you want the buk, you want hezbollah. one of the great moments you live for as an investigator, right? he knows i know what this is about and that s the opening. he said i can t talk to you about that right now, i need to think about this. that s when the canadian information became critical. that canadian evidence showed that he had direct contact with mohamed debuque in vancouver. we had surveillance photographs of them together. once he knew he was going to be charged with material support to terrorism, that s when he knew he had to strike a deal. the negotiation turned to i will cooperate with you but i ve got concerns about my family in lebanon. his view was that if it came to be known we were cooperating in his prosecution, his family would be dead. so ken was the guy that was
about and that s the opening. he said i can t talk to you about that right now, i need to think about this. that s when the canadian information became critical. that canadian evidence showed that he had direct contact with mohamed debuque in vancouver. we had surveillance photographs of them together. with fraudulent credit cards. meeting at times and places with military equipment. once he knew he was going to be charged with material support to terrorism, that s when he knew he had to strike a deal. the negotiation turned to i will cooperate with you but i ve got concerns about my family in lebanon. his view was that if it came to be known we were cooperating in his prosecution, his family would be dead. so ken was the guy that was taking the point on moving the family to the u.s. that wasn t my first idea of
important. other americans say it s important. they don t want to be number two in the world especially if number one is china. shannon: to that end the president has been very relational in a lot of these hot topics and sticky foreign policy situations. he has long talked about his relationship with president xi. we think about them together and the diplomacy and getting together. do you think that relationship in this tense of a situation will pay dividends? yes, it will. president xi we know is under pressure. there has been a lot of criticism over the last 10 years or so from the hawks in china. the impression has been given that president xi is negotiating with a gun to his head because of these tariffs. the pressure on huawei, the arrest of madam, who is a princess. i thought it was ironic that ivanka trump is at the meeting but a princess of china is under house arrest in vancouver
you know, an appearance isn t just a bad thing, whether it s ivanka, jared, mr. trump himself. an appearance is the yellow light. you ve that is what tells you stop here. when they see that light, they are putting the pedal to the metal and going through the intersection. now we are seeing that there may be some collisions with the ethics rules. it gets even worse than that. this, the investigation of ivanka is a counter intelligence investigation. who is she doing business with? what are the risks to our country by this enterprise she s been involved with in vancouver. it is totally fair game and the country shouldn t have been put in this situation. what i hear you saying is they put themselves in the cross hair of investigations by being
the chinese are very important. it s a sadness that they weren t in vancouver for the meeting. frankly, i m glad that we were in vancouver for the meeting, because given some of our positions, some of the things the president said, i mean, i can envision circumstances where we wouldn t have shown up, either. interesting. director clapper, north and south korea, they seem to be making some degree of progress. they ve been holding talks about sending athletes to the upcoming olympics. the japanese foreign minister says we should not be fooled by the north s charm offensive. does he have a point? well, he does. what s going on now i think is transactional, and this is typical north korean. by the way, just to underline a point mike made, the north koreans are very rational in their context. they re very rational and they know what they re doing. so the north koreans wanted to participate in the winter olympics, and so they reached