he tweets. he goes off on press conferences. then you ve got, you know, probably competing advisers competing for his ear. you ve got the secretary of state, who has actually met kim jong-un twice. he s been there. he s negotiated. he established the intelligence channel. then you ve got john bolton who, you know, purportedly has been very skeptical of these negotiations for a long time. but the fact that they both publicly said, well, that pompeo has said, we can negotiate with this guy, but then he s contradicted even by the vice president, talking about the libya model. and then john bolton. and then the north koreans react. you know, i m not defending the north koreans, but here they released three americans about a week ago. they detonated the nuclear site. i think this morning they destroyed it. they think that they re reaching out in a positive way. and then they re saying, well,
he s negotiated. he established the intelligence channel. then you ve got john bolton who, you know, purportedly has been very skeptical of these negotiations for a long time. but the fact that they both publicly said, well, that pompeo has said, we can negotiate with this guy, but then he s contradicted even by the vice president, talking about the libya model. and then john bolton. and then the north koreans react. you know, i m not defending the north koreans, here they release three americans about a week ago. they detonated the nuclear site. i think this morning they destroyed it. they think that they re reaching out in a positive way. and then they re saying, well, what about the u.s.? what are you guys doing? well, you re talking about the libya model.
mongolia has been raised, and i think this shows the involvement of mike pompemomenpompeimoment . i think as he comes on as secretary the state, we ll hear more about his roles. this is whether many, when the talks were initially agreed to by the president, expected would have happened and should have happened before there was a summit between president trump and kim jong-un. that s right. look, you don t just have a summit between two leaders with so many tough issues, particularly denuclearization before preparatory talks, a lot of this will be going on in secret, victor, but this north korea/cia intelligence channel has been in existence. the white house felt this was at way to prepare that going