north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site. this is very good news for north korea and the world. big progress. look forward to our, capitalized, summit. wall street journal reporting tonight that a senior administration official urged summit. wall street journal reporting tonight that a senior administration official urged caution, though, adding, it may be less than meets the eye. whatever it is, donald trump s immediate twitter response is a far cry from the old reagan approach, trust but verify. i m joined now by ambassador wendy sherman, a former u.s. undersecretary and msnbc global affairs contributor. if trump moves forward in this way and then would go on to cancel the iran deal, what would you make of where we re headed and is this, tonight, based on what we know, in your view, good news? well, i think, mostly, this is old news, ari, in the sense that they haven t been testing and i think kim jong-un is playing his hand extremely wel
scientifically, resulting in the completion of nuclear weaponization. i m reading of course from that statement. the idea apparently is that if you ve completed your bomb, you don t need to test it in public anymore. and trump quick with a response. north korea has agreed to suspend all nuclear tests and close up a major test site. this is very good news for north korea and the world. big progress. look forward to our, capitalized, summit. wall street journal reporting tonight that a senior administration official urged caution, adding it may be less than meets the eye. whatever it is, donald trump s immediate twitter response is a far cry from the old reagan approach. trust but verify. i m joined by ambassador wendy sherman, msnbc global affairs contributor. if trump moves forward in this way and then would go on to cancel the iran deal, what would you make of where we re headed, and is this tonight based on what we know in your view good news? well, i think mostly this is old news,
whatever it is, donald trump s immediate twitter response is a far cry from the old reagan approach. trust but verify. i m joined by ambassador wendy sherman, msnbc global affairs contributor. if trump moves forward in this way and then would go on to cancel the iran deal, what would you make of where we re headed, and is this tonight based on what we know in your view good news? well, i think mostly this is old news, ari, in the sense that they haven t been testing, and i think kim jong-un is playing his hand extremely well. he s starting out this negotiation by saying, i ve made a concession. i ve done an incredible thing. i have stopped testing of my weapons because i don t need to anymore by the way, and i m not going to use this test site anymore, a test site that we think during the last test began to collapse and probably might not have been functional in the
and they re solid. we spend so much time stalking about the response that donald trump gives. we don t want to talk about the attack that was waged. ted cruz attacked donald trump the exact same way the establishment attacked reagan, the bad judgment, can t trust him with the finger on the but. of course he s going to respond in kind. we re talking about his response. talking about a ten-second soundbyte i mean this is hardly the same criticism of ben carson. in donald trump s defense, this is something that i seldom say that, but in donald trump s defense, this is something that he said privately that was recorded elicitly and something he wouldn t say publicly. to talk about donald trump, this is a blanket cookie cutter criticism you can make of any candidate. doesn t it undermine ted cruz. absolutely not. somebody runs for president because they think they have the best judgment. no one can say that as a
trump has gone off cruz here, calling him a maniac, refusing to work with people in the senate. it s the reason i m focusing on that, folks, that s so unlike trump. that s that s a huge mistake for any of you holding out hope that trump is a genuine conservative, genuine conservative, even in the republican field would not go after cruz this way. the issue is, the issue is, because we had audio problem on our side, is that donald trump criticizing ted cruz for be a man y mine yak taking on the republican establishment and not playing well with others. rush limbaugh says that s not a conservative critique of ted cruz. we like that. maybe that was a one-off comment or issue that trump wanted to bring up because, yeah, i agree with rush, that old reagan rule, you save your ammunition for who the real