to kim jong un but mulling hemingreminding the critics that months ago they were blaming the president for bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. a year ago we were told we were on the brink of nuclear war because of the approach donald trump had taken, he would never walk away from a summit, that we couldn t hit a june 12th meeting. time and time again the foreign policy experts have been wrong about what would hn with donald trump s very different approach from the bipartisan consensus we have seen leading up to this. we have not like previous meetings we had had to give cash money to get them to the table. we didn t have to do that this time. it is a very promising step. we have a long way to go to see is that this accomplishes the piece we hope for. rob: breaking news, air force one, with the president on board, landing at joint base andrews outside washington dc. the president should be in a fairly good mood coming back from a historic sit down with
motion at their historic meeting here could play out for decades. after roughly five hours of talks, the two leaders agreed to complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. what exactly that means is still unknown and president trump is already taking some criticism for getting too little and giving too weave fox team coverage, greg palkot in seoul, south korea, with reaction there, but we start with chief white house correspondent john roberts on the summit and what comes next. good morning, john. good morning to you, chris. to hear president trump tele, the next app he hopes is that m jong un will start tearing down the nuclear program he just spent billions building. but the president s critics doubt this new relationship will ever pay off. it was a moment for the history books. the first time a sitting u.s. president has met with the leader of north korea. the road to get here was a long one. we will have a terrific
the front end an easily reversed promises as opposed to getting concrete action from our adversary and then taking action into that process. chris: in the meantime, t president says that he i going to maintain his sanctions regime, although he s not going to call it maximum pressure anymore, but he did say that since the negotiations had started, china has eased up on some of its tight controls on activity across the border. it seems that south korea is anxious to begin trade with north korea and the question i have is has by normalizing things, appearing here, meeting with president moon of south korea, meeting with china, as kim jong un already succeeded to some degree in weakening the maximum pressure campaign? not necessarily by the united states, but by the rest of the world? no, i don t think he has. china has always displayed a double game when it comes to
enterprise and individual liberty for their people, and so i would hope that everyone would understand the importance in keeping this together. we might need to ramp up our pressure on china and other countries to ensure that that does take place. chris: mollie, your general thoughts about the summit? there are some critics who are saying that the president gave too much considering what he got. do you think that s fair? it s kind of funny. with that so many pundits be so wrong for so long. a year ago we were told that we were on the brink of nuclear war because of the approach that president trump are taken, that we would never get to a summit, that he would never walk away to a summit, that we couldn t hit a june 12th meeting. time and time again the foreign policy experts have been wrong about what would happen with president trump s very different approach from the bipartisan consensus that we have seen leading up to this. in fact, we have not like previous meetings that we had
and as we develop a certain trust and we are going to be working with them on a lot of other things, but this is complete denuclearization. democrats jumped on the communiqué as vague and toothless. kim jong un and north korea have made commitments in the past that they have not followe . more specific commitments than we have heard during this summit. so you can t take his word for it. president trump also heard criticism for his pledge to end u.s.-south korean joint military exercises, along a thorn in north korea s side, the president calling them provocative and expensive. number one we save money, a lot, and number two, it really is something that i think they very much appreciate. trumps eastwood giving away two or three of the major things that kim jong un wanted, a meeting, the flags next to each other, now no delay of exercises with south korea without getting