vice president mike pence with the bombshell announcement that president trump will meet with the leader of north korea. now time for our sunday group. jason riley, catherine lucey that covers the white house for the associated press. and charlie hurt, the opinion editor for the washington times. just kidding, it s the best job in the world. this meeting with kim jong-un, is it ever going to happen? i think that s the question right now. there s a lot of things we haven t heard about time, place, ground rules. president is clearly signaling at his rally last night and on twitter that he wants to do it but there are folks questioning how is this going to work? this is better than shouting insults over twitter at north korea so i think this is an improvement. but the question is, what are we getting in return? what are the concessions we are giving just a meeting? for kim jong-un and north
the president slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum. ahead of the announcement you said quote, the proposed tariffs take the right approach but target a narrow section of the economy and put our allies in the same boat as countries like china that she constantly entrces. all the while the administration ignores the root of the problem. the president start off with exempting mexico and canada and said he d be open to other exemptions. has he met you halfway here? i was very glad to see what the president had done. i have been a critic for a long time about u.s. trade policy. my view is we have negotiated one deal after another that has been great for big multinational corporations and been lousy for american workers. lousy for american small businesses. often, not even good for american consumers. what i d like to see us do is rethink our whole trade strategy. i m not afraid of using tariffs as part of that trade strategy. i was glad when after i made that statement that the president
the news that came out that the president s combination of tough talk and maximum pressure through international sanctions have come close to bringing north korea to the table? i am very glad to see the trump administration turn in the direction of diplomacy. the principal reason for that is because there is no military only solution to north korea. this is not just what i say, this is what our own generals who are experts in the area and responsible for the area say. that means we really do need strong diplomacy here. but these are very complex negotiations. so i m very concerned about the fact the state department has so many vacancies that much of the staff at the state department has been decimated. we have no ambassador right now to south korea. the assistant secretary in charge of this area, that s another vacant post. this is important because these are the people who know the economy. you know the language, who know
i intend totend to agree wit on that. we re talking about constitutional rights. if states want to pass laws that infringe upon your constitutional rights, i think the federal government should be involved. but i do think it s interesting in the first couple days after the horrible tragedy, president trump got a lot of heat about talking about arming teachers. which is actually, if you take a breath and step back, a lot of people thinkdon t think that unreasonable thing. even if you wanted to have special training. i am very uncomfortable with it. i wish i knew more. because i live in the city. the biggest threat to my lifetime, is one of these thugs driving by with a fun hitting me or my family.let s put my
i breathe the president nearly every day we have shared every bit of information we have about the country, its economy of how kim jong-un might react. and how north korea might respond. how the globe might respond. the president has built an enormous coalition aimed at a singular outcome which is the denuclearization of the peninsula. so where do they need? i don t know. what needs to be taken into consideration when discussing where they would meet? i assume they wouldn t me to north korea or the united states. probably not south korea either. geneva, - - as gorbachev and reagan did? seems less important where they meet in the substance of the discussion. president trump isn t doing this for theater. he s going to solve a problem. thelocation of the meeting , we ll determine at the exact time. but what s most important is what s discussed and the clarity and strength and