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Everyone stand by. i want to bring in republican congressman peter meyer of michigan, a member of the foreign relations committee. thanks for joining us. i know you served in iraq, later worked in afghanistan for an ngo based in kandahar. you know the challenges there. but do you accept the argument from president biden that this wasn't a failure, this withdrawal, that the chaos we're seeing now was simply the price the u.s. had to pay in order to withdraw after 20 years of warfare there? >> i don't accept it. there certainly was never going to be a positive outcome. but we could have prevente...

Trump, they're not able to resume negotiations. if you remember at the inter-korean border, at the dmz, trump and kim agreed to resume these working level negotiations. this is back in june. but they still have not started yet. and so what we're seeing, what we have consistently seen actually even since the singapore summit last year, especially ahead of the hanoi summit this year, the north has always tried to bypass the bureaucracy the working level and go straight to president trump and try to strike a deal with him, because we have seen him, you know, give kim jong-un what he wants lycansl...

Tests it doesn't bother him. however, america's british ally, the united kingdom, their foreign office has said these short-range ballistic missile launches are a violation of united nations security council resolutions. president trump has said he just received on friday a very beautiful -- another very beautiful letter from kim jong-un where the north korean dictator said he was unhappy about the joint military exercises but, again, these launches don't seem to bother him. but here is one striking additional detail. president trump and kim jong-un met face-to-face on the demilitarized zone a...

Warheads putting 28,000 troops stationed there in the line of fire. this raises a question what is north korea doing right now? just a couple of days ago, they released these images of kim jong-un standing by a new larger submarine that could potentially also carry submarine-launched ballistic missiles. their capabilities seem to be growing as diplomacy hits a stand still. there are questions what is going to happen after trump and kim pledge to resume working level negotiations. but mike pompeo is not expected to meet with his counterpart next week. in fact, this test was conducted, john, whe...

State tv? i've been looking at north korea for over a decade and never seen anything like that. the president's approach is working and he deserves a lot of credit. >> jon: if they want sanctions relief, can't they take more positive steps to end their nuclear program or end their ballistic missile program? >> absolutely. i think what will happen here is we'll have a tough round of working level negotiations. what the north koreans are desperate four is sanctions relief for coal exports and textile exports. it gives them billions of dollars of revenue to do everything they need to do to power ...