that the chinese now are not as tough on the sanctions that they were forced to impose on north korea. the president may say i m not giving you anything until you start to denuclearize. as the, will the maximum pressure regime weekend? because kim is on the world stage and things have been normalized. laura: that is a cautionary note and the smart one. i think that s what they said, trump is going to be easy on china after he had that pageantry in beijing and he is enamored with president xi and then he comes home and says we are going to do these tariffs. he is hard to predict but it s a cautionary note. chris wallace, thank you so much from singapore. great reporting. let s get back to the panel. gordon, we have to get to you. we brought up the issue of china of course and i think back to the korean war.
the reason why president trump s whole attitude turned positive about the upcoming summit many weeks ago the second thing he said today which i thought was also news they re going to come up with a security document and ratify that as a treaty and a security document. that s news breaking as far as i m concerned. he wants to use them to get north korea denuclearize. the number one issue is the future security of his machine, he s a young man that he s got 40 plus years in front of him. martha: he was talking with the russians the other day how does that play into all of this? the russians are trying to slow this process down. they are always interested in rubbing the united states knows in something, they don t want a
japan a few weeks ago with his foreign ministry and that was their top issue and they said we are working it out. that s really why he rushed in their prior to the singapore summit. martha: the top priority is nuclear weapons that can reach america but our allies are going to be very concerned about north korea s defensive mechanism. this is mike pompeo on him and what he expects. what i have said publicly is he is prepared to denuclearize. he understands the current model doesn t work, he understands he can t do it the way we ve done it before. we speculated on your show
12th summit. bolton s concern was that the talks would not go in the right learning this was all on tates. purpose. michelle kosinski is joining me now. michelle, this is significant. multiple sources are saying this. there s always been that question. when john bolton, the national security adviser, brought up the comparison to let s hav north korea denuclearize the same way libya did, everybody knows that the north koreans arenfuriated by this model because they re not looking at the process of denuclearization so much as they re seeing the end game of moammar gadhafi, which is being killed by rebels backed by the united states. so when you hear john bolton say this on television and then the president picks up on it and repeats it and the vice president picks u p on it and
griff jenkins is live from washington with the latest. griff, you are always smiling. it s always good to join you. good morning, guys. i will tell you who is not smiling the democrats. feeling a left out. june 12th. monday evening 9:00 p.m. even in the u.s. the historic summit begin according to white house press secretary saunders who deys after receiving a letter. sanders wouldn t go into calling it interesting progress had been made. notes sanctions remain in place. our policy hasn t changed. very powerful. we would not take those sanctions off unless north korea denuclearize. chuck schumer issuing a list of demands in a letter to the president. detailing what would be acceptable to democrats. north korea must agree, to among other things, dismantle all nuclear, chemical and biological