it right out of him and started ridiculing him on an international stage, kind of putting in the place that he belonged and now he s starting to possibly reap some dividends. i don t think we should be too optimistic, should be pessimistic. but the fact of the matter is, when this historic moment that we are about to see, there will be no americans held in north korea. that is a huge achievement and the president deserves some credit for it. it certainly is. and you also think about this, trust but verify. exactly. it could be as early as early in june we are told. they could be distrust, don t even come close to trusting, reconfirm, and, there seems to be some motivation over there. let s face it, we seen an historic meeting between north korea and south korea and now they are moving toward the
feels for him. so we are learning tonight that the secretary of state made this provision. that suggests to me that the united states is playing offense. yes. they are playing firm, and they are not going to talk for the sake of talking. it s a very positive development that they were able to say yes, this is what we are going to do. they didn t play around or push back and so it s a positive development and i hope it continues. on the other hand, regimes like north korea make suggestions like this, they released prisoners and then they go to the negotiating table. i tried it, we did all these things, but we are not getting what we want. i found a fist and walk away. how skeptical should we be tonight that this is a little bit of goodwill. president trump is in the
taking anything from the north korean leader. calling him rocket man and belittling him and i think ultimately the north koreans looked around and said, can we deal with this guy, will we deal with this guy? what s he going to do next? and i think that had something to do with the decision that they made tonight. we are joined now by larry o connell, and he also writes for the washington times and other publications. you see his work all the time, especially here on fox. let s start right here where we ended with jonathan which is, what a difference a year makes. last summer president s critics were saying, this little rocket man, and he was bringing us to the brink of nuclear war? it s almost like treating this man with the disrespect that he deserves. it has actually paid some dividends here. instead of stepping back and using quiet diplomacy in patients that we saw during the obama administration, trump took
appreciate about him because he was one of the first cia directors to have that person-person relationship and that s exactly why when the president lost faith, faith in rex tillerson, he said i will go to the person i trust the most. such a big event. i m not sure if that could be the first plane or if it could be something that s getting ready for the planes to arrive. we are expecting them closer to 3:00 a.m. eastern so it could just be some jets running through some run-throughs. i wonder what is happening inside the administration, because as we see these dramatic developments, on a normal day it would have been a big story that the president that the president of the united states attic, we are not having the summit at the dnc. now we are hearing it s likely singapore. talk about the symbolism and why kim jong un doesn t want to do it at the dmz. right, this area, we don t want to have an event that is entirely not neutral. not really the place where you want to have a piece
ballistic missile that is capable of striking the u.s. homeland, and frankly they have achieved that. it s incredible i think that the president entered without the precondition, for which she was heavily criticized, and he did secure the release of those american hostages before the summit took place. it was absolutely astounding. so the north korean dictator had defensive posture as they say giving some ground to the american president in the early stages, yet you would never know it from the north korean state run media. they said some other things today. the respective leader kim jong un and sincerely congratulated him on his recent official assumption as secretary of state. he left out the key detail that, we gave him. the funny thing is they told our state department reporters on the ground that, this was a very difficult decision because these men are such terrible criminals. of course it had nothing to do with the major pressure that the u.s. president has been putting