administration were essentially told to get in the back seat by the south koreans. we have been in the passenger seat this whole time from the first day that the south korean national security adviser came to the west wing, briefed president trump and his advisers on the invitation, and president trump without even convening his full team, without even giving it much consideration, agreed to meet kim jong-un. so clearly there may also be a game of telephone here, a game of telephone that is predicated on the fact that we are getting some of this information secondhand from our south korean partners rather than getting it directly from our diplomats, many of whom are absent, lawrence. many of whom are still absent. president trump is right that no other president has gotten this far with north korea, meaning no other president has extend themselves to the point of actually scheduling a meeting because no other president has reached a set of agreements that could establish the basis fo
the south koreans. we have been in the passenger seat this whole time from the first day that the south korean national security adviser came to the west wing, briefed president trump and his advisers on the invitation, and president trump without even convening his full team, without even giving it much consideration, agreed to meet kim jong-un. so clearly there may also be a game of telephone here, a game of telephone that is predicated on the fact that we are getting some of this information secondhand from our south korean partners rather than getting it directly from our diplomats, many of whom are absent, lawrence. many of whom are still absent. president trump is right that no other president has gotten this far with north korea, meaning no other president has extend themselves to the point of actually scheduling a meeting because no other president has reached a set of agreements that could establish the basis for such a meeting, and it turns out tonight the trump administrat
what do you make of this ahead of the summit? you re dealing with three lives and people who have families. maybe there s some iron-clad assurance to the north koreans that weren t able, maybe the families were told they re being released but usually you d say absolutely nothing until they re released and then you can say whatever you want. i assume they have some promises from the north koreans. hard to say. but i would counsel against saying anything until they re actually released. i want to get your perspective on where we are ahead of that leader summit. john bolton, the national security adviser met with his south korean counterpart. you have an announcement of a meeting on may the 22nd, the south korean president will meet with president trump. what does president trump want to know as he approaches that summit? i hope they re working on it right now. presumably part of the kim jong
un/moon jae-in summit was to talk about the summit will president trump. i hope there s a benchmark understanding of what is going to be said. i m pleased that john bolton has been talking to the south korean national security adviser. i d sort of like to know whether he s been in touch with the north koreans, do they have any kind of joint statement they ve been working on. because i wouldn t just leave this up to the to leaders to kind of having a gab fest over. i mean, there s got to be some clear understanding of what this is going to look like. this is a huge, huge stakes for everybody, especially our president. i presume there s some kind of assurance that the north koreans will say something or do something on denuclearization. but so far i think the president is kind of keeping his cards very close to the vest and we re not really sure what s going to come ot ut of it. you and i talked a few weeks
thank you. you followed it all the way. thanks so much, katie fang for being our expert. up next, president trump s go it alone approach. he s willing to rely completely on his own instincts even if it puts him at odds with everyone around him his experts, secretary of state, national security adviser. they were all ignored yesterday when he went to town on this north korean gambit. you re watching hardball. nav. i do outrank my husband, not just being in the military, but at home. she thinks she s the boss. she only had me by one grade. we bought our first home together in 2010. his family had used another insurance product but i was like well i ve had usaa for a while, why don t we call and check the rates? it was an instant savings and i should ve changed a long time ago. there s no point in looking elsewhere really. we re the tenneys and we re usaa members for life. usaa. get your insurance quote today.