uniquely dysfunctional. brian class joins me from london, he s an assistant professor at the university of college london. as well as a host for the washington post. reading what the president has said, isn t the president totally proving this ambassador right in realtime? if you wanted to show people you re insecure, you could have a meltdown like trump did over the last several days. this is america s closest and most important ally. he s responding to damaging relations. just simply because he didn t flatter him unequivocally. i think what s telling about this is how this juxta poses against the g-20 summit, in which trump had nothing but praise for every december pot and dictator on the planet. and the democratic ally of the united states has one leaked
of any kind of agreement. obviously the most important the denuclearization. the president announced teams will be meeting. this is the third time with chairman kim. and there s been no evidence that it s worked so far. that is the challenge, that he %-pl relationship. and we saw that also with the chinese leader. he gave big concessions. but still not closing any sort of deal. similarly here with north korea, it isn t the president s style. he is the great deal maker. when do we expect deals to be had? you know, it s interesting. because the president puts so much stock in one-on-one his own ability to negotiate with other world leaders, it makes it difficult for progress to take place if he s not at the table.
like get out of her house. it s heard breaking to me. yeah. are you old enough to remember barack obama as president? yes. what do you remember from when he was president? thankfully. she said thankfully. what do you remember? i felt safer. i felt more confident about our neighborhoods, the people around us. i just felt better about the country that we live in. uh-huh. you actually sound like young barack obama the way you speak. he does. i want people to know that the only thing in d.c. isn t the president, and the people here probably like any state in the united states just it s a good community. it s a good place. i know a lot of people like think about like the d.c. like a place where they like divide
capitol hill has ceded a lot of authority to the administration going back many years. then why would chuck grassley pipe in at all? because i think there are republicans who believe they need to speak out. what we ve seen in this administration since the beginning of 2017 is congress speaks out and doesn t do much on the other end. lindsey graham, for example, is supportive of this after being against tariffs for a long time. it s funny, i was on the phone with people from the white house last night who were saying this is counter to our message that the northern triangle countries, not mexico but other countries in the region have more to do with illegal immigration than mexico. so this runs counter to what the white house has been saying for years, yes, mexico has a role to play, by the way, it s also american immigration laws. the president has said the border needs to be tightened. this is a weird confluence. but jake, isn t the president s argument here, he s not decipherin
i just felt better about the country that we live in. uh-huh. you actually sound like young barack obama the way you speak. he does. i want people to know that the only thing in d.c. isn t the president. and the people here probably like any state in the united states just it s a good community. it s a good place. i know a lot of people like think about like the d.c. like a place where they like divide people based on like color, religion, their sexuality but there is always a part in d.c. where there is a community you can always go to? i like how everything blends here, cultures from all over the world and everybody seems to accept that. it s been great to go to some of the marches that have been here. i had a great time at the women s march. it was fun to be part of a big movement like that. i like people stand up for what they believe in, the hatred