european union can t force its energy providers to buy the gas over there you know i did states so the promises made by the e.u. might not be a substantial lies in the future we don t know we do know that the elegy exports from the united states to europe have increased but those dimensions aren t comparable to the gas that for example countries like germany are getting from russia it s clearly political it s something that the e.u. can give to the united states to pacify trump but to back it up it s still a long way yes very good point max thank you well he is the president to many leaders would like to spend some time with at the g. twenty summit and i m not talking about donald trump i m talking about russian president vladimir putin today. we know there will be no sideline meeting between him and u.s. president trump we also know that german chancellor angela merkel will meet with mr putin to discuss escalations tensions with ukraine no word on whether or not trump will be present
denuclearization and i think it is on track. arthel: on track. okay, let s talk about iran. should the present me with iranian leadership and what is the likelihood of a sideline meeting between the president trump and present rouhani? iran, what a question! president trump has said all along, that he is willing to meet with any world leader if the talks can be constructive. so i assume it means he would meet with president rouhani. he would presumably meet with the supreme leader ayatollah if he were there. but that said, i do not expect it will happen. i do not see either the gentleman and iran wanting to want to talk to trump or the basis for cooperative action. now, there is strong back channel communication. probably through a european intermediary because the european is pulling out of iran and i think the sanctions and
limb, thinking that somehow this time might be different. officials have reportedly told axios, that before another summit between the president and kim could take place in the u.s., north korea would have to show progress toward denuclearization. what do you think of the prospect of kim jong un visiting the united states? there have been reports they might do some sort of a sideline meeting during the u.n. general assembly in september. so let s take a step back for a second. what exactly did we get out of singapore? we got nothing. we didn t get an agreement, we got a vague statement where north korea reiterated previous promises. we know what north korea got. they got the status of a bilateral meeting, something they ve sought for decades. they also got the united states surprisingly to announce that we would suspend this sort of cooperation that we had in the upcoming military exercises that
engine test site which the president has already said that the north koreans have given up and they clearly haven t done that yet. so it doesn t look like they are ready to disarm at all. what about the president who said i didn t give up anything, but he didn t he cancel that major military drill that was scheduled with south korea for next month? yeah, and that is actually quite important. because going forward there is nothing wrong with continuing to negotiate with the north koreans in trying to get them to disarm, but we shouldn t be giving up unilaterally any of our alliance equities for that. because those alliance exercises help to keep the alliance strong, to deter north korea from being aggressive. so going forward we shouldn t be giving up anymore things like that for promises of more process by the north koreans. what about according to the report that there are talks of a sideline meeting between the president and kim jung-un during the u.n. general assembly in new y
republican party. so why not. if they re trying to get in. go to the other players. it makes sense in an odd kind of way. i mean, frank, here s the thing. sarah s talking about a conservative activist reaching out on behalf of torsion. said his goal was to cultivate a back channel to the crekremlin. that s something we ve heard from other players. this whole back channel concept and this activist added putin is deadly serious about building a good relationship with mr. trump. right. now they don t get the sideline meeting with trump himself. they get it from the kind of major activist of the nfamily. yes, and this story, a lot of go on something april said, we think because because an