tweeted there is zero disagreement within the trump administration how to deal with north korea. does that contradict what you said earlier you wished john bolton and mike pompeo would be on the same page? no, i think the president is making excuses, very lame excuses. he has his vice president and john bolton saying that, what we have is a libya situation. that s what they want. you ve got pompeo being more realistic, talking about all right, they re going to trade their nuclear weapons for economic growth. that s the sane position, s s-a-n-e, not the same. i believe there are people that want it to happen. i think the president needs to step in. he knows he wants this summit, he needs it. it could be part of his legacy and accomplishment. so he has to basically crack heads and say you guys need to
thing, thinking with john bolton around him, and all his hard-liners, cheney, rumsfeld, that they could, you know, get a better deal than clinton did with north korea back in the early 2000s and ditching the north korea deal and watching north korea storm ahead to nuclear capabilities and intercontinental ballistic capabilities. there has to be some kind of rational diplomacy, if indeed that s the way you want to go, if it is about diplomacy, it has to be prepared, sat around, seen how you can actually do it, see what the other side needs, see what you need. that s international diplomacy. not what the republican congressman just told you before the break. it is about, you know, total surrender and capitulation and threatening and annihilation and regime change. that is what is coming from the white house, from the national security adviser, and then for whatever reason mike pence said it too, if kim jong-un doesn t agree to a deal with president trump, there will be a libya
ed: kim jong un is upset though. abby: you heard from john bolton the head of the nsa. it would be like the libya situation. steve: that didn t end well for qaddafi. abby: that s how north korea. they are through their media outlet. they are not talking to each other. ed: john bolton there was denuclearization for qaddafi in libya. but the idea being as steve points out a few years later qaddafi goes down. so kim jong un is reading that and suggesting okay, so you are going to play nice with me in the short-term but ultimately the u.s. is going to try to regime change here and the president is saying hang on a second. you know, part one might be about libya but things are going to work out well for you if you come to the table, watch. nothing has changed on north korea that we know of. we have not been told anything. and, if it does, that s fine. if it doesn t, i think we will probably have a very successful meeting. if you look at that model
the north korean regime is lying? answer, when their lips are moving. so i think they are very surprised at this. i expected they thought an acceptance of the author for the two heads of government would come after about six months of low-level discussions. that is not what the president intends i hope. i just wouldn t wait for me to have this. i would have it by the end of march. what would be the result? they have cause, but they haven t pulled back the artillery dnc. they haven t dismantled anything. what concrete results do you want to see before they should have a meeting? well, if the meeting is to discuss the nuclear station as the president said, then the agenda is pretty clear. the president says we will treat this like a libya situation. tell us what ports are ships that sail into, what airports are cargo plane should land
this was the cindy bloomenthal situation about the libya situation. this is something everybody should be interested in and it was a failure of the hillary clinton administration and it turns out it was never written. we found out fairly quickly. i don t know if they had any impact. if it didn t affect the way people voted they keep saying russia hacked the election. we had our election and everyone voted the way they wanted. there is no evidence of russia hacking the voting booths that i don t think they did or maybe they did. there is no evidence. there is no need to speculate. if it is just the e-mail thing, i think he is right. it doesn t affect who showed up or who they voted for. there is tampering, but i feel like it is better if we know more than we don t. better to know more. let me go to kristen. i finish it up with you. i know, i know you can wrap