their throats. we told them we made a mistake by prematurely lifting our boots off of the throat. we could have gotten a better deal arguably with iran. before these negotiations began, kim jong un knew what he was getting into. that we were going to hold him accountable for real negotiations and we were not going to reduce the maximum economic pressure until we see denuclearization. >> we have a president who said, i want to take action in syria and did it, has done it twice. now he's backing kim jong un into a corner between the sanctions and the tough talk that a lot of people dismissed a year ago. they said this little rocket man business would blow up in our face. but they were wrong. >> my reading of it is that kim jong un accepted our president statements at face