their nation that s been devastated. mark: talking about south korea and japan kicking in money to help? i think it s certainly important for more nations in that region to be taking a leadership role. we see it in other challenges that we face. middle east and elsewhere, where nations in that region of the country taking on a leadership role in rebuilding their region and working with their neighbors and not making it the united states responsibility to fix it for them. mark: congressman desantis, this isn t a piece in our time moment, is it? where they say we ll denuclearize, we want tens of billions of dollars, we don t care where it comes from. american allies, america, china, no matter where it is? i think president trump is not interested in the same old charade we ve seen time and time again for years with north korea and other instances. if there s going to be an agreement, they re going to have to do this first and we re going to have to be able to
kim jong-un, but it s in spite of his best efforts in pursuing a better path for the north koreans, i think he has more support from his people. and i also believe that economically that the sanctions that were ramped up in 2017, we had unanimous vote, thankfully able to get china, even russia voted for effectively coming off over one-third of north korean exports in august of 2017. i think economically, they need this. they need the summit, they need this agreement more than a lot of americans and people around the world realize, and that s a good thing for getting the results we re looking for. mark: congressman desantis, do you really think that kim jong-un, the third generation of the stalinist regime is prepared to completely denuclearize north korea? do you think there s a way, if he says he will, to really ensure that he does? i mean we ve had the agreements
. mark: welcome back. congressman desantis, what s china want to get out of this? i go back and forth. do they want the peninsula denuclearized? maybe, because maybe they think the young fella is out of control and can t control him completely, and maybe it creates problems for their geopolitical agenda. on the other hand, i look at china, they re enormously aggressive. they re aggressive geopolitically, economically, militarily with the phony islands they built. they now militarized. they threaten the philippines, threaten japan, threatened vietnam, vietnam is looking to us for help. you look at cyber warfare. they re stealing us blind on our technology through a multiple of methodologies that they re using and so forth and making alliances with enemies like iran. they have ties with russia. what does china want to get out of our discussions with north korea, do you think? well, look, north korea in
from great american entrepreneurs and companies. so we have a challenge of having to look at this multidimensionally but the president is showing he s up to it, and i think china will respect us more for it. i think these nations like china and north korea and iran and elsewhere, they respect us when we are being strong, and when we are weak, they re watching us be weak to other nations, they smell on it and prey upon it. mark: we ll be right back. does this map show the peninsula trail? you won t find that on a map. i ll take you there. take this left. if you listen real hard you can hear the whales. oop. you hear that? (vo) our subaru outback lets us see the world.
in better behavior, to possibly enter into a deal where they re denuclearizing themselves. i think for the north koreans, that is one that can potentially be a good thing in reverse while china might be, they have their own selfish goals. we have ours, south korea has theirs, japan has theirs, for korea to know they have a neighbor that wants to do busissith them and smell, see the prosperity that is elusive for th. that relationship is a good thing, and if it s ignored, actually i don t think there s any way we re going to achieve the results we re looking for. one other thing i would point out is the president, and he has good people around him. mike pompeo is the secretary of state, and john bolton now the national security adviser, president trump is not going to get played, and i think that it s important up-front to make sure that the north koreans are willing to get the results we re looking for. mark: we re going to expand on this in a second. go to levin tv, crtv.com, where