a deal, that he wants to see a comment minister. so it was a foreign ministry statement, not a phone call directly to the president or his aides. it was actually a statement of china s long-standing position on the issue. so why is the president framing it as something new today in a call that wasn t a call, but just a general public statement? what it comes from is the back and forth and the changing of statements from yourself, so that sorry! it s the way i negotiate. so my question is, is that a strategy? is it a strategy to call president xi an enemy one day and then say that relations are very good the next day and then you know, it s gone back and forth it s the way i negotiate. it s done very well for me over the years and it s doing even better for the country. is it? up next, the president s list of confusion today added the meeting of world leaders on climate change. the president was a no-show. we already knew from u.s. officials that the president thought
welcome aboard. thank you. let s talk about how it is you came to not be up for this nomination. did you withdraw on your own or were you asked to withdraw? i was told my nomination was not being put forward but i should say before that that every administration has the right to choose their own people and have the right to change their mind and while the actual political appointment of am basketball to am ambassador is vacant, the guy there is topnotch. it was south koreans that did it, not the acting ambassador. that s unusual. i worked in the white house before and to have that was the south korean national security advisor, to have him come out and announce that the u.s. president was willing to meet with the north korean leader, i ve never seen anything like
should say before that that every administration has the right to choose their own people and have the right to change their mind. and while the actual political appoint appointee, the guy there is top notch. it was south koreans that did it, not the acting ambassador. that s unusual. i worked in the white house before and to have that was the south korean national security advisor, to have him come out and announce that the u.s. president was willing to meet with the north korean leader, i ve never seen anything like that before. you wrote a piece in the washington post, you talked about a policy difference that may or may not have had anything to do with your nomination being
bush in sort of diplomatic speak, how big of a mistake was it for george w. bush to come out in the very first time ever meeting vladimir putin and saying he could see into his soul and got a sense of it? thanks for doing the research and reminding me what i said to the new york times then. i actually briefed the president before that meeting two weeks before he went on that trip and then after that comment in the new york times i was never invited back for eight years after that. but i do think he made a mistake, as i said, the strategy i understand, the strategy they were about to pull out of the abm treaty, the anti ballistic treaty and the president and advisors including my colleague here, they were trying to soften him up before they did that action because they knew it would be negative. but you don t say things like that. it makes it look foolish and he made a price for that. give us a sense of vladimir
he did not agree to cooperate but i wonder whether in the end mueller could compel him to testify about things like who is person a and some of the other factors about person a s involvement in the trump campaign in 2016 if he knows. it could be the end of it and i think if nothing more, it stands for the proposition that if you lie to the fbi, you will be convicted of a crime. you will have a felony conviction for the rest of your life. it could prevent him or harm him from practicing law even if he doesn t get additional prison time. the plot gets thicker. appreciate your time. still ahead, new reporting that could cost trump yet another cabinet secretary. that s next. if you ve been diagnosed with cancer,