in moscow, reagan met with human rights dissidents, gave an importance feat at moscow state university and in washington where they signed an agreement to limit intermediate range nuclear missiles. sometimes you have t talk in o to reach an agreement. laura: and a lot of people, crag, and sean and richard, were upset that the president didn t spend more time on human rights. let s watch what the president said to sean hannity. did humanitarian issues come up in the meeting? yes, he did. one of the things i will tell you i am most happy about that, as you know, is a big sticking point is bringing back the remains of thousands of soldiers that were killed. this came up last minute. it came up kind of last minute. would it be possible? i get letters from families who lost a son, brother, father in korea.
summit. as a matter fact, the president talked about in the sean hannity interview. he said in the past when north korea did something ative, american presidents were too silent. het was the wrong way to pretty is that sometimes he felt a little foolish going over the top with this stuff but he wanted to get to a place where they felt ft they hado talk. aura: hannity asked about the rhetoric. let s watch. well, i think without the rhetoric, we wo t have been here. i really believe that. we did sanctions and all the things he would. without the rhetoric, other administration, i don t want to get specific, but they had a policy of silence. if they said something very bad and very threatening and horrible, just don t answer. that s not the answer. that s not what you have to do. i hated the oolish doing it but we had no choice. laura: christian, to hear
susan glasser of the new yorker today i on msnbc if my memory serves me right. she was talking about the reagan comparison. let s watch. reagan did exactly the opposite of what we are talking about with trump. he was able to find to negotiate with the soviets to be extremely tough with the soviets and also to preserve a line a vision of human rights and democracy. laura: trump obviously she is exactly wrong. speech would tl us why. both trump talk tough and engage the enemy they ud you have to do it for a position of strength but that doesn t mean you don t negotiate or don t talk. reagan and gorbachev had four summits collect two of which were basically photo ops.
to our policy with an immigration attorney and a former immigration judge let s go to alan. i know there s a lot of people who are waving their arms, oh, my gosh, this is a persecuted people. they are not going to get any relief. they will be shut out of the system. i think what he s referencing is an 872% increase in applica for asylum since 2009. in the united states. that s a massive increase with not i think a correlating fact banner that would indicate we have that many more thousands of people who have legitimate claims. right, but i don t think the number should affect due process and justice. that s not how we handle due process and justice by numbers. it s a process. what sessions has done goes with the narrative you set about making wrong decisions because it is undoing 20 years of law of
way too provocative in dealing with this dangerous power. let s watch. the words from the administration are creating even higher volume in terms of the provocations going on. i think we ve got to be careful here. we shouldn t engage inprecitous. there s a reaso no u.s. president in recent history has pulled the trigger on north korea. laura: that was i april of 2017, to be clear. it s a year after plus a month or so and here we are. the beginning of a framework that was reconfirmed in another brief message that came out a few hours ago thaty are committed to doing this. what are the pitfalls about this administration going forward, the ability to obviously do inspections and so forth. how do we verify? verification is tough on