news sunday. well, following the failed summit in vietnam, where does diplomacy stand between the u.s. and north korea? what is president trump looking for, and what is he willing to give? well, i don t agree at all that it was a failed summit. i think the obligation of the president of the united states is to defend and advance american national security interests, and i think he did that by rejecting a bad deal and by trying again to persuade kim jong un to take the big deal that really could make a difference for north korea. as the president said, sometimes you have to walk away, and i think he made a very important point to north korea and to other countries around the world about negotiating with him. he s not desperate for a deal, not with north korea, not with anybody. if it s contrary to american national interests. chris: well, i want to puck up on that, though, because apparently it had become clear in negotiations over the preceding weeks and finally days before hanoi th
back then there was cautious optimism that there were grown-ups around. they were going take care of this transatlantic alliance. that was absent at this meeting. and they ve kind of moved on. and i think that s really scary for american national security interests, because we have real challengers out there. russia first and foremost, china for the rest of the century. we cannot go it alone in dealing with these kinds of competitors. that s the first thing. the second thing, however, yes. the vice president biden s speech got tremendous applause. by the way, speaker pelosi was in the room too. when she stood up to wave, everybody thunderous applause for her. and there was a good news message too. there were, as you already said, 50 members of congress there. democrats, republicans from the senate, from the u.s. congress. and i heard lots of positive remarks, especially about some of the young new members that had just been elected that came to this meeting to say we are still with you
is important news and worrisome and troublesome, in your view, can joe biden s advice be taken? can this be put together in europe view? will we be back? well, the first thing i agree in the analysis with the new york times that you quoted. it felt broken. remember, i was at the first vice president pence s speech at this conference in 2017. back then there was cautious optimism that there were grown-ups around. they were going take care of this transatlantic alliance. that was absent at this meeting. and they ve kind of moved on. and i think that s really scary for american national security interests, because we have real challengers out there. russia first and foremost, china for the rest of the century. we cannot go it alone in dealing with these kinds of competitors. that s the first thing. the second thing, however, yes. the vice president biden s
and remember, i was at the first vice president pence s speech at this conference in 2017. back then there was cautious optimism that there were grown-ups around. they were going take care of this transatlantic alliance. that was absent at this meeting. and they ve kind of moved on. and i think that s really scary for american national security interests, because we have real challengers out there. russia first and foremost, china for the rest of the century. we cannot go it alone in dealing with these kinds of competitors. that s the first thing. the second thing, however, yes. the vice president biden s speech got tremendous applause. by the way, speaker pelosi was in the room too. when she stood up to wave, everybody thunderous applause for her. and there was a good news message too. there were, as you already said, 50 members of congress there, democrats, republicans from the senate, from the u.s. congress. and i heard lots of positive
to be able to be there to articulate and protect department of defense interests. department of defense interests, which really means american national security interests. secretary mattis is signaling he s afraid if he s not there at the next summit, something bad might happen, the department s interest might not be represented fully. and the reason for that is because president trump got awfully close at that last summit meeting to withdrawing and it required the intervention of cabinet level officials and it sounds like also some foreign officials to keep him from doing so and in fact, it was so bad when he went to give the press conference, not everybody knew most people didn t know except for donald trump what he was going to say. the senate got word of this and in the last house, they passed legislation tieing the president s hands. the gram menendez bill would have to be passed again but c contains a provision that says