for who, though? good enough to prevent war? push war further down the road, you think? good enough to prevent war. kim jong-un wanted to drive a wedge between seoul and washington. this has been kim family policy for seven decade. intimidate south koreans into submission. trump with impulsive decision said no, i m not letting that happen. that s a good thing. the way the north koreans will give up their nuke says because we sanction them to the point where they have no choice. north koreans aren t there yet. can you make the argument that north koreans win by having this meeting? they wanted a high level defacto recognition by the united states world leader to world leader? maybe even opening some kind of diplomatic direct talks? yes. they wanted this and do get that. there will be pictures of donald trump and kim jong-un side by side that elevates kim. north koreans have given up a lot for this. they have said according to the south koreans they are committed
give him chance. maybe after the meeting can you boo. how much of a domestic feeder on on both sides. exactly. it will be so interesting to watch out readouts from this movie occur. we have seen a great disparity in the way that different countries whose heads of state met with trump presented those meetings. pri private meetings. we are talking about allies of the united states. australia. and the white house presenting very different read out of meetings that occurred. imagine a meeting between two heads of state where countries haven t talked in decade and they don t have the track record so much will be left to sort of the spin the two countries put out. just organizing how this is choreographed, darlene, let me ask you quickly, syria huckabee sanders saying that trump has an incredible team helping them with north korea bp senator
why do they go to such great lengs and efforts to silence a woman they deny had a relationship with the president tp it doesn t make sense why they are going out of their way to silence a woman if they say there is was no affair with the president. a hugely difficult story for the white house. all you have to do and i m sure do you is listen to the press briefings everyday. oh, yeah. at least for the past week where sarah huckabee sanders, press secretary, gets asked about this a couple of time at least every briefing and the answer is this has been addressed. the president addressed this and she refers us to outside counsel, michael cohen, who quote unquote facilitated this payment. my colleagues and i have reached out to michael cohen and he doesn t pick up the phone or answer e-mail. it is obviously not a subject they want to talk about and really who would want to stand up there and talk about these issues involving the president of the united states so they are doing whateve
washington i was talking to a gentleman on the streets and still registered democrat, life-long democrat, voting for donald trump in november 2016. he said he is voting for rick saccone and five-generation family of steel in this very district at the same time you should note that conor lamb is similarly suggesting he backs the tariff and united steel workers union that backed conor lamb in this race. the democrat. and had rally for him in pittsburgh two nights ago. both are taking the high road along side the president knowing there is about 18,000 steel workers and their family members in this district alone. all right. thanks for that. let s talk about the national implications. i know you wrote a piece where you looked at this. obviously the president touted the fact he won this district by 20 plus points. but in some ways this is now seen as national referendum on his policies and could be a signal going into mid terms later on this year. what are the implications of it if in
i think is too early to talk about foreign policy triumphs. many problems ahead even before you get to the negotiating table. this whole process and what makes it so difficult and why it is it broken downsome times in the past is that you are starting from zero in terms of trust. on the streets of seoul, trump/kim meeting was met with skepticism. it is good news. everything is heading right way. given kim jong-un s character i don t think he will give up weapons easily. i can t believe either of them. i don t know what is in trump s head and i m doubtful he is serious about the meeting. in china, giving president xi saying the u.s. side highly appreciates the values. the japan times sounding a note of caution however with this japan has long insisted that