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He doesnt believe that he needs to prepare. he believes that his gut is right. and much better than the intellectuals, the so-called elites who tell him how he should think or act. he believes the 2016 campaign was a total ultimate validation of that view. i would offer that running a company or running for president in terms of preparation. though you probably should prepare. but it is not the challenge, as robin notes, that trying to denuclearize the korean peninsula with the negative outcome ...

Diplomacy, how this is going to play out, the pace and now hes making it clear that he is going to have a lot of demands that the president will have to address as well. >> and lets be clear. if this does happen, i mean this is very good. but this is just strategizing and, you know, were repeating what the president is saying, it may not happen when it seemed in the beginning that it was inevitable that it was going to happen. i want to play, robin, this is an interesting exchange. this is a bet...

The president strongly hinting today that his planned summit with north koreas leader, which was supposed to happen in just three weeks may be off. >> there is a chance that it will work out. there is a chance, a very substantial chance that it wont work out. i dont want to waste a lot of time, and im sure he doesnt want the waste a lot of time. so there is a very substantial chance that it wont work out, and thats okay. that doesnt mean that it wont work out over a period of time. but it may no...

Wright who is just at the dmz last week and bruce clinger, a former cia deputy division chief for korea. bruce, you have worked in the past on talks with north korea. what did you make of this surprise today? >> well, certainly another startling development in what has been a year already of historic surprises. im in seoul right now and yesterday we had a expert round table discussion with u.s. and south korean experts where we were debating how far this summit would go in creating a perhaps his...

There are concerns by north korea of what the united states is deploying in the backup to exercises or to drills. but the interesting thing about the interkorean summit that took place between the leaders of north and south korea was that the north korean leader did not bring up the issue of american troops. we have 23,000 troops based in south korea, critical to the defense of the south for almost seven decades now. it was always assumed that the north with demand the withdrawal of all those fo...

Tests since 2006 and it had pledged it would destroy its facility to test nuclear weapons as a sign of good faith. and it pledged to do this next week between massive ceremony with american and other western journalists would be allowed to witness. from may 23rd to the 25th and so a lot set in motion besides just the meetings by head of sta-- h of state and there was a process set out to affect the meetings and the north korea nuclear capability and facilities and plans. >> robin wright and bruc...

Jaeb, especially not from the united states. thats the moment that trump is at. if hes going to get involved in the other side, the civil war side for what purpose and for, are, they going to own this. i think its more about whether you strike something targeted or you get a larger involvement in the war, theres plenty of options that are available. the military could get going on this be right away. what were seeing of the slow down, this pause that were living in right now is because the milit...

Number of options and all of those are still on the table. final decisions havent been made yet on that front. the president has a number of options at his disposal and all of those remain on the table. >> ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to syria, warned that the tangle of aligns is reminiscent of the situation leading to world war i. lis. >> and so right now, the level of complexity is immense. iran is reisraeli, united state hezbollah, al qaeda, free syrian army, syrian democratic forces....

Just political pressure, but also pressure on the national security council, the national security adviser, its staff, and the interagency to come up with options for the president to respond. what is actually a very difficult and complicated situation to figure out how to deter not just the assad regime from engaging in this behavior again in the future, but also how to deter the other players who are on the ground there. again, russia, iran, and the influence that theyre having with the syrian...

Syria is weve seen so far ambassador -- im sorry, secretary tillerson had a directly opposite response of the president just last week before he was fired about what the end state was in syria. so the administration has to get their act together in terms of what theyre attempting to accomplish in that part of the world with respect to mr. assad and with respect to mr. putin. >> robin, as you mentioned, president trump as recently as this past week was talking about getting the u.s. out of the sy...