the united states? chuck, the president s not siding with that, but i think they agree in their assessment of former vice president joe biden. again, the president s focus in this process is the relationship he has and making sure wez continue on the path toward denucle denuclearization. reporter: that tweet comes as two things, joe biden has been leading in polls, including one conducted by the trump campaign and key states that will be crucial to the president s victory in 2020. when bolton said biden had agreed to those talks talks have fallen apart since the second summit president trump had with kim in hanoi. it s going to turn a lot more serious before this trip is done.
their own countries at this point. versus putting out proposals that would be technically negotiation public, which i m sure they don t want to do, but actually coming towards the middle. let s talk about the residual impact as it relates to president xi of china. will ripley reporting that xi will not be coming for the signing summit in mar largo. in part, it s fueled by the president walking away from the table from kim in hanoi. how does that play for the president that now you ve got china saying, well, he walked away from that. maybe he ll walk away from me? well, i mean, it s a political move by the chinese to say that in the first place, but it shows there are repercussions for anything that the president does in the word. big or small competitors. look, the president has put a pause button on rolling out the full extent of the trade
show north korea rebuilding part of a long-range missile testing facility. the work taking place around the same time that president trump was meeting with kim in hanoi at a summit that ended abruptly. paula hancocks live from seoul with the breaking details. paula. well, christine, this is tongchang-ri, this is a missile engine test site. the north koreans had been disassembling over the past recent months. it s one that north korean leader kim jong-un had spoken to the south korean president moon jae-in about, as being part of the declaration, saying they were pulling it apart, also talking about they would have independent inspectors to go and look at it and check it was out of action. now, of course, over recent days, potentially weeks, you see the satellite images showing that there is a door being put back. there s a roof being put back. and the intelligence agency here, in south korea also saying that they are seeing indications
this desire to trust people who s regimes are built on lies and repression. we can the obvious question is why he continues to do that and we just can t begin to crawl into the mind of this president. on another note, though, with regard to his second summit with kim in hanoi and the fact that he did walk away from a deal which was an awful deal what kim was willing to give up and so do you think that that could be somehow perhaps progress in a way of getting something substantive that kim realizes, oh, i really do need to bring something substantive to the table if there is a next one? trump did the right thing. a bad deal is worse than no deal. why did we get to this place? because trump seemed too eager to get a deal. he had signaled for months that he wanted this, he wanted the nobel prize. they had scheduled a signing ceremony. all of which, of course, tells kim i have leverage because this
i support people doing more and we are doing less. it is in our national security interest to hold them together. the kurds, we owe it to them to make sure they are not slaughtered. iran is check mated with this move by president trump. bill: two more topics. what is your expectation for chairman kim in hanoi, vietnam? this is sort of a relationship being built. my expectations are to give up the weapons over time. he is better off without a nuclear arsenal. his weapons could fall in the hands of people that would use him if he would not. the president is right to want this transition from a nuclear to nonnuclear korea. japanese and south korea don t have nukes. they don t have nuclear weapons. my hope is that we will set a plan out where you can denuclearize and get the benefit of security and peace and stability in north korea. we won t have a nuclear threat. my question is, though, what