put teams preparation teams together to begin to work to prepare for the summit
and we had received no response to our inquiries from them so we in addition to
what the president laid out at his letter it is also the case that the I
disagree what you said in your opening stink the American team is fully
prepared I think we're rocking I think we're
ready where this goes from here likely depends on what Kim's reaction to the
letter will be it was about 10 o'clock at night Pyongyang time when the
president transmitted it to him so likely we won't hear anything from North
Korea until later on today morning their time if it's the typical North Korean
knee-jerk reaction Dana as summit may never happen but if if Kim jong-un
considers that what the president is really saying here is you're not getting
good information from Xi Jinping it's much more in your interest to side with
the United States than it is to side with China well maybe just maybe well
here's something different for me all right Jon diplomacy is certainly tricky
and never necessarily a straight line thank you so much for that you bet so
the announcement of the cancelled summit came hours after North Korea said it
demolished its main nuclear site something many believe was just for show
because no international regulators were there senior foreign affairs
correspondent Greg Calcott is in Seoul South Korea Greg hey Dana it will get to
that event in a moment but it is indeed late here in Seoul we are now getting
reaction from the South Korean government to the events of the past
couple hours south korean president moon jae-in in special session with his
national security staff urging direct talks between president Trump and Kim
jong-un saying I'm quoting here the nuclearization cannot be delayed or
abandoned the president here seemed to be a bit blindsided by events he was
quote quite perplexed by the statement coming from President Trump he called it
regrettable now President Trump said that he spoke by phone with a South
Korean president moon including about military readiness in the region that
has got to be a bit of a blow to the South Korean he's been working for
months to diplomatic resolution of this crisis
including his own summit last month with Kim jong-un along the DMZ again the
White House summit cancellation seems to send from that statement coming from the
Kim jong-un regime especially the reference to a quote-unquote Libya model
option regarding North Korea from our experience here Pyongyang takes that
phrase to mean regime change and hates it also getting the White House angry
that threat to go nuclear to nuclear in a showdown between the two countries
understand also the president Trump spoke with Japanese president eBay a
firm ally in the region and yes now on to that event to the northeast of where
we are ironically this was supposed to be a day when the region moved closer to
peace North Korea claiming on Thursday it completely dismantled its nuclear
test site up in the northeast corner of the country now all foreign reporters
wore at the scene they said there was an explosive closure of the tunnels there
there were no international experts confirming what was said this was
largely seen as a PR gesture in advance of that plan summit now that summit for
the moment is not to be and yes it is late here Dana
we have not gotten any kind of reaction from North Korea they have been better
at reacting now than they have in the past we might hear something on Friday
we will see alright and of course then we'll be coming right back to you great
thank you so to help us break it all down Jameel Jaffer is a former senior
advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations and House Intelligence Committee he's
glad to have you here today it had been a little disorienting this all of a
sudden have kim jeong-hoon be so cordial and and you know he did release the
american hostages and it looked like we are full steam ahead what do you know
about the China angle here and also is it somewhat a little bit more comforting
when you realize that oh this is the kim jeong-hoon family that we know and we
have respect for the process for the summit but we're not going to go there
and be snookered well that's right Dana look I mean China obviously is the is
the big player in the region they are ultimately the backwards North Korean
regime without China there is nothing from North Korea they don't have any
support and so they're inclined to go we're trying to tells them to go and so
it's interesting that his aggressive statements came after meeting with the
Chinese leader not clear whether he asked
look I want to get a little more aggressive or tasted maybe you need to
be a little more aggressive either way what you're seeing here I think is to
Sleater sort of you know going Toto telling saying I can cancel it you can
cancel I can type of nuclear war so can you and at the end of the day while the
tensions have heated up a little bit and the president cancels summit I bet you
it's back on within two weeks that's interesting the president did leave the
door open certainly for that one thing about China that I'm curious about
every actor here that is involved China Japan South Korea the United States and
certainly North Korea they're acting in their country's best interest I don't
understand maybe you could help me understand why is it in China's interest
for this summit not to go forward well look I think at the end of the day
what's in China's interest is to have a North Korea that neck comes back in the
line and does the right thing here but also in North Korea that is that is
strong relative to South Korea right because at the end of the day what they
see is this is they sort of using Cold War turns right the u.s. has its sphere
of influence South Korea the the China has its Syrians in North Korea and they
need to balance it off and so it looks like president Trump has got the upper
hand trying to say look we want you to back off a little bit and actually North
Korea feels the same way and so not clear whether this is China pulled the
strings or whether it's North Korea reacting in Signet I know we want to go
ahead and do this many chances yet that sounds fine to us well of course there
anything the president does comes with some criticism from some parts of the
country Richard Haass who we all know from foreign policy circles he tweeted
today the summit was bound to fail as real Donald Trump administration badly
overestimated what North Korea would agree to the issue was and is u.s.
willingness to accept an outcome short of total denuclearization all or nothing
in foreign policy with North Korea Iran China trade risks producing nothing or
conflicts but I wondered what you thought about this I mean you were
obviously very instrumental in helping guide at least on the Republican side
the members of Congress as President Obama moved forward on the Iran deal and
what sort of parallels do you see here well look I mean you can always talk
about half measures if you're if you want a foreign policy and half measures
then that's fine if you want incremental and that's fine
clearly Donald Trump is going for a big prize here I mean that that that comes
at some cost and so look everyone was sort of amazed that Donald Trump could
pull off meaning like this I think the meter will
still happen in the long one but it's gonna happen on America's terms I think
that's actually the right way to negotiate if it looks like we wanted too
much like we did the Iran deal they'll continue to string you out and get and
get a variety concessions and that's exactly what appened obama and president
rupp to say that's not gonna happen to me here isn't the big issue here just
what denuclearization means i mean kim jeong-hoon thinks he's in a much
stronger position because he now has the weapons and we are saying no you're
gonna have to give up the weapons if you want all the other things that the
president has said could be good for your country the definition of
denuclearization that's the real key here you're exactly right Danna that is
exactly the key and the challenge here is that Donald Trump might even have a
different view what dduk ization means right I think that obviously US position
on that has long been no nuclear weapons the Korean Peninsula out completely and
Kim Jong who might agree to that but what he may mean is well I'll
denuclearize win you denuclearize it of course is an unsustainable scenario and
so we'll see what end with ends up being met here but that's part of why you want
to get to a place where you're dead less we're talking to one other and you have
an understand the term before you go into these negotiations well one thing
that is very different is that before this whole process before Mike Pompeo
the new Secretary of State had gone over to North Korea who actually met with him
we didn't have any sort of relationship so that is different and I think that
you're right it probably will take place at some point maybe just not in two
weeks all right Jimmy I'll thank you thanks Danny we are keeping an eye
outside that second Justice Department meeting on the alleged FBI informant
targeting the Trump campaign what will come out of it after all the political
back-and-forth on who is attending this is the Fox News Alert on two highly
anticipated meetings in the Russia investigation pulling back the curtain
on revelations about the FBI's use of a potential informant inside the Trump
campaign the first with top intelligence officials ended an hour ago among the
attendees included House GOP Committee Chairman trey Gowdy and Devon Nunez
Democrat Adam Schiff and White House attorney
Emmett flood the second meeting also involving congressional leaders in the
so-called gang of eight Bob Driscoll is a former Deputy Assistant Attorney
General and now a managing partner in the DC office of McGlinchey Stafford and
we're glad to have you here Bob well this is felt a little dramatic okay for
the back-and-forth about the documents and who's gonna get to see them in the
briefing as I understand it and as I sort of remember it's kind of a classic
struggle between the branches the executive branch and the command the
Congress right this kind of negotiation goes on all the time just usually at the
staff level I mean Congress has the right to do oversight and congressional
oversight leads to transparency and the executive branch functioning which is
all fine but similarly the executive branch runs its own investigations and
can't have you know secret sources or methods they use or other information
that's justifiably confidential exposed through congressional oversight and so
it's the kind of conversation where do you draw that line I think we all know
we can all think of extreme examples but when you get right down looking at a
particular document it's about categorizing that document whether it is
okay to be turned over or not and so it's not resolved in court typically
it's resolved in exactly this type of negotiation for the gang the gang of
eight that was the request yesterday from Pelosi and Schumer saying look you
know the Democrats this is there is a process for this the gang of eight
exists that was added yesterday and wanted to ask you about the the Intel
community is a former Intel community and what they said about the importance
of this process Vic said in a letter when oversight activity is bipartisan it
can serve as an important check on government activity any effort to
exclude one party or the other from sensitive counterintelligence oversight
briefings threatens to undermine the oversight function and sends the wrong
signal about the professional non-political
that must govern US intelligence activities how important do you think
that is I think it's more important for perception standpoint and like it's very
important legally at all but I think perception wise it does help although
frankly with this this whole investigation I mean that horse is so
far out of the barn in terms of having a perception that this is nonpartisan but
I'm not sure there's much we can do about it now but I think that you know
it probably helps if both sides are there and so things aren't
mischaracterized in right and there's not a fight over who said what it is
probably something benefit to having both sides there and these are
classified briefings so by law nothing should leak out of them we will see that
happens and Trump up by the way the president could declassify anything he
wanted right that's the thing about being a head of the executive branch
makes us a little unusual he's being a little different deferential to the
Justice Department and saying look I know you got to do your thing so I'm
gonna give you some room here to be able to run the process that you see as you
see fit all right well I think he was kind of having it both ways
you have fairly definitely frankly and that he's through his use of Twitter
he's hammering the department to keep in the good graces of you know the freedom
caucus types but at the end of the day the fact that he hasn't Declassified it
or hasn't demanded to be released which he could they were all subordinate to
him at DOJ means that he is providing them some deference I think he just
wants to hold their feet to the fire make sure they're not over broad and
holding things back if I could ask you one other thing because this is another
story but the now going to the Moller investigation okay so the back and forth
as to whether or not the president should do an interview Rudy Giuliani had
said he does not want his client the president to do an interview but now
he's saying he is open to considering the idea of a trump Moeller interview
and he says basically his client wants to do it and he wants to make his client
happy so where do you think this stands well I mean you know I'm glad he's open
to it he has to be open to it the president's his client and you know if
you're a lawyer at the end of the day it's the clients call I agree with the
vast majority of lawyers that you know I would never recommend the president do a
voluntary interview at this stage for me legal perspective but the presidents got
broader political concerns to worry about as well you may disagree with that
but I think that given his penchant for you know a bit of overstatement or
Heiberg hyperbole at times when these kind of interviews require precision
answers it wouldn't be a great dynamic for him but do you think that Bob that
the president thinks that if he goes ahead and does the interview because
he's maintained his innocence that if he does the interview that this will end
yeah I mean I think well if certainly Giuliani has said that publicly and I
think that may be driving the president's thinking is hey if I can sit
down for four hours I didn't do anything so really what bad could come out of
this because there's nothing for me to quote lie about you know what I'll just
do it get behind it and I'll be done by September as Giuliana's promised but I
mean the president has been promised this is ending before by Ty Cobb by
Thanksgiving then Christmas then January and so you know and so that may be
driving what he thinks which you know the lawyers may not agree with but at
the end of the day you know we all have clients when you practice law and he's
the ultimate client that knows he's in charge all right Bob Driscoll thanks for
being here thank you Dan so the Trump administration working to
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joins me to explain how they're doing it despite opposition from some major
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