Thanks for sharing your personal story with us. Thanks for having us. Andill be 7 next month, il keep working at the gym. I want to thank wilbur ross for what he did for us. Glad you got that message out. Were following a lot of news this morning. Lets get right to it. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. President trump trump said hed meet kim jong un by may. This is unprecedented, historic. Im always a fan of diplomacy. Weve been banging our head against the wall for 25 years. Lets try something different. This was a hail mary pass and President Trump caught it. You dont have steel, you dont have a country. I actually think there is a better way to address unfair trade practices. The process is evolving. Tariff hikes are prosperity killers. They always have been and always will be. This is new day can chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. Good morning. Welcome to your new day. Its friday, march 9th, 8 00 in the east. President trump accepted kind of spontaneously this invitation from north Korean Leader kim jong un for a facetoface meeting. This would certainly be historic, because it would be the first time a sitting u. S. President would meet with the leader of this isolated regime. The South Koreans applauding that development, but pushing back on another, theyre also requesting an exemption from the stiff new tariffs on steel and aluminum the president put in place despite strong opposition from Republican Leaders who say theyre worried about starting a trade war. First lets go to cnns will ripley live in seoul, south korea, with this huge development. Will . Reporter they are exuberant about this in south korea. In the United States theres cautious optimism and a lot of skepticism. Theres still a lot of things we dont know. For one, where will this be happen . Chinese government dodging our questions whether they will play host as they did for the sixparty talks. What exactly can they accomplish . One thing we know for sure, over the next two months, kim jong un is going to do two things hes never done before, meet with the president of south korea and do something his father and grandfather wanted to do but never could, sit down facetoface with the president of the United States. He expressed his eagerness to meet President Trump as soon as possible. Reporter President Trump agreeing to meet with north Korean Leader kim jong un within the next two months, setting the stage for an unprecedented encounter between the leaders of two countries who just last ye were exchanging threats of nuclear annihilation. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Rocket man is on a Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. Reporter north korea responding by calling President Trump a doter, old and senile, threatening the u. S. Territory of guam and creating repeated nuclear and missile tests. But now an apparent breakthrough. North carolina leader kim jong un says hes committed to denuclearization. Kim pledged that north korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests. Reporter in addition to suspending their weapons testing, kim jong un also accepts the joint military exercises between south korea and the United States. President trump expressing optimism about the possibility of denuclearization, but stressing economic sanctions will remain until an agreement is reached. South korea calling the meeting miraculous. Noting north korea has made these types of promises repeatedly, accused by the u. S. Of cheating on previous deals. Victor cha recently dropped for consideration as u. S. Ambassador to south korea warns while the summit provides unique opportunities, its failure could push the two countries to the brink of war. The surprise announcement coming after mr. Trump popped into the White House Briefing room to ooh tease the news, catching white house and pentagon staffers off guard. Earlier in the day secretary of state Rex Tillerson sent on a trip to africa said this about the prospect of talks. Were a long ways from negotiations. I think we just need to be very cleareyed and realistic about it. Reporter the south korean delegation delivering north koreas request to the white house after meeting with kim jung june in pyongyang earlier this week. In a fourhour dinner meeting he treated officials to multiple bottles of local alcohol and cracked jokes about Early Morning missile launches and his image outside north korea. I can tell you after three years and 20 trips to pyongyang i have many conversations with north koreans who have said all along his strategy was to grow the nuclear table, sit down at the table from a position of strength not weakness. There are sanctions getting increasingly crippling and difficult, kim jongun is getting the optics of sitting down at the table as equals facetoface with the president of the United States, in this case donald trump. Chris . Will, appreciate it. Youre in the right place at the right time. Lets dig deeper with cnn political and National Security analyst david sanger and former ambassador to the u. N. Governor bill richardson. Good to have you on the show. Lets start with you, governor, do you see this as a potential opportunity for progress or are you just overwhelmed by the concerns . Well, im overwhelmed by what is happening. In the many years, the eight trips ive taken to north korea, this is unorthodox and unprecede unprecedented, but im an optimi optimist. This has never happened before. I dont think were going to get an absolute goal of denuclearization. I think the president needs to temper that. But im opposed to 95 of what the president does on foreign policy. On this one im supporting him. Its risky. Weve got to be properly prepared and we cannot underestimate kim jong un. Hes evolving into a strategic thinker, into a man with an end game. What we dont want to do is get trapped in a situation, a highlevel negotiation where were not prepared, where we dont have our best negotiators forward. At the very least the president should tell his secretary of state what hes doing. So im concerned, yet at the same time hopeful. What the governor is referring to, david, is this took Rex Tillerson by surprise. It took everyone by surprise because the president hadnt planned to do it, hadnt even planned to meet with the south korean delegation that was at the white house. They popped in. They made this overture, he accepted it on the fly and here we are. How do you see it . Alisyn, as the gov floor has suggested this is happening in the reverse of the way these things normally would. He would normally conduct a negotiation at a lower level, begin to work out what it was that you were trying to achieve, what steps the north koreans would take toward denuclearization. The most important question, how you would verify it, a particularly difficult issue when it came to north korea and hold out the meeting between president s as the thing you would do at the end, the capstone. As with many things with the trump presidency, this one is going backwards. It comes because weve got two leaders who are supremely confident in their own capability to negotiate a dielman to man and come out on top. In this case as the governor suggested, that could work. Weve never tried this in the years since the armistice took place in 1952. On the other land, if it fails, then both sides have sort of got their backs up and you could be into a bad spiral. My guess is the north koreans have no interest in ever fully denuclearizing, as the governor and i have talked about before, because this is the one last protection this country has. First we have this fact issue of the notion that this this is where the administration has been heading all along. Lets just play what Rex Tillerson said about this. Remember, he got called out saying were nowhere near diplomatic talks and then on the same day trump accepted the invitation. Here is what he said. In terms of the decision to engage between President Trump and kim jong un, thats a position the president took himself. I spoke to him very early this morning about that decision, and we had a good conversation. This is something that hes had on his mind for quite some time. Maybe this is too fine a point, gov, but you tell me. It seems like people like you and david who have experience with foreign politics say you dont just jump into opportunities like this, how you plan for it matters, whats the thinking as you get into it. It matters as much as the unto itself. The other side is going to stop with all your politics, its good its happening, he made it happen, bravo to him. Where are you on this . Im on the side of the big gamble. The north korean situation, the tension in the peninsula has been so intense, this is the worst state of u. S. North korea relations, that you almost need a hail mary pass. You need a home run thrown into the mix. The risks are exactly that, there is not adequate preparation by our military and our negotiators. I think the very first step, obviously Rex Tillerson is trying to recover from not being consulted, is give tillerson and our military some instructions. Development a coheesht strategy. At the first meeting youre not going to make a huge deal on denuclearization, but you may get some kind of a freeze on Missile Development affecting the United States or guam, alaska, some kind of deal that ease z the tension with the koreas in terms of artillery, conventional weapons, some kind of positive steps. I think we need to get three americans out from north korea. Theyre there. We need to recover the remains of our soldiers from the korean war, some soft power steps before the two big guns meet in two months, but theres not much time and the north korean and south korean president also are meeting before the president. So maybe we have a little cover to get something done substantially before the two leaders meet. But youre not going to make a final deal with the two leaders. Its going to take years and its going to cost a lot. The agreed framework president clinton negotiated in exchange for north korea halting their Nuclear Development was energy, food, economic assistance, end of sanctions. If there is a next deal, its going to be 15 times as costly, but it may be worth it because this is a country that may have plenty of nuclear weapons. Theyve got 2 million men in arms. Theyve got missiles. I think this is big stakes, a big gamble, but im supporting the president s effort to do it, just be careful and dont tweet. Dont tweet. Just stay low. Theres some advice for the president. But thats really fascinating, governor, to hear all that context. David, if all those things ha the governor just laid out are not hammered out beforehand, should the president still do this and roll the dice . This is a president who is probably not going to sit around for the details because hes convinced he can go do this. My guess is, at this point having said hell go ahead with the meeting, hell probably go af head with the meeting unless some crisis emerges in between. As the governor suggests, this is really going to be cramming for the exam for this administration because they dont have a north korea deep bench right now. In fact, it was just last week that their most senior representative for north korea, somebody who knew the place really well, just resigned from the state department. Its not even clear who will be negotiating this whole thing out. These things usually take a good deal of time. I think the thing that to think about the hardest, how would you verify it. Its easy to verify that tests arent taking place. We can see it, we know when a nuclear test goes off. As the governor suggests there are at least probably 20 nuclear weapons. By the lights of some american intelligence agencies, there may be up to 60. If you dont foe how many there are, you really dont know where to inspect in an incredibly mountainous place. Youre going to have to think ahead of how to get inspectors into every corner of the country. When you think about the president s critiques of the iran deal, it didnt go far enough, iran didnt have nuclear weapons. This is going to be infinitely more complex than the iran deal was. David sanger, governor bill richardson, thank you for your expertise. President trump unmoved by the talk of possible trade war by some of his republican allies. Will the risky tariffs boost american industry . Our analysts are here next. Ahh, a h. And a half. But they can relax. They got an unbeatable price on a suite. With an extra bed. No one looks out for you, like travelocity. With price match guarantee, youll always wander wisely. You cant judge sugar looking at the cane, you cant judge a woman looking at her man. You cant judge a daughter by looking at the mother. 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Tariffs the president put on steel and aluminum imports are of grave concern in terms of helping workers in this country and what it will mean in terms of retaliation around the world including from our allies. Its a move thats already cost him his top economic adviser. What else will it do . Lets bring in Chris Cillizza and ron brownstein. So Chris Cillizza, is the simple analysis here as obvious as he wanted to win, he wanted a big move, he said he would do it, these other people dont know what theyre talking about, im doing it . In terms of trade policy, this is the one area throughout Donald Trumps professional career, business and Real Estate Investor and now in politics that you can say hes sort of consistent on this. He is very skeptical of these Large Scale International trade deals. He views he ran as we need to protect the american workers. I think he was going to do it. I think gary cohn got in front of that. He thought he might be able to stop it and couldnt. Remember, trump likes doing things that people say either have never been done before or cant be done or shouldnt be done. Those are the three things he likes doing. This fits most of those. Ron, i totally get hes been against deals, he thinks the, woulders are being taken advantage of. Its easy to say and tough to fix. He hasnt done anything to negotiate a new deal except whats going on with mexico and canada. That seems to undermine his National Security threshold for putting these sanctions and these tariffs in place. Its interesting. While the gop has come out and said we dont like this, they havent said theyre going to do anything about it. People have to remember, the president only has this power because Congress Gave it to him. They could take it away. Do you think theres any chance of that . What is the political fallout from this . First of all, i agree with chris, this is a consistent note for thement throughout his career. Were r ear learning this reenforces two broader trulgts we know about him, one process, one substantive. He negotiates like a hostage taker. He takes a hostage and then demands concessions in return for it. Thats what hes turned this into in terms of canada and mexico by temporarily exempting them from the tariffs and threatening to reimpose them later if they dont make concessions on nafta, exactly what he did with the deferred action program, demanding the democrats give concessions on Legal Immigration to get it back. Second, this reminds us of how much of his Economic Vision is fundamentally backward looking. Its about reviving industries that have been important contributors to the American Economy but whose biggest contributions are in the past. Steel, aluminum employment, were down to a thin sliver of the economy. The risk by imposing these tariffs, you affect a broad range of occupations that create more jobs. The retrospective done on the bush steel tariffs, where it cost 200,000 more jobs than they created because of all the downstream effects on other industries, and there are similar estimates here. Whats striking to me, chris