unand one of the reasons why he reacted so strongly to hints by john bolton and vice president pence about the so-called libya model that bolton may well have deliberately undermined the process because he was uncomfortable with how the meeting might unfold. p. 1ythank you. you re welcome. up next, how the white house is justifying why the president s attorney popped up at yesterday s classified briefings, and how rudy giuliani is explaining all of it. next.
them. this is typical. they bluster. they flex their muscles. they don t show up at meetings. they insult. they insulted the vice president. so what you have is because they don t think like we do. they think in their little own cocoon, and i don t know if the president s people have experience dealing with them. obviously i think there have been some mistakes because too many of the administration people are speaking with different voices. i think secretary pompeo, he s been there twice. he established an intelligence channel with the koreans. he should be speaking out. he should be the only one. but then you ve got the vice president. you ve got john bolton talking about the libya model where gadhafi ended up dad aftead afty put his nuclear weapons out. i m sure kim jong-un got a little nervous about that. so this is a setback. this is not good. but the door is open. i think the north koreans, the
posturing. but i could think diplomacy is back on. corey, she brings up the libya model. if you look at the history of what led to this scuttled summit, a principle who changed here is john bolton, now national security adviser who suggested that might be something upon which a strategy might be based. as you piece together what happened here how much do you fault him or think that this was scuttled as a result of the counsel that john bolton was giving donald trump? i wouldn t presume to know what the north koreans are thinking. but it does seem incredibly injudicious to be publicly talking about comparability between the libya experience and what you expect to happen in north korea. that seems to be a very difficult place for north koreans to agree that they should want anything to do with that description. assumier theory, last question to you. the spoke person for the state department was at the naval
obviously i think there have been some mistakes because too many of the administration people are speaking with different voices. i think secretary pompeo, he s been there twice. he established an intelligence channel with the north koreans. he should be speaking out. he should be the only one. but then you ve got the vice president. you ve got john bolton talking about the libya model where gadhafi ended up dead after they put his nuclear weapons out. i m sure kim jong-un got a little nervous about that. so this is a setback. this is not good. but the door is open. i think the north koreans, the statement you just referred to, he s a senior guy. he s been their nuclear negotiator. so maybe down the road when both sides have more realistic expectations about what a summit can produce, it will take place. that s my hope. otherwise, this is a bad omen, a bad sign. more tension in the peninsula. the south korean president ends
missiles and bombs, we can t use our testing site right now. maybe we can trade a little bit of what we ve done or might do for some economic relief or some sanctions relief. depending on why we think we got to where we are, that it s pressure on our part, or rather the north koreans decided we could get something out of this. that tells awe lot about where we think we could go. they raised the point where they had the ability to threaten the delivery of a nuclear weapon anywhere in the the continental united states. that s a pretty good place to bargain from. they got the threat of that and they can begin their bargaining. i m with you, they re not going to be giving it up any time soon. certainly not for donald trump. especially when his national security adviser is talking about the quote, libya model. let s move onto the justice department. it held two briefings yesterday, mainly for congress, on an fbi informant s role in the russian