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And how this is playing out, we'll stipulate that north korea bears a lot of blame. but this is how they roll. they're duplicitous, erratic, untrustworthy. but that's all the more reason that president trump should have been more careful than he was in going into this in the first place with just abruptly accepting the invitation to a summit in march on the say-so of southern emissaries without any spade work by his own american diplomats. so less than being duped, he simply bumbled into this and maybe out of it. >> peter, jackie brings us back to an important moment when the president sort of...

Committed on being super tough on china, made a bunch of promises that he has then walked away from. he also said when he became president he was going to declare china a currency manipulat manipulator. he did not that. >> he didn't because it's factually incorrect. let's talk about all the things they want to do or they're engaging them. none of them address splek chul property. and people -- our agencies think they were using their devices to spy on us. >> these things are hard to do. right? so serious change in a diplomatic sense is very difficult, but the president is not into the hard lon...

A freudian slip that the trump administration after a year of making veiled and not so veiled threats about taking out the kim jong-un regime actually still had that in mind. and then undid some of the spade work that then cia director mike pompeo had done, reassuring kim behind closed doors that no, we are not trying to take you out of power. but in a sense, what it could do is inoculate the june summit against instant failure. we understand that the white house aides have been trying to explain to donald trump that this is going to be a little bit harder than just sitting down and through th...

Destroyed in the bush day, and e most of the materiel and the missiles and the uranium are in hidden sites underground, but it does not surprise me that the site may have been decimated and this is why kim jong-un is giving it up. now, kim jong-un, and you have to give him credit, because he is leading the negotiations with south korea, with the president, and i meanings he has gone from being an international pariah into an international diplomat. you have to watch them, because they are very good at the international press and posturing, and so it is important for the president to be prepare...

That progress. >> jackson is a long list of failures, why do you think the confirmation process has been so challenging for this white house? >> because president trump is a genius at doing the fighting part of politics. of the in fact, that's one of his chief calling cards and some people in the republican base like that. they say he fights and that's great. what he doesn't really know how to do is the spade work of leadership, where you have to vet people before you appoint them to high ranking positions. you have to do it not just for the sake of the country, making sure that the person you...