he says he made it clear that jinping has a role to play to do whatever they can. bill: on that point you were with the north korean delegation in hanoi and singapore. what did you tell the north koreans about what you felt the influence of beijing was then and now? that s a great question. we have lots of conversations about this. i was with chairman kim on multiple occasions. we made clear we understood they were under the jack boot of the chinese communist party and it made things difficult for chairman kim when he wanted to be closer to the united states. he wanted to listen to president trump and consider whether there was a path forward towards full and final denuclearization. chairman kim is in a tough place and made sure the chinese communist party understood we were serious about what they were doing and understood while they were not in perfect control of what took place in north
how do we stop that claim and should there be a counterclaim to that? he is going to make a big claim on may 9th. i think there is a whole bunch of things to do. it would be a big day to send a truck load of reinforced equipment not only from the united states but from the europeans as well that would be great if that was a day we announced we were going to frac in the united states again and unleash american energy to support the long-term efforts that the europeans will need to free themselves from the russian jack boot of crude oil. there is lots of things we could do on may 9th to counter that story. i m guessing president zelenskyy is prepared to tell a story about ukrainian success as well. they have had enormous success despite of the horrors inflicted upon them. the ukrainian military leadership and the people of ukraine should be incredibly proud and may 9th should be a day ukrainians are proud and russians are chastised by everyone in the world. brian: i understand talk