to solve the cold war. he said he could figure it out and within an hour have an arms deal with the russians and everything would move on. this was 30 years ago. i do believe he thinks he s been preparing for there this whole life. susan said these things are resolved before the summit begins. none of that has happened. if you get to any of these issues he can t talk about a single one of them. we ll see starting monday. thank you, susan page, cheryl sykes on the road to singapore, david corn. coming up, special counsel robert mueller is turning up the heat on paul manafort. he s facing decades of prison. manafort s been hit with another indictment for obstruction and conspiracy charges for tampering with witnesses. the new indictments come hours after president trump insisted once again he has the absolute right to pardon himself. we ll get to that next. plus, mitt romney makes a bold
subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? it s become clear today, brian, if it wasn t clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the road to singapore, putting aside what he s actually going to give up at the table across the table from kim jong-un. so first, brian, he s caved twice on the idea of the summit, first accepting the invitation outright initially without any consultations and without winning any concession. then once he canceled the summit, he caved a second time and re-accepted the invitation that was brought to him today to the oval office. second, he said the era of maximum pressure is over. and as hans noted
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intel. catherine lucey is back with us, white house reporter for the associated press. and also brian bennett returns to the broadcast, senior white house correspondent for time magazine. good evening and welcome to you all. jeremy, i m going to begin with you. is it still your first of all, what s going on here? subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? it s become clear today, brian, if it wasn t clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the road to singapore, putting aside what he s actually going to give up at the table across the table from kim jong-un. so first, brian, he s caved twice on the idea of the summit, fi
subset question one, is it still your contention that getting talks at all with the american president is baseline victory for the north? and when the president talks about these talks maybe not being over in one session, maybe several, maybe weeks, is that the kind of talks that should precede presidents sitting down at the table? it s become clear today, brian, if it wasn t clear before, that our president is an enormously ineffective negotiator. he has made massive concessions even on the road to singapore, putting aside what he s actually going to give up at the table across the table from kim jong-un. so first, brian, he s caved twice on the idea of the summit, first accepting the invitation outright initially without any consultations and without winning any concession. then once he canceled the summit, he caved a second time and re-accepted the invitation that was brought to him today to the oval office. second, he said the era of maximum pressure is over. and as hans noted