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Fundamentally, we dont have a workable policy toward north korea, and our strategy has been to get north korea to give up its nuclear arsenal. i think its increasingly clear that simply is not going to happen and on the one hand, president trump doesnt have a viable strategy, on the other hand, look, president obama didnt have a strategy that worked, either. neither did president bush. i think that among north korea watchers whom i respect, pretty much everybody agrees that the last best hope, a...

Robin, im going to put up this poll because this is a pbs/npr/marist college poll, shows 54% of americans think trumps dealings with russia were unethical or illegal. if youre the president or someone advising the president, dont you look at those numbers, at that number, and think that you have to confront putin about it? even if its a short meeting, as you said? >> well, i think it will be brought up but i think it will probably be in some nuanced way rather than a confrontation saying as pres...

Missile tests in exchange for some reduction in u.s. military exercises. and thats going to only come about if it can come about through talks and discussions involving the u.s. and very much involving president moon of south korea. >> nick, robin, thank you very much. when we come back, president trump bashing the u.s. press while in poland. a country thats recently had a crackdown on its own press. how presidential is that? well discuss next. when youve got...

Part of the conversation. remember, youve got so many big subjects that the world is depending on. president trump faces his first real crisis with the north korean missile challenge, intercontinental missile l. he needs russian cooperation to impose new sanctions. they have some big things that have to happen only if its to agree to have their foreign ministers, you know, engage in the details of some kind of future talks on these issues. they have a lot of substance and so trying to figure out...

Vladimir putin, how do you think hes interpreting this? vladimir putin? robin? >> look, i think this is a man who has probably studied donald trump very closely, and he, you know, he has seen the dithering back and forth about whether trump knows him, whether they actually bet before. i think hes, you know, hes likely to play a lot of shrewd games with president trump. you know, if i were a betting woman, i would say hes going to have trump for lunch. this is where the two men are just so -- hav...

Little bit this time was h.r. mcmaster, national security adviser, whos somebody who i u really do admire, i think is a real grown-up in the white house, that he seemed to defer to that and suggested that president trump didnt really have an agenda going into the putin meeting because, you know, putin is going to have an agenda. >> yeah. robin, im going to put up this poll because this is a pbs/npr/marist college poll, shows 54% of americans think trumps dealings with russia were unethical or il...

Have to happen only if its to agree to have their foreign ministers, you know, engage in the details of some kind of future talks on these issues. they have a lot of substance and so trying to figure out a way to talk about something like hacking, like the two men is going to be very tricky, i think. >> i want to know, robin, what your national security counsel friends or allies may be telling you about this meeting because in this meeting, we know president trump is in the room, going to be six...

Cnns -- robin, cnns reporting is that the current and former u.s. intelligence officials had told cnn that u.s. adversaries feel emboldened by the lack of retaliatory response from both the obama and trump administrations going into the meeting tomorrow with butputin. do you think this reporting is going to put more pressure on president trump? >> i think its probably going to put pressure on him to have said something to vladimir putin. you have to remember, this is a half-hour meeting. not goi...

Tomorrow morning, president trump meets face-to-face for the first time with russian president vladimir putin. joining me now, nicholas kristof, columnist for "the new york times," and robin wright, joint fellow at the u.s. institute of peace and the woodrow wilson center. good evening to both of you. nick, you first. your reaction to cnns new reporting tonight that the russians have escalated their spying efforts since the election, what do you think. >> well, it makes it i think all the more i...

Arrogance or ignorance and that that was not what he -- >> either way it will make it difficult. we have to go to break. >> it will be up to congress. robert mueller is not going to prosecute the president. >> republican congress. >> its much more likely it would be a cover-up or something they stumbled into instead of direct collusion between donald trump and rug russia. >> robin wright, thank you. an impossible situation for the gop. hop on the presidents roller coaster ride of ridiculous li...