of getting something like this done. if jared kushner had not been behind this, i think that it would have been hard to believe that we would be seeing this great day. it s a great gift for all of us. because we all pay the price of having people in jail longer and for reasons they should not be there. and without the help they need to get out and be reincorporated into society. it s a huge day. one of the things that s interesting, the way it was sold to the president was in terms of his legacy. and people went to the president and said no, willie who are ton is not the poster boy for this. essentially painted the picture for trump. and that vareally is essential. he cares about the visual, the story. and this is something that will go to his legacy. and i also think in a nixon goes to china moment, in some ways it could have only been someone like trump who has tried to carve out this brand as this tough on crime. tough guy, tough on crime,
surreal as the president shaking hands with kim jong-un and nottic shag hands with president rouhani of iran with whom when he a nuclear deal until recently. it s funny jim clapper felt that dennis rodman in a strange way could be useful as a bridge. and so we see part of the establishment suggesting as crazy as it might be, there could be some utility value here. but to that point, a strange way is donald trump who is similar to kim jong-un the s connect with him? while he sits there and compliments him over and over and we could think that s reprehensible. if i may, people have been talking about this as a nixon goes to china moment. i mean, it s just so unhooked they all like burgers, everyone involved in this. we re going to get franchise there s. but it just doesn t seem to have the gravity of a nixon going to china moment or the preparation or the detailed i think
china. that is such a big part of our historical fabric. nixon goes to china moment. can you educate us on that? what happened there? if you ask any informed person who normalized relations with china they side say nixon, but they did not want to take on the taiwan republican party. so they didn t take the next step of establishing diplomatic regulations. one great story, when ping came for the fist visit in the cabinet room, he thanked the president for being the first of bringing in the family of nations but he said i want the lowest tariffs on my goods than you do any other country and i know there s a law that restricts that if you restrict
for good reason. china s been newly weaponized by us based on tariffs, and that kind of thing. north korea we know has been weaponized against us, can it be a good thing for us if these two are talking and becoming closer. yes, it can be a very good thing for us if they are doing good faith meetings, they finally got kim jong-un out of north korea, has him in the world of international politics now. i think what we re seeing here is we are see iing not a nixon goes to china moment, by getting kim jong-un to go to beijing, beijing controls the entire destiny of the continent. washington has only been offering talk and the opportunity to have a meeting with kim jong-un. that meeting if it comes will
intelligence work. he is our analyst in this area for good reason. so china has been newly weaponized by us just based on tariffs. and that kind of thing. north korea, we know, has been with thatized against us. kit be a good thing for us if these two are talking and becoming closer? yes, it can be a very good thing for us. if they are doing good faith meetings. they finally got kim jong-un out of north korea and in the world of international politics now. i think what we re really seeing here is we are seeing not a nixon goes to china moment. but by getting kim jong-un to come to beijing. beijing now controls the entire destiny of the korean peninsula. it is no longer in the hands of washington which at this point has only been offering bellicose talk and the opportunity to have