insight about a little bit of what they ve been through. here s a moment from the tarmac that was really quite riveting. how does it feel to be home? how does it feel to be home? it s like a dream and we re very, very happy. we were treated in many different ways. for me, i had to do a lot of labor. and when i got sick, i was also treated by them. certainly good to see these three men able to walk down the steps of the airplane. they appear at least on the surface to be in reasonably good condition. but hard to imagine what they have been through. and the longest tell since 2015, president trump was not in office at that time. one wondered what information they even had about what was happening here in the united states during their time of imprisonment. under circumstances that were
we only wblew up the iran deal because that came from obama. this issue of dealing with north korea came from obama. he may blow that up. only to the iran deal, maybe to please sheldon alderson. what do you think? look, the deal you re talking north korea? north korea and trump and kim. it won t just be what they agree that matters. it will be who the guarantors are. from north korea s point of view, the guarantors have to be south korea and china, two countries that he needs to invest south korea would said trump should get a nobel peace prize though. right. what kim needs is investment, he needs money, he needs his economy to be brought back in some kind of shape. the united states is not going to give him money. the chinese and south koreans are. he will want, after what he s seen in north korea, he will want to see more of that money up front. he will want the chinese and the south koreans to guarantee that
i m very honored to have helped the three folks. have you spoken with him on the phone? i got to speak with them on the plane. these are great people. they ve been through a lot. but it s a great honor. have you spoken to kim jong-un? the true honor is going to be if we have a victory in getting rid of nuclear weapons. president trump also shared optimism ahead of his historic meeting he is set to have very soon with the north korea leader, listen. we re starting off on a new footing. this is a wonderful thing that he releelased the folks early. that was a big thing. very important to me. i really think we have a very good chance of doing something very meaningful. let s go live to nbc s kelly o donnell who is at the white house who has basically been up all night. you were there at the white house talking to us. talk to us about how exactly it played out, how these men are doing this morning. have they seen their families? we don t have an update on
ensures global stability and just doesn t ensure these one off moments where the president gets to be at center stage? do you think that kim jong-un deserved to have a face-to-face meeting with president trump? he is not his peer. he is a brutal dictator who starves and imprisons his own people on one hand. on the other hand, north korea does have nuclear power. it was president obama who told soon to be president trump north korea is the big issue you need to deal with. and that is what he s doing, he s dealing with it. probably shouldn t have said that because it will probably blow up the negotiations. if you mention obama or give him credit. because, you know, trump wants to count everything obama did. obama did warn him about that. but remember, trump s own national security adviser, john bolton in 2008, and quite frankly, john mccain, came down on obama for even considering his own conversation with the kim regime at that time.