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>> the saudis are investigating themselves, essentially. what do you think -- >> no, they're just -- they're great, very talented people. they're not investigating themselves. >> okay, there's a lot to unpack there. with me now is nbc news's hans nichols. two lines of argument that the president is using. that we're in a fight with iran and the saudis are our bulwark against iran and they are buying this biggest military deal in history, $110 billion worth of arms, so we can't really be too tough on them, otherwise they'd buy those arms from china or russia. >> look, ali, for a president who p...

But, again, long range plan by the north koreans. they've been planning this for decades. >> reporter: what was souterly predictable is that now secretary pompeo who is a very smart guy and a very realistic person about all of this but his leverage was damaged by the president's bragging after the summit. that boasting is what undercut our negotiating ability, and so now he's saying well we're going revert to maximum pressure. maximum pressure means going to russia, chinese, nato, u.n. security council, let's tighten up those sanctions. remember those sanctions. you got the president going to ...

I want peace on the korean peninsula. i can tell you, bill, our team has bee multiple occasions in the past few months and we've been closer to nuclear war than peace. it's a bit of aetter feeling here on the peninsula. >> bill: great to have you on the ground there in seou thank you, greg palkot. >> sandra: let's bring in pete king of new york a member of the house homeland security committee. congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. we're all left wondering wh the promises from north korea and the president sounding optimistic, what role congress will play in ensuring the deal las...

Demonstrated the command that he has of the issues and the negotiating ability that he has sitting at that table. and i think it went a long way toward disspelling some notions yesterday. on the other side, some of the president's biggest supporters when it comes to immigration initially during the campaign for sure, ann coultier, tucker carlson on our own network felt very betrayed by what the president said at that table yesterday. that he sort of gave away the farm on the issue. that he said just bring me something. bring me whatever you want and i'll sign it. i'll offer a path way to citiz...

Handed. if we're going to be the mediator who pushes these towards peace, we've got to honor that commitment of neutrality and we're not going to recognize jerusalem as anybody's capital until there's an agreement. president trump crossed that line. he's weakened the united states and put our diplomats in risk. here is the real problem. he got nothing from this. he got nothing in return from the israelis in return for this historic american concession. and you just have to wonder about the negotiating ability of our president at this point. >> so here's the thing, nick. when one looks at the i...