Well speak to karen mcdougles attorney. Puerto rico, all of it, the entire island was without power yesterday. Nearly seven months after hurricane maria. What caused the latest blackout and why it may not be the last. Lets begin with President Trump hosting abe and resolving the crisis was front and center on their agenda. The north korean crisis. In addition to trumps possible upcoming summit with kim jongun. And i hope to have a very successful meeting. If we dont think its going to be successful, mark, we wont have it. We wont have it. If i think that its a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, were not going to go. If the meeting, when im there, is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. And well continue what were doing. President trump said on tuesday, five locations currently under consideration for his possible summit with kim and multiple u. S. Officials tell nbc news sweden, singapore are among the frontrunners. A senior u. S. Officials tells nbc news several locations have been ruled out, including beijing and mongolia. Bloomberg reports that the site of the signing has also been ruled out. Secretary of state nominee mike pompeo which the president confirmed yesterday in an Early Morning tweet. And, by the way, he just left north korea. Had a great meeting with kim jongun. And got along with him really well, really great. The white house issued a correction yesterday on the timing of pompeos trip to north korea saying it took place over easter weekend nearly three weeks ago, not last week as the president tweeted. Richard haass let me start with you on all of this. Thanks, willie. Joint press conference at maralago the focus of it, obviously, north korea. As you watched this play out from the pompeo meeting and the description of how it took place and the discussion between presidehave you been impressed with what this administration has done . They put pressure as agreeing to a president ial summit as the engine. It what the president said yesterday part of it was okay. If he didnt think things were going to be fruitful, they would not go ahead to the summit. That is good. If the preparation suggests that there is not a deal to be had. Just as well you dont have to it. You dont want a summit that would fall apart. Then the reaction would be, we tried diplomacy and now we have to try Something Else, which is not what you want. It will all come down the president used the word fruitful yesterday. What does he mean by fruitful . How ambitious are we going to be . What are we going to require now and what do we require down the road . The devil is in the details and what will we be satisfied with at this point and what are we repr prepared to respond to. Can you see a universe where kim jongun gives up the one thing on the world stage . He can agree to denuclearization down the road to be determined, tbd. This could be a longrange goal to get rid of all Nuclear Weapons on the peninsula. He may have the 26 things he would require from us in order to bring that amount. And the real question then is are we prepared to live with a delayed, somewhat vague concept of denuclearization in exchange for some very specific limits. Right now, for example, extend the band on north korea testing of any Nuclear Warhead or any ballistic missile. But denuclearization can mean anything to anybody and be extraordinarily difficult if we inspect north korea to make sure no Nuclear Activity is going on and it would be impossible to prove. Havent we run into situations where North Koreans say one thing and that seems to be the theme through the 90s. You ran into this over the Obama Administration. The North Koreans essentially try to use the prospect of possible negotiations as cover to continue to develop their nuclear program. To pick up where richard left off. I actually think the widely criticized iran deal negotiated by the Obama Administration may provide some bread crumbs about a path here. One of the benefits, while not perfect, does actually have in place a rig program to verify that iran is not developing a nuclear program. Maybe that is where you get the outline of a deal. Some kind of rigorous verification measures that the North Koreans agree to because theyre having trouble with this process of miniaturizing their Nuclear Capability to fit it on top of a missile. They dont make further advances that would limit the risk that we face even if thats the denuclearization is a longer goal. Using the iran agreement as an example is a winning argument with this administration. They change positions on this like five days a week. That comes up on may 12th. They have to make their announcement on the iran deal. That is exactly the kind of thing we wouldnt be able to monitor. The more intrusive, the less likely well have the access and the confidence. Thats why i like testing freezes. We dont have to get inside north korea to verify a testing freeze. If we need to do certain type of production freezes, i think were in a very difficult situation. Richard, hovering above all of this is the fact that despite pompeos trip to pyongyang, there is no state department and very little fringe element of a diplomatic approach on this. And one of our, one of our most vital allies in the region president abe in japan and palm beach today, they are sort of on the outside of this looking in. How does that affect this whole thing Going Forward . Well, its a reminder that the United States is not alone here. You have japan and you have south korea, who have very different priorities. We probably all have the same list of interests, we just dont rank them in the same way. He talked about the abductees. Japanese citizens who have been taken hostage, essentially kidnapped for decades in north korea. He put that on the agenda. But japan doesnt just talk about longrange ballistic missiles. Thafr theyre concerned about shortrange missiles that could reach them. Where will that fit on the agenda. The fact that pompeos trip was announced. They didnt know about that. Showed how they are not driving the diplomatic train here even though theyre so directly affected by it. You worked in the state department of mike pompeo the state department nominee. If you listened to President Trump talk yesterday, he already said hes already behaving like the secretary of state. Maybe he ought to be the secretary of state. Is he the right guy to be there is the question. It made a lot of sense for mike pompeo to go over to pyongyang. The intel to intel relationship has been one that is a longstanding channel when James Clapper went over to try to obtain the release of the two missionaries. I think it does help the timing of this announcement is interesting because it offended the japjapanese. Youre announcing it and undercutting their visit at the same time that mike pompeo needs the boost. I do wonder if this is enough to propel him over the top. Days of late, i thought he was going to get confirmed and going to be able to do it, but this might be enough to help proeppe him over the line. Honest with members of congress about that trip. We dont know whether he disclosed in the context of all the private conversations hes having about whether or not he acknowledged that trip. And particularly if you have a waivering senator who finds out after meeting with you in private the president announces that you did this visit you didnt disclose, that is an odd way to convince wavering senators. I think it helps him. I think what it now has done is comingled. Pompeos confirmation with the north korea issue and a significant boost for pompeo to vote against him and say we dont want him to continue in this path in the runp to the north korea summit. I think it would be a controversial vote. I completely agree. President trump is showing he has trust in another person and i think theyre very how is kim jongun going to fly to any of these locations . Does he have aircraft on the way that can go more than 1,000 miles. His old soviet jets. There is a lot of logistical headaches and you look at the trial locations floated and it cant be very far and certainly donald trump is not going to want to go to pyongyang. The site of the summit may come down to a simple question of transportation. According to New York Times its unclear if kims fleet of soviet airplanes can fly him more than a few thousand miles from north korea. One cia analyst says we know he has a plane, no one knows if it works. Finding a location within a limited radius might be quite the challenge. The paper concludes that borrowing a plane is out of the question for the north korean leader. He also has the train there, richard. Travels like 22 miles an hour because it is so heavily armored. Took it to his trip to beijing. He does have rockets. But, i mean, is this a real concern . Cant he just stop and refuel or is this sort of a manufacturer problem . What is he going to refuel . Of the 26 concerns i have about this summit, this is 27. Where it happens, the whole thing, again, is expectations. And its too dangerous here. Its not where it happens. The real danger, is one, the failure option. The other is, what price are we prepared to pay for tuck sesucc. What about the u. S. Im worried about both ends of the barbells that it fails or quote, unquote succeeds. Thats the real issue. Not where the summit happens. To richards points, what about troops in south korea. This is something that donald trump banded around constantly on the campaign trail. Will he sit down with kim jongun and be like, yeah, its okay. Yeah, it will save us money. Apparently he does, i have heard from officials that President Trump does but he understands that the South Koreans play a vital role in paying for their contribution, which he appreciates. But who knows. In addition to north korea, russia was a big topic at that join News Conference yesterday. Following days of mixed messages from the white house. Discuss where the Administration Stands on adding new sanctions on moscow for the continued support of the assad regime. Sanctions very much deserve it. We will have, that is a question. There has been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. We had a very, very severe we were talking about it a little while. Fight in syria recently. A month ago. Between our troops and russian troops. And thats very sad. But many people died in that fight. But russia will tell you, there has been nobody tougher than donald trump. That comment came after President Trumps new director of the National Economic council larry cud low said that u. N. Ambassador nikki haley had momentary confusion in his words when she announced new sanctions over the weekend. Haley responded over the weekend, simply, with all due respect, i dont get confused and kudlow later apologized to haley. Trump spoke about having kudlow on his team and haley asked about being on the team. I am very happy about having larry kudlow with us and we havent always agreed but i noticed lately larry agreed more and more with me which makes me quite happy. Ambassador haley, how is your relationship with President Trump . Perfect. She said its perfect there if you couldnt see the text on the screen. Donald trump talking about larry kudlow he likes him that he is nice to him and agrees with him. I have been the toughest on russia. I would like to talk to some republican members of congress to see if they agree. Fact check, not true. You know, what we just saw and heard, richard, message discipline is important, obviously, for a president of the United States. We just saw there was no message discipline here. So, what is the level of concern in the world of diplomats around the world about the potential meeting between the president and the leader of north korea in that he would agree to something during the course of the negotiation that we would have no intention of carrying out . I thought you were going to go somewhere else. That they would globally agree, take out the word globally, worse that we might carry out. The feeling with donald trump there is no givens and no assumptions and very little that is sacred. A lot of the tenants of American Foreign policy that have served us pretty well tremendous concern in places like japan, south korea, that he could put those on the table and that is the real concern. Josh, what do you see when you watch the nikki haley, donald trump back and forth the last several days. Someone inside the white house and someone had to discipline a message and roll out sanctions and make an announcement on a sunday show as nikki haley did. How could that possibly happen . I cant speak to the inner workings of the Trump Administration. The first is, nikki haley does not go on a sunday show without doing some prep. She probably had conversations with folks at the National Security council and they gave her an indication that these sanctions were coming. She wouldnt lean into them so heavily if she wasnt given that they were coming soon. You noted that mr. Kudlow apologized to her. He apologized by saying mrs. Haley was not given all the relevant information. It wasnt that she was confused, she was totally out of the loop. My guess is she didnt appreciate the apology either. She took the right approach about letting this die. Some new scandal today that overshadows this disagreement. But it is an indication to me that larry kudlow who has not served in government is already showing evidence of that. He is having a hard time mounting a united front and used to being in charge of his own Television Show and not being part of a team. You talk loosely. Hes on tv for extended periods of time. He just has a word like confused. The other part of this that i think is important is there continues to be, we continue to see the seams of the Trump Administration policy on russia. Can President Trump continue to be pushed by people at a high level whether u. N. Ambassador or other officials who are telling him, if we actually want to crack down on syrias use of chemical weapons. We need to put pressure on russia to make him stop and President Trump is unwilling to do it. Not that he is tougher than anybody on russia. If anything, he is weaker than everybody on russia. Selectively tough. Some of the sanctions are significant. The fact that the United States provide lethal defensive articles to ukraine. Something the Obama Administration wouldnt do. To me, a significant step. The major gap is in any response to what the russians have done to the meddling in the American Election and the reaction to chemical. Its all over the place russia policy. Everyone hold these thoughts. Were just getting starting. President trump relatively restrained when talking about Rod Rosenstein but his allies on capitol hill are digging in. Follow new warnings that the attorney general could meet impeachment if he does not face demands. This april has to end, right . 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