could be tough negotiations. the president is ready if the meeting takes place. if it doesn t we ll continue the maximum pressure campaign that s been on going. bill: let s start with leland vitter at the state department. are they going to cancel this summit or is the sense this is some sort of negotiating tactic? at least from the u.s. side nobody is talking about canceling this summit. it appears that they are looking at this as a page out of the president s playbook really. the more you are willing to walk away from a deal, the more negotiating leverage you have. this is the statement from the north koreans from their first vice foreign minister. we are no longer interested in a negotiation that will be all about driving us into a corner and making a one-sided demand for us to give up our nukes and this would force us to reconsider whether we would accept the north korea/u.s. summit meeting. the secretary of state said
watch here. very hard on iran. they ll pay a price for dismembering the mideast. it was a bad deal and sanction the hell out of them and hope the europeans will help us not get in the way. the worst thing in the world would be a nuclear armed iran. bill: that was following the meeting yesterday on the hill. what was your takeaway on that? i came out of the meeting the president means business when it comes to dealing with thug regimes around the world, whether iran or north korea. the tactics he has employed with iran pulling out, imposing sanctions will have an effect. i think frankly it was a mistake to go into that deal in the first place when the sanctions were being so effective. we had our foot on their throat and we took it off and let them get all this money and resource which they ve used to create havoc in the region and get back to harmful behavior.
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you have two countries much at odds for so many decades trying to figure out a way to come together there will be back and forth and the threats to cancel talks over things like the drills? certainly. negotiating leverage is taking place here. but i ll say this. this is the first negative aspect of kim jong un s efforts going back to participating in the south korean olympics. because one thing after another has all been positive. moving toward a fundamental shift in strategic policy. and heading toward the denuclearization. likely this is what i said it is. negotiating over leverage and things they want to have on the table. i do believe behind the scenes, dana, right now our diplomats are getting insight to where north korea is really heading. they just can t put the two leaders in the room without a lot of preparation and without understanding what the positions are.