Fox News Alert for you now Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a is set to
arrive at the White House any moment now to meet with President Trump just days
before the president's summit with North Korean dictator Kim jong-un in Singapore
this is outnumbered and I'm Melissa Francis here today from the Fox Business
Network is digging mcdowell town hall editor and Fox News contributor Kitty
Pavelec Republican strategist and senior fellow for the Independent Women's Forum
Lisa booth and joining us for the first time on the couch today Democratic
strategist and former Hillary Clinton advisor Richard Goodstein and he's
wildly outnumber you know the phrase what doesn't kill you makes you stronger
if I walk off the set at 1:00 I'm good
all right President Trump is gearing up to greet
Prime Minister Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe yet the White House any
minutes now any minute now that is what you're looking at in your screen there
looks like a beautiful day in Washington the two men will hold a joint news
conference later this afternoon Japan has been adamant about its desire for
the United States to stick to a hardline approach in dealing with North Korea it
fears the presidents could make a deal with Pyongyang regarding its nuclear
program that fails to account for short-range missiles that could hit
Japan today's meeting of course comes less than a week before President Trump
is set to meet with the North Korean dictator in Singapore for negotiations
on this very delicate issue White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley
talking about how the president is preparing for that president's been
meeting with his national security advisors and his team about North Korea
he's well prepared for that he's the best negotiator in the world
we're honored to have him at the table because we've got to have a
denuclearized North Korea that's what the president wants it's what it's going
to be pushing for I can't get ahead of any conversation negotiation but he
plans to do g7 and then and then head over soon but question remains over
whether the summit will actually take place president Trump's lawyer Rudy
Giuliani raising some eyebrows when he said this just yesterday North Korea
after he canceled the summit because they insulted the vice president they
insulted the his national security adviser and they also said they were
going to go to nuclear war against us they were going to defeat us in a
nuclear war we said look when I can have a summit under those circumstances well
Kim Jung on got back on his hands and knees and begged for it which is exactly
the position you want to put him in Oh Katie Pavlich only person who was
allowed to say things like that is President Trump we've had a breakthrough
the president had that meeting last week with kim gyeong-cheol who who delivered
the letter from kim jeong-hoon as far as we can tell and people I talked to just
this morning from the state department and the national security council they
are on track for the summit Mike Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and
Ambassador John Bolton who was new in his position relatively new at the NSC
they have fully prepared the president with everything he needs for the summit
to be successful they're planning on doing it I just don't find rudy
giuliani's comments as someone who's working on the russia investigation as a
separate issue than the summit why is he commenting on this he's not being helped
I don't know at least we need to close his mic and someone please take the
man's microphone off oh you know the president's listening now at Katie's
right look he should not be weighing in on foreign policy especially at such a
delicate time and into if you're the japanese prime minister right now you
are highly concerned about this upcoming meeting look north Korea has lobbed
missiles over Japan so they are deathly afraid of what the the stakes with this
upcoming summit and what potentially could come out of it the Japanese Prime
Minister back in January said that threat from North Korea is the biggest
threat that they have faced since World War two so I mean this is real for them
so no wonder he wants to talk to the president I think this is the 30th
meeting that they have had between in face face to face meetings as well as
phone calls so this is a highly of high concern to judge japan-us to her point
Shinzo Audrey was the first world leader to meet with President Trump right after
the election when he was the president election Zoabi went to Trump Tower for a
meeting so their relationship is very close besties they are and I just want
to add one thing and Japan is extremely concerned about what we will agree to in
terms of the definition of denuclearization North Korea and Japan
warned us in just a matter of days ago in late May that North Korea is skirting
current sanctions with ship transfers over a wider area say transfers of
much-needed oil for example Japan say one of its military aircraft spotted a
North Korean cargo ship that appeared to be getting supplies from a Chinese
flagged vessel on East China Sea and also it appears that they were taking on
cargo in the Sea of Japan which is a broader area so this is clearly
something that they're gonna talk about when we actually make a point to both
Diggins and lisas point all right on on Diggins you know Donald Trump sort of
was patting himself on the back for creating all these great relationships
with world leaders but we know he just had a very testy conversation with
Trudeau with McCrone about trade with right on trade and it appears that and
Japan's in the bullseye on trade needlessly China's a bad guy on aluminum
and steel but you know they're basically applying sanctions against Japan so I
don't want I wonder whether Abhi's questioning how much these relationships
were value to him in to Lisa's point about Japan being nervous as regard to
North Korea Mike Pompeo himself said the principal concern for the u.s. was
whether or not the US was endangered by what North Korea has that's not how
alliances work we're not just concerned about ourselves
too bad for us on the Gulf War weren't basically doing it because they were at
risk they were joining with us and I just think it sends the wrong signal no
trumpet said that he's going to address these concerns Japanese Prime Minister's
for instance the hostages that North Korea has these issues will likely come
up in this summit and of course if there's a threat to Japan there's also a
threat to the United States and that's the entire reason of this summit is to
address these issues to address the hostility we've seen from North Korea
which was also why President Trump implemented the maximum pressure
campaign which has worked because Kim jong-un wants to come to the negotiating
what you said there because when we see Shinzo Abe becoming up you'll see he's
going to be wearing a blue ribbon which is supposed to call attention to the
plight of the Japanese citizens that you mentioned that were abducted by North
Korea during the 70s and 80s they have confirmed 17 abductions of its citizens
and others and though that's one of the things that they're are focused on oh if
the interesting thing about what the end game is going to be which is not going
to be determined in this summit this is simply a discussion in a long list of
things that we're going to go through if the North Korean summit is successful I
see the Prime Minister is arriving now so head back to Melissa and I will make
my point later what we can see here I mean if you look at just all of the
color out here ahead of time and the president is going to come out there he
is standing at the door getting ready to greet Prime Minister Shinzo Abe a and
they're gonna be discussing all the things that we talked about there's a
lunch that we won't be privy to we expect to hear part of you know there's
normally that cameras pray as we call it where the leaders sit together or you
can see them greeting each other very friendly these guys have a long history
giving us nice little wave little photo-op looks like a nice day beautiful
day in the neighborhood yeah it's great exactly and then they're gonna come out
later I believe at 2:00 o'clock and have a joint event so here we go he wanted a
few more seconds on camera and on they go we go
so anyway what I was going to say is when it comes to the conditions of any
kind of deal or treaty as the president has said he wants involving Congress
it's going to be a whole of how much bad behavior are we willing to put up with
with North Korea when the Obama administration took on the Iran deal
they are willing to completely ignore bad behavior when it came to funding
terrorism their bad influence in the region the meddling in certain areas and
trying to destabilize the Middle East when it comes to North Korea the
question is going to be are they allowed to keep their short term are their short
range missiles and the issue is the North Korean regime keeps their nuclear
weapons because they believe that is the only way to preserve them it's going to
be very hard to get them to the table to give up their short-range missiles as
well because they're gonna feel like they have nothing left to protect the
regime and that is why you see the administration fight so hard for this
idea that they will protect Kim Jong moon even if we've come to some
agreement about the disarming just how far they go with that we talk about
denuclearization but there are other weapons capabilities on the table here
as well no I mean that is a very valid intellectual military question that I
don't know any of us know the answer to is what is it right to leave them with
their concern is regime preservation that's a total of nuclear weapons
nothing no but the rest yeah what are we willing to do who clear is existential
right for the world that's why that's why the Obama administration made the
and they got the Chinese and the Russians to agree to clamp down on the
Iranians and I think with North Korea yes but nuclear is existential but but
you know non nuclear is not a joking matter to the South Koreans or the Jap
whistling it was nuclear I'll point out and I know this leads to our next topic
with the Iran deal all we did was allow Iran to kick the can down the road and
restart their nuclear program in but it restarts it part of it in 2025 and then
handing them a hundred billion dollars in sanctions relief plus cash but I want
to raise the issue about the tariffs because again what President Trump is
doing on trade is in part what he did to get North Korea and Kim jong-un to the
table and that is sanctions and it is getting tough and is putting economic
pressure on a nation that's what he's doing with the steel
aluminum Terrace and they're looking at Auto tariffs how do you bring these
nations our allies to the table to negotiate a bigger better trade deal
through us this is how he's gonna the real bad guys China yes totally agree
bringing you the comments from the White House and and where that meeting is
going on just as soon as we have them in the meantime a shocking new report from
a group of Senate Republicans finding the Obama administration secretly
granted a license giving Iran access to the US financial system to sidestep
sanctions kept in place after the nuclear deal and mislead Congress and
the American people about it GOP Senator Rob Portman who chairs the
investigations subcommittee that published the report weighing in last
night the Iranians badly wanted access to the US financial system and I think
they were making that a condition for the agreement for the final agreement
and so although they were saying to the Congress the the officials at the
Treasury Department that there was no access in fact they granted a specific
license to be able to have access to the system the report goes on to say that
Obama officials tried to pressure two US banks into converting 5.7 billion
dollars worth of Iranian assets but the effort was unsuccessful because both
banks not wanting to violate those sanctions said no Richard what do you
think well first the Obama administration officials insist they
weren't interviewed this was a Republican report and I think which is
what I think I think the money was frozen at the time of the Iranian
hostage crisis back in 1979 that's and that was Iranian money and that was what
was unfrozen there wasn't kind of a handing over of us money not these this
particular regimes money I mean different government that was over there
but okay and so here's there's actually a
solution the Obama people say no you got it wrong Rob Portman
an honorable smart guy says this is what we found there's a solution have a
public hearing bring in Jack Lew who is in the Treasury
Puteri The Associated Press also said that this went above and beyond the
terms of the Iran deal as well what an objective source right there to your
point and look it's interesting to hear about this in the backdrop of the
conversations over North Korea right because president Trump pulled out of
the deal because it was weak you look at its failure to address ballistic
missiles you look at its failure to have Anytime Anywhere inspections you look at
the sunset provisions that even proponents of the deal said or bad and
they were against so you look at all this in the backdrop and so it's
important to you know remember going in to this summit that we need to have a
strong deal and we don't want to be weak like the Obama administration was or
like the very bad negotiator John Kerry as president Trump it just seems like
it's another lie that we heard about this deal I mean we heard about Anytime
Anywhere inspections that was a lie had you heard there was gonna be no
access to the US financial system it looks like that was a lie what we knew I
said on this sofa right after the deal was done when as this rolled on you had
Secretary of State John Kerry and other Obama administration officials in Europe
telling European banks please do I'm paraphrasing please do business with
Iran because they were trying to get the Iranian economy started when the in in
this case US financial institutions were not doing and could not do business with
Iran and I think it's important to point out as you said to US banks said no and
refused to do this transaction and this is why pulling out of the Iran deal
American businesses largely expected this it was not a treatment it was not
ratified that way you had Boeing that cut a deal with Iran
but it's not it's Europe and the businesses there that are quaking in
their boots because they rushed into this country but American businesses
knowing that the deal was bad and maybe wrong we refused to step up and it's
worth blowing on that out this is some guts and gumption of American but let's
talk about who the Europeans have jumped into bed with okay the Iranian regime is
not just some other country that we're dealing with the Iranians are the
largest state-sponsored supporter of terrorism in the world before 9/11 they
were responsible for more American murders by terrorism than al Qaeda and
the Taliban and yet the Obama administration was willing to lie to me
American people lie to Congress keep Congress out of it by not accepting a
treaty and therefore they were able to do these shady deals that we continually
find out about these this is a terrorist regime that is willing to destabilize
the Middle East which is why you have seen allies then let me just finish come
to the to the defense of the United States and why moving forward the
Europeans are going to have to make a choice about whether they're with a
terrorist regime in the Iranians what the Americans were sent are willing to
stand up for what's right and protect the world against them using Hitler he's
been so patient so the Iranians are nasty they they had a bomb threat
against the Saudi ambassador in a restaurant in our backyards in
Washington two days ago to annihilate Israel I agree but they were weeks away
from breaking out before this deal they're not now so we would rather have
two nuclear threats Iran and have a state-sponsored terrorism that we knew
that beforehand and we get a million dollars in sanctions relief and 1.7
billion dollars of I've about sent over he has to fund terrorism
everybody's behaved so well why don't we take a quick commercial break the
president meeting ahead of that North Korean summit next week we will bring
you the president's comments from The Oval Office just as soon as we get them
in the meantime the Justice Department is signaling that Deputy Attorney
General rod Rosen Stein will not recuse himself from the Muller probe despite
his role in the firing of FBI director James Comey this as president Trump's
legal team is stepping up its attacks on the probe Plus Democratic Senator Joe
Manchin and that's a tough re-election fight now saying that he regrets
supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 and could back President Trump in 2020 is he
just pandering to voters and even if he is does it prove how popular the
president is we'll debate you
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