too, how much do we really know about kim jong-un as a man? its such a secretive country. i would imagine before summits like this, the state department...

Legislature is prohibiting law enforcement from having criminals involved in the drug trafficking deported. that means that, in fact, we in california are allowing the drug trafficking and the criminal activities that make guatemala and honduras and nicaragua more dangerous every day. so, you know, one of the challenges is the presidents meeting the same requirements his predecessors did and trying to do the job right, while california has politicized it and is making it harder for us to accompl...

Himself. >> german troops pushed the russians back. >> his parents managed but just barely to survive world war ii. after the war in 1952 vladimir putins mother gave birth to him in her early 40s. vladimir putin, kind of a tough angry kid, and he lived in a communal apartment. they didnt have basically any privacy. they had one room to themselves. he eventually took up martial arts and channeled some of that anger. he watched on tv. in particular there was a series called "the sword and the shie...

Ready now for dialogue. so i think for a combination of all those reasons, thats why the north was interested in dialogue. and in south korea president moon has been waiting for this moment when the north would open the door so he could then engage with them. >> tim, whats your read on it? >> well, i agree with victor. i think that the impetus for this came from president moon, though. i was in korea a year ago when he was running for president, and i saw him at several campaign rallies in the c...

Predecessors, but theres a broader national security point here, which is that we do have a handshake. we do have a hand clasp. we have two leaders walking across each others borders, and thats good. wed rather have dialogue. but we dont yet have any specificity as to what the actual end agreement will be. we dont know whether u.s. troops will remain on the peninsula. we dont know whether or not u.s. military will be permitted to exercise. we dont know whether or not north korea will be permitte...

Hes already stated hes completed his program and is ready now for dialogue. so i think for a combination of all those reasons thats why the north was interested in dialogue. and in south korea president moon has been waiting for this moment when the north would open the door so he could then engage with them. >> tim, whats your read on it? >> well, i agree with victor. i think that the impetus for this came from president moon, though. i was in korea a year ago when he was running for president,...

This, i mean it potentially creates new legal vulnerabilities for him. >> thats right. as a layperson and not a lawyer especially and as has been described, a guy who doesnt always take the advice of counsel. so, katie, if we take a look back at this week, does the dr. jackson incident become a kind of -- i dont mean to diminish him or the incident. does it become a blip on the time line of the trump presidency, or is there a deeper cautionary tale there about things like vetting? >> i think the...

Global power. why does the president keep saying that this was left to him, that this was almost uniquely his burden to bear? >> well, i think he wants to make a political point about his predecessors, but theres a broader national security point here, which is that we do have a handshake. we do have a hand clasp. we have two leaders walking across each others borders, and thats good. wed rather have dialogue. but we dont yet have any specificity as to what the actual end agreement will be. we d...