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Flair for the dramatic particularly president trump. he does want something substantive to come out of here. i'm not saying it will change the world forever but he wants something to move the ball forward. you mentioned this point earlier. if you think back to a week ago how things move at the speed of light in the trump administration. a week ago he was at the white house reshaping the supreme court for the next three or four decades if brett kavanaugh is confirmed. now on the world stage, his second summit one-on-one in four and a half weeks. it was just june 12 and 13 in singapore with nort...

Diplomatic experts. the types of people who would have spent months plowing the ground to make this a successful summit. they have not been present for this. instead we get the pageantry. we did have mike pompeo do some premeetings. but you know, not clear what has been going on at a lower level. and now you have president trump showing up for really what is a spectacle. >> sloppy wording by me a moment ado. i didn't mean to say these gentlemen were equivalents. that was not a chosen word. just -- >> counterpart. >> i guess. sure. >> they are now, though. that's the key thing. >> it does strik...

Spear beach. trump has to understand which he doesn't when dealing with the canadians you're dealing with all these sectoral issues. cedar shakes and shingles is a big issue with -- i worked with them overt years. they have particular concerns about agriculture. to a smaller country they matter to them. they have to cut them v ec. in fact, churchill once said about british farm economics, we go macro, let's make a big deal, let's sweeping decide these things. and the k57bdians have to be careful what they protect in their industries. i don't think trump -- >> that's a given, he doesn't underst...

Crimea. i was there when president obama called him to tell him he won be in the next g8 meeting. putin was not happy about that. he hung it all on the fact that he said we were behind the protests in ukraine that led to the ouster of yanukovych when in fact they were people protesting on behalf of anti-corruption and democr now we have a president of the united states who won't even speak up for democracy around the world. not necessarily a coincidence when you consider what vladimir putin has been doing since those protests in ukraine in 2014. he developed an information warfare capability h...

We had in the iran deal -- >> can you just say what you mean there? >> victor cha was going to be the nominee for our ambassador to seoul. he said something along the way that upset somebody in the white house and got his appointment yanked back. just like we've had lots of unfilled slots at the state department including many of the people who would have been doing the prep work for this summit. secondly, we had in the iran nuclear negotiations ernie moniz, a world-renowned nuclear physicist who literally could sit there and tell you what we needed to get on centrifuge reductions, what we nee...