Fox's Catherine Harridge is reporting tonight that rod Rosenstein threatened
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Intelligence Committee in January it's an explosive story we're gonna ask the
Attorney General about it directly in just a minute good evening and welcome
to Tucker Carlson tonight the first ever meeting between a sitting American
president and a North Korean leader has finished president Trump and Kim jong-un
met one another in Singapore but their names on a new deal that seeks to reduce
tensions on the Korean Peninsula what's in the deal and what else has happened
in the summits wait for that we go to chief national correspondent and Henry
who was in Singapore right now it took her great to see you president Trump
came he saw and he got a deal despite all of the naysayers trying to talk down
the possibility of American success before during and after these talks the
president tonight in fact is going to go on offense try to sell this deal on
Hannity next hour telling Fox that Kim jong-un is going to start D
nuclearization virtually immediately with the document they signed here which
he says could save millions of lives by preventing nuclear war remarkable coming
just weeks after North Korea again threatened a nuclear conflict during one
of their walks together Kim was actually overheard through his interpreter
telling the president these pictures were so surreal that many in the world
quote will think of this as a form of fantasy from a science fiction movie
Democrats like Chuck Schumer tonight a warning this may be an actual fantasy
since Kim made no specific commitment to get rid of his nukes while the president
promised to end joint military exercises with South Korea that has some of our
allies concerned but Republicans like Senator John Kennedy today think
unbalanced this is a good agreement Kennedy said saying today that working
with Kim is like hand-feeding a shark you can do it but you've got to do it
very very carefully Tucker
great metaphors great thanks that is the New Deal with North Korea actually a
deal is good for the United States can we trust the North Koreans to follow it
Doug McGregor is retired US Army colonel author of the book margin of victory
congressman Jeff Fortenberry is a Republican represents the state of
Nebraska and both of them join us tonight
congressman first to you is this a deal Americans ought to be happy about well
the best word that I can use to describe the last few days in my mind is stunning
I think the president's actions here are bold they're historic it's almost
unimaginable given where we were just six months ago where we were on the
precipice of some type of even potential nuclear exchange
the president has leaned into something pretty radical here and perhaps he's
creating a new architecture for 21st century diplomacy he has said to Kim
Jong young we're going to deal with you for good or for ill and if it's for ill
and you move your finger toward a nuclear button we're going to hurt you
but if it's for good I want to create the space for perhaps authentic dialogue
and even friendship and I think he accomplished that he has rejected the
norms of ossified procedural ISM and stagnation that governs so many
international affairs and he took a bold risk and I think he delivered something
very important this first step we are holding out hope obviously for our
greater vision that could evolve here but it's an important and good first
step ossified procedural ISM a phrase I'm
stealing Myrtle are you as optimistic about it extremely I think this is
Donald Trump's finest hour and I'm absolutely serious
this is Donald Trump has recognized something that others have refused to
see for a very long time in Washington it's not simply that North Korea is on
the ropes it is it's on the verge of collapse Donald Trump understood that
and that's one of the reasons he was able to put the pressure on North Korea
the way he did but he also went to great lengths in his meetings with the
president G to forge an understanding with China he treated President Xi as an
equal treated China is an equal and I think Donald Trump understands something
that is not well understood in the Pentagon at this point or in many other
places in Washington and that our competition with China is essentially
economic and technological it is not military and
that was the key development because without China none of this would have
happened yes that's right and I think it clearly stemmed from what he said about
trade with China congressman there's been a lot of criticism of this deal
from the left along the lines that the president is giving away important
American advantages in exchange for nothing how would you respond to that
this is the combination of foreign policy realism and entrepreneurial
diplomacy and as I said this is not only about potentially preventing a conflict
and opening up a new chapter and in rejecting a stalemate of the last 65
years with North Korea but it also could signal a new way a new architecture for
diplomatic relations moving forward look the world is screaming for some type of
new interpersonal ecosystem both in our homes and in our communities as well as
between nations and what that means is that we have to have the ability to
reach out and provide authenticity and dialogue and create some space because
the world is
you
racing toward destructive technology and then what civilization itself is at
stake and we've got to find a way talk forward toward mutuality and well-being
and mutual security and or elsewhere where we don't have much hope but I mean
Colonel that's a lot of what we have heard liberals and some conservatives by
the way criticize the idea that you meet with someone who is morally
out-of-bounds like Kim jong-un going forward should we
be willing to meet with anybody oh absolutely and I think Donald Trump is a
disruptive force let's be frank he's disrupting the status quo lots of people
in this town are very upset because this threatens to change the distribution of
cash this threatens budgets this threatens force structures this
threatens a number of things he recognized early on when he was
campaigning that South Korea is a powerful state infinitely more powerful
than North Korea and quite capable of defending itself he recognized that
Japan is also in the same position in fact if Japan raises its investment in
military power by just 1% Japan will be number 3 in the world in terms of a
defense budget he understands that what Northeast Asia once and needs is
stability order and prosperity not war and I think he's got the agreement of
everyone who counts in the region that's an amazing statistic about Japan by the
way which most of us consider demilitarized apparently not Colonel
congressman thank you both very much thank you really thank you
well effect all this somewhat have on the rest of Asia a meaningful question
for the rest the world Michael Pillsbury is the man to answer it he's a senior
fellow and director of Chinese strategy the Hudson Institute author of maybe the
single best book recently on China called the hundred years marathon
China's secret strategy to replace America as the global superpower
dr. Pillsbury joins us tonight so what effect
Michael Pillsbury does this have on the rest of Asia if any right now well it
doesn't have much effect on the rest of Asia until more is revealed by President
Trump of what the next steps are going to be he's laid the foundation for
moving forward he's sent secretary Pompeo up to Beijing I myself am heard
from the Chinese already that they are taking credit for this a little bit hurt
that President Trump did not give them any credit when he was in Singapore they
feel they sent the plane they put the pressure on they did the sanctions they
voted for these UN Security Council resolutions three times it made the
toughest sanctions in history they all but pushed Chairman Kim into this and
here is their friend Donald Trump you know not tipping his hat to them so but
the president as you know is not poisonous you think of the Chinese
Politburo is having a heart and being having its feelings hurt that's so
interesting well we don't care if their feelings are hurt I'm going to Beijing
tomorrow so I got to be careful what I say Tucker yes but I would say a
reaction in Asia depends on how much concern they had about any given country
had about nuclear weapons in North Korea so down in Southeast Asia this is not
really a topic much they're much more concerned about the South China Sea is
the u.s. really going to have some ships that go inside the 12-mile
boundary and then have helicopter operations or swerve around and not
request innocent passage this is not a technical matter under the law of the
sea if there are five things that if you do that you are saying I dispute that
this claim we have not done those five things we usually go in with our radar
turned off we don't do swerving turns we don't launch helicopters so we're
recognizing the Chinese claim at the same time more mildly challenging this
is a big issue in Southeast Asia when Taiwan you know they're still
waiting for the f16 replacements they ask for 55 f-16 jet fighters about ten
years ago forty-eight or so US senators wrote a letter they held up the deputy
secretary of state give these jet fighters said I want their for sale
they're not really gifts that just still not happen so Taiwan is kind of
wondering what is their future in Japan they've got a series of issues they want
to hear more about so the North Korea issue as you know very well tucker is
really a bit more about the United States feeling vulnerable to a kind of
crazy person with h-bombs and 50 ICBMs if that's what it should
come to that problem seems to be taking care of so Americans can be happy
I'm a cute admirer president Trump he's done something for us but the rest of
Asia is still waiting for answers to a broader Asia strategy I think then
president Trump is working on that that's what his team has been telling me
I'd be worried if I lived in Taiwan Pachelbel's right thank you very much
great to see Ike you missed a few months ago the press was upset about president
Trump's overly aggressive posture toward North Korea now they're claiming he is
too friendly North Korea will try to make sense of that next
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