As he goes into it. However when you contrast it to what the president has said up to tonight. Here is how the administration has been describing its goal for the singapore talks. North korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. The conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization in the peninsula. The goal and the purpose of the conversations is to have denuclearization of the peninsula. The denuclearization of the korean peninsula. The president has laid out to what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. I will be meeting with kim jongun in the coming weeks as we seek to denuclearize the area
and the entire korean peninsula. The stated goal and now, not so much. I think it is a gettingtoknowyou meeting plus. There is another one. Whatever else you might think of the summit, that sounds like a different agenda. Human rights might not be on the agenda either. Here is the president talking about toda
folks are going to try to trick you. internally you have a president who wants to do this. you have a number of aides saying you need to diahis back. you can get yourself out on a limb and it may not work out well for you. mitch mcconnell is in kentucky giving a speech where he is doing what you just did. he is nervous and worried that the president so wants the meeting. listen to the language. you fall in love with the deal and it is too important for you to get it and the details become less significant you could get snookered. i think the president is fully aware of that as he goes into it. i think the president is fully aware of that. you lay it out there. please don t get snookered. watch the talks on capitol hill. a lot of them when this came up in march and they were talking about the summit between the president and the leader of north korea.
so it is remarkable not to bring these things up at least in the conversation. but another point here too, it was interesting to hear mitch mcconnell of course a republican senate majority leader warn the president, don t get snookered by north korea. a lot of players here that have agendas. china may be weakening sanctions on north korea so that sanctions by themselves don t get what the u.s. wants and it is in fact force somewhat to get to the table. making the point south korea is interested. get to something formal end. perhaps not on terms that are favorable to the united states. more than one party here that can snooker as mitch mcconnell says, the u.s. in these
concerned about him giving away too much. i think presidents should have the room to do summits that don t have a lot of news or developments come out of them. i think just having the discussion in and of itself is a positive thing and you should give them the room to do it and not build up this need that you have to have a win, you know, something specific to come out of it because just, you know, engagement is a worthy thing. we did that during soviet times. better to keep talking than increasing the risk of shooting each other, which was a real risk earlier this year. chris, it was noticeable today to see the gop senate leader mitch mcconnell issue something of a warning to the president, don t get snookered by kim. we ve heard that from some democrats. interesting to hear it from a republican. as a republican at this table, i m probably the most critical of what i ve seen happen today. the fact that you had someone from the highest levels of the north korean government be able