chod, director of studies and by evelyn farc cuss, former secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. i m glad to have both uh on varsity with me. what do you make of the president s comments suck there s a substantial chance this doesn t happen. what do you puts the odds it actually does? i think it will happen. really? think he wants it. you could see the way he was answering questions yesterday there are voices on his shoulder who are telling him this is not going to work, but i think he really wants this. irrelevant mean, he raised expectations so high after the april 20 sfth north/south support mitt and the north koreans are going to shut down the test site today, he can point to that as a success. in the end for him it s about creating peace and winning the nobel peace prize. what about this idea he s blaming china, evelyn? think that s because there was a different tone after kim jong-un went and met with the second time. with president xi. the secon