he is in no rush to push kim toward denuclearization. there is a chance if kim doesn t start to take moves to get rid of his nuclear program the u.s. risks falling back into the old pattern of a north korean leader promising something only to renege on it. president trump has made it clear there are no sanctions taken off korea until kim takes some action. maybe that will help push him down the road. what about the white house press corps being relocated to a different hotel in hanoi? i ve covered the white house ten years and been to dozens of countries around the world and never seen anything like this happen. we worked together with the white house to set up what s called the white house press filing center at the malia hotel. took weeks to bring the equipment here and get it set up. when kim jong-un, who is staying at the same hotel as
understanding is the original national emergencies act was kind of gutted. they used to have another legislative veto in it and it was taken out. this is a thing courts can look at to say this is the expressed will of the house and the congress to do something, the president doesn t have this law was badly written, they may have the whole thing out. bret: the president s former attorney michael cohen just wrapped up a closed-door session with the senate intelligence committee, he testifies in public tomorrow. he stopped by the microphones briefly come up we ll a listen. i appreciate the opportunity given to me to clear the record and tell the truth and i look forward to tomorrow to being able to in my voice tell the american people my story and i m going to let the american people decide exactly who was telling the truth. bret: we will cover that. republicans are saying this guy lied to congress and now
i think one thing people are worried about is first of all, it s a top-down negotiation which is different from what has been in the past. at some point this macro horsetrading is going to have to be worked down to a working level. if kim doesn t think the working level people have the voice to say what the united states is willing to do and only trump has that, it s difficult for me to see how they can get down into the nitty-gritty of the details of trust-verify and all the things you have to do to make sure that kim is doing what he says he s going to do. bret: seoul is watching very closely. the president there is a big supporter of this process, he definitely wants to see the war end. if there is a peace declaration
people would be really, really outraged and imagine there s calls for a kind of punitive strike against north korea. most likely, a limited strike. what s been called not to destroy north korea but to teach kim a lesson. what if kim doesn t understand the lesson? they don t know it s a limited and one time only. pyongyang might see itself as under attack. miscalculate and perceive a larger military action or regime change coming so he acts out first. some say his first response would be to use his conventional weapons. north koreans have tens of thousands of artillery rounds and rockets aimed at seoul. there are 25 million people
take a step back and say what do we want to achieve from the second summit? and from there, and only from there, look at what options we re willing to put on the table to negotiate with. we used to want denuclearization. it s unclear whether that is still possible or still something we re after. even if we re just after a nuclear freeze at this point, we have to insist on letting nuclear inspectors in so that kim doesn t keep making more nukes just as quickly as he s making more friends. this status quo we re in, ryan, is actually a concession. we have conceded that kim jong-un can keep proliferating weapons, and we re seemingly okay with it. if we really push for him to let inspectors in, we re saying that he has to please his program. so that s not the only national security issue. obviously the situation in venezuela continues to seem to get worse. this morning, the secretary of state said that president nicolas maduro, he called him a sick tyrant from blocking