so why do we see this and say this? satellite images suggesting that north korea is making progress on a ballistic missile site. so how does all this jibe with the president s claim that there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea? let s discuss. ambassador nicholas burns, a former u.s. ambassador to nato and cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. the threat s over, phil. you heard it. i heard it. what was the president doing there? i mean he s talking to the american people, but if you look at what his spokesman on this, mike pompeo, has said, we ve got a long way to go on this. look, chris, we ve been involved in nonproliferation before. let s look at saddam hussein. the president gets off the plane after five hours of conversation with kim jong-un and what s left on the table? first, are you certain of intent? what is kim jong-un thinking? i m not. second, the more complicated, intricate problem. i want a declaration of every facility where they ve tested, developed, sto
administration official, at least one of the president s own intelligence agencies believe that kim jong-un has zero intention of fully denuclearizing. okay. so why do we see this and say this? satellite images suggesting that north korea is making progress on a ballistic missile site. so how does all this jibe with the president s claim that there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea? let s discuss. ambassador nicholas burns, a former u.s. ambassador to nato and cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. the threat s over, phil. you heard it. i heard it. what was the president doing there? i mean he s talking to the american people, but if you look at what his spokesman on this, mike pompeo, has said, we ve got a long way to go on this. look, chris, we ve been involved in nonproliferation before. let s look at saddam hussein. the president gets off the plane after five hours of conversation with kim jong-un and what s left on the table?
a welcomed step for the families. key, though, does the united states definition of denuclearize jibe with kim jong- jong-un? should a supporter of the president get to eat at a restaurant run by people who do not support the president? we will debate this shortly without shouting. at least we will try. we had long deployments in iraq. i m really grateful that usaa was able to take care of my family while i was overseas serving.
we have to save him from himself. how does that jibe with what you saw play out at various attempts of a dhaka deal? i m not at all surprised that any of this happened or that kelly was taking credit for it. the president said as much. that if there were a deal, he would sign it. and he wasn t particularly concerned what was in it. and time after time his staff would come forward and say actually we have three pages of demands, eight pages of demands, the things that president says are important like the wall are not the things that we think are important, like changing asylum policy, like cutting legal immigration. so i think a lot of us intuited that john kelly was one of the staffers who was really pulling that back, and it s good to see that confirmed. but it absolutely does seem accurate that had john kelly not been in the room, donald trump might have gotten something like $18 billion for the wall and in exchange will give permanent legal status to dhaka resip yentes.
it s very clear there is no mutual trust and mutual respect. and the fact that you other white house staffers that are putting out these allegations suggest that people who work for kelly don t respect him there is no way that a white house can function in that climate. dara, i wanted to ask you about the daca portion of this. how does that jibe the idea that he said the president is an idiot who doesn t know anything about daca. we have to save him from himself. how does that jibe with what you saw play out at various attempts of a dhaka deal? i m not at all surprised that any of this happened or that kelly was taking credit for it. the president said as much. that if there were a deal, he would sign it. and he wasn t particularly concerned what was in it. and time after time his staff would come forward and say actually we have three pages of demands, eight pages of demands, the things that president says are important like the wall are not the things that we think are important,