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initiatives in north korea and i am very happy to have elaine cooper pentagon correspondent with the new york times. i am very happy to be here and we are excited. welcome steve. thank you. you have been on the job six months how is it going? i feel like it s a lot more than six months. let me start by saying diplomacy is still very much alive and while we haven t made as much progress in six months that i would ve hoped coming in that we stay closely engaged with our counterparts in north korea. we just came off of a summit meeting where president donald trump and kim jong un spent two days together discussing issues and the president had a press conference and it s true we remain engaged in the doors open and we will continue to work with the north koreans to try to achieve our shared goal of complete denuclearization of the peninsula. let me frame in a little more broadly so you have a sense of what we ve been up to the past six months as well. the president held his
New-yorkUnited-statesPyongyangP-yongyang-siNorth-koreaJapanYongbyonP-yongan-buktoIranWashingtonChinaHanoi today. we have steve begen, who was appointed to be the u.s. special representative for north korea. he s the tip of the spear of diplomat of diplomatic the trump administration s diplomatic initiative in north korea. and i m very happy. i m helene cooper, pentagon correspondent with the new york times. so you ve been on the job for six months. how is it going? it feels like more than six months. diplomacy is still very much alive. and while we haven t made as much progress in the six months as i would have hoped coming in on the first day, we stay closely engaged with our counterparts in north korea. we just came off of a summit meeting in hanoi where president trump and chairman kim jong-un spent two days together, discussing some very weighty issues. and the president said in his press conference, and it s true, that we remain engaged. the door is open. and we will continue to work with the north koreans to try to achieve our shared goal of the complete denuclear
New-yorkUnited-statesPyongyangP-yongyang-siNorth-koreaArizonaJapanYongbyonP-yongan-buktoIranSingaporeChina thank you very much. so you ve now been on the job for six months. how is it going? it feels like a lot more than six months. really? yeah. let me start by saying the obvious, that diplomacy is very much still alive. and while we haven t made as much progress in the six months as i would have hoped coming in on the first day, we stay closely engaged with our counter parts in north korea. we just came off a summit meeting in hanoi where president trump and chairman kim jong-un spent two days together discussing some very weighty issues, and the president said in his press conference and it s true, that we remain engaged. the door is open, and we will continue to work with the north koreans to try to achieve our shared goal of the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. our goal fully verified denuclearization. but let me frame it a bit more broadly so you have a sense of what we ve been up to for the last six months as well. so the president held his summi
New-yorkUnited-statesJapanYongbyonP-yongan-buktoNorth-koreaIranWashingtonChinaVietnamRepublic-ofHanoi up. we have edward lawrence at white house with the very latest. hey, edward. reporter: it is all about ireland today. full disclosure i m part ireland from my mother s side. president is going to capitol hill for the friend of ireland luncheon. he he met with the problem of ireland. leo varadkar. a vote in the senate will be to stop the declaration. i will probably have to veto. it wit not be overturnedded. the legal scholars all say it is totally constitutional. it s very important, really border security vote. reporter: the bill is expected to pass. the question for the white house here is how many republican defections are they going to get? once the bill passes it syncs up with the house version, comes to the president s desk. he will veto the bill going forward notice there is enough senate votes to override the veto, why the white house is watching this so closely. he is looking to see exactly how many senators vote for this bill. 60 would be the threshold for overri
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