right. second, they would have never mentioned libya. they would have never mentioned libya. well. that is such a clear error that it makes you wonder whether someone in the administration does it deliberately. but it seemed to have been intentional because john bolton said it at the end of the april, the president walked it back may 17th. walked it back. and then may 21st, vice president mike pence came out and talked about the libyan model. it s a summit killer that it raises the suspicion that one of these two people wanted to just scuttle this thing, or delay it, which they have. go ahead, victor. the other piece of that is by putting that out there it brings the chinese closer to the north koreans side because they re not in favor of a libyan model either which makes it harder for sblus we ve been keeping you two busy on this show. thank you for coming on. i appreciate it from both uh. i m going to ask jill and charly to stick around because after the break the
comments to focus more on leadership than politics given that the graduates who are assembled behind me here are set to join the ranks of the navy and the marine corps. i can tell you what the president s done speaking he s going to shakt hand of some of those 1100 or so graduates who are set to join the ranks of the u.s. military today, hallie. jeff, thank you very much. i want to bring in now john mclaughlin, former acting cia director as well as victor chod, director ofation studies at georgetown university and former director of affairs jill cove van of the ap, charlie savage of the new york times here with me as well. thank you all for being here on what has turned into another very busy news morning. victor rer let victor, lindsay graham was out this morning talking about what he thinks might happen. his tone was really interesting. watch. the preferred route is through peace through a peace treaty, win/win for them and us.
still have lots of work do to find common ground. i m very hopeful that he and president trump will get a chance to elaborate on that further in the next couple weeks. that s secretary of state mike pompeo on capitol hill right now talking about that meeting that may or may not happen between trump and kim jong-un. these some live pictures of him there. the comments coming after president trump injected some uncertainty into those plan talks even suggesting china may be to blame for the recent tough talk. they told the foreign affairs committee the talks are still on for june 12th and the u.s. has not made any concessions. let me tell you what s happening in the region. you ve got two dozen foreign journalists making the long trip to one of the north korea s nuclear test sites to witness its shutdown. they say that train triple take eight to 12 hours, then a few hours on a bus, then an hour hike to the actual site itself. journalists were in sleeping cars on the train. four bunks a p
not told in advance, u.s. government and president trump was not told in advance. that s why he was feeling and expressing his discomfort with that. then kim jong-un came out and was more defiant. yeah. that s when he complained about the exercise and then of course he had his chief negotiator talking about john bolt bolton. and here s what he said about president xi, which was interesting. listen. china maybe discure rablinged? no, but i think that president xi is a world-class poker player. victor. so i think the fact that the second meeting happened and trump didn t know about really bothered him. on the other hand, this is the way north korea is. let me ask you this. is this the way north korea is when it comes to the idea of not showing up for meetings? of course. bauts washington post is reporting that a north korean delegation did not show fire planning meeting in singapore a few weeks ago. there s apparently another one this weekend with the deputy chief of
chod, director of studies and by evelyn farc cuss, former secretary of defense for russia, ukraine, and eurasia. i m glad to have both uh on varsity with me. what do you make of the president s comments suck there s a substantial chance this doesn t happen. what do you puts the odds it actually does? i think it will happen. really? think he wants it. you could see the way he was answering questions yesterday there are voices on his shoulder who are telling him this is not going to work, but i think he really wants this. irrelevant mean, he raised expectations so high after the april 20 sfth north/south support mitt and the north koreans are going to shut down the test site today, he can point to that as a success. in the end for him it s about creating peace and winning the nobel peace prize. what about this idea he s blaming china, evelyn? think that s because there was a different tone after kim jong-un went and met with the second time. with president xi. the secon