endgame brought to you by boeing. continuing our mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. back now with endgame and an awkward end to the north korea talks, and i say an awkward end. i want to set aside walking away from talks could be a good thing. so let s put that aside, but it was the otto warmbier stuff that really sort of left a horrible taste in the mouth of a lot of people. here was the president on thursday talking about otto warmbier, the now deceased student who died essentially in the hands of the north korean govern t government. here is the president on said this in hanoi. i don t believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it just wasn t to his advantage to allow that to happen. he tells me he didn t know about it and i will take him at his word. here s the president yesterday trying to explain those comments.
i m in such a horrible position because in one way i have to negotiate. in the other way i love mr. and mrs. warmbier and i love otto. a lot of what i do with respect to north korea and any success that we hopefully have, and we ve had a lot we re given no credit. we have been respectful during the summit process. kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son otto and responsible for cruelty and inhumanity and no praise can change that. you know, helene, it puts a spotlight on human rights is just not part of this president s foreign policy. it s not part of his dna, and i think that s that s unfortunate. i was so prepared, you know, i think overall trump in vietnam on this north korea summit did okay. there was a lot of fear before he went that he was going to again, at the pentagon in
this is 0 for 2. yes, the missile testing stopped and nuclear testing stopped. some say they don t need to do more testing because they know they have a working nuke. do you think this was a mistake, ultimately? with north korea specifically, i m okay with doing something different, even weird, being an unconventional actor and maybe that s throwing everything off and messing with the system and popping something loose here. but as karen is noting, that should come with prenegotiations, knowing what the guy will come to the table with, knowing what he will accept and what he will not. because trump is a totally unorthodoxed actor, i do not always trust him to have a plan when he as in the room or what the moral line is for america. he gets very transactional. and the tell if you re going to confer all this importance on north korea and legitimacy, you have to get something out of it. the tell that he went in there not ready to get something out of it and without perspective is the