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Work for them in some ways. >> but wait a second. it is the government of south korea that has sort of put if first foot forward on this. they did the initiatives, the rigmarole for the olympics and the joint hockey team. moon jae-in ran on this, the administration ran on sort of a conciliatory line towards north korea, towards a possibility of peace. theyre the ones that announced the diplomatic break from the white house. whats so bad about giving this a shot i guess is a question? >> absolute...

President trump indicated in a few minutes ago, well talk about that but probably not very long. but the iran deal is the key priority here, and that is going to be more difficult for him to prevail. although, not impossible. >> yeah, but my view is that north korea is the biggest target. trump wants a huge deal. his predecessors both obama and bush 43 were unable to achieve that deal. clintons deal was discorrected during his presidency and during bush. he cant land the deal if he blows up the ...

Want to call them that. the president tweeting end of the week. the summit could be next month or in june. message from kim jong-un, lawyer will stop accumulating tests. so -- it is significant that the north koreans are making these concessions. is it a bluff just to get the meeting with president trump? we will find out. the president also inaccurately in one of tweets, though, saying, we havent given up anything and they have agreed to denuclearization. so great for the world. they have not a...

Out this afternoon with that baby was thrice the worry now because of that hes now got three children and i think hes very different from his predecessors certainly his grandfather and probably his father more perhaps like his mother diana princess of wales who obviously died in one thousand nine hundred seven and so hes trying to bring i think a different line to the royal family we know that he gave up his job as a helicopter pilot last year to spend more time on royal judys which hes obviousl...

Concession. im encouraged, but a long way to do. >> jon: heres what the president tweeted about this yesterday. he wrote "we are a long way from conclusion on north korea. maybe things will work out, maybe they wont. only time will tell. the work im doing now should have been done a long time ago." he doesnt often fail to remind us that a number of presidents have dealt with kim jong-un and his predecessors and nobody has really brought north korea to heel. >> thats right. and one of the nice th...

Lot of people who may not even have known who jack johnson was. should the president get credit for raising this issue up? >> well, we invoked obama before. theres contexts needed here . obama uses exonerations of 2,000 people, most from sentences. almost all of them were for the racist drug laws that snared minorities. i dont think we should ever invoke this potential pardon that has not happened yet as some way to say that obama did not do enough. because he did more than his six predecessors ...

The example of many of his predecessors, and relied on his better half, the first lady. >> former first lady, barbara bush, was referred to as her husbands not so secret, secret weapon. >> dont dare criticize george h.w. bush. >> now president trump may have found a not so secret weapon of his own. >> i just want to thank first lady melania trump. >> melania trump solo saturday, representing her husband as consoler in chief at barbara bushs funeral, an event president trump chose not to attend o...

Elsewhere to sit down and try to denuclearize the korean peninsula, which is in everybodys interest. but we want to make the tax cuts permanent. we want to get this obstruction in the senate -- the presidents nominees. hes got over 100 and some nominees just sitting there waiting to a hearing. youve had more closure votes on this president than all four predecessors combined. you dont want to talk about it, so i will. >> well, we do talk about it. >> if the president didnt tweet, what would cnn ...

He is saying somebody who doesnt care for michael cohen going and speaking to media sources -- >> should the president -- the president is going to tweet something like that shouldnt he own it and explain it? >> he owns it. >> why wouldnt he say who he is talking about? >> you can read the article. im sure cnn will be talking about it for the next week. after all, this president needs his new secretary of state confirmed so the chief diplomat can go back over to north korea and elsewhere to sit ...

Too publicly, too warmly, that probably will work against him. the line used against him is hes becoming the president of rich people. i think he should be glad hes not going to mar-a-lago. that could only accentuate that image. there was an interview, the president sat down with two journalist shot spectacularly with a view of the beautiful eiffel tower, what was the purpose of that. how did he answer that criticism, that his power is now unique, he has upended the political system in france ...