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Very sharp contrast with his predecessor, donald trump. is he coming to the g7 and, of course, nato, following that the geneva summit with vladimir putin, trying to show an embrace of the atlantic alliance, the global alliance, that america is back and wants to be a world leader. hence the delivery of the covid doses as well. so, he's trying to cement all these alliances, but, of course, overshadowing all of this is this summit with vladimir putin. he could have met vladimir putin on the sidelines of upcoming g20s and other meetings. it's a risky bet of inviting putin to a summit. putin accept...

>> at the end of the day donald trump was confronted by -- i don't think it's just jgeneral mattis. i think it's mike pompeo saying mr. president, here's the deal, they won't get rid of all their nuclear weapons, it will never happen so there will be two outcomes, you'll either walk away as a failure or you'll be the first american president to recognize north korea's rights to have a nuclear weapon. that is something that donald trump can never take back to his base. that's something donald trump will never allow to happen because in every republican debate in 2020, he will be the one who cav...

Rabbles. so things that can be announced, can be marked out as achievements in the bilateral or multi-lateral leelrelationshipsh these summits happen. so i don't know what those note cards said but i think if someone was advising president trump not to congratulate him, they were taking for granted that he wasn't going to extend a summit invitation to president putin. so again, these types of things -- it is not that the phone call is scripted word for word, but something of that nature would be considered to be a very big deal. i've been in meetings. i've been working on relationships where t...

The greatest deal in the world. what are your thoughts? >> i think he's pointing out that we really don't know what will happen. really, the summit invitation for both the u.s. president and the south korean president were really up nexpected. it's been a whirlwind. they have heavy strings attached with security guarantees and a long list of demands including the defense treaty, removal of the u.s. troops and the list goes on. >> the one thing north koreans clambered for is the removal of troops in south korea. if they do something like that, does that indicate that are not serious about the t...