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At a time when it will have maximum impact. and not divide that impact with a diplomatic initiative. >> which makes it sound like this is a lot about optic, and speaking of optics, president trump's national security adviser john bolton canceled plans to travel to south korea ahead of next week's summit. his spokesman says he decided to do so to focus on venezuela instead. do you buy that, christopher? >> i think he wants to focus on venezuela. but i don't buy that about south korea. it is pretty clear that bolton doesn't agree with trump. and is one of the ones who is most concerned that trum...

Is drawing down u.s. troops a consideration in your meeting with kim jong-un? >> no, it is not. that is not a consideration. that is not one of the things on the table. >> what is on the table? >> you really want me to discuss that now? >> i do. >> everything is on the table. >> that is president trump who is set to travel to vietnam this coming week to meet with none other than north korean leader kim jong-un. despite the president's optimism for a successful trip, those around him are not so sure. a political article headlined trump aides worry he'll get outfoxed in north korea talks. notes ...

They can figure out a way to do some business with iran without actually being in violation of the sanctions. >> christopher, many experts are panning this week's led u.s. suit minimum in poland as a failure. what are you hearing about that? >> that it was a spectacular failure. that for the reasons courtney is talking about. the yureuropeans are not gettinn board. rudy giuliani gave a speech to a group that used to be dubed a terrorist group and that is a militantly anti-iranian or at least anti-mullah organization that he's been talking to for a long time. a lot of people say it's a cult. th...

In north korea. that has not stopped. >> it all culminated with that little rocket man comment he made not long ago. president trump spoke about being nominated for the nobel peace prize by japanese prime minister abe, listing what he sees as foreign policy accomplishments. let's listen to that. >> if you look at idlib province in syria. i stopped the slaughter of perhaps 3 million people. he had rocket ships and he had missiles flying over japan. and they had alarms going off. you know that. now all of a sudden they feel good. they feel safe. i did that. and was a very tough dialogue at the b...

Arsonist get credit for putting out the fire? that's what we're talking about here. as courtney pointed out this was a period in which trump was ratcheting up the level of rhetoric and the level of threat and talking about war all the time. then we have a period of relative calm when in fact north korea has established it has a deterrent nuclear force. what have we seen in term of north korea giving up that deterrent nuclear force? nothing. we've seen nothing on that score. so if trump was threatening before because they had nukes, now he's not threatening and they still have nukes. so what ha...