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YOU WONDER, ARE WE GETTING THROUGH THIS?
MOST OF THE POINT -- SOME MIGHT SAY COULD BE A POTENTIAL WOULD THE PRESIDENT BE MORE EAGER TO COME AWAY WITH SOME KIND OF WIN HERE TO TRY TO NEUTRALIZE WHAT'S HAPPENING BACK HOME?
I THINK THAT'S THE POLITICAL REALITY.
I THINK THE TIMING IS SUCH AND THE STAKES ARE SO BIG, HE MUST FEEL HE HAS TO COME OUT OF HERE WITH SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO, EXCUSE THE PUN, TRUMP WHAT'S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON.
AND THAT'S A TOUGH TASK.
ARE YOU WORRIED THAT HE MIGHT BE TEMPTED TO, I DON'T KNOW, PUT THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, SO TO SPEAK, AND SAY YES TO SOMETHING THAT MAY NOT BE THE RIGHT OR WISE THING TO SAY YES TO RIGHT NOW?
I THINK SO.
DOCTORS HAVE HIPPOCRATIC ONLY, FIRST, DO NO HARM.
YOU WORRY ABOUT THAT FIRST MOVE.
FOR EXAMPLE, UNKNOWN MOVE.
LAST TIME IN SINGAPORE, WE SAW COMMITTED TH THE PRESIDENT GIVE AWAY WHAT I THOUGHT A VERY VALUABLE CARD.
THE JOINT EXERCISE BETWEEN U.S.
AND SOUTH KOREA.
IT WAS A COMPLETE SURPRISE TO THE SOUTH KOREANS AND THE MILITARY AND HIS STAFF NEARBY.
WE DON'T WANT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, FOR EXAMPLE.
WITHDRAWING TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA, EVEN REDUCTION OF TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA, OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
YOU KNOW?
DO NO HARM.
THAT'S GOT TO BE THE FIRST RULE.
WHAT ABOUT KIM JONG-UN?
HE OBVIOUSLY IS HOPING THAT DO HARM WILL BE THE MANTRA.
CLEARLY, WHAT HE WANTS TO SEE IS SOMETHING BENEFICIAL TO HIM.
I SAW KIM JONG-UN SMILING AND LAUGHING WHEN THE REPORTER ASKED PRESIDENT TRUMP ABOUT MICHAEL COHEN.
YOU COULD SEE THAT KIM UNDERSTOOD AND HE LAUGHED OUT WHAT IS GOING THROUGH HIS MIND AND THAT OF THE NORTH KOREAN THAT'S WHAT THEY A
THEY FOLLOW THESE ISSUES SO I MEAN, LET ME GIVE YOU MY OWN EXPERIENCE.
IT WAS ABOUT DECEMBER 2017 WHEN REALLY A LOT OF BAD STUFF WAS STILL GOING AROUND.
I WAS WORKING FOR REX TILLER SON.
SECRETARY OF STATE AT THE TIME.
I WAS TRYING TO GET A MEETING FOR HIM TO MEET WITH NORTH KOREAN COUNTERPART.
I CALLED UP MY CONTACTS.
THEY SAID, WE THINK REX IS GOING TO GET FIRED.WE DON'T WANT TO S.
THEY FOLLOW THESE ISSUES.
THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
BELIEVE ME, THEY WATCH YOU.
THEY KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.
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Christiane Amanpour speaks about President Trump and Kim Jong-un’s second summit in Vietnam with Joseph Yun, Elie Honig, Ton Nu Thi Ninh and Ken Burns. Walter Isaacson speaks with comedian Larry Charles.
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