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>> apparently, ambassador, one of the reasons they gave him was, it will be on television late sunday night in the states and no one will see your crowning achievement. it does speak to his relations with norms. >> yeah, he's obvious hi not thinking about the other side and what they would want to do with that summit, that's for sure. and, again, there were lots of forms that were broken and violated. one other ones that we talked about before, there were no note takers for that first meeting. i used to be a note taker in some of those meetings with president obama and russian leaders. it's go...

A bored trump urged the aides to demand the meeting pushed up by a day and talked out of the altering the long plan summit date on the fly. we are here now, why can't we just do that. one of the reasons is because it will be on television late sunday night in the states and no one will see the crowning achievement. it does speak to his relations with norms. >> well, yeah. he is obviously not thinking of the other side and what they want to do with the summit, that's for sure. there were lots of norms that were broke and violated. other ones we have talked about before and no note takers for th...

United states. >> michael, it's rachel here. it's nice to see you. >> hi, rachel. >> we've been talking a lot about how different this has been approached by this administration. obviously it's different me terms of the top line. no u.s. president has ever agreed to meet with a north korean dictator before even though for 70 years the north koreans have wanted that. but in addition to that the president has bragged about how he hasn't prepared. there isn't a south korean ambassador. there hasn't been preliminary staff work done for weeks or months or even years like there might have been done ...

Just odd? >> well, there are a few places i could go here. one, you always have a note taker for a simple reason. even when obama was alone in the room whether with whoever it might have been, putin, anybody else. reason y a note taker is there is clarity on what was agreed to and what wasn't. there is a huge risk that donald trump and kim jong-un could walk out of that discussion with very different ideas of what they lad just talked about or what they just agreed to. the note taker is the that can read out the rest of the u.s. government on what happened. right now the only person who will k...

The atlantic alliance. >> a big performative fight. >> substantive and performative. there is substantive and vitriol from president trump. if i'm sitting there in south korea and thinking this is the ally, the united states that i rely on for my survival, are you really going to trust that donald trump is a reliable partner, that he is going to follow through not onlyn whatever he says to kim jong-un, but on the surt assurances we give to them? frankly, i see it as reordering in the world over the next couple years rooted in some of the things see we saw this week, not just this summit, but w...