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His state visit to japan. joining me now, retired admiral, former nato supreme allied commander and msnbc national security analyst. i guess the question is begging to be asked. how's that for diplomacy? at least for an optics perspective, you have shinzo abe and japan appear to be catering to the president exactly the way he would want to be catered to. why would they be doing that? >> they deeply, deeply value this relationship. you have to chuckle at a picture of the president getting in a sumo ring. this could be his career post presidency. you never know. i think more likely -- kind of a ...

And it is not exactly clear why if the date and time have been set this remain as mystery that the president is teasing ahead to. he hasn't said when the big reveal will happen, but certainly there has been a lot of speculation about where the meeting could happen. all sides that are involved here have indicated that they are looking very strongly the possibility of having this meeting at the dmz, from the optics perspective, that seems to have appealed from president trump and from the logistics perspective as you point out that would certainly be an easy trip for kim jung-un to make. he has ...

Including from people like john mccain about america's leadership role in the world. i don't know if the shot is going to pull out. you see everybody else around this table including reince priebus, not interesting he's at the table. but what he said, talking about how it is a blessing on behalf of the senior staff to be there and working for the president at a time when there is continued speculation about all of the palace intrigue as you know well. soapy think that this is kind of a very interesting when you look at it from an optics perspective, an interesting moment here from the presiden...