i want peace on the korean peninsula. i can tell you, bill, our team has bee multiple occasions in the past few months and we ve been closer to nuclear war than peace. it s a bit of aetter feeling here on the peninsula. bill: great to have you on the ground there in seou thank you, greg palkot. sandra: let s bring in pete king of new york a member of the house homeland security committee. congressman, thank you for joining us this morning. we re all left wondering wh the promises from north korea and the president sounding optimistic, what role congress will play in ensuring the deal lasts. first, at this moment it s important all the american people andongress stand behind the pre and not be nitpicking each step along the way. it s a long way to go and i don t trust north korea for a second but i do have faith in the president s overall negotiating ability and we should stand with him. having said that, congress has a
pressure on and as long as president trump keeps the pressure up. i do think he realizes for the survival of his country he has to comply. having said that we have to have robust inspections and verify and i don t trust if he can get away with sometime something he will and by congress making sure there are inspections and there are ways toerify what s being said and promise this can go forward. again, at any given time the president has to be ready to leave the table. last night was a very positive start and i don t think we should look to all the details right now because it s right now so in the formula stage. again, i give the president tremendous credit for what s occurred. sandra: i want to ask you about devin nunes
all te the good feelings are great but all the pressure s still on. bill: he s ready a little bit now and he needs to keep that going in order to stay in power. sandra: do you give the credit to the president for the team he has around him, mike pompeo has been a rock star behind all the this and setting all this up from go back before he was even secre of state. sure, mike pompeo is an experienced foreign policy leader and in congress for a long time bill: this guy emerged eight years ago. one of the concerns i do have is all these vacant positions we still have at the state department yet to be filled by the trump administration and a lot of those positions are foreign polic position that
complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula during the first-ever meeting between a u.s. sitting president and north korean leader and in return the president putting military drills on hold for now showing president kim showed a commitment in the lead-up to the meeting. they secured a commitment for complete denuclearization. that s the big thing. they secured the release of three americanhostages. they already gave them to us two months ago. these people now living happily back in their homes with their families. sandra: the joint agreement called for negotiations to ntinue led by secretary of state mike pompeo. the president also saying he wants congress involved into making the agreement into an official treaty. no time line or specific steps were addressed. meanwhile, secretary pompeo playing a major role helping the
sides, the trump investigation and this investigation, to see the facts. we don t need that goes beyond just showing it in a classified setting. sandra: the american people have heard enough about it. they want answers. that s right. i agree with the professor. this is not new for the justice department. this is the way that the doj is hard-wired. it doesn t want to be transparent or share information. they have legitimate reasons for doing that. we re in an unusual situation right now where i think serious questions have been raised about what went on behind the scenes. i m hopeful that doj and congress will find a way to negotiate and get the answers that we re interested in finding. sandra: so the i.g. report, the inspector general report is due out thursday. there s so much anticipation. why is this so crucial and is this going to be a game-changer? i think it could be, sandra. look, i.g. reports are normally not at the top of the amazon