Good morning. Its monday, june 11th. Just days after tense meetings with americas closest allies President Trump is now in singapore for the very first ever summit whebetween a sittin u. S. President and a north korean leader. Their first meeting which will be a one on one setting is set to begin at 9 00 p. M. Eastern time tonight. It will take place at a hotel, roughly 3,000 journalists are on the ground covering this historic summit. Mike pompeo says trump is well prepared for the quote engagement with kim despite trumps assertion last week that he does not have to prepare very much. It comes in less than ten months of tru threatening to fire those and he again addressed the situation before departing for singapore over the weekend. We appreciate the working together with north korea. Theyre really working very well with us. This is probably rarely been done. Its unknown territory in the truest sense, but i really feel confident. I feel that kim jong un wants to do something great fo
Tufts university, retired four Star Navy Admiral james stavridis. Admiral stavridis, well go to you. This weekend certainly if you care about americas place in the world had to be one of the most concerning certainly ill just say the most depressing in Donald Trumps year and a half in office. I must say that at least for me my worst expectations were actually met this weekend at the g7 meetings. Whats the impact on america and the world . I share your concern. And, you know, if youre getting ready in a schoolyard to face a bully, which is kim jongun, you would think you would want to kind of gather your friends around you. Here was a perfect setup. Walk into a summit meeting with the largest economies in the world, all u. S. Allies. Why not come out of that with a strong sense of community to go face this awful dictator in singapore . So it fails the pragmatic test. And, joe, even worse, kind of the tail end of the whole thing, he goes after nato as a former supreme allied commander. I
so this trade ideology that is really not shared by anyone right or left inside the halls of the u.s. capital, it s really president trump s own ideology, this is now driving all u.s. policy, especially with regard to our western allies. and michael still doesn t seem right. alk about we re talking about canada. and we ve always heard historians say that america s greatness was assured in part by the fact that we were protected from our enemies by two oceans. sure. but it s worth noting this morning that we were also blessed with an extraordinary neighbor to the north, and we have the longest, i guess, it s the longest demilitarized border in the world between the united states and canada. we sure do at a time people talk about borders, especially donald trump. we don t have a closer ally. this has been for 200 years. this has been a huge strength of america. you know, when we were in 9/11
strong sense of community to go face this awful dictator in singapore? so it fails the pragmatic test. and, joe, even worse, kind of the tail end of the whole thing, he goes after nato as a former supreme allied commander. i kind of pick up on that. and i ll tell you, when you so aggressively go after the allies, you drive them away from us. to do it right now at this moment is just bad geopolitics. michael, here we are one week after celebrating, remembering what happened, what the united states and what our allies did d day and to see the attacks. again, no strategic purpose for those attacks. in fact, the attacks against trudeau were strangely weirdly