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Meeting but could ignore each other for all we know. whether they speak or not could set the tone for the trump s administration policies on pyongyang going forward. let s talk about these sanctions and more with jack kingston, a cnn political analyst and senior former adviser to the trump campaign and a former chairman of the washington, d.c. democratic party. good morning. good morning. scott, on this weekend when everyone is counting the days the president trump spent at one of his golf resorts or how long on the vacation or even a democrat who is not a fan of the president will have to admit a significant accomplishment for the u.s. and the trump administration. i think it s significant because we got russia, they got russia and china to sign on board. this was unanimous. i think it s important, obviously, and i think it s the right step, but it s not depositive of the nuclear issue are fler north korea because th ....
Would like to engage in some talks but, first, north korea must abandon their nuclear ambitions. will the u.s. have to step away from that prerequisite in order to have these conversations and do you see that potentially down the road? i agree with sue on this. this is something that kim will not back away from. this is his regime survival. this is how he stands out in the area. he feels like he has to defend his country against all of the surround i surroundi ining hordes that wou take him down. i don t do you ll see him give up the missile program. what he is able to do is put that under control due to the impetus by the sanctions and the diplomacy which is pulling together a bunch of nations of the world for the first time, countering his actions. that might be enough to cause him to live more by the ....
North korea. let s talk about this and bring in lieutenant general mark hertling, cnn military analyst for the army and sumi terry a former cnn analyst on korean issues. as i was preparing for this, i wonder why we haven t heard from kim jong-un? well, he will speak very shortly. but you ve heard him before. i don t think sanctions, why these are important measures and i m glad the unc passed a resolution slapping sanctions. kim jong-un is not going to give up nuclear weapons. he has said this over and over that he is not going to give it up. so i m glad these steps are taken but i think we have still a long way to go before we get to any kind of peaceful state. general, let me come to you. the potential for talks. we know that south korea wants to talk and china wants to talk. even tillerson has said that he ....
Able to find common ground in terms of making sure that we had a strong voice for north korea. we hope that they will continue to see that it s about strong actions and not about irresponsible once. so we hope that their days of meddling in election are over. i m get word that secretary of state rex tillerson as we know met with the russian foreign minister. out of this meeting, lavrov asked tillerson about russia s retaliation to the u.s. sanctions. we do not know what happened beyond that. the question is russia just voted with the u.s. and the u.n. on sanctions against north korea. there is a commonality there. what is the chance, lu lynn, a could form that could affect north korea moving forward? these alliances group and regroup often depending on the issue and diplomacy, just like investigations go down many rivers and trails and streams ....
Of this inquiry and investigation and that is what i think the new grand jury that the washington post had on last week are meant to go about, right? some of it will be perfectly above board and some of will be a gray area and some of it could be very problematic for the trump organization. the only way to get through it so actually do the investigation and find out what the truth is and work from there. this is come as the president just signed this bill this past week, new sanctions against russia. i want to hear now what the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nicki haley said about trump s sanctions on russia. we should be hard on any country meddling in our elections. those sanctions were a responsibility to the meddling and we negotiated with russia this week on this security council resolution and we were ....