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That putin is holding himself out as somehow a supportive player? >> well, if something can come out of the north korea negotiations, which is what i assume your question was about. >> yes. you know, thats a good thing. given the short amount of time that kim jong-un and president trump are going to spend together, given the lowering of expectations by the president going in, given kim jong-uns nature and north reas situation, i think the likelihood that anything big emerges from this is fairly ...

What should our viewers be watching for when these two emerge? >> well, the first optics is going to be good because both leaders are invested in good optics. i would look if theres going to be a second day after the initial meeting. because right now theyre planning for a second-day meeting if the first day goes well. honestly, after this meeting, weve got to have more than just a very broad joint statement, something about north korea being committed to denuclearization. they need to at least ...

Make clear that its proliferation to other actors that create a risk in addition to the primary risks. it has supporting infrastructure that is also of concern. in early 2017, the trump administration decided on a policy that we referred to as the maximum pressure campaign. the campaign enacted the strongest economic and diplomatic sanctions against north korea in history. the goal was to set the conditions for the dprk to make a decision to denuclearization. american leadership rallied the inte...

Korea. they want the paper of pyongyang, they were the archives, shows chinas complicity in crimes and weapons programs, completely undermine the narrative that xi jinping has been putting out there. so i would think that really, yeah, theyll of course look for the nukes but want to make sure that we dont get to pyongyang first, so we cant see whats going on these decades. up the chinese have a narrative about north korea. it is mostly false. mark: what is their narrative? >> the narrative these...

Korea. they want the paper of pyongyang, they were the archives, shows chinas complicity in crimes and weapons programs, completely undermine the narrative that xi jinping has been putting out there. so i would think that really, yeah, theyll of course look for the nukes but want to make sure that we dont get to pyongyang first, so we cant see whats going on these decades. up the chinese have a narrative about north korea. it is mostly false. mark: what is their narrative? >> the narrative these...

Complete verifiable and irreversible. you can look at other commitments made in the past and didnt live up to as helping to define what that means. for example, in the 1992 joint north/south agreement north korea committed to give up both the front and the back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle. both uranium enrichment. on the denuclearization side it means all aspects. clearly ballistic missile program as with iran with the intention of being a delivery system for nuclear weapons. thats got to go....

Can you clarify, heading into these negotiations exactly what does complete denuclearization mean? >> the phrase we have used and continue to use is complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. you can look at some other commitments north korea made in the past and didnt live up to as helping to define what that means. for example, in the 1992 joint north/south denuclearization agreement, north korea committed to give up both the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle. both uran...

Very sophisticated at dividing what trump says publicly and the private messages they are getting from the white house and other people in the administration. the north koreans themselves are very, very good at saying all sorts of outrageous statements as a negotiating tactic, then privately having a very, very different perspective. so i dont actually think the moves on the iran deal have much of an effect. i think what has a much bigger effect is boltons comments yesterday where he compared th...

Early as today plans to slap new sanctions on russia, targeting businesses the white house says provide military equipment and financing for the assad regime in syria. a source telling cnn more than a dozen entities are on the list being fine-tuned by the treasury department. they are on sites linked to syrias chemical weapons programs. >> this is a very strained time between the united states and russia. if you look at what russia is doing, you know, they continue to be involved with all the wr...

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