Fox News Alert President Trump is meeting today with Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo at the White House the administration is revealing for the
first time that it has a plan to denuclearize North Korea within one year
here's White House national security adviser John Bolton on the matter there
are possibilities for doing a larger negotiation on helping to get Iranian
forces out of Syria and back into Iran which would be a significant step
forward also yesterday President Trump responded to critics and defended his
historic summit with Kim jong-un I really believe North Korea has a
tremendous future I got along really well with Chairman Kim
we had a great chemistry no okay is it possible have I been in deals have
you been in things where people didn't work out it's possible also axis
reporting some White House officials are so optimistic about the progress of
those talks that there could be a second meeting with kim jeong-hoon in new york
this september during the UN General Assembly and that the regime would first
have to show progress for that meeting to happen so we're looking for
measurable things these are some of the things that I guess we didn't get with
Iran Lisa we got in secretary Madison I think it was about two weeks ago that he
hasn't seen any steps that North Korea has taken to dismantle their weapons so
that is concerning so I think a lot of Americans including Congress would like
to see some sort of plan that North Korea actually wants to date knew Korres
and that they're going to be honest in that way so I think within that plan has
to be a means for anywhere anytime inspections and transparency because
that was one of the biggest pieces of criticism regarding their rand deal is
that we didn't have any time anywhere inspections and people work lack of
transparency was a massive issue well and you know you talk about what the
president offered Kim jong-un and that was security basically you can stay
alive because when things start to change and you do business with us it
could get dicey we're offering you security I mean he made some great and
valid points about where they are located in the world that what those
beaches could be if they weren't firing off cannons you know the great real
estate developer says wow look at that beachfront
property I can see a condo there the fact of the matter is that there are a
lot of images you know coming back and forth satellite images trying to see
what is going on and are they expanding are we getting clear Sonya no no we're
not getting any sort of clear sign and and there are articles about you know
are they expanding their ballistic missile capabilities as they're saying
these things satellite images trying to see what they can train you see what
they're doing and you know I think the US needs a clear roadmap of what there
is and they need a way to verify that it's slowing down at the same time
this is gonna be a slower process than anyone would like and we've made no
headway over the past couple decades so having to wait a little bit longer is
reasonable but we need real evidence yeah it's interesting the way you put it
because 25 years of failed diplomacy versus one year of seeing what's going
on with the nuclearization but it has to be measurable well I think the big news
over the weekend was that there are indications from photographs that Kim
jong-nam has continued to try to develop his nuclear weapons and we thought that
in the aftermath of what the president described as a good meeting we would see
some good-faith actions by the Kim regime but that hasn't happened so it's
kind of confusing because you just hope that we're getting a straight story but
the evidence doesn't back up that this is that we're on a good path you know
what's interesting to Abby I mean we can we can do a lot of guesswork about what
might be going on we can look at those satellite images but at the end of the
day Kim jong-eun has somebody to answer to just like everyone else even though
he's a dictator they have a habit of killing each other over there at the top
I wonder what the pressure is like on him on the ground and there's a reason
why he ultimately came to that negotiating table and they may come from
that pressure the president made it clear very early on he set the
expectations he said everyone's gonna want this solved after the first meeting
this is going to take some time I mean we got to learned from history I mean I
was reading this morning back in the 80s at the ending of the Cold War and the
meetings that Reagan had would Gorbachev they met a number of times and the media
I was reading some of like the New York Times pieces and they were very critical
at that point about the way that Reagan was handling those meetings with with
Gorbachev and and I was trying to think about the bigger picture and what we can
learn about today and maybe just having some
patience obviously we need to be very careful and make sure that they are
following through on their promises but they're likely going to have another
visiting when the UN meets in September and and maybe more progress after that
but I think we should all be hopeful that ultimately something good does come
from this real quickly anybody on the couch does a year seem long or not long
it seems short in terms of what it feels like has happened so far I mean you know
for Kim jong-un to totally change the way he outwardly operates and to have
what so many experts have called this PR flurry where he's trying to go out and
make all kinds of signals that he's coming to the table and and that's been
better than before well in the end we obviously have to see
evidence at the same time I mean you can call President Trump a lot of things
he's not a sucker so I don't think he's somebody that's gonna get you know hosed
for lack of a better word in this whole situation what you expect to happen in
that year of time how much are you promising will get done will they be
fully denuclearized within a year I don't know what they've absolutely
agreed I don't know I don't know what they should know that's right I don't
know I think that takes a lot more time than a year and I'm sure we'll get more
information on this and we also have new information on the planned summit
between President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin national security advisor
John Bolton is saying that the two leaders will have the opportunity to
discuss Syria and fighting Iran's influence in the region among other
issues when they meet on one-on-one on July 16th take a listen
we'll see what happens when the two of them get together there are
possibilities for doing a larger negotiation on helping to get Iranian
forces out of Syria and back into Iran which would be a significant step
forward I mean obviously I'm gonna start with you here my friend
so I know your dad as the ambassador to Russia has really been spearheading at
this meeting and sort of setting things up what are the objectives of the Trump
administration yeah so John Bolton was over in Moscow last
week and they've been working my dad's been working for months behind the
scenes on this look you're gonna have critics that say oh you've got president
Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin the it continues right the collusion only
continues but this could potentially be a very very important summit and from
what I've heard from my sources and you know
my living room last night there there two big objectives that they
hope come out of this and one is is de-escalating you have thousands of
nukes pointed at each other we don't need to be living in that world anymore
so de-escalating that but most importantly is Iran and getting Iran out
of Syria because that continues to be the greatest threat on the world stage
Iran the number one sponsor threat to well directly because they're shooting
at our guys on a place where that you know we've been trying to rat out Isis
and we've done a beautiful job of doing that but now we've got a ram via proxy
on the ground against us in Syria and that's not something that I had really
heard talked about until I went to Jerusalem recently I saw and that was
like part of the triangle that they wanted to surround all sides of Israel
and that was one side weakened that side of it and then you can have something
against Israel and then you've got Hezbollah together and then the Gaza
Strip Melissa what do you make of do you think there will be a willingness on
behalf of Russia to cooperate and work with the Trump administration on this I
think there might be an exchange for something else that they want obviously
I mean it's all about getting something that you want I just don't know that I
mean I've heard a lot of people outline the idea that that meeting with Russia
could be about getting Iran out of Syria I don't know what motivation Iran would
have to go along with that I don't know that Russia has the power to convince
them to do that well I think the big news this weekend in fact was that John
Bolton the national security adviser say said it's not a priority for us to get
Bashar al Assad out as the leader of Syria right that's a signal I think to
the Russians who are invested in a side and have been his principal defenders
along with Iran for all time but boy what a horrible thing to say you're okay
with this dictator who was slaughtered and poisoned with removing dictators and
then basically owning I think I think what you're what he's saying is the
situation is is a disaster and how can we make the best out of what we are
dealing with here right when I don't think is helpful is when you have the
president tweeting though that Vladimir Putin continues to say there was no
collusion in our elections he tweeted that right after the summit was
announced because that counters and that undermines what our intelligence
there was no collusion I wanted to is that there was no meddling and we know
that's a that's a bipartisan agreement that there was meddling so keep your
message consistent in the administration with the State Department the CIA the
president make sure you're on the same page here because you want to go into
the summit with the Russians as strong as you're sure but I want to ask one
about your comment regarding de-escalation because a lot of Democrats
want us to believe that President Trump is weak on Putin but when you look at
energy independence you look like beefing up missile defense when you look
at these aggressive sanctions of the Trump administration has placed on
Russia that doesn't that those don't align so what's your take on that how
did how did emma-crats continue to say that he's weak on Russia is somehow
Russia's Putin when the action simply don't demonstrate that oh well I think
if you go back to the g7 meeting I think he proposed that you include Russia
suddenly make them a player sanctions and the beefing up missile defense and
energy independence I think there have been some steps this is a strike by
Russia I thought when he threw out some of the Russian agents who are guests
right I thought that was a good night so there been some but over overall the
question that that lingers in the mind is why does he make excuses for Putin
who is so you know I would say how because this goes back to that same
thing and I'm not saying who's right is that the left is focused on words and
the right is focused on outcome and so the left I think gets hung up in his
language and what he says and the signal that sends and why it's important to see
this and stand up and say that and that on the right everybody wants to see
what's the end result and and the rhetoric changes too because we saw that
with Kim jong-un where he's rocket men and then they were friendly when it
served his purpose but anyways we've got to move on so the rallying cry to
abolish ice appears to be splitting Democrats I'm sure we'll hear from Owen
on that just ahead of the midterms ahead why President Trump hopes the Democrats
never stopped calling to do away with the agency and where all this is going
to go stay tuned we should protect families that need our
help and that is not what Isis doing today and that's why I believe you
should get rid of it
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