apparent promise is we will be lesko err sieve, that s not an appealing negotiating strategy. in your mind is the united states in a worse position vis-a-vis north korea than a week ago? no, to his credit and i was concerned about this, i thought you know, the president did walk away. you know, no deal is better than a bad deal and i was concerned that in an effort to do a generate a counter distraction to the cohen hearing that he might concede something like agreeing over time to take all u.s. forces off the peninsula, which i think would be a huge blunder. well, he didn t do that. do you think it s possible that the cohen hearing as the president suggested contributed to the failure this have summit? no, i don t think it had anything to do with it. and it took him two or three days to think that one up. the one thing that has disappeared presumably now or apparently for good at least