It s amazing, i ve done this about ten times now with people and i can t get through it, i had to stop and pause and reflect a little bit, i met paul at the conference we just had to face to face and thanked him several times profusely. what they do is amazing and we don t ever know what s going on until it happens. martha: show us the dog tag tag. what goes through your mind when you look at that and you think about it being on your father s chest? i was surprised like everyone else. in all reality, we had assumed he was deceased for all of these years. that part wasn t a surprise. i didn t ever expect to have anything relating directly to him. martha: what happens next?
Just some announcements he made in the last several months. we found this common thread where he was making decisions that seemed to be counter to what secretary mattis had said both on the record in some cases, at other times we know it had been his private advice. a come of them are ones you just mentioned, ali, including space force. that was one that was on the record last october in 2017. secretary mattis sent a lower to senator john mack kaine explaining why he had concerns about the creation of a space core or a space force, a 6th military branch dedicated to space. well then several days ago president trump at a space policy meeting turned to general dunford, the chairman of the joint chiefs and said, i d like you to create this. can you take on this mission? secretary mattis is on the record against it. pulling out of the iran deal, that was one it wasn t a surprise necessarily to secretary mattis that the president was going to pull the u.s. out of that deal, but the presiden
I will say, he knew prior to coming this wasn t a surprise. it wasn t like we have never discussed it. we discussed it. reporter: the president revealing he made a massive concession to kim jong-un, putting an end to joint military exercises between the united states and south korea. a long-standing north korean demand. we will stop the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money. reporter: criticizing the exercises the u.s. conducted for decades. we will save a tremendous amount of money. plus, it s very provocative.ter catching south korean and u.s. military officials by surprise. trump even floating the idea of withdrawing u.s. troops from the korean peninsula. the president touting the summit as a diplomatic success. but on paper, kim making no promises to abandon his nuclear arsenal any time soon. right now, president trump taking his word for it.
Things can happen. it wasn t long ago, meeting by north korea giving up as well. that is what they are doing. talk about that. for a complete verifiable if you didn t secure the details in this agreement. there is no time. i m here one day. we are together for many hours intensively but the process is now going to take place and i would be surprised if they haven t even started already. they have started. they will up their sites. i will say he knew prior to coming this wasn t a surprise, not like we never discussed it.
This is not about the american people. we have to believe that at some point common sense will prevail. but we see no sign of that in this action today by the u.s. administration. joining me now is cnbc s aman javers. common sense will prevail, but they see no sign of that being the case. you saw indignant action from trudeau. i just talked to the mexican ambassador to the united states who said this wasn t a surprise. they saw this coming. but they still resent the fact that they are being blamed for national security grounds here, that this is being done in the name of u.s. national security. they say we are america s closest allies, how can you treat us like this? the truch administration would say, look, it s not that you are a danger to the united states.