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If if he has a secretary of defense that leads more toward pompeo, that could help trump have a more balanced approach among his advisers and help him potentially go into a negotiating track. the other small detail here ifz heard, the former secretary of state henry kissinger, who negotiated the grand opening to china, has been at the pentagon the next two days. i'm not sure who he's meeting with. but there is a tid bit here, if trump decides to pursue, he has more leverage here. president trump is preparing to arrive in orlando where he's about to officially launch his 2020 re-election camp...

>> this is the importance of the to track strategy the us has put in place, the pressure campaign that prevents north korea from being a threat to the united states and its allies, nuclear return, missile defense, heavy sanctioning. it limits his capacity to threaten is that limit his capacity to build a substantial nuclear arsenal that could threaten us so that is in place, that is the safety blanket that protects us and allows the united states to pursue this negotiating track with some degree of confidence and not desperation because before they were desperate to get a deal because the nort...

>> well, it is, first of all an unprecedented meeting. this is so much more than the photo opportunity in the oval office between bill clinton when they were in the midst of negotiating -- there was a negotiating track with north korea. they were working towards normalization. it signalled that madeleine albright was going in october of 2000 as we went to pyongyang for those first talks, which would have led to a possible normalization of diplomatic relations and an end to the korean war had al gore won the president and had the supreme court decision not gone in favor of george w. bush who re...

That have been reported about iran. i think the negotiating track is especially important not necessarily because we can get the north koreas to slap their heads and say, okay we'll stop this. but rather to keep china engaged, work closely with china and make sure there's no daylight between us and the south koreas. >> you talked about missile defense. does the u.s. have interceptability to shoot down should north korea take such attack? >> we have the capability. but the technology is developing fast in that area. the technology on missile defense is developing more quickly than the north kor...

That will lead to a transition that includes -- on this one, the u.s. lost a lot. >> you mentioned four years. this war has been raging on for four years. you think about what the world has been preoccupied with. with iran and the nuke talks and ukraine and russia and of course isis. why do you think kerry right now pivots to mention assad? >> i think that when pushed by margaret brennan, i think he was trying to say that we need to go back to the negotiating track and there has been some rumors and talk about progress with the russians again and that's something that -- it's not new. the last...