the kind of technique his boss often does, critiquing in realtime the headline from the new york times talking about a change in strategy on the part of the united states, a willingness to allow for containment of a nuclear north korea as a means to dial down some of the volatility that seemed to creep back in after the initial fire and fury period over time and then no results coming on it of the vietnam summit, summit 2. and the meeting at the dmz. john bolton, the president s national security adviser, taking issue. and he said i read this new york times story with curiosity. neither the nsc staff nor i have discussed or heard of any desire to, quote, settle for a nuclear freeze by north korea. so john bolton, who is known as a hawk, teased by even the president as being more hawkish than donald trump himself,
korea. he s been a champion of the dialogue process with the north. he was there in the dmz with president trump. they said that his steps into north korea were steps toward peace. we hope president trump very much enjoyed the impromptu summit and said this was a great step to reduce tension. he deserves a lot of credit for making the world a safer place. and i think we re going to hear more and more on that theme going into the presidential campaign. but we didn t know until a short while ago what the north koreans themselves thought about this. we saw smiles on kim jong-un s face. now the official state television in north korea released a mini documentary. it took him a day to put together. pretty quick turnaround. you see kim jong-un s side.
administration is making progress on trade agreements secretary pompeo alluded to that in the middle of the hearing as news broke that president juncker and president trump were making some kind of announcement on trade. we talked about policies. policies firmly in place and rejection of russian activities in crimea and beyond. brian: so, mike pompeo walked in saying okay, i know problem, don t know what s going on with north korea, here we are. the russian summit has been postponed russian summit 2 to 2019. does the president believe it yes. i will cite all the examples. now do you have any questions? trade going to affect foreign policy we just solved the eu perhaps. any other questions? do you sense a political agenda, house chris coons i felt like every senator was auditioning for their base. yeah. you had a lot of people trying to make hits and grandstands at that committee hearing. it s not surprising. i m sure it happens pretty often. bottom line i thought secretary pompeo com