korea or at least eliminate the threat from north korea, even though we all know that north korea continues to pose a threat. they have not allowed inspectors to go in and see what kind of nuclear weapons they have. they have not taken any significant steps to get rid of those weapons. but the president is -- likes to think of himself as a master brander and marketer and he's going to market whatever comes out of this meeting as a great victory, a victory for the american people, something that would allow the american people to sleep more safely at night, even though his intelligence officials are saying the opposite. saying that the north koreans are not likely to give up their weapons at all. >> yeah. so josh, you recently wrote about this topic. i'm going read a portion of an op-ed you recently penned. you said when the trump team began its north korean diplomacy, it assured the american public it would not repeat past mistakes. yet a familiar pattern is repeating itself. the united states is getting roped into an unending, unclear process of gradual arms control negotiations with pyongyang that