cater Kim Jonna and tonight North Korea is responding by saying it's still
willing to sit down with the US at any time
in his statement earlier today President Trump announced that he's shutting down
the summit because of quote tremendous anger and open hostility coming from the
North Koreans the commander-in-chief didn't mince words
earlier today take a look well many things can happen and a great
opportunity lies ahead potentially I believe that this is a tremendous
setback for North Korea and indeed a setback for the world
I've spoken to general mattis and the Joint Chiefs of Staff and our military
which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world that has been
greatly enhanced recently as you all know is ready if necessary likewise I
have spoken to South Korea and Japan and they are not only ready should foolish
or reckless acts be taken by North Korea but they are willing to shoulder much of
the cost of any financial burden any of the costs associated by the United
States in operations if such an unfortunate situation is forced upon us
if and when Kim jong-un choses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions
I am waiting in the meantime our very strong sanctions by far the strongest
sanctions ever imposed and maximum pressure campaign will continue a lot of
things can happen including the fact that perhaps and would wait it's
possible that the existing summit could take
place or a summit at some later date nobody should be anxious we have to get
it right Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is
reiterating the president's peace through strength approach to this new
development in the nuclear showdown with Kim jong-un take a look we always knew
too that there could be a summit that didn't work that ultimately was
unsuccessful and so there's been a great deal of work to think about what happens
when you're at a moment when you don't have the opportunity sitting right in
front of you can you share with us any other insights about how the
administration is looking at what should happen next yeah in some ways a
situation normal the pressure campaign continues and the Pentagon is saying it
is ready to counter any potential North Korean aggression take a look the
secretary spoke to the president today and we are still continuing the maximum
pressure campaign that hasn't changed for us so in terms of we are ready to
fight tonight that's always been the case right now we're at our lower level
of good readiness we're in a boxer stance we're ready to respond
we'll see what develops over the next few days if if any provocative actions
occur from from DPRK we'll certainly in concert with our allies and partners in
the region be ready for it at the White House tonight with the latest details as
Fox News chief national correspondent ed Henry and Judge good to see you early
today President Trump's critics were having a field day suggesting maybe he
celebrated a possible summit too early but a short time ago the president
seemed to be vindicated as North Korean dictator Kim jong-un set out some
officials to basically back down and say they want to revive face-to-face talks
and believe they can bridge some of the tensions they have with the Trump
administration that's a dramatic reversal they came after the president
remember after weeks of being more gentle and encouraging to the man he
once dubbed little rocket man went back to the tough talk by saying he would not
stand for the saber-rattling that we've seen by North Korean officials in recent
days the president furious at North Koreans deputy foreign minister blew up
over an interview that Martha McCallum did with Vice President
Mike Pence the vice president warned about the example of Libya and how
things will end badly for Kim if he does not make a deal
North Korea's Deputy Foreign Minister reacted by warning of a nuclear showdown
and called pents a quote political dummy so in a letter to Kim that officially
officials here say the president dictated himself the commander-in-chief
cited the recent quote anger and open hostility as the reason for scrapping
the summit and added the warning you talk about your nuclear capabilities but
ours are so massive and powerful that I pray to God they will never have to be
used now Democrats like Nancy Pelosi reacted to the letter to Kim by mocking
the president's tone which they called soft but she may eat those words
now that North Korea appears to be backing down watching I think it's a
good thing for kim jeong-hoon when he got this letter from the president
saying okay never mind he must be having a giggle fit in this very chummy
palsy-walsy letter it came to Kim Jong he came to is the big winner if and when
Kim jong-un's uses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions
I am waiting so you see the president putting the carrot out there by saying
we could potentially revive this summit on either June 12th or some later date
but the Pentagon as you noted at the top is keeping the stick out there saying if
Kim jong-un does not come to the table for peace talks they are ready for
military action judgment all right thanks ed also tonight North Korea is
claiming to have destroyed its nuclear test site by setting off explosions in
front of foreign journalists joining us now with reaction to this is retired CIA
senior intelligence officer and Fox News contributor Daniel Hoffman good evening
Daniel good evening judge now they say that they blown up this nuclear site I
mean how do we know that that is the case I think there were some observers
there but we also know that Chinese seismologists assessed that the site was
really no longer able to be used without great risk environmental damage in China
and I would just make a comment on the previous segment on n Henry's comments
we I think we've been witnessing from North Korea's a bit of diplomatic
brinksmanship they're trying to enhance their own standing and anticipation of a
summit and weaken ours and we saw the president respond strongly forcefully
with a reminder that our military is able and ready to strike if needed that
we're working with our allies we're going to continue maximum pressure but
at the same time if North Korea is ready to talk we're here to listen you know
what's interesting about what happened is you almost couldn't keep up with what
was going on today I mean from the beginning with North Korea's I believe
it's there a longtime nuclear negotiator saying that you know our acts are
unlawful and outrageous based upon an interview that vice president Pence did
with Martha McCallum next thing you know the president sends out a letter saying
we're going to pull out of this next thing that happens is you've got
Pompeyo then reading trump's letter saying I look forward but from Kim
saying I look forward to meeting with you but the president is also saying at
the same time our nuclear capabilities are bigger than yours and I pray to God
we'll never use them now we have North Korea saying hey we're ready to sit down
is this negotiations is this how they do it or is this a poker game I mean it is
it's a bit of a whirlwind for sure I think all those comments about our
national security advisor John Bolton and vice president pence those were just
excuses for policies North Korea was or tactics North Korea was going to use
regardless and I think we are in for we've been conducting private
negotiations you may recall that that secretary Pompeo visited North Korea had
very good discussions in private and we've also been having these overt
negotiations they've already begun the problem is we have decades of failed
policy and the North Koreans have this muscle memory of being used to receiving
economic benefits just for showing up at the table and the president has made it
clear that that's not what we're interested in doing anymore well I I
think there's no question that you know they've been three three generations of
North Koreans who've said that you know we have this plan where we're going to
denuclearize and then what happens is the presidents in the past you
I've pretty much been satisfied with that but but my final question to you
Daniel is it that there's a report that we had people waiting three days to
establish where the meet would actually take place and the North Koreans didn't
meet with us to make those final plans right I think again that just falls back
on their tactics I think they're really trying to determine how serious we were
about the summit and what they could gain from us and if they felt like more
than anything we just wanted to show up for the summit which would give Kim
jong-un some international standing at no price to pay well then maybe that's
what they were trying to achieve but what they got instead was the
reiteration of our policy of strength and a clear clear delineation of what is
going to be required of North Korea in order for this summit to take place
all right thank you Daniel and president Trump's top talk with North Korea today
should not come as a surprise it's an approach that he's taken for months
remember this we are settling and we're going to do something now one way or the
other we have to do something we cannot let that situation fester we cannot let
it happen little rocket man he is a sick puppy North Korea is a country ruled as
a cult at the center of this military cult is a deranged belief in the leaders
destiny to rule as parent protector over a conquered Korean Peninsula and an
enslaved Korean people this man will not get away with what he's doing believe me
and if he utters one threat in the form of an overt threat which by the way he
has been uttering for years and his family has been uttering for years or if
he does anything with respect to Guam or anyplace else that's an American
territory for an American ally he will truly regret it and he will regret it
pass joining us now with reaction are Florida Republican congressional
candidate lieutenant Colonel Michael Walt's co-author of
Reaper Brigadier General Tony Tata and US Army veteran Brett velichkovich
alright gentlemen I I don't I'm sure you've kept up with it as I have and and
it's almost like a game of chess and clearly this is something that has been
is the way that negotiations have taken place in the past but general Taylor I'm
gonna start with you first we did get three hostages back and there is
apparently some destruction of nuclear sites and a promise to destroy more have
we given up anything in exchange for that we've given up nothing and we've
gotten everything that we could have wanted before this the summit happened
and what we're seeing is the art of the deal in action here judge and you know
live before our own eyes for those who didn't read the book they get to now
watch the movie and president Trump understands that he is a commander in
chief of the most powerful country in the world and he mentioned 700 billion
twice you know it during his press conference today and that number is are
the size of our defence budget and this was a strategic messaging to North Korea
he understands the leverage that he has here and that 700 billions number of our
defense budget is 25 to 30 times the size of the gross domestic product of
North Korea so if you're on the North Korean side and you hear that number
that's an overwhelming figure and then he just magically you know weaves
together the diplomatic information military and economic elements of
national power and and really that's the maximum pressure campaign that he
referenced in his speech today all right Brett and I'll go I'll go to you the the
the the role of China in all of this the president seems to have indicated that
after a second meeting with President Xi of China that Kim Jong Un's seemed to
have changed his tone he signaled that I believe it was yesterday playing puppet
master this whole entire time from day one this has always been just
as much a negotiation with China as it is with North Korea I mean do you think
that the Chinese want to see thousands of US soldiers 200 miles off their
border sitting there in South Korea so there
they've been playing us all along and we have to be very careful what we do here
but I think what we've seen just overall with these talks is we've been
witnessing today a master class in negotiation that's been playing out on
the world stage the fact of the matter is that these deals are all about
leverage okay and we're the strongest country in
the entire world we have we don't need to listen to a country or bow down to a
country that has the economic GDP of less than the size of Honduras and so
it's very important when it comes to all these talks that Trump is very careful
about being too accommodating to Kim jong-un because what it does is it risks
this recognition for him of what he's always believed would happen all along
when it comes to having this nuclear arsenal so this deal has to get done but
it needs to be done right or not at all and in the end we've taken back control
here all right and Michael I want to ask you about the you know this morning and
the president pulls out of the summit the last thing tonight is that North
Korea is saying you know we're ready to sit down at any time what does that mean
for people in the military I mean that's that's your background that's who you
are what is going on in the Pentagon right now well president Trump has shown
strength from day one as commander in chief and and I think he's been
absolutely right on North Korea since day one despite all of his critics this
is not President Obama who's going to take the military option out off the
table before even gets to the table this yo president Trump knows and has always
known that diplomacy needs the credible use it needs the credible threat of
military force and not only do we have that the North Koreans have seen
President Trump train and equip and fund our military how it needs to be fun so
he has come into this with three key preconditions in that military exercises
with our South Korean allies and our Japanese allies will continue
denuclearization means exactly that that it is full verifiable
denuclearization and that key here is that the sanctions will continue so what
do we what do I hope to see next from from our commander in chief is that
another round of sanctions the 7th fleet sitting off the coast of North Korea and
that for everyone calling him a war monger they're absolutely wrong
this president knows it's that credible use and our veterans are cheering them
on where that is actually going to mean peace through strong right in general
tato what about the fact that there hasn't been a firing of a missile by
North Korea in months well that that's exactly right judge you know the for all
of the left that is was rejoicing this morning you know just a digress for a
second yes they've defended Hamas they've they've defended him as 13 and
they've defended now Kim jong-un in North Korea
all in the same month and that's that's a you know pretty amazing if you think
about it but there there's been no action from North Korea militarily and
as Michael just mentioned we've kept doing our military drills we kept doing
he kept applying our pressure and we're tightening the screws every day and and
that is the leverage that the president Trump has and he knows he has it and you
walk away from the deal if you're not getting the turret that you want and
that's what President Trump is doing here and and it's just very textbook
what he is doing and so he knows he's got the leverage and he's executing
based upon being the leader of the most powerful country in the world as opposed
to apologizing as President Obama did and had sent in pallets of cash to get
detainees back and all of that insanity all right judge if I could just jump in
and remind everyone and President Reagan walked away from the summit walked away
from Gorbachev when they tried to move the goalposts and that's exactly how
President Trump is acting okay and Brett I want to ask you one question I only
have about 15 seconds left you know we talked about China and the
role of China as we continue in this tariff a back and forth China is sending
us a signal to by saying we can't manipulate
kim jung-han correct yeah absolutely and I think that's the biggest problem with
this is that you're negotiating with a superpower here but the fact of the
matter is our military's ready we hold the cards right now it's we left
this deal on our terms and right now we're in the best position we have we
can be for these negotiations so in the end this is a deal that's meant to be
for the entire world it's not just America and we can't start it and the
president won't
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