Wants to be the one to take credit for either negotiating or walking away? that is certainly his style which is why he has preferred to meet with kim jong-un. he rushed a summit in singapore, like he rushed this summit. prep work wasn t done. to your point, i think he is under impression he is the kim whisperer, like a putin whisperer. if he gets in the room with did he say pits that are good at manipulating them, he can convince them to change aggressive behavior or change a major negotiating point like what kind of sanctions would be lifted in exchange for denuclearization. but it is not working, fred. putin hasn t stopped attacking our country and kim jong-un has not actually agreed to denuclearize as far as we know. do you see there would be a third or wise to have a third summit and more ground would be covered? oh, i think kim jong-un is begging for a third date with donald trump because the more that kim jong-un can extend this
Doomed failure because it was all about show and the proper prep work wasn t done. last week the president said he cancelled mike pompeo s trip to north korea because pyongyang had not made enough progress towards getting rid of their nuclear weapons. in july, you might remember, president trump said that great progress was being made. gordon chang here, author of nuclear show down, north korea takes on the world. almost feels like deja vu all over again. great fanfare by the clinton administration, the bush administration and the obama administration of progress with north korea. and now boom. yeah, goes back to the administration of george h.w. bush that talked about basically trying to get rid of the nukes and safe guards agreement with the international atomic energy agency. this goes back a number of administrations, which have made mistakes. president trump is making new mistakes. the one thing that you can say