deal with the soviets. the republicans against obama a few years ago with the iran deal said he was too eager to do that. how does that enter into it, trump s desire, his strong desire to be seen as succeeding where his predecessors failed? well, i think that s the overwhelming conclusion just from the last 24 hours of head-spinning, on again, off again romance. the white house was very eager to let us know yesterday that that very strangely and very undiplomatically worded letter to kim had been dictated personally by president trump himself. and so then to turn around on a dime not because of any policy change on the part of the north koreans, i think it s important to emphasize that, but simply because donald trump said, as he told us this morning in his remarks before he got on the marine one helicopter, because we received a very nice letter from them. so it all has to do with how he feels he s being treated by the north koreans. he s reduced in a way american national security
marine one helicopter, because we received a very nice letter from them. so it all has to do with how he feels he s being treated by the north koreans. he s reduced in a way american national security and american diplomacy to a set of interactions between him personally. and completing your own personal engagement, i think, with that of what our national interests are in engaging in this negotiation is something that i can t imagine any other president doing whether it was ronald reagan meeting one-on-one with someone or richard nixon and henry kissinger in their opening to china. generally speaking we would never have such a summit meeting between two leaders without months or even years of talks between the two parties first. and, you know, it s not accurate to say that the united states has never had an agreement with the north koreans. the united states, along with other leading countries, has made several agreements with north koreans which they ve then violated or walked away fr
feels he s being treated by the north koreans. he s reduced in a way american national security and american diplomacy to a set of interactions between him personally. and completing your own personal engagement, i think, with that of what our national interests are in engaging in this negotiation is something that i can t imagine any other president doing whether it was ronald reagan meeting one-on-one with someone or richard nixon and henry kissinger in their opening to china. generally speaking we would never have such a summit meeting between two leaders without months or even years of talks between the two parties first. and, you know, it s not accurate to say that the united states has never had an agreement with the north koreans. the united states, along with other leading countries, has made several agreements with