there was much chatter about how conservative media would have responded if a democratic president had skipped a war commemoration because of a little rain. joining us from the associated press, white house reporter darlene superville. she covered the president s trip in paris. and here on the set joining gramps barnacle is nick christophe, new york times columnist and foreign affairs globe-trotting stud. i ask you, just for your overall take on the weekend, what we saw unfold and in particular, so fascinating to me just as a student of humanity and politics, macron, once one of a few people he had chemistry with going after him in such a direct way with this nationalism speech. president macron more than anybody had pioneered the approach of being very nice and gentle to president trump. on the theory that is what is going to win you policy concessions. and it was striking and after that, many other people, including president moon from south korea adopted that approach. and today
the southern border with the trump administration ripping children out of their parents arms is evil. that is the word that new york times columnist nicholas christophe, himself the son of a refug refugee, used in his column today to describe what the trump administration is doing. evil. nick christophe is our next guest. (vo) what if this didn t have to happen? i didn t see it. (vo) what if we could go back?
today to describe what the trump administration is doing. evil. nick christophe is our next guest. we have got a problem. a few problems actually. we ve got aging roadways, aging power grids, .aging everything. we also have the age-old problem of bias in the workplace. really. never heard of it. the question is. who s going to fix all of this? an actor? probably not. but you know who can solve it? business. because solving big problems is what business does best. so let s take on the wage gap,
have a good time. thank you. is he done? i think he s done. nick christophe, what do you make? the summit is back on. he claims he never canceled it. well, loovsly that s no more true than anything else. i m struck that north korea had the worst diplomatic hand in history and they played it so well. at this point they have legitimacy for the first time, their leader meeting an american president of they have a reduction in sanctions. and that will be a big boost to their economy, which is very important to them. south korea is planning on integrating the north korean and south korean economies. they have improved their ties with china, with russia, with south korea. and they have no longer have a military threat to their regime all really without without giving up their nuclear weapons. but i must say that, i think north korea has clearly gained. i think there is a danger
they acknowledged having kidnapped her. they said she then had died but the bones that they presented purportedly were not her home bones. maybe she is dead. but there are 30 such people kidnapped from japan and more kidnapped from south korea as well. wow. it s horrifying. and we have to we have to we should be pushing this on behalf of our allies. nick christophe. nick, thank you very much. jeffrey lewis is with us. we have about 45 seconds. what are your top line thoughts? i think it s incredible that the president s not asking them to give up their nuclear weapons. he is going to have a summit to get the know kim jong-un. i mean, i m generally supportive of diplomatic efforts, and so this is better than 2017. but i really wonder if it s sustainable, particularly in an era where i don t believe is the national security adviser. we didn t see john bolton