mentioned, the inspector general is asking to look into andrew mccabe and we are covering that, and we will continue to cover that. thank you very much. thank you, dana. thank you, kellyanne. appreciate it. and president trump, as kellyanne just talked about, is touting a major new announcement from north korea, saying on twitter, north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site. this is very good news for north korea and the world. big progress. that s what he said. and the white house has yet to announce a time and place or location planned for this upcoming summit. we are certainly looking to see that between the president and kim jong-un. but president trump is saying he would walk out of a meeting if north korea is not fruitful in these talks. we want to discuss this with a very important guest, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker, republican of tennessee. senator corker, north korea claims that they are giving
and the white house has yet to announce a time and place or location planned for this upcoming summit. we are certainly looking to see that between the president and kim jong-un. president trump is saying he would walk out of a meeting if north korea is not fruitful in the talks. we want to discuss this with a very important guest, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker, republican of tennessee. north korea claims that they are giving this big concession and giving up the testing program. how is that a concession given that their testing appears to be complete because they have advanced enough with their nuclear program? . this is a great public relations effort by kim jong-un i think people recognize that. i think everyone within the administration and congress approaches this with skepticism and caution. i m glad the two leaders are
i think it was significant and important that he sent the cia director to pyongyang to kind of sound out where the north koreans are and whether they re really prepared to talk about the issue that i think the administration has made very clear, which is denuclearization, getting rid of their nuclear weapons, or to use the term that the north korea nsz agreed to use in 2005, abandoning all their existing nuclear weapons and all their nuclear programs. so in looking at that and then the announcement, of course, yesterday, we don t have a sense that that s in fact what s happening with the north koreans. they ve talked about suspending a testing program. why? because they ve completed it, it seems. so i think we have a long way to get north korea back on the track of abandoning their nuclear weapons as they agreed to do in 2005. and what i m a little surprised about is the idea that pompeo didn t get some things down in writing.
deescalation of the crisis. before the olympics we were on a path to war. you even this week, you had people urging us to go to war if we can de-escalate the crisis and actually start of the process of negotiations, that at least gives us the possibility of a diplomatic solution to this is very, very tense crisis. what has moved kim jong-un who is killing people around him, his relatives. he s doing all kinds of things that show great fear he might lose his regime, lose power. why is he secure enough now that he feels he doesn t have to go all the way with his nuclear program when he thought so a few weeks ago? one, he has eliminated most of his rivals including some officials including his half-brother who were protected by china. number two, he had a very aggressive testing program in the last year.
providing our troops with the latest and greatest. they need legality on the ground, in the air and from the sea. and we need to be able to provide that for them. so we re going to have to balance this out, dana. we ll see what happens this afternoon. dana: you are doing important work talking about the other threats that face our country. look at something that happened in your committee yesterday. the former colleague of mine, i see. watch. if we re looking at the near term, clearly north korea is a primary concern and focus of the department. a combination of destablizing behaviors and very aggressive testing program for their icbm s. aggressive statements about their nuclear weapons program and capabilities give cause for great concern. dana: tells like what you were trying to high light yesterday in that hearing. absolutely. as chairman of the emerging threat and capability submitty on the armed services committee,