that s a different question. in terms of terminology, using the word war game in the military is a common phrase. in using the phrase at all. so it does seem though there may be a distinction of what the president said where he assured kim jong-un we would horticulture war games and now vice president mike pence is up on capital hill saying to corey gardner that these exercises are going to continue. that s absolutely right and it is worth knowing why the president seeming concessions on these exercises have put them on sudden pressure. it became clear after he meets these statements u.s. forces on the korean peninsula have not been notified of his intentions to make these modifications nor has our allies in south korea have been notified of these
the process can take up to ten years to complete. we want to go now to some breaking news back here at home of the back and forth over exer korea. senator corey gardner says the vice president told memory the militaryrcises and training would continue. that s somethi that the vice president s staff pushed back on immediately. the senator doubled down in a tweet saying vice president was very clear, regular readiness training and training exchanges will continue. with me now to kind of explain this as it is unfolding,sten welker and gary hayes. the president is winning his way back here to washington. i am sure it will be a thrill to descend into this confusion of
that the president was differ from the president in any way. it seems as though those senators in the room feel that they clearly heard and they have been concerned about all morning of this idea that we ll stop th south korea readiness without getting anything in return. corey gardner is trying to clarify his official statement what is the vice president s office says? the report that the vice president told them of the joint military training exercises would continue. the press secretary telling me in a phone conversation moments ago that exact the vice president was on the same page with the president indicating those will be halted. however, i spoke with a senior administration official who says those training and readiness exercises will continue.
what exactly he has promised. garret, i want to start with you if you can give us a lay out of what the president is doing and we ll talk to kristen about how the vice president responded and how we ll try to clarify. garret, what happened initially. this whole new cycle is 45-minute long. when republican senators having their weekly lunch, they had a briefing from the president and a phone call from the president from air force one of what exactly happened in this summit. then their news conference, senator corey gardner, the korea expert, came out and said the idea that these large scale military exercises with the south koreans would continue. you have the blow back immediately from the vice president office saying no that s not true and those war games will be cancelled and gardner following up tweets saying training and readiness
president penceriefed the senators and he says training will continue. take a listen of senator gardner. we ll continue to clarify what tdent hav talked and exercises will continue with south korea and look further for comments and clarifications from the president. what does corey gardner mean by exercises? if it is day-to-day routine training, that s something here at the pentagon say is necessary to maintaining the strengths of the alliance. in terms of calling off all war games, the next war games that are scheduled to something called ufg, they are basically computer simulation that happens in august. there is all kinds of training exercises that take place in the western pacific on the korean peninsula. you call them training exercises or you call them war games. only people wenow that they re called war games are american adversaries are now president trump.