campaign? was that potentially a key part of that campaign, do you think? i do not think so. what matters to the north korean korean being sqezed economically and i do think those sanctions have been important. they have been supported in a bipartisan basis. in fact, senator toomey and i passed the ban committee, sanctions tof you were the the secondary sanctions component. make sure we punish other countries like clie thhina the administration opposed having a vote to further streions. you have strisan pport in the congress. i should say one of the consequences of the summit meeting and we re hoping good things will come from it. one of the consequences isand o about relaxing t economic sanctions which have put pressure on north korea and which we hope will bear fruit. if you pull back from those sanctions you re going to lose
is trying to speak kim jong-un s language or could this backfire? i m sure the intentions are good. how do we reach this young, isolatedader? pompeo been the only american to meet him twice. how can we give him a different view of the future. it s an odds film. it snacks a bit of a slick propaganda film. i think it backfired on the administration. the other thing is it puts donald trump and kim jong-un in the centerpiece of video. no mention of a man named moon jae. south koreans have much more in stake of this. this is not just about us. they were caught off guard by the president saying he s halting mihalt ing military exercises. what does he need to do? how big is his burden now?
we have some who are fearful of upsetting the president. it would mostly the leadership. it s not a good place for us to be. to have an administration that wakes up every day and making stuff up as they go along, with no coherency to it, i think us having to way inhatld cause them to have to think about what they re doing versus well, i m upset with x today so i ll do this. your reaction to that. senator corker, now tt he s retired is speaking out about it. he still votes with president trump pretty reliably. the republican party is donald trump s party. there s no question about that. the question is how do they stand up. last night we had only one actual election in america. a final result, a special election in wisconsin for state senate seat. a districtonald trump won by 18 points in 2016, a democrat won last night.
thank you jeff and richard for all of that reporting. really appreciate it. maryland democratic senator joins me to discuss all of this. thaupg for joining me. really appreciate it. bottom line, says north korea derstands there needs to be a verification process. he s hopeful they will achieve nuclear disarmament. do you take him at his word or do you think the trump administration is too easer to trump north korea? hope does not equal reality. north leaders he wanted to have psaa summit meeting on world stage. they got heaps of praise from
lawmakers on capitol hill to ease some of their concerns reporter: i may have lost you. jeff, i know you ve been working your sources and spoke with kellyann conway today. what s the messaging from the white house? reporter: kellyann conway as other administration officials to include mike pom ppeo say calling off these exercises set the right condition for these talks to move forward. nt has been tweeting about it calling the exercises war games. taking a line from kim jong-un calling it defensive. it was a couple of months ago that the president signed the spending bill. the president touted it as a