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North korea had for the united states. but, you know, its not -- its not michael cohens fault or the democratic lawmakers fault that this summit failed. it failed because theres is such a big gulf between the u.s. and north korea on this issue of denuclearization and president trump has not put in the spade work, the diplomatic work to really lay a foundation for a deal. he thought he could jet halfway around the world and sort of sit face-to-face with kim jong-un and because of the love letters...

And north korea on this issue of denuclearization and president trump has not put in the spade work, the diplomatic work to really lay a foundation for a deal. he thought he could jet halfway around the world and sort of sit face-to-face with kim jong-un and because of the love letters theyve sent back and forth and because of the personal chemistry that they had developed, they could suddenly create a deal. but international diplomacy doesnt quite work that way. >> laura, were you at all surpri...

Impossible. its impossible that they dont know everything thats happening. >> separating the misstatement, the presidents gaf there, saying that, that he shouldnt have made. complete misstatement, from the point of not having ne done any spade work, the no thaegs somehow the president just jetted over there, did a drop-by, is a little bit -- >> thats true but just sources tell cnn that trumps aides warned him in the days and hours leading up to the talks that north korean negotiators were not bu...

Spade work to ensure that there is something that he can work with when he gets to the table and then you get outcomes like this. there was a lot of pressure on the summit to achieve something tangible. this was more important than the first summit and we got absolutely nothing. >> how do we expect north korea to respond to the president walking away. should we expect missile tests to come back? >> i dont think so, right now from all of the imagery that we looked at, the commercial imagery, most...

Ad. humans are wired to remember the negative more than the positive. how do you combat that? >> you want to find out whats a human element to a story you can make a case thats convincing about the opponent but with the human element to it, not just spooky narrators and spooky music but instead a told story. thats the first piece. secondly, people are not going to vote for somebody they never heard of. so you have to do the spade work early if the campaign so people know who he is and their stor...

Apprentice" trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. greg, thanks for being here. >> thanks so much for having me. >> listen, greg, i cant blame people and our viewers and all americans for feeling like they cant keep up with every sort of new thread that comes out everyday. were tasked with reporting that, but people miss some things. so your book sounds like its going to be a compendium of all of your investigation into this from talking to lots of sources close to the primary p...

Tell us why this is significant. >> its significant because this is evidence that the president of the united states stood in front of congress and lied about an important national security issue, and that is the department of justice saying essentially confirming that, right? the president said that he had been provided data to back up his this assertion. now anyone who works in this field understood that that wasnt true, understood the public record from the beginning. but there is this tempta...

The president wants from vladimir putin in syria. but certainly on north korea, its obvious. in terms of the level of the meeting, yeah, they had one long meeting on the sidelines of the group of 20 summit in 2017. it was more than two hours long. they had briefer ones on the asia economic foreign in november. people typically criticize the summits. this will get criticized because theres not a lot of diplomatic spade work. >> dana: people have to get over that and embrace the style. the preside...

Something that, as hes said several times, many times, that no other sitting president has done, which is to sit down with one of the rulers of north korea. well, any president could have had the meeting. its what comes out of the meeting thats important. and those meetings, you dont go -- you know, we can stipulate, you know, as critical as we may be of president trump and how this is playing out, well stipulate that north korea bears a lot of blame. but this is how they roll. theyre dupe list ...

Well, any president could have had the meeting. its what comes out of the meeting thats important. and those meetings, you dont go -- you know, we can stipulate, you know, as critical as we may be of president trump and how this is playing out, well stipulate that north korea bears a lot of blame. but this is how they roll. theyre dupe list tuesday, but with just abruptly accepting the invitation to a summit in march on the say-so of south korean emissaries without any spade work by his own amer...