down with kim jong-un putting down a strategy in the face of provocations. north koreans hadn t tested a missile mae in a while and reassumed and we had to respond and we did respond. he got them to the table on his terms and that makes a difference. they never felt this level of pressure before. what matters to north koreans is regime survival. they just want to stay in power. they made a calculation. they built a nuclear program and their calculation was it will rememb a nuclear program is very expensive they now have to wonder maybe it doesn t ensure our survival our economy could collapse from the program. bill: he said if you don t like the military exercises i ll
pressure on and as long as president trump keeps the pressure up. i do think he realizes for the survival of his country he has to comply. having said that we have to have robust inspections and verify and i don t trust if he can get away with sometime something he will and by congress making sure there are inspections and there are ways toerify what s being said and promise this can go forward. again, at any given time the president has to be ready to leave the table. last night was a very positive start and i don t think we should look to all the details right now because it s right now so in the formula stage. again, i give the president tremendous credit for what s occurred. sandra: i want to ask you about devin nunes
all te the good feelings are great but all the pressure s still on. bill: he s ready a little bit now and he needs to keep that going in order to stay in power. sandra: do you give the credit to the president for the team he has around him, mike pompeo has been a rock star behind all the this and setting all this up from go back before he was even secre of state. sure, mike pompeo is an experienced foreign policy leader and in congress for a long time bill: this guy emerged eight years ago. one of the concerns i do have is all these vacant positions we still have at the state department yet to be filled by the trump administration and a lot of those positions are foreign polic position that
white house. bill, it still the early hours. a lot to be worked out. on the surface at least, looks promises. bill: after watching it, john, anything is possible. quite literally. thank you. travel well. exactly. bill: thank you, john roberts, live in singapore. sandra: the landmark agrent on north korea s denuclearization seems to fit into the trump doctrine and what the president sees as his strong suit. negotiating, which includes knowing how much pressure should be applied to get a deal done. what trump figured out is that the north koreans have been good at lying for a long time. they never suffered any consequences. so he wanted i think he felt he was in a position where he had to apply so mh p herbal pressure and practical pressure that kim jong-un would reach a conclusion that for his regime to survive, something had to change.
denuclearizes? w have to check and we ll check it strongly. it s a ban total and complete. and you trust him? i do. the answer is i do. sandra: the president there, congressman, to be clear, he was asked and you trustim and he said i do. you know, as i told you at six months the answer is i do. you just said you don t trust him one bit. no, trust but ve. i don t trust him to keep his word unless we keep the pressure on him. the only reason kim jong-un is at the table is because of president trump s diplomatic skills and his pressure and rhetoric and upping the ante is what forced him to the table. the sanctions were unprecedented. i trust kim jong-un will do what he has to so long as we keep the