relationship is with israel. world s economy here and who dana: thanks, trey yingst. wants to challenge the middle east oil flow and who s in a little australian girl was sad control of it. about a toy she lost on a trip dana: if you could listen to a couple of senators. to buckingham palace. first listen to senator ben the 5-year-old misplaced a carton of maryland, a democrat. stuffed monkey somewhere on the watch. a military answer is not the ground. she and her school mates wrote answer. we could be engaged in to queen elizabeth. the good news is, the palace escalating conflict which is against our national security found the monkey sending harriet interests. back along with a toy dog called so we need to find a way to get rex. can t get better than that. to a place where we can have thanks for joining us. diplomacy work. that s challenging. i m dana perino. here s shep. this president has made it more shepard: it s noon on the west coast, 3:00 in miami where difficult. th
no question in my mind. to me, it was the wrong decision to make, it was against our national security interests for us to pull out of the agreement. we should have pursued actions against iran for its nonnuclear violations of international agreements. we would have had the support of our allied partners in doing that, isolating iran. that would have been a much better course to pursue, instead by the president withdrawing, he did elevate tension between our country and iran and isolated america. do you support the president talking to iran without preconditions? i have no idea what the president is going to do. i would like the president to be prepared for a meeting. we have seen in summit meetings with kim jong-un, it doesn t look like there was as much preparation as there should have been. you see that with summit meetings with putin and russia. so yes, i want to see diplomacy work, but i want to be sure the president is prepared and we have the support of international partner
elements of our sanctions regime. there are a lot of people who say that the pain is being passed on to the people. when we say is being passed on, we have to note it is the regime itself that is ensuring its own survival and ensuring the hardship of its own people. it could be diverting funds away from its military program come away from its nuclear enrichment and away from its terrorism support but it is it doesn t do that and it passes on the pain to the average iranian. dana: let me put up a list of the countries secretary pompeo was visiting before he heads to the g20 summit. saudi arabia, uae, india, japan, republic of korea. it is part of the message does the treasury department and state department have to work together in lockstep to make the diplomacy work so that the pentagon doesn t have to actually come in and take action? that s exactly right. that is the playbook. it s showing the iranians we have an international coalition that s committed to isolating them. a c
we re in a position with u.s. troops on the ground to engage in diplomacy. i think that announcement by the president today that saudi arabia wants to put money into help rebuild that area gives the president somewhat of an out in my view to be able to slow this whole thing down. i think he signaled that that s what he s going to do, to let diplomacy work. and overcome what i think would be the negative effects of a very rapid pullout, which is what i understood the original plan was. so i think there is time right now for diplomacy. but once america is out of there, molly, we have no skin in the game. we are not going to help shape the future of that part of the world and what we re going to wind up with is iran and a land bridge that many commentators have talked about, but it s a serious issue. they can go all the way to the mediterranean, the next thing will be a pipeline. russians will be selling oil to the europeans and that is a
what do you think of president trump s decision to allow kim yong chol to come to the white house for a formal meeting? if i think the meetings are extremely important. as we said before on your show, there s only one path forward to resolve the crisis in north korea that can work, that s diplomacy. i think north korea understands that. i hope america understands that. we need to make diplomacy work. are you worried the north koreans will spin it into a win for them. he is allowed outside the 25-mile radius of the united nations, first time in almost two decades, coming to washington, actually going for a meeting with president trump at the white house. well, you know, it s clear that north korea created the crisis by violating