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Some perceive Trump's shocking decision an impulsive one.

But there are those who believe it is a calculated move, perhaps even a negotiation strategy

Oh Soo-young help us find out if there's a method to his madness.

The sudden cancellation of the North Korea-U.S. summit may have been a sudden decision, but

it wasn't entirely a surprise.

Experts on North Korea told Arirang News Friday it was clear both sides lacked working-level

preparations for a meeting on June 12th.

"I think the American side particularly wasn't ready.

Donald Trump wasn't focusing on this very much.

He was interested in the drama and theatre of it.

But it wasn't clear the president was doing the research in the time and the study necessary

to actually debate these complex issues with the North.

North Korea's behavior in the last couple of weeks didn't help.

They stood up American negotiators in Singapore, they just left them standing there for three

days in a row.

The whole thing was just going too fast."

Without sufficient back-channel talks, major sticking points remain unresolved.

According to some experts, that is why both Washington and Pyongyang, over the past week,

indicated they may call the summit off.

"There's a little gamesmanship going on here.

In Trump's case, a lot of the critics were saying he seems to eager for the summit, so

he's playing hard to get.

And the North Koreans have a history of also playing hard to get.

North Koreans said they would walk out if the U.S. was forcing them to denuclearize."

Pyongyang has called for a gradual process of scrapping its nukes -- an approach Washington

has resisted, given the North's track record of breaking promises and backing out of verifying

its nuclear dismantlement.

"My strong hunch is serious people are working on the U.S side, we want to have the North

stop producing plutonium and highly enriched uranium.

That's the first order of business.

We probably want to have the second location of the enrichment site told to us early on....

some declaration of how much high enriched uranium and plutonium it has produced and

how many nuclear weapons they have.

They don't have to do this right at the summit but it is the key, critical early step."

North Korea, on its part, is also likely to demand concrete steps from the U.S. -- first

and foremost, a security guarantee for its ruling regime.

"They want to make sure if they do give up some of their nuclear weapons program, the

Americans won't attack them.

I think the U.S. will have some trouble credibly committing to North Korean security, which

is why the North Koreans will never go to zero.

The Libyan model didn't work out very well for the Libyans, right?

So the Americans need to make a set of reasonable offers that the North Koreans might buy and

they comeback with some things that we want.

Besides a security guarantee, I imagine they would want a sanctions relief.

Economic assistance, and diplomatic normalization."

Before a new date and venue is set, experts say working-level efforts are needed from

both sides, involving diplomats and nuclear weapons experts.

They need to devise a framework that Trump and Kim can work with to reach a denuclearization

agreement.

Oh Soo-young, Arirang News.

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President Trump canceled the North Korea segment over open hostility as he put it

from Kim jong-un and his regime however President Trump hinting the tarts could

began again if North Korea were willing to change course in harmony prosperity

and peace that bright and beautiful future can only happen when the threat

of nuclear weapons is removed no way it can happen otherwise if and when Kim

jong-un's uses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions

I am waiting and North Korea didn't wait very long inviting a handful of

journalists to observe as their nuclear site was quote-unquote dismantled we

know three explosions took place but there were no nuclear experts there no

weapons experts and those who watched from afar halfway around the globe

suggesting this is all more symbolic than practical but that's the sort of

blather that you hear from people who don't know anything

some believe the Hermit Kingdom may have sites that they're not disclosing and in

2008 they did blow up a cooling tower negotiations fell through nonetheless

joining us tonight congressman Lee Zeldin he serves on the House Foreign

Affairs Committee he calls he's calling for the appointment of a second special

counsel to investigate an absolutely corrupted Department of Justice and and

FBI leadership good to have you here Congress great to be back it didn't take

hours for the North Koreans to respond and now they want to talk after the

president said there will be no June 12 summit your thoughts it's important to

treat our friends as our friends there are adversaries as our adversaries

understand your adversaries do not respect weakness the only respect

strength and while we say you can't be it's not because you want Wars but it's

because we want to make sure that we're able to prevent it and the president in

approaching this entire situation North Korea knows that the North Koreans and

these other nations will only respect the United States and president Trump if

we go into it from a position of strength and our hand just became

stronger with the president showing a willingness not only to walk away from

the summit if the North Koreans continue with these antics and the Chinese

possibly as well but military force is an option as and with that being a real

option I think strengthens his hands as far as diplomacy and the economic

pressure and the president conveyed today I thought absolutely no suggestion

whatsoever of anger he was constrained even as he basically was threatening the

North Koreans with their own destruction and managed at the same time to validate

again the terms of a summit which are very straightforward this president said

it and said it again and again today you will Denis clear eyes and that is

non-negotiable and remember where we were just a few years ago President

Obama negotiating with Iran and negotiating from a position of weakness

red lines getting crossed Iran using rhetoric like calling us the Great Satan

chanting death to America still legally test-firing intercontinental ballistic

missiles and you remember when they took our sailors and embarrass them with the

photos and videography orestes and secretary Kerry said thank you that was

his response not anymore and president like the congressman is

not just using an aside there that is it an exact quote from Secretary of State

Kerry thank you thank you president Trump though is showing that this is not

that he's setting red lines he's being strong but he was not provocative last

August when he was talking about fire and fury the fact is of North Korea

attacked the United States they we met with fire in fury and while we're here

in our any of our allies and we're here at our country and we're asking is Kim

jong-un crazy enough is to do this or to do that I think Kim

jong-un was over North Korea saying no and I think Donald Trump is crazy enough

to attack me and what by making that military option look real and with the

state of the economy and even in last August when a Ambassador Haley and and

president Trump they were able to get a unanimous UN Security Council resolution

passed that even China and North Korea voted for you know you've said President

Trump is crazy enough I think I think him is saying that III I think Kim

jong-un right now and his regime understand that this president is smart

enough determined enough and courageous enough to do exactly what he is

intimating and I think that I've never seen a clear example of the man's I

collected cool are his his constraint than today because he had to be furious

in in some measure he did not in in any way in any way I allow anyone to see

that anger that he might possess I would say almost surely possesses but I think

he has made his mind up and I think that's got to scare the hell out of the

Koreans and by the way I think it scares the hell out of Shane ping and I think

he's learning a lesson here perhaps that more profound lesson than even Kim

jong-un I will I will say this you'll first off kim jongmin is known to be

homicidal not suicidal and i think that's part of his calculation as well

and without disclosing any confidence i yet yesterday I traveled President Trump

to Long Island and there were a couple of times what was with him that broached

the topic of North Korea and all I'll say is this he knows exactly what he's

doing he is thinking through this is incredibly important to him but it's

very deliberate and he has calm cool and collected and strong and I believe that

his decision today was necessary to let the North Koreans know that they are not

in charge they're not there they don't they're not going to role the United

States the way that the Iranians rolled the United States three years ago I

think this president made that clear in his first year in office

really do he served notice that he is not in any part the in the order of

succession of the incompetent presidents that we've had in office think about

this three presidents in a row three of the worst presidents we've had in our

country's history that is Clinton that is Bush and that is Obama and this

country is very very lucky that this is our president now right and he

understands the art of the deal he also understands the need to prioritize

America first in these negotiations and he's also talking about how important

this is for the world he's exercising leadership on the world stage I remember

going to Israel in August of 2015 meeting with Bibi and it's saying you

know like this guy was reluctantly in the leader of the free world we don't

have one right now right now we have a leader of the free world and he's our

president absolutely congressman ladies Alvin good to have you with great to be

back thank you well lying Obama Intel chief james

clapper just can't stop can't stop himself he runs his mouth even as

Spygate blows up around him and he validates many of the charges against

him we'll have reaction to his latest comments from former FBI assistant

director James Cole sir he joins us here next you don't want to miss a moment

we'll be right back

James clapper now claims the Russians swung the 2016 presidential election for

Donald Trump the former Obama Intel chief supposed

bombshell comment contradicting the view of the entire intelligence community's

formal assessment released after they thoroughly investigated the matter last

year in joining us now former FBI assistant director grade of American and

terrific terrific friend of this broadcast good to see you James James

Kallstrom nice to be here Lou let's I mean I can't even believe the Sun real

for the former nd I yeah does he forget what his testimony was before the

Congress I I guess he does and I don't think it matters to him one whit whether

he's good an ally or not yeah the man needs some psychiatric help

and what about James call me it called me as you know we've been talking about

at least I have among others for about a year and a half now and call me mm-hmm

and he he's a guy with the biggest attitude and the biggest he puts himself

on this huge pedestal the ego is just unbelievable yet he has no common sense

and and you know to think that he could pull off this whitewash of a fraudulent

investigation on Hillary Clinton when the president of Obama himself on at

least two occasions said there's no evidence against her she's she's done

nothing wrong I mean you'd have to be a moron not to

not to know that that was just a phony thing from the very beginning yeah not

to understand the dog whistle from the president states about his former

Secretary of State he couldn't have been clearer I agree with you yeah I and and

for the most obvious I think the most obvious pay-for-play scandal in this

country's history is the Clinton Foundation and for the FBI to permit

itself to conclude that they're not going to have an investigation then try

to sell the nonsense that don't worry we got it under control out in the Little

Rock well it wasn't the if the FBI was investigating

Clinton Foundation I've called it you know a big a RICO case than the Mafia

right quite frankly you know more sophisticated more money involved you

know and it wasn't that the FBI agents didn't want to investigate it it's you

know these five or six or twelve or fifteen or twenty or whoever with this

number of sick Rafi and then why should there be a much larger out that we maybe

it's fifty but I'll tell you right now Lou it's not the thousands of agents

that are out there there I hear from tons and tons of these people they are

so upset about what is going on you know and some of your guests on this show who

I think I respect they you know I've talked about turning over the FBI to the

Marshal Service I think that's really a crazy idea everyone has their own idea

but that is not anything that should ever happen we need new leadership we

need and discipline we need to get rid of the top ranking people in there right

now what I bring a leader in there that can motivate and discipline the agency

that's what needs to happen right here's what I think and I like that your

judgment about the future of the FBI there is an institution yes

I personally believe it depends on how many agents step forward and say under

subpoena what truly happened if there isn't that residual within the rank and

file of the FBI I think that the institution is doomed oh and by the way

I've got a sitting here with the greatest respect and affection for you I

have to say that if they don't step up here that they deserve that institution

to be absolutely swept aside well I believe the vast majority of those that

have knowledge that have a reason that step forward other than that's what they

see on television every day now and that's a small number because call

me you know those other sycophants brought that investigation and those

other investigations close hold you know the agents themselves in the field

offices it was all taken away I mean they called up the New York office and

shut down the Clinton Foundation investigation they shut it down a little

rock it's not the agents that are out there it's this group of people that

that perpetrated this fraud on on the country and thought they could get away

with it I mean it's been unbelievable what we're doing

to a fine institution I spent half my god you know most of my adult life there

you know I know it's I know what people go to work for every day they are in the

FBI well you know it's a shame that this has happened that we put a series of bad

leadership and I'll include Bob Muller in that

absolutely I mean Muller and and call you as a disaster both working in the

high and most highly politicized administration they politicized the

Justice Department the FBI the Internal Revenue Service the list goes on Obama

no part bomber government they do police Obama

politicized the entire government yeah you know and he filled it with

sycophants and the people who succumbed to the Stockholm Syndrome and I mean

it's just a tragedy what went on you know and guys like Brennan and clapper

and call me how did you ever create how could they John O Brennan I mean what of

these horrible men whose yeah off you all you have to do is watch the

man I know them I can tell you that's a good that's a good feeling on your part

because he said he's a really a psychopath that guy you know and all his

rantings and ravings and threatening people you know it we gotta clean this

thing out resident of United cluding the president of states and here we've got

the Deputy Attorney General threatening people I mean what is this yeah this

here's a guy who signed one of the renewals on the on the fraudulent Pfizer

application I mean what is going on here and today we we don't even know whether

the gang of eight the the heads of the House Intelligence and oversight

committees actually got to see the documents of origin leading to the

special counsel we don't we don't know whether they were just briefed about it

or were they had a knows had it on the head and I mean this conspiracies been

working for a long long time yeah you know in this getting Donald Trump

whenever there was an inkling that he was going to win this thing you know

there was a there was a Fifth Column a strong Fifth Column then and they're

still there today there's still there today I keep saying to folks and I will

continue to say to folks you know it's not just this president as

and the guts and intelligence to drive this but to imagine what he was stands

every day yeah and has had to withstand from from the moment he ran for this no

no no for 43 years and and there were him to stand out like he had this gun

and he's never he's never not gonna stand up oh no matter what happens

through these fools i I have I believe that wholeheartedly yeah Jim it's great

to see and God bless yellow dubs god bless here James Collison thanks for

being here yes sir be sure to vote in our poll do you

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vote on Twitter and Lou Dobbs up next the Border Patrol steps up its response

to a crisis on our southern border with help from the Trump administration we'll

have the full report for you here next we're coming right back

while rhinos and DIMMs push for amnesty and embrace murderous ms-13 gangsters

the Trump administration is focused on supporting our Border Patrol as they as

they confront a crisis on our border Fox News national defense correspondent

William la jeunesse with the latest from the Rio Grande in Texas just after

takeoff the calls pour in agents need help tracking four separate groups 460

miles north of the border his helicopter just flushed out a group of 16 you see

how they all run in different directions that puts them at a great risk if we

miss one of these individuals now there's

karla Provos is the first woman to head the Border Patrol

the Rio Grande Valley is definitely our busiest area along the border down 2000

agents nationwide Provost welcomes help from the National Guard over the last

few years our attrition has been outpacing our hiring so this is a good

stopgap measure having the guard here she wants eight National Guard

helicopters here and more Guardsmen monitoring cameras I mean they're

operating with our cameras and our technology bringing their own sensors to

bear and doing it in the same way that we do on the border those cameras caught

this group of Central Americans crossing the Rio Grande we're averaging about a

daily average it really is it takes up a lot of our manpower

according to CBP 80% of those apprehended in South Texas are Central

Americans most seeking asylum Univ Anglian Mendez is gonna try to see what

he can do to stay in state agents say the problem is they're so focused on

processing families and unaccompanied minors vast areas are left unprotected

that the 86 individuals were illegal aliens four of which were unaccompanied

children police and border agents stopped this semi crammed with

immigrants who poked a hole in the roof to escape as long as they're gonna make

money off of human smuggling often drug smuggling they're gonna keep doing it

catching illegal immigrants is one thing but releasing them officials say is a

much bigger problem which President Trump has vowed but is yet to solve Lou

William thanks very much William la jeunesse reporting from the Rio Grande

well a big part of all that is the chaos on our border is and not many people

talk about this corruption and great corruption on both sides of the border

murderous cartels making a half billion dollars a year smuggling just the

illegal immigrants as much as $10,000 per illegal immigrant the rate of

children being abducted so illegal immigrants can pose as families as risen

900 percent over just the past year on Wall Street today stocks closed lor that

Dow down 75 points the S&P down six the Nasdaq down to volume on the big board

3.2 billion shares median household income rising up 3%

President Trump took office the highest level in nearly a half century and a

reminder to listen to my reports three times a day

coast to coast on the Salem radio network Facebook's Privacy scandals

worsening by the day Facebook now accused of conducting mass surveillance

through its apps a California Court case alleges Facebook collected users photos

text and even their location up next a left-wing DC Bishop calls

America first heresy pastor Robert Jeffress vehemently disagree and he

joins us here next hi I'm tae-yong what if there was an investment straight

you

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World War 3 THREAT - Ukraine tests LETHAL weapon provided by the US in DEFIANCE of Russia - Duration: 3:16.

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Explaining the US-China trade deficit - Duration: 3:58.

A trade deficit is the difference between exports and imports.

And for the United States it's often negative.

It has been negative with China for about close to 20 years and it's grown because

the U.S. has consumed more goods from China than it has exported to China.

One reason for this is because U.S. firms often set up shop in China as part of foreign

direct investments in China in order to produce goods using cheap labor and then to re-export

them back to the United States.

It's these companies, these multinational firms, that create a lot of profit and at

the same time, they generate jobs in the United States in the services sector by hiring people

who do advertising or marketing or financial aspects for their companies.

In addition to that, a lot of goods are simply processed in China.

So that means that some goods are produced in other nations especially in East and Southeast

Asia, and they're processed or put together in China and then re-exported to the United States.

So it's far more complex than China just producing goods and sending them over to us, and us shipping goods to them.

Now, some people have pointed to the trade deficit as something that is very bad.

While others see it as something that is relatively neutral.

President Trump has pointed to it as a symbol of U.S. weakness.

And other China hawks have viewed it as a way in which China has attempted to exploit the United States.

Economists don't see it that way.

And the reason for that is because it makes consumption for American households far cheaper

than if American firms simply produce goods in the United States, in which case they would have to pay far higher wages.

Certainly it has reduced the number of manufacturing jobs that are housed in the United States,

because labor in developing countries like China or Vietnam is far cheaper than it is here.

So, China takes the dollars that we used to pay for goods imported from China and they

can either hold the dollars in terms of reserves or invest the funds in the United States mainly in the form of treasury bonds.

So they're holding U.S. debt which allows America to spend more overall.

So in general, it has been a positive for United States.

President Trump misunderstands and misinterprets what the trade deficit is.

He seems to view it as a debt.

A win or lose game, a zero sum game.

When in actuality, most economists view trade as a win-win solution.

Because in most cases, countries export the goods that they have a comparative advantage in,

that's relatively cheaper for them to produce, and they import goods that are relatively

more expensive for them to produce.

And so in this way, both countries are thought to win out from trade.

So a trade deficit is merely a measure of exports and imports.

It's not about who is winning or who is losing.

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Martha MacCallum: North Korea expresses willingness to resolve issues with US - Duration: 14:12.

thank you very much but breaking tonight a new report just moments ago says North

Korea according to state media is saying that President Trump's decision to scrap

the summit is not in line with the world's wishes and that they are willing

to resolve the issues that is the latest after the summit was scuttled and North

Korea blamed in part comments made during our interview with the vice

president on Monday when kim jongwan through the south koreans reached out

and said that he would suspend his nuclear testing suspend his ballistic

testing and be willing to achieve complete denuclearization through talks

in exchange for a meeting with president Trump this president readily said yes

they asked for the meeting and we continue to be open to it I'm Martha

McCallum and this is the story it is clear that a sequence of events and

breakdown in the discussions over the recent days including that comment which

led the North Koreans to make disparaging remarks about the vice

president led to a decision agreed to by all of the top members of

the administration and ultimately decided by the president and expressed

in this strongly worded letter today dear mr. chairman it began it went on to

say we were informed that the meeting was requested by North Korea but that is

totally irrelevant the president then cites the tremendous anger and open

hostility of North Korea's recent statement as cause for the cancellation

North Korea also claims that it was put off by this comment as the president

made clear you know this this will only end like the Libyan model ended if Kim

jong-un doesn't make a deal some people saw that as a threat well I think it's

more of a fact president Trump made it clear in the United States of America

under his leadership is not going to tolerate the regime in North Korea

possessing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that threaten the United States

and our allies so now all of that lines up with prior statements from the

president from the Secretary of State from John Bolton and now here's Sean

Spicer what former White House press secretary and author of the upcoming

book the briefing Sean good to have you with us tonight you said a couple of

days ago I think this is going to happen so given the breaking news this evening

do you still stand by that well I first of all I'm a little concerned about the

interview now with you because apparently this is this is what's going

to help determine the outcome but I think that look the president's a master

negotiator he is the author of the art of the deal I don't know that we've seen

the end of this summit on June 12th but I think he's made it very clear that

unless Kim jong-un makes the appropriate concessions before the United States

sits down face to face with him there will be no meeting and I think that's a

entirely appropriate yeah the president recognizes that 90% of what Kim jong-un

wants is this face-to-face meeting he wants to be seen as a legitimate world

leader and the president won't give it to him unless he makes the appropriate

conceptions and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula but you know clearly there

were assurances given when you see the photographs with Mike Pompeo and Kim

Jong on right and then you also look at the you know very sort of friendly hop

skipping over the curb at the blue house in North Korea with the South Korean and

North Korean leader I mean it's pretty clear to the world that that Kim jong-un

wanted to move in the direction of this summit but the president keeps referring

back to the possibility that the second meeting with President Xi in China is

when things sort of started to fall apart and we're learning that that the

communication really started to break down several days ago your thoughts

well I think you're right that in the sense that you had three hostages

released to the United States and an act of good faith

you had an attempt to show the the Western media this this dismantling of a

nuclear site those were clearly done to show that president excuse me the

chairman Kim was taking the right steps but I think that he overestimated

president Trump's desire to have this meeting and president Trump was pretty

clear that until he saw additional concrete steps and concessions that

showed that North Korea was truly going to denuclearize the the peninsula he

wasn't Granum this meeting and that's that's the important part the United

States and President Crump by the way has made this clear since the beginning

where he has said you know if we get a deal great if we don't we won't and we

might still you know there's still an opportunity president Trump's kept all

the cards on the table he's made it very clear that there are conditions that are

gonna have to be met before he grants him this meeting and I think he's played

him perfectly yeah I mean and with regard to our interview what vice

president pence said to me in that interview lined up as I said with things

that President Trump had said prior to that that they wanted complete

denuclearization the president one point said that you know they didn't want the

Libya model which is complete denuclearization but I think he was

referring to what happened later to Muammar Qaddafi and that they were

giving essentially security to Kim Jong on that that isn't how he would end up I

just want to point out there's you know we're getting some brand new information

as we speak here Sean and a little bit more light being shed on their recent

statement tonight leader Kim jong-un had focused every effort on his meeting with

President Trump and they say that the president's decision today did not match

with the world's desire so it clearly appears that they're trying to reopen

this door before I get your comment on that I just want to play this because

that you know that the media had a field day today with the letter that came out

and the response you know basically suggesting that this had all blown up in

the president's face and here's what they said

the president was rehearsing his endzone dance and we weren't even at the 50-yard

line yet it's amazing to me that the administration is somehow shocked that

the North Koreans are acting as North Korea acts he must be having a giggle

fit right there now in North Korea the copy of the

president's letter chumming up there's kind of like a Valentine to kim

jeong-hoon really really really what do you think Shawn well really I don't

think we've seen the end of this I think President Trump understands how to

negotiate better than anybody in terms of because of his business background I

don't think that we've seen the end of this he did exactly what no one thought

he would do he told from the beginning if I can make this deal work great if

not I'll walk away he's already shown he can walk away now chairman Kim has to

come back to the table and I think we're gonna see additional

concessions my guess is that that there's a lot of chapters to be written

in this book because president Trump has shown that he can walk away from a bad

deal chairman Kim understands that until he

gets this meeting he continues to be seen as a third-rate dictator he needs

to be seen as an incredible leader and president Trump isn't gonna do anything

to grant him that until he exhibits a you know real concessions ahead of time

so I know that director Pompeo John Bolden and president Trump know exactly

what they're doing and I think that some of these Democrats that are coming out

are getting way too out in front of a story that hasn't seen the end yet what

about you didn't mention vice president Pence in in that group do you think he

stepped out of line at all in that interview

no and I apologized with all due respect to the vice president

that was that's my fault but I think that they that's a great team that

they're all part of they know what they're doing this is a long game and I

think that they all understand the stakes that are at hand and that they're

not going to grant North Korea a meeting a face-to-face meeting that that gives

the legitimacy until that they make the concessions necessary real concrete

things president Trump isn't done this Sean Spicer thank you good good to

see as always thanks Sean thanks Martha so president Trump's announcement of the

North Korea summit cancellation which came this morning via this letter it

came just hours after North Korea claimed to have destroyed their nuclear

site but is there more to the mountain that sunk at this nuclear site senior

foreign affairs correspondent Greg Powell cought live in Seoul South Korea

with more on this story that's a really important element of understanding all

of this great hi Martha yeah completely overshadowed by that cancellation of the

upcoming summit between President Trump and Kim jong-un which should have been

the banner story for Thursday that is the destruction the dismantling by North

Korea of the one nuclear test site that we know about in the northeastern part

of the country they had brought a small group of foreign journalists to observe

this they they blew up three tunnels portholes structure apparently the folks

that on the ground said it was very loud and very strong North Korea claimed at

the time that this was a goodwill gesture a transparent measure by the

regime to promote peace and stability in the region the hitches Martha they

didn't invite any international experts or analysts observers to to confirm

their claims when asked about whether they might do it in the future they said

well maybe but they wouldn't commit they even admitted that the main tunnel that

they blew up which has seen that five different nuclear tests couldn't be used

anymore in the futures of what was the point and then a few hours later Martha

the word came out via the reporters that were on the scene of the cancellation by

President Trump of that summit and apparently the officials the North

Korean regime officials were a little bit shocked I got to tell you from our

experience in North Korea and we have been there several times in the past the

regime is a very good at stage managing things not too good at ad-libbing things

because for example one time we were supposed to be watching a missile launch

they went right and then it wrong and the officials there were a

little bit lost as to how to handle it we will see now Martha how they're gonna

handle this this curveball from the White House on Thursday it is Friday

morning you at the top of your show were relaying the comments coming from the

state media at KCNA they they seen each coming back and saying they really want

to do it so I think as you said as Sean said we haven't seen the end of this by

any stretch it's an interesting country to deal with it is great thank you very

much here now with more Michael Mallos a North Korea analyst and author of dear

reader Michael good to have you with us tonight thank you what do you make of

this whole thing well the talks have been breaking down

for a few days now as you mentioned earlier the US Senate advanced team to

Singapore and it turned out that this North Korean counterparts were simply

refusing to tailor calls and to respond them so this is not president Trump

flying off the handle as he's being portrayed by people on the left this is

him responding to being blatantly disrespected and and not having any

communications at a certain point you have to negotiate and this is classic

negotiation you punish bad behavior you reward good behavior and if they're not

going to be returning our calls at a certain point he has to draw the line

all right so I mean what potentially would they agree to you've got the Libya

model on one hand which is a complete denuclearization which obviously

rankles them that idea then you've got the Iran deal model right where you see

sort of an overtime and some agreements but not an agreement to get rid of

everything what are we gonna get whoa anything the more the term Libya models

use those scarier it's going to be for them because if you look what happened

to Qaddafi and how he personally was murdered in the most horrific way this

is something that is a great concern to the Kim family it has been for decades

Kim jong-il used to show this execution of Romanian dictator Ceausescu to all

the party cadres daily the video and says this is what will happen to you if

the government falls down so they're acutely aware of what happens when these

totalitarian dictatorships collapse and the difference between Iran and Libya is

there's a partner country here China so there's no China visa the Iran but there

certainly is a China Beasley North Korea and we have to be concerned with what

China wants and what China would allow do you do you agree with the president

who has a couple of times now said that that second meeting that Kim Jong un

went to have with President Xi something happened there is that why

those channels shut down it's the China certainly has a very

part to play in all this and we don't know what's going on here and frankly I

don't think we should know what's going on here because so much of this is about

allowing kim jongmin to save face if only to force him to do the right thing

wouldn't China want the genial Croatian of North Korea to yes but they also

wouldn't want us to escalate to a total liberalisation of North Korea and

possible societal collapse we're giving them 25 million refugees crossing the

river who don't speak Chinese and don't know how to use a computer that's the

nightmare scenario for China all right what about really quick what about the

mountain that collapsed several months ago is what they blew up today was it

even usable probably not and there are reports of being that this radiation

coming out from all this other stuff and you know in there they do not let just

like rahm emanuel said they don't let a good crisis go to waste

so if something's going to be you know destroyed they might as well say hey

we're doing this because we're the good guys out of the magnet nummy of our

hearts interesting as always Michael thank you very much good to see you

tonight

you

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Top diplomats of S. Korea and U.S. agree to keep dialogue momentum alive between Pyongyang - Duration: 0:49.

South Korea's Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha held phone talks with her U.S. counterpart

Mike Pompeo this morning,... exchanging views on President's Trump's cancellation of the

June 12th summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

According to a press release by Seoul's Foreign Ministry,.... Pompeo briefed Kang in detail

on the reasoning behind President Trump's decision.... but made known Washington's determination

to continue dialogue with Pyongyang.

Kang stressed that it's necessary to keep up the momentum of dialogue and negotiations.

She noted the statements from President Trump and North Korea's senior diplomat Kim Kye-gwan

show the two sides are both willing to stay in communication.

Kang and Pompeo agreed to continue to cooperate to create the right conditions for Pyongyang-Washington

talks to take place at a later date.

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SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD SAYS "THE DEEP STATE" IS IN CONTROL OF AMERICA - Duration: 3:13.

SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD SAYS �THE DEEP STATE� IS IN CONTROL OF AMERICA, NOT TRUMP

BY JOE MARTINO

In an exclusive interview with Greek newspaper The Kathimerini, Bashar Al Assad has stated

that the true people in control of the United States President are the deep state.

A truth widely talked about in alternative news but silenced in elite owned mainstream

media, the reality of the deep state, not only in America but the world in general,

is one that must make its way into mass consciousness if we want to begin to see real change.

��A further reason is that we don�t think the president of that regime is in control.

We all believe that the deep state, the real state, is in control, or is in control of

every president, and that is nothing new.

It has always been so in the United States, at least during the last 40 years, at least

since Nixon, maybe before, but it�s becoming starker and starker, and the starkest case

is Trump.� Assad said to The Kathimerini

The interview raised questions about the alleged recent chemical attacks in Syria.

We had reported that the reason for this false narrative going around the western media was

to gain the manufactured consent from the people to approve of an attack on Syria in

an attempt to destabilize it.

Assad further discusses this in the interview when he stated; �When the terrorists lost,

the US, France, the UK and their other allies who want to destabilize Syria lost one of

their main cards, and that�s why they had to attack the Syrian Army, just to raise the

morale of the terrorists and to prevent the Syrian Army from liberating more areas in

Syria.�

Of course who funds and supports these terrorists?

The very countries allied together who joined for the Syrian attack; US, France, the UK.

We can see quite clearly that it�s simply the Western media trying to again convince

the public there is an enemy out there and we must do something about it.

Of course they never provide real evidence of this.

Just like with 9/11.

So What Do We Do?

At the end of the day what do we do with this information?

We opt our consciousness OUT of the old world.

Often times we want to come up with some physical solution to stop this, when in reality the

majority of it starts within.

If we can shift collective consciousness in a way that begins to face these truths head

on and stops us from turning a blind eye to what is truly going on, we will begin to see

the world differently.

Further, we then have the opportunity to opt out of supporting the world as it is today.

The more of us that do that, the more we open the door for more people to do the same, and

thus a shift occurs in the physical world.

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SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD SAYS "THE DEEP STATE" IS IN CONTROL OF AMERICA, NOT TRUMP - Duration: 3:24.

SYRIAN PRESIDENT ASSAD SAYS �THE DEEP STATE� IS IN CONTROL OF AMERICA, NOT TRUMP

BY JOE MARTINO

In an exclusive interview with Greek newspaper The Kathimerini, Bashar Al Assad has stated

that the true people in control of the United States President are the deep state.

A truth widely talked about in alternative news but silenced in elite owned mainstream

media, the reality of the deep state, not only in America but the world in general,

is one that must make its way into mass consciousness if we want to begin to see real change.

��A further reason is that we don�t think the president of that regime is in control.

We all believe that the deep state, the real state, is in control, or is in control of

every president, and that is nothing new.

It has always been so in the United States, at least during the last 40 years, at least

since Nixon, maybe before, but it�s becoming starker and starker, and the starkest case

is Trump.� Assad said to The Kathimerini

The interview raised questions about the alleged recent chemical attacks in Syria.

We had reported that the reason for this false narrative going around the western media was

to gain the manufactured consent from the people to approve of an attack on Syria in

an attempt to destabilize it.

Assad further discusses this in the interview when he stated; �When the terrorists lost,

the US, France, the UK and their other allies who want to destabilize Syria lost one of

their main cards, and that�s why they had to attack the Syrian Army, just to raise the

morale of the terrorists and to prevent the Syrian Army from liberating more areas in

Syria.�

Of course who funds and supports these terrorists?

The very countries allied together who joined for the Syrian attack; US, France, the UK.

We can see quite clearly that it�s simply the Western media trying to again convince

the public there is an enemy out there and we must do something about it.

Of course they never provide real evidence of this.

Just like with 9/11.

So What Do We Do?

At the end of the day what do we do with this information?

We opt our consciousness OUT of the old world.

Often times we want to come up with some physical solution to stop this, when in reality the

majority of it starts within.

If we can shift collective consciousness in a way that begins to face these truths head

on and stops us from turning a blind eye to what is truly going on, we will begin to see

the world differently.

Further, we then have the opportunity to opt out of supporting the world as it is today.

The more of us that do that, the more we open the door for more people to do the same, and

thus a shift occurs in the physical world.

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How the US Government Kept a Town of 75,000 Secret - Duration: 5:10.

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee is a small American town just like any other.

They've got a Walmart, a Dollar General, an Aldi, a thermonuclear weapons development

site, and two McDonald's and yet from 1942 to 1945, Oak Ridge, which at the time was

the fifth largest town in Tennessee, did not exist and this isn't like how Canada doesn't

exist.

Oak Ridge actually did exist but nobody knew about it.

In October, 1942, the 1,000 or so residents of the area came home to find notes on their

doors telling them they had six weeks to get out—the government had acquired their land

through eminent domain.

I'm sure that was a bummer but too bad—there was a war going on.

Wait, are we allowed to make World War Two jokes yet?

Eh I'm not sure but I do need to stop…

Stalin.

So, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, after all the fences and buildings went up in a matter of

months, the recruited workers were told next to nothing.

All they knew was that their work would end the war.

Spoiler alert, it did, because they were building the atomic bomb in what was known as the Manhattan

Project.

The name supposedly originated from the fact that the sites were quite similar to New York—they

used about the same amount of electricity due to all the machinery, the air was toxic,

they had to overpay the residents to convince them to live in bad conditions, and the people

all thought they were more important than they were.

The bad guys in World War Two were not great so it was pretty important that the US didn't

accidentally leak information to Axis spies.

Therefore, the entire 75,000 person town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee was 100% confidential—not

even the Vice President knew it existed.

When the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima that was the first time that all but a select few

individuals even knew such a bomb existed.

It was pretty, you know, bombshell news.

The way the government kept this enormous operation confidential was just as ingenious

as the technology they were building.

Oak Ridge did not exist on any map.

Houses were built outside the town and brought in to be placed so as few construction workers

as possible would enter.

Every single piece of mail going in and out was searched and read through not only to

make sure there we no details of the work going on within the fences but also to be

sure that nobody was including codes that communicated details.

There were signs like this all around the town reminding everyone that what they were

doing was secret but, in the governments mind, with 75,000 people, it was inevitable that

a few spies would get in.

For that reason, almost everyone had no clue what they were doing but not in the in the

way that I have no clue what I'm doing making comedic YouTube videos.

The workers literally did not know what they were building.

According to one estimate, only a few dozen people knew that the atomic bomb existed before

the bombing of Hiroshima even though hundreds of thousands of people at Oak Ridge and other

Manhattan Project sites built it.

The workers learned about what they were building from the newspaper the day after the bomb

dropped.

Each and every individual would have a single task and the only people who knew how it related

to other tasks were the few highest ranked scientists.

One individual, for example, was tasked with watching a dial, turning a valve when it reached

100, and that was it.

He had no idea why he was doing that.

The individual tasks were tiny and mundane—it was like working at McDonald's except that

at McDonald's what you make kills Americans too.

Another individual working in the laundry was told to hold up a machine to each article

of clothing and listen for a clicking sound.

Little did she know she was checking for radiation using a geiger counter.

Security officers roamed all around Oak Ridge and monitored for anything suspicious.

Groups of more than seven and having the same person over repeatedly was considered suspicious

so residents avoided that since they knew that, if the security officers were suspicious

in the slightest, even if it was unproven, they would get kicked out for good.

If a leak was proven, the resident would either be jailed for 10 years or fined the equivalent

of $100,000.

Overall, the bad guys in this war were really bad so Americans were really into the idea

of winning so even those that had a good idea what was going on in Oak Ridge kept silent

out of a sense of patriotism—not wanting to let out information that could help the

enemy.

Throughout this all, however, Oak Ridge had stores and restaurants and even sports teams.

Oak Ridge looked like a regular American town—just one that built the most deadly weapon that

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US Supreme Court Ruling Strips Away The Rights Of Workers - Duration: 5:49.

On Monday as we reported, the Supreme Court made a decision that will impact employee

rights to class action lawsuits.

Does this mean that employees can no longer ever band together in court?

There's no better person to ask than America's lawyer, mighty Mike Papantonio.

Counselor, thank you so much for joining us, we really appreciate it.

What does this mean for companies, but as important, or more important in fact, what

does it mean for employees, Mike?

Well, first, arbitration, which millions of Americans have already agreed to by signing

arbitration clauses in contracts takes away the right of these employees to sue corporations

when they lie, cheat, and steal.

There are arbitration clauses in your credit card contracts, you name it, but here this

is very specific, because you have these companies that are stealing money from these employees.

The level of theft is amazing.

The way they steal money is they don't pay for things like taking ... on their break,

they're ordered to go back to work without being paid.

There are all kinds of scams that they use.

As a matter of fact, we handled one of the biggest cases in the country against Walmart,

where they had a whole series of scams where they were just taking $10 here, $20 there.

What ends up happening is this; an employee who has a loss of maybe $10,000, that employee,

according to what this ruling is by the Supreme Court, can't bring a case in a class action.

Let's say they lost $10,000.

Let's say they lost $2,000.

How do they hire a lawyer?

How does the lawyer handle that one case?

The class action enabled all of these employees to go after these thugs, these corporate thugs,

and get their money back through a class action settlement, or a class action trial.

Here, this Supreme Court clearly understands that most of the theft that takes place with

employees is in little cuts.

They find that employee is unwilling to bring a case unless they can join into a class.

They're unwilling to bring case by case, A, because they can't afford it, B, most lawyers

won't take a case like that, and C, they get targeted by bringing a case like that.

This is actually something that businesses build into their business plan.

We saw that with Walmart.

Walmart calculated that they could get away with stealing $10 million each quarter by

taking a little bit here and a little bit there, and in the end, they could keep the

$10 million, because if people could not bring a class action, like we were able to do in

that case, if they can't bring a class action, then there's no way for an employee to actually

recover.

This is of the same Supreme Court, the same business-oriented, corporate Supreme Court

who every time they get an issue like this will always, always rule against consumers.

Mike, it seems to me that workers really don't have a choice, too.

You want a job, you sign the employment papers, et cetera, and so the only folks that will

be able to take a big company to court will be the wealthy folks, and those aren't the

people working at Walmart.

My guess is, and we'll have to see what happens ... I don't want to get too much into the

politics here, but among the reaction that I've heard, there are some critics calling

for a legislation to effectively overturn or blunt the ruling, and that seems like a

dead letter under the current Congress and the White House.

As a purely legal matter, can legislation restore these rights?

Yes, yes it can, and it won't.

I can put it like that.

It can absolutely do this, but it won't.

They've been asked to do this on several occasions in other issues where consumers were hammered,

workers in particular, were hammered by corporate conduct like this, and they've passed on it

virtually every time.

So yeah, it can happen, legislation can solve the problem, but it's got to be solved through

the courts.

Right now, you have a Supreme Court that is so oriented towards businesses' interest,

that there's no way to turn them around.

One more question on the legal nuts and bolts, Mike.

Justice Ginsburg chose to read her dissent, which was a pretty ... impassioned from the

bench, and called it, "Egregiously wrong."

Who's right?

Ginsburg citing the National Labor Relations Act, or Chief Justice Gorsuch citing a Federal

Arbitration Act of 1925?

Settle this for us.

Ginsburg is right all day long.

That's what the case law shows, that's what the precedent shows.

This is a Supreme Court majority that had to go out of precedent, had to go out of trend,

had to go out of just common sense on what benefits the worker to reach a decision like

this.

That's why Ginsburg was so outraged.

They realized that in arbitration, the worker loses, loses 90% of the time, 90% of the time

is the statistic-

Holy cow.

... in an arbitration setting.

We've still got about 60 seconds, Mike.

In the technology space, it seems that companies have been requiring binding arbitration like

we've talked about with Walmart and others, but Microsoft notably said they are going

to stop enforcing arbitration agreements in sexual harassment cases, and Uber last week

just did the same thing.

You may think it a silly question of me, Mike, but I mean, do you think some companies will

look at this as a good that they will do to entice employees, or will they take a heck

of a lot of comfort in the Supreme Court decision and say, "Hey, we're not going to do anything?"

This is like ... they should have a parade.

Corporate Americans should have a parade right through the middle of DC, because none of

them are going to do anything to interfere with this on behalf of workers.

Promise you.

If it does, please have me back on the show and I can say, "I was wrong."

That parade goes on here every day, we just don't happen to se it because they're in black

cars with shaded windows.

America's lawyer, mighty Mike Papantonio.

Thank you so much for being with us Mike, appreciate it.

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U.S. Immigration | Let's Talk | NPR - Duration: 3:26.

This is a story about U.S. immigration policy.

The goal has always been

to identify which people to welcome

and which to keep out.

Let's start in 1790.

The first immigration law passed

limited U.S. citizenship to any "free white person."

The law thus excluded people from almost anywhere

outside of Europe, not to mention

enslaved Africans

and Native Americans,

who had been living on the land for centuries.

As immigrants of color began trickling into the country

despite such restrictions, U.S. politicians moved again

to officially favor white people.

In 1882, Chinese were prohibited from coming here.

In 1924, Congress instituted national origin quotas.

More than 100,000 visa slots were reserved

each year for people coming from northern Europe,

while people from Asia, Africa

and other parts of the world had tiny allocations.

Because migrants generally follow the example

of family members and acquaintances who've gone before them,

Europeans dominated the immigrant flow

year after year after year.

Those national origin quotas stayed in place until 1965,

when they were finally abolished as racist and discriminatory.

Under the Immigration Act of 1965,

priority was given instead to immigrants

who had spouses, parents, siblings or other family members

already in the U.S.

Some politicians thought this "family unification" policy

would still favor white people,

because they were more likely than nonwhites to have U.S. relatives.

But they miscalculated.

By 1965, Europeans were largely content to stay put.

They were no longer lining up in large numbers to move to America.

It was a different story in the developing world.

People there were increasingly eager to escape poverty and war

or seek economic opportunity in America.

That's where the long lines began to form.

For every student or worker who got a visa

to come to the U.S.

from Africa, Asia or Latin America,

there were many family members back home

who wanted to follow.

This is what President Trump refers to derisively as "chain migration."

And it's become an explosive issue.

The foreign-born share of the U.S. population

has risen from 5 percent to 13.5 percent,

with nearly nine of 10 new immigrants

arriving from countries outside Europe.

President Trump wants to move toward a merit-based system

where immigrants with the skills and training

most needed in the U.S. are favored

over people looking to reunite with family members.

Such a shift, however, would mark a sharp departure

from what has been the prevailing pattern of migration

throughout the country's history.

Tom Gjelten. NPR News.

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N. Korea still willing to hold summit with U.S. - Duration: 2:00.

North Korea, meanwhile, says it's still willing to hold a summit.

Pyongyang's vice foreign minister released a statement a few hours after the meeting

was called off by Mr. Trump.

And the statement was unusually conciliatory, expressing some respect for the American president's

approach hitherto.

Oh Jung-hee has this story.

Using very polished and polite diplomatic rhetoric, North Korea urged the United States

to give more thought to canceling their June 12th summit.

North Korea's Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan released a statement early Friday morning

-- roughly eight hours after the announcement from Washington.

He said the North wants to give the U.S. more time and opportunity -- meaning, Pyongyang

is still willing to sit down with Washington for summit talks.

Regarding President Trump citing the North's fury and hostility for calling off the summit,

Pyongyang claimed... that was only because Washington pressed North Korea over unilateral

denuclearization.

It added... the current situation -- which shows a very deep rift between the two sides

-- rather means the summit talks are urgently needed.

North Korea did express regret over Trump's decision,... but at the same time appealed...

that the regime has been highly anticipating the summit as well as what the White House

has suggested as a 'Trump model.'

It added the regime appreciates President Trump for making a decision that no other

American president has... and has been hoping the summit marks a beginning to improving

their relations.

The statement also said...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has been pouring his efforts into summit preparations.

The North stressed... that both sides can't be perfectly satisfied at their first attempt,

but if they solve their issues one-by-one, their relations will only get better, not

worse.

Pyongyang concluded its statement by saying it's willing to sit down face-to-face with

Washington at any time with any format to work through their issues.

Oh Jung-hee, Arirang News.

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What does North Korea need to do to restart U.S. talks? - Duration: 6:58.

WOODRUFF: The Singapore summit is canceled, putting an end, for now at least, to planning

for President Trump to meet with North Korea's Kim Jong-un in early June.

Today, the president sent a letter to Kim, announcing he's pulling out and referring

to the massive and powerful nuclear capabilities of the United States.

Foreign affairs correspondent Nick Schifrin begins our coverage.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TRUMP: Hello, everybody.

NICK SCHIFRIN, PBS NEWSHOUR FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: President Trump once said his

summit with Kim Jong-un could produce peace and safety for the world.

Today, he said he had no choice but to cancel.

TRUMP: Based on the recent statement of North Korea, I've decided to terminate the planned

summit.

I believe that this is a tremendous setback for North Korea and, indeed, a setback for

the world.

SCHIFRIN: The path from confidence to cancellation included what a senior U.S. official described

as Americans being stood up by North Koreans at a planned logistical meeting in Singapore.

U.S. hope became doubt in less than a month.

JOHN BOLTON, NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR: I think we're looking at the Libya model of

2003, 2004.

SCHIFRIN: On April 29th, national security advisor John Bolton invoked Libya and its

former leader Muammar Gadhafi, who in 2003 traded his nascent nuclear program for normalization,

but in 2011 was overthrown and killed by U.S.-backed rebels.

On May the 16th, North Korean first vice minister of foreign affairs Kim Kye Gwan called Bolton

"repugnant" and said: If the U.S. is trying to force our unilateral nuclear abandonment,

we will no longer be interested in such dialogue.

On Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence repeated the reference to Libya.

MIKE PENCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: As the president made clear, this you know,

this will only end like the Libya model ended if Kim Jong Un doesn't make a deal.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Some people saw that as a threat.

PENCE: Well, I think it's more of a fact.

SCHIFRIN: Last night, chief North Korean negotiator Choe Son Hui called Pence's remarks ignorant

and stupid, and added: Whether the U.S. will meet us at a meeting room or encounter us

at nuclear-to- nuclear showdown is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior of

the United States.

Just hours later, Trump cited those words to cancel the summit, and immediately mentioned

the U.S. military was prepared.

TRUMP: Our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world, and has been

greatly enhanced recently, as you all know, is ready if necessary.

SCHIFRIN: That's exactly the talk South Korean President Moon Jae-in's been trying to prevent.

He met President Trump just two days ago and today expressed surprise.

I am very perplexed, he told his cabinet, and is very regrettable that the North Korea-U.S.

summit will not be held.

Trump walked away from the summit just hours after North Korea said it destroyed at least

part of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.

The U.S. says North Korea went back on its promise to invite experts, but journalists

including "Associated Press" Raf Wober were there.

RAF WOBER, ASSOCIATED PRESS: The Nuclear Weapons Institute did try to emphasize that North

Korea wants to demonstrate its willingness to denuclearize.

SCHIFRIN: But the nature of that denuclearization remains in dispute.

North Korea expresses interest in slow, step-by-step denuclearization, and step-by-step American

incentives.

The U.S. would prefer all-in-one denuclearization.

And senior U.S. officials say North Korean broken promises and a break in communication

convinced them that gap could not be breached.

Here's Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker.

SEN.

BOB CORKER (R-TN), CHAIR, SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE: You can tell when something's coming

together and people are getting back quickly, and the logistics are being worked out.

It was your sense over the course of the last week or so that that was diminishing, is that

correct?

MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE: We got a lot of dial tones, Senator.

SCHIFRIN: The intelligence community has long concluded Kim would not give up his nuclear

weapons.

But today, even after he cancelled, President Trump repeated his faith in Kim's intentions.

TRUMP: They want to do what's right.

I really believe Kim Jong-un wants to do what's right.

So, hopefully, things will work out.

SCHIFRIN: President Trump says he felt very strongly about canceling, but still open to

talking.

The ball the U.S. says is now in North Korea's court.

For the "PBS NewsHour", I'm Nick Schifrin.

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WOODRUFF: For more now on why the president backed out of plans for the summit, I'm

joined by our White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor.

So, Yamiche, you have been working on the story all day.

What more have you learned about this, about why?

YAMICHE ALCINDOR, PBS NEWSHOUR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: I've learned that the summit

was canceled because White House officials believed that North Korea was engaged in a

pattern of behavior that showed it wasn't really serious about denuclearization.

The senior White House official today said and told me and the other reporters that there

was, quote, radio silence when it came to North Korea.

So, American officials were trying to work out the logistics, the policy issues that

they were going to cover, and at some point, they literally stopped getting called back

from their North Korean counterparts and could gotten forward.

So, this was canceled because they didn't think they could be ready by June 12th.

WOODRUFF: So, do you get a sense this is off permanently or there's a chance that this

could be -- that this could come together again?

ALCINDOR: I've been talking to a lot of people and that was my main question to them.

Two people I can at least quote on the record were Kellyanne Conway who, of course, is the

White House counselor, and Rudy Giuliani who is the president's personal attorney, both

of them and several other people who can't be named all said they thought this was definitely

going to happen, they thought President Trump is very much interested in having this meeting

happen.

The problem is they're not sure whether or not North Korea is going to really meet the

conditions that they want.

Rudy Giuliani told me particular: I don't think it's necessarily totally canceled.

Kellyanne Conway made it a point to say that she thought there was so much that had been

gained in the last couple of weeks, we think about the fact that there were hostages released

from North Korea, that North Korean and South Korean leaders have their own summit.

So, she thinks that because of all those things, that something could happen in the future.

WOODRUFF: Interesting that the president's attorney and president's political counselor

are talking about foreign policy.

ALCINDOR: Yes.

WOODRUFF: Yamiche, what did you learn about what conditions or what the White House wants

to have happen if anything's going to move forward?

ALCINDOR: That's the key here.

I talked to people and asked them, OK, so, what needs to happen if the summit was going

to happen, what can happen in the future?

They told me a couple of things.

They said that North Korea cannot engage in missile testing, nuclear testing and they

cannot publicly object to the U.S. and South Korea military exercises.

So, that's kind of something that's pretty clear.

But the things that the White House has been more cagey to confirm are, there is reporting

out there and at least one person confirmed this to me that they want North Korea to start

dismantling its nuclear warheads, its nuclear material and interballistic (ph) missiles

overseas and move them out of North Korea within six months.

That was one person who told me that, but there were all the people at the White House

I was trying to physically chase down today and none of them would confirm that.

So, it's still up in the air what North Korea has to do specifically for the United States

to want to meet with them now.

WOODRUFF: Sounds like still a lot of discussions underway internally.

ALCINDOR: I think if North Korea at least are picking up the phone, that they might

be able to have a conversation.

WOODRUFF: Yamiche Alcindor, we thank you.

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So, anytime you get a tweet from the president that starts with the words,

"I hereby demand," you get nervous.

And when the "hereby demand" involves the Justice Department, you get really nervous.

In Trump world's scenario, the FBI, full of a bunch of political partisans

who were motivated against Donald Trump,

infiltrated the Trump campaign in a way that was designed to hurt candidate Trump.

But they weren't actually competent enough to infiltrate the Trump

campaign in a way that prevented Trump from becoming president.

So they're both conspirators and bunglers.

There are always two possible explanations for Trump behavior, and particularly for Trump tweets.

One theory of the case is this is all a very calculated effort

to distract us from something else that's going on.

And the other theory is this is just the president who is so frustrated and it

boils up in him and his way of relieving that frustration and lashing out is

go to the Twitter machine and get it all out there.

Right before this tweet storm, here's what happened.

The New York Times posted a story that described

yet another meeting by Donald Trump Jr. with yet another representative of a foreign government,

who expressed a desire, according to this report, to see Donald Trump elected.

I do think it is certainly not a coincidence that this story happened just before we saw this tweet storm.

If Trump gives an order to Rosenstein that says open up a criminal investigation,

even though there's no basis for a criminal investigation, he should refuse that order.

And, if necessary, he should resign.

But the goal isn't to have a fight with the president.

The goal is to keep yourself in the position, if you're Rod Rosenstein,

to kind of serve as a shield to allow Bob Mueller to do his job.

And if you need to ask the inspector general take a look at something to placate the president,

that seems to me to be the better path to go.

So I think he did a pretty smart thing here.

Whether that's going to be enough, we'll find out.