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Acquiescence to the end of war declaration that it will put its nuclear weapons on the table first. what they seem to be saying instead is, if youre not prepared to concede on this point, were certainly not going to concede on being a nuclear weapon state. >> reporter: analysts say if the u.s. ever did agree to an end-of-war declaration and the pull-back or withdrawal of u.s. forces from south korea, that america would first insist that the north koreans pull back many of their troops, their mis...

Irreversibly, denuclearizatie before we do anything. they want action for action. this is going to be a long process. i dont think that we will get a completely denuclearized north korea within one, two years. that is not in the cards. so what does it mean? can we take some steps? certainly i think we all agree that tensions have gone down substantially. north korea and south korea we saw in pyongyang just now building a political relationship. so what north korea wants to do is test the u.s., s...

Someone who wanted to improve relations, whats your take? are you okay with the way the white house handled this? >> what i would do -- listen, i think -- i dont know this for a fact. that probably came from the president. he likes to be respected. he was probably frustrated at that moment. what i would do in a situation like that, id pull a tape of questions that sam donaldson screamed at ronald reagan and go right through the last 30 years of pool reporters asking questions that presidents pro...

As someone who wanted to improve relations, whats your take? are you okay with the way the white house handled this? >> what i would do -- listen, i think -- i dont know this for a fact. that probably came from the president. he likes to be respected. he was probably frustrated at that moment. what i would do in a situation like that, id pull a tape of questions that sam donaldson screamed at ronald reagan and go right through the last 30 years of pool reporters asking questions that presidents ...

All, okay? i dont like the war declaration on the media. i dont like the calling out of individual journalists. i dont like this specific tweet attacks on the journalists. its just not for me, okay? and i would tell him that directly. look, i was only there for 11 days. i said it three or four times. you know, at the end of the day, it doesnt help him, okay? hes a division star. i like the fact hes out on these other networks. hopefully hell come on your show or shows here on cnn at some point. ...

So when the media criticizes the president, people say, if theyre sympathetic to the president, we have trump derangement syndrome. but back here in reality, its derangement when the president of the united states says that putin is the enemy? no. this is whats happened here. thoughts straight in reality. the president says putin is not the enemy. a free press is the enemy. that kind of statement makes the manchurian candidate seem like citizen kane, and it raises the concern of what is going on...

About me and the good people surrounding me are total fiction. the problem is when you complain you just give them more publicity. but ill complain anyway. is that still the case with this president? >> you know he will complain anyway. the nature of who he is. i have had bad stories written about me that i havent liked and some of it has been very untrue. but having said that, going from an adversarial relationship and disagreement and recognizing there are bad actors in every industry, especia...

North korea. mike pompeo has been talking about going further than what has happened in the past, unclear what that means. >> i think in the past, you are right, what we have tried to do is what we call give negative insurance. we will not attack you first. and this time, what might be talking about is end of war declaration. that means we dont have a military option. that is new than the previous one which is more blanket and this one is more specific. end of war declaration has implications. u...

Jong jon just unleashed a tirade against president trump. he called the speech mentally deranged and saying his comments were a war declaration. earlier today, trump hitting north korea with new sanctions before he is open to talks with that country. >> is dialogue still possible with north korea? >> im utterly confused. sanctions, yes, dialogue, maybe, and this morning trumps vice president saying the military option is still on the table. >> what the president has made clear is we have militar...

>> other members of congress knew. they could have stood up and tried to block it. they didnt. >> you cant say i talked to three or four members of congress and then i launched a war unilaterally. >> why wasnt congress trying to stop it before it happened? >> he did this unannounced, chris. the constitution is very clear. whatever you think of congress, the constitution is clear. congress declares war. if you let a president just do it yunilaterally whenever he wakes up and thinks it is a good i...