and be a positive. to hallie s point, what the uk cares most about is not all this dialogue but does the united states still believe in the special relationship, will they reaffirm the special relationship? will they be there to have a free trade agreement if and when the uk exits the european union? those questions matter in the long run. i m not sure how much any of this dialogue matters. the response is clearly different. if president obama had engaged in certain kinds of behaviors while abroad, of course thegd they would have commented in the same way that democrats are commenting now about president trump. george w. bush, bill clinton, george h.w. bush and had this behavior, this kind of public conduct from the president of the united states on a foreign trip, i imagine that the opposition party would have been appalled in ways that you can t even begin to put into words. is this something that will go back to the way it used to be
joins us live, bill neely, the south korean unification ministry reporting the daily phone calls on the hotline have resumed two years after the north severed those communications. how much of a break through is this for the possibility of a resolution to this crisis? yeah, good morning, ayman, we ve now had five exchanges across the border, no question, it s a brake through, whether it will resolve a nuclear crisis is a different issue. picking up on joe biden s words matter, he s right the dialogue matters. so really on the principle that jaw, jaw, is better than war, war, it will make dialogue easier and may well prevent misunderstandings. i use that world war ii phrase overnight. prime minister shinzo abe says the security situation facing