this idea of a trump/kim jong-un meeting at the dmz has been floated for many, many months and it was seen eternally as just a hail mary pass. too high risk for the president. in the end, the president overcame that skepticism, i m going to do it. and it s clear that bolton wasn t really on board with that. and didn t go to the dmz. but the issue going forward, what happens in these real negotiations? is it real, does it make denuclearization real? so john bolton was not there yesterday at the dmz. he was in mongolia. but ivanka trump was there. the white house adviser of course the president s daughter. she was at her father s side actually for several meetings at the g20 and in a video posted by the french government, ivanka is seen trying to make conversation with canadian prime minister justin trudeau.
meddling. with the turks we basically he blames everything on the obama administration meanwhile he s reopened the possibility of arm sales despite everything they re doing. north koreans we ignore what s going on domestically, the saudis we ignore and exaggerate the domestic. but it s amoral to the point almost to the point of immorality in american foreign policy. we used to stand for something. yes, we had goals, but we used to stand for democracy. we used to stand for human rights. we did have preference for our allies who were democratic. and what we see here is essentially a total discarding of the idea that the united states in the world stands for more than narrow commercial or foreign policy interests. so we have essentially we have given that up for nothing. and the president has been given opportunities often by jonathan lemire,by the way, whether it was in helsinki or at the g20 to say and do the right thing on a big world stage and he always declines. he doesn t have
introduced. he can hold out as internationally accepted. we are a permanent reality as a government, as a country. which is a big deal. we re no longer facing the prospect of war. it looked like that a couple of years ago, not because they have changed but because we have pulled back. the one thing i disagree with the president is the whole patience. the idea that time we re not in any rush. well, as jeremy and others have pointed out we ought to be in a little bit of a rush. time is not neutral. north korea is using time. they do not need overtesting of nuclear weapons and long range ballistic missiles to increase their number of nuclear weapons to continue to innovate and improve their long range ballistic missiles. that s where the president i think has it wrong. the good news, north korea was saying now 25 nuclear weapons or
candidates or the strength of whoever s going to be at the top of the ticket. and do you see the party accomplishment is rethinking the thresholds for participation in order to shrink the number of people standing on the stage? i m not quite sure if we going to see a different format. it was obviously hard for some candidates to get in. you think of yang and marianne williamson. they only talked for a couple of minutes each so i think what we re seeing is that people realize that if you want a vigorous debate about policies, you might want to whittle that down a bit. but at the same time, you have democrats that are still raising a lot of money, that are still in some ways polling pretty well and it s still so early that i think when you saw two debate nights they were obviously very different. but a lot of people that i talked to especially democrats said they liked the idea that it was about policy, vigorous policy debates. it wasn t about who can go after donald trump the most so
she said as the only black woman on this stage, i want to have a moment to talk about race. what she was doing, i want to talk about i m a woman and i m black and make that central to my campaign. and also bringing up her merits so to the stage to the stage. i have been talking to the civil rights activists across the country who tell me they re not trying to let up, they want to keep talking about joe biden s history and they see it problematic. three can see a rise in the polls and her campaign over the weekend sent out new fund-raising numbers, they raised about $2 million right after the debate. she s not just rising in the poll but getting more money. so i think senator harris, she might at some point become the front-runner, but this is a long, long race. so in other words, i think joe biden also has this idea that he has all the support from jesse jackson and other people. who have questioned his busing policies but are also open to having him in forums and hosting