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Davidig faceus is back. >> are you worried that trump is trying to play an advantage with some of the photo-ops and scenes that we've been seeing. >> i amoncerned. the summit is nine days away and we've changed strategy. the president is saying he's for a phased denuclearization, that we're going into a negotiating process, that kim jong-un is basically, you know, very sincere. now, look, these are positions we should have taken position. we should have a strategy. i don't think we have a strategy. the second problem is we've got too many mixed messages. secretary of state pompeo has done a go...

Work together, but pompeo should take the lead. he's the one that knows kim jong-un. he's the one that's been there. he opened the intelligence channel. he should be given the main role. this is diplomacy, negotiations. >> if the summit does not happen, does that necessarily mean that we are headed to some sort of military action down the road? >> well, i've always said bloody nose theory early in the administration, the preemptive military strike, that's not going to work. i don't think that's a viable option, because it's going to kill millions of people, enormous tension in the peninsula, o...

Front, the most intrusive inspections regimes in history, that's a very high bar. here is an opportunity to reset expectations before a meeting which i still hope happens. >> governor, what do you do if you're secretary of state mike pompeo now. the day before the president pulled out of talks he seemed optimistic they would happen and then this and he was left to answer before it before a senate committee. >> well, what i would do, if i'm secretary pompeo, is i would go to the president and say, mr. president, i have to be the lone voice, the lone messenger of north korea, can't be the nation...

Operating in such delicate and potentially consequential parts of the world like north korea with a team that is led by a commander in chief who isn't disciplined himself? how do you get the national security team to sing off a single song sheet when the guy at the top is incapable of it? >> well, that's the problem. the president shoots from the hip. he tweets. he goes off on press conferences. then you've got, you know, probably competing advisers competing for his ear. you've got the secretary of state, who has actually met kim jong-un twice. he's been there. he's negotiated. he established...

He tweets. he goes off on press conferences. then you've got, you know, probably competing advisers competing for his ear. you've got the secretary of state, who has actually met kim jong-un twice. he's been there. he's negotiated. he established the intelligence channel. then you've got john bolton who, you know, purportedly has been very skeptical of these negotiations for a long time. but the fact that they both publicly said, well, that pompeo has said, we can negotiate with this guy, but then he's contradicted even by the vice president, talking about the libya model. and then john bolton...