Prosperity. Second, the United States and north korea will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the korean pinsula. Third, north korea commits to workd the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. And finally, the United States and the north commit to recoveringrisoners of war, missing in action remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. President trump held a News Conference just a short time ago and revealed what appears to be a major concession on the american side ending the u. S. south korea joint Military Exercises which he called war games. Can you be specific about what assurances you are willing to give to kim jongun . Does that include reducing military capabilities and just to follow up on your answer no, were not reducing anything. At some point i have to be host and i used to say this
during my campaign, as you know probably better than most, i want to get our soldiers out and bring our soldiers back hom
foreign policy stance enjoying better rapport with dictators than with democratically elected leaders that for decades have been our closest allies. if a democratic president acted this way, he or she would have already been impeached by the gop-controlled congress. outraged denunciation from the likes of senate majority leader mitch mcconnell would be loud and constant. but the party of abe lincoln, teddy roosevelt and ronald reagan is owned and operated by , a democrat by the way, and mcconnell is as meek as a mouse. gene, i don t know where to beg begin. you make a great point, i m so so sad about the spinelessness and lack of leadership in the republican part yy. this is about our national security and they can t step up on one thing? it s astounding, on things that they have said that they have preached that i thought
worries me about putting u.s. military exercises with south korea into the equation. no one is talking about reducing the north korean military threat. the president approaches all this, again, at our alliance it n that our alliance with south korea costs more than it benefits us even though we ve had more than a half century of stability on the peninsula and south korea has become the 11th wealthiest country in the world so it makes me uneasy that he still looks at this through a prism that wouldn t be be better off if we could roll back the american alliance commitment to zk so that is a d south korea makes me uneasy. still to come on morning joe reporter: did you touch on the issue of peace treaty and where will you travel to pyongyang any time soon? well, at a certain time i will. that will be a day that i look very much forward to, at the appropriate time and i also will be inviting chairman kim at the
side about. exactly what is to be done by whom and when. this is barely laid out. so as you said, if this were a game, this would be maybe the top of the first, joe. there s a lot of baseball to come here. i think the one to me concerning thing was the apples and oranges part of the president s position. north korea talked aspirationally about denuclearization, but the united states offered up something tangible which was the suspension of all military exercises and as best i can tell, those exercises, which are part of our conventional military deterrent, they were never meant to be a response to north korea s nuclear or missile force, i don t see anyone talking about much less doing something about the conventional military threat that north korea poses to south korea, the tens of thousands in artillery and the like. what this seems to be is ultimately very much a trumpen summit, emphasis on the istry and personal relationship, and yet again, a
meeting and feeling like there had been a productive meeting and feeling like the president was wheels up to an important international summit the canadian prime minister took to the media to condemn president. so i think there was frustration expressed there. yeah. marc short chalking up peter navarro s special place in hell comment to frustration. so discourage to hear someone speaking that way. joining us now, pulitzer prize winning columnist and political analyst eugene robinson. he s ought with a column entitled the compass gop credo was a sham all along and he writes in part trump has completely overturn what once was hallowed republican on fre trade. he has blithely ignored what used to be gop holy writ about fiscal restraint. he mocks the party s traditional