will somehow give away more than he gets but definitely progress here has to be made. bill, it s an important point. like the last summit, this summit appears to be a summit for the sake of having a summit. the president keeps talking about his wonderful personal relationship with kim jong un, keeps talking about denuclearization, but there s nothing in any public or private comments, nothing along diplomacy being li diplomatic lines that would suggest north korea is moving toward denuclearizing, is there? no. and centrifuges are still spinning, it s still working on long range icbm missiles keepable of hitting the united states and jim coates testified
president won t go to mar-a-lago which is the original plans for the holiday if in fact there is a government shutdown that he would be here trying to reopen the government, but it is hard to see how that would happen over the holidays, and so the president increasingly backed into the corner over all of this, and as questions mount over whether or not there is an actual plan to rele solve this and we continue to track the readouts as we get the readouts from the pool reporters in the room with the president. thank you, kristen welker. and in a single sense of independence, and the first trump cabinet officer to praise jim mattis at the wrath of the president. former ambassador jim coates saying that the experience that jim mattis has brought to the decision-makings is invaluable.