president demonstrates that he doesn t know what the libya model is and then he calls off the summit because he s been insulted and now it s back on. so with that kind of process you really have to wonder where we re going to end up at the end of the day. and letalk about the intelligence, clint, or lack thereof. from what i understand we don t have the kind of intelligence on north korea that we had in iran. so we won t be able to carry out the type of inspections and look where we are with the iran nuclear deal right now. even if north korea were to promise to denuclearize completely, how do we know that they can follow through with that and that the iaea can get their jobs. it s the country where we have the weakest human intelligence resources of any country in the world. we have no other allies or partners that have access to it as we do in other cases when we deal with the countries and so when we look at this, other than secretary of state pompeo, who do we think can go in t
he wanted total denuclearization and now it looks as if there s going to be this process and this is exactly what clinton walked into in 1994 and then there was a secret nuclear program in early 2000, thus because the sanctions were placed back on north korea. are we going to be back at the same place we were then? we could be. the process has been unbelievable. talking to north korea is far preferably than threatening to rain fire and fury down on the country, but, you know, chris hill, the former negotiator said that this reminded him of speed dating. i think he was being kind. does the ambassador do speed dating? i didn t know that. this reminds me of a marx brothers movie. at first you have the president accepting the meeting with no pre-conditions and then you have john bolton on national television saying we want to do the libya model and then the
there are ways everybody can mutually agree and profit from this. i hope that president trump is able to coble together and agreement that achieves some of the major goals i outlined earlier. julie: we aren t getting a lot from the white house. mike pompeo saying not much other than he had a good dinner meeting in new york. the president tweeting this morning very good meetings with north korea. but that s about all we re getting. i m wondering how volatile the summit is and why we re getting less after john bolton made his libya model comments which broke down previous talks, if they re approaching it differently this time. well, this is a rather unique situation. bear in mind we go all the way back to president eisenhower and every president since then hasn t been able to enter into a lasting peace agreement with north korea. the united nations hasn t been able to. they were a major player during the korean conflict. i think it s important for
being fake news even though it in fact wasn t. but at this point you have white house officials working overtime to make the reality on the ground reflect the president s stated desire, his tweets to have this summit. you have this free advance team in singapore. you have a delegation in north korea engaged in direct talks, so there appears to be enough motivation, enough momentum to bring both sides to the table, but there are there is still that underlying big question hanging out there about what happens to north korea s nuclear program. there s no consensus on that yet. we know that the north koreans have rejected john bolton s proposal of the libya model, which would suggest that they would end their weapons program before they get any sort of assurances or concessions first, so at this point, even if all sides agree on these potential preconditions, not clear they can pull it all together in two weeks, katie. i m a little confused, phil. why is there this on again, off again,
to a president or a white house has some sort of bias, right? it may not be mall line, but they ll have some sort of bias, you have to do things face-to-face. i think the second mistake has been that there was really very little message discipline, so after with a great fanfare with which the very important summit was announced, we had talk of a little bitta m libya model, ad l the third state craft error was not connecting the dots. it made it complicated because you were going to have to have more assurances for the north koreans. we really weren t communicating with our allies effectively, including up until when the president made his announcement,