summit. a lot, that is one problem with our relationship with north korea. wewe don t have a common definition of what constitutes denuclearization, we don t have anre agreement on the process, first, the denuclearization or sanction relief? they have had one summit. we re at the beginning of a process, we re not deep into the process.ef and we ll face an issue here where what kind of concrete steps are the nort north koreans going to take. sure they are not sending missilest over japan and not testing nuclear weapons. but maybe they don t neat to the test, we know they have operative nuclear weapons and they have the ability if send missiles. what concrete steps do we take? a key thing we ll look at, i take to people in foreign policy area, facility yongbyon.
the certain window of the whirlwind of trump and diplomacy with the art of the deal coming in here. and we have seen what happened in helsinki with vladimir putin and in singapore with kim jong-un and they are looking at maybe a window because trump sees the agenda to his opponent. some don t want to see talks happen until the harsher sanctions. this is the foreign policy area that the white house likes to sound toughest on. back to you. nick paton walsh in london. thank you.
everybody knows it. joining me right now from helsinki is andrea mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for nbc news. also senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. let me ask you, andrea, you are the straightest of reporters and the best in the foreign policy area. i understand why a country would deny spying. that s what spies do. they deny spying. but why would the people spied upon deny it? why would the president take that position today politically? i just can t figure it out. i ve never seen anything quite like this. an american president not only not standing up to a russian adversary but basically wanting to be liked perhaps. in the body language. and then lapsing into long discarded conspiracy theories about the 2016 campaign. he defeated hillary clinton. i m not talking about the popular vote. we decide elections by the electoral college. he is the president of the united states. yet he can t seem to. so obsessing over the need to
several reports since then, there was no mole inside the campaign but as the fbi became increasingly worried about possible links with russia, it had a fellow, apparently an american professor based in england, talk to several members of the trump campaign, particularly in the foreign policy area. does that bother you? yeah, it bothers me that there may be an informant in one of the campaigns, unless there s a good reason. all i can tell you is the dossier compiled by mr. steele that was given to the justice department, where they obtained a warrant against carter page chris: if i may, let me ask you. what we re talking about here is not a mole inside the campaign but asking somebody outside the campaign to make efforts to reach out to carter page, to george papadopoulos, to sam
since then, there was no mole inside the campaign but as the fbi became increasingly worried about possible links with russia, it had a fellow, apparently an american professor based in england, talk to several members of the trump campaign, particularly in the foreign policy area. does that bother you? yeah, it bothers me that there may be an informant in one of the campaigns, unless there s a good reason. all i can tell you is the dossier compiled by mr. steele that was given to the justice department where they obtained a warrant against carter page, somebody inside the trump orbit, was a bunch of political garbage. it was not well-vetted and that s chris: let me ask you. what we re talking about here is not a mole inside the campaign but asking somebody outside the campaign to make efforts to reach out to carter page, to george papadopoulos, apparently to sam clovis to try to find out