down with the tie rant. where you have to give him his due is there was a course that the u.s. and north korea were going down that was potentially catastrophic. he de-fused that by getting into a round of negotiation, again, if it actually comes to negotiation. all of these questions about what the north is actually prepared to do is i think the critical question. now pompeo, secretary of state, will get into that negotiation, what they might give up, how you verify that. what we know is what the president has said about these kinds of matters with the iran deal. if that's a bad deal, given frg that has been achieved with iran and how much iran gave up in its nuclear program, that should be the minimum. that is something the president still considers to be a failure. the goal is complete denuclearization. it is a pretty tall order. what we do have to focus on is a defused crisis with north korea as long as they're actually talking. >> just in keeping with the