programs. what that would mean is we have accepted north korea as a nuclear state. what do we make of these divisions that have come out in public view? this closely mirrors the administration and the iran policy. that is is donald trump a neo conservative? is he going to side with the boltons and pompeos in his administration is and take a hard line on some of these thorny issues that that dogged multiple administrations or the more buchananite more dovish approach in these situations? with the north korea question, that would be a dramatic departure from the history of the u.s. policy towards north korea. the case for that is we haven t been particularly successful. we would argue you re over the last decade. why not try something new? the push back from the boltons or pompeos would be a nuclearized north korea or a north korea with less pressure from the united states to
these leaders? i think what the president is doing is what ronald reagan did. you get to peace through strength. i don t think anybody doubts that in america we are not going to embrace these dictators and allow them to kill their people or deal with such things as getting nuclear weapons into their hands. but at the end of the day who did ronald reagan meet with and give compliments to the way president trump has? i think you saw gorbachev and reagan. without achieving a foreign policy win ahead of time? well, obviously you watched what happened in iceland with ronald reagan and gorbachev, when ronald reagan walked away. these are the kind of conversations that occur at the presidential level. i think this is a continuation of peace through strength type of operation. i appreciate the president doing this. but at the end of the day i cannot support a nuclearized north korea. i think many of our colleagues will send that message also. the president met with xi, so he was
because they both want something to happen, pretty quickly, and i think they both are very sensitive about the time. look, no one could predict the future. it is a great thing that it took place, but the last summit that didn t go so well and i think the north koreans know what they need to do to make this next summit go well in terms of denuclearization. critics might say he was surprised because something was given to kim without really him having to give anything back. i wonder, bakari, in this historic moment, where this is the first time we ve seen a sitting president go to north korea and make this overture, if the president doesn t get some credit. it is a historic moment but of pure political theater. nothing more, nothing less. that is in the advancing the international interest of the united states or other countries. we validated a nuclearized north korea. that is what we have. and the fact is that as david
and so i think it is different because they both want something to happen, pretty quickly, and i think they both are very sensitive about the time. look, no one could predict the future. it is a great thing that it took place, but the last summit that didn t go so well and i think the north koreans know what they need to do to make this next summit go well in terms of denuclearization. critics might say he was surprised because something was given to kim without really him having to give anything back. i wonder, bakari, in this historic moment, where this is the first time we ve seen a sitting president go to north korea and make this overture, if the president doesn t get some credit. it is a historic moment but of pure political theater. nothing more, nothing less. this does not advance the international interest of the united states or other countries. we validated a nuclearized north korea. that is what we have. and the fact is that as david stated, the first summit didn t
barack obama. greatest president of my lifetime, as far as i m concerned. who, when face would the threat of a nuclearized iran, without firing a shot and invading another country in the middle east, sat at the table with iran in germany to halt that country s progress towards a nuclear weapon. an imperfect agreement but better than starting yet another war for this country. i want to make sure that we give diplomacy a chance. but if you re going to compare me or any other contender against donald trump who invited vladimir putin to invaud our democracy and the first call that he made after the mueller report was released to a foreign head of state was to vladimir putin with whom he spent an hour