and then he stunned everyone by midnight on air force one, announcing he was pulling out because of that press conference by the canadian prime minister. justin trudeau, making very similar comments to the ones we have heard before the summit got under way. he says he made very similar comments to what he told the president during their one on one during the g7 summit. so it was stunning. the broader message is what message does this send to kim jong-un? andrea, there s a very real concern that this could raise significant questions, heading into this historic face-to-face. it does seem as though peter baker, you wrote about this. john bolton was in every frame, every picture frame, the national security adviser, with the president. pompeo, secretary pompeo, much less evident in quebec, joining
in the flight to singapore. i m not at all clear that secretary pompeo is as happy about thind of trashing of canada s prime minister. no. in fact, i think the person i talked to over the weekend made it very clear, this is a white house ging, tthing, the g7, we really involved in it. you know, this is a big, big moment in the relationship. you don t see this kind of blowup every day. as you said, andrea, i ve covered a lot of these g7s. i can t remember anything like this. i wanted to ask ben rhodes about this kind of confrontation with our closest allies, especially as the president is saying, if things don t go well in singapore, he s prepared to go back to maximum pressure, which means negotiating with our
air right now. i guess bigger things to worry about. [ inaudible ] every time i see him maybe tomorrow it s the same thing. maybe i ll see him tomorrow before he leaving. [ inaudible ] and that was dennis rodman, just landing at singapore s airport there. and i want to toss back to andrea, who is in singapore tracking all of these extraordinary breaking news developments. andrea, i heard him say that people should. expect so much, but he does think that this summit is going to go fairly well. some of his audio a little bit difficult to hear. what did you make of this remarkable scene that we just
rejection of the trump message to the allies, writing but other republicans have been noticeably silent about the president s comments. joining me now is republican congressman mike mccaul. thank you very much for coming on. thanks, andrea. i have to ask you about what happened over the weekend in quebec. the president not only refused to sign a document that american diplomats helped negotiate, but then comments of his top trade negotiator saying there s a special place in hell for the prime minister of canada, whose troops right now are serving in afghanistan with ours. what s going on? right. so a littl bit of a surprise
is that north korea kicked the ieae inspectors out and also dropped out of the nonproliferation treaty, as well, years and years ago. so are there even enough inspectors to begin trying to verify the baseline, the ti ty give of their nuclear program, wendy? well, they ll have to probably plus up the number of inspectors they have. even though the united states has pulled out of the iran agreement, it s still ongoing, as the europeans, russia and china try to keep it going. and that takes a lot of resources from the iaea. but the international atomic energy agency is able to increase its capacity. but you re quite right, andrea. this would be a declaration that would have to have all kinds of inspections to it. maybe even some any time, anywhere inspections, which no one has agreed to because north korea is a very mountainous country, and we re not sure where everything is.