gerald seib from the wall street journal and john goldberg with national review. good to have you on a sunday and holiday weekend at that. happy memorial day. gerald, the question of the week is whether the summit happens? nobody knows, somebody said it s back on track, who knows. more likely than not because i think the one thing we ve learned in the last 72 hours is that both of the leaders chairman kim in north korea and president trump here really want this thing to happen. so that s probably the most important thing, the dynamic, what was going on the two sides were talking past each other in preparation for this and they stopped talking to each other at all. now they are back to talking to each other. so i don t think it s a certainty, i think it s a likelihood. bill: piece in wall street journal said lost in translation, a lot has happened since thursday. exactly. bill: probably what senator blunt referred to, can you get all three sides, north, south
goldberg senior editor of national review. a.b. stoddard associated editor of the hill and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. it s like the firing line. the old meet the press . yes. i know the decision is yet to be made officially. july 21st is a date we all have on our calendar apparently. i want to ask you about some foreign policies happening now. iran deal is in extra overtime. apparently the administration striving to get this deal. what would you do as president with this deal? would you sign it as you see it developing now? we don t know all the particulars. i feel that it s very dangerous to fall in love with your own idea. and i think the administration has probably fallen in love with the fact that they want to get a degree. and when people are hyperventilating and unable to get one, sometimes they go and they sign something they shouldn t. just remember reagan where gorbachev said get rid of all nuclear weapons. i remember reagan getting back in the car an
armed services committee asked for. but it didn t make it any easier to hear. as of july 3rd we are currently training about 60 fighters. reporter: a stunning admission for a program that s been called an essential part of white house strategy to defeat isis. just 60 syrian volunteers being trained by u.s. forces to battle the terror group in syria. a shockingly low number and far fewer still than the 90 volunteers defense secretary carter claimed were being trained back in may. this number is much smaller than we d hoped for at this point. i got to tell you after four years, mr. secretary, that s not a very impressive number. reporter: the administration s initial plans called for up to 300 trainees per class to undergo six to eight weeks of training before joining the fight. the goal? train up to 5400 fighters every year. but to date a mere 60 have been cleared for training while another 7,000 are still being vetted. white house officials expressed disappointment
about that collateral loss of life and the other one is, if you kill them you can t question them. vice news giving that interview with that cia psychologist, james mitchell believed to be the architect of the techniques used in interrogations and obviously the big news of this week so far is the reaction to this report. you just heard former vice president dick cheney here on special report. let s bring in our panel. john goldberg, senior representative of national review. amy stoddard and charles krauthammer. vice president? vice president. i thought it was very impressive, forthright, it was borderline jack nicholson saying, you re damned right i ordered the code red, totally unapologetic. and they make a very powerful case. i am not sure that some lawyers at doj say it s not torture that means it s not torture. lawyers are known to torture the
conference that we will follow up, and it was actually great. the young kids can, with some great ideas about how they would like to have a mentor ship the young kids came, with some great ideas about how they would like to have a mentorship, if possible, a graduate from college. there was a benefit for special olympics. we did a giveaway for visitation valley. operation dream. we were all over the city. we did a santa claus event at the mission. we gathered funds and then bought toys at the 49ers game. we were other places, and north beach place, christmases all over town. as far as public safety, the reason there was a mention that the name was not put out that quickly, i have to remind everybody that everything we have will be put out within 10 days or less, knowing that on this particular occasion on the shooting in northern, we were not 100% sure who the person was until we got a positive analysis because the injury from the gunshot was to be head, so we had to do it