takes months if not years to resolve. have you changed your mind on that? well, look, i would say the process can be as fast as the north koreans want it to be. if they decide they want to move ahead towards the kinds of benefits that secretary pompeo has held out for them, they can get this done very quickly. all they have to do is dismantle missiles, open up sites. let inspectors in. that can be a matter of months if they want it to be. if they want it to go slower, the timing is much more in their court than it is our court. the question is how much do they want those benefits? how much do they want the sanctions to come off? how much do they want oil to flow in at a higher rate? how much do they want to boost hard currency reserves? we know they want all those things. the question is how quickly do they want them? they can get them more quickly by denuclearizing more quickly. bill: you are a great guest. michael, thank you. sandra: lawmakers wrestling over immigration reform.
can sell someplace else, it doesn t matter. the obama administration claims a 20 to 30% reduction in iran s exports, and again that depends on what level you pick from last year, compared to what month of this year. number one, and, it all depends on the official statistics. so, if you believe that iran is being completely honest, and in the oil export statistics you can take some comfort from those numbers. but, iran has stocked up, it has got extensive hard currency reserves and, you know, the last test was in the perm-5 plus one, in negotiation with iran in moscow, about two weeks ago. and iran gave no grounds, there will be another lower level meeting this coming tuesday and no indication they ll give any ground there and i think iran thinks the leverage is on its side and it can get the u.s. and europe to back down. before it has to make any significant concessions on its nuclear program. eric: the administration gave the oil waivers out to a bunch of countries, about 20 cou
military strategist. let s not talk about that. we ll save that for another day. on this point, you could argue that the united states has already given north korea m an it e has before. this is in a meeting that other presidents couldot have had, michael. it s a meeting the chose not to have because they didn t want t with the united states. you have a lot baked in there. we ve given them a lot in the past. the agreed framework in the early 90s gave them many thousands of tons of fuel oil. we relaxed sanctions that allowed them access to the world financial system, that allowed them to build up their hard currency reserves. but nobody ever gave them diplomacy. let sack that, too,little bi. a lot of critics were saying the president shouldn t be meeting with kim jong-un because he s a bad guy. the same people who months ago said the president was ratcheting up tension to high levels. the tension is down. you happen to be right.