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north korean leader kim jong-il. -- kim jong-un own. ♪ from about 90 minutes ago, president trump disembarking air force one, returning to air force andrews base after his summit with north korean leader kim jong-il. welcome to washington journal for june 13, 2018. three hours of reaction to the summit today. we will hear from a number of members of congress and take a look at editorial page views across the country, but most important, we would like to hear your views, your opinion, and here is how you can do that. if you are a republican, use (202) 748-8001.

democrats, (202) 748-8000. independence and all others, (202) 748-8002. you can also join us on facebook, where we -- and we welcome your comments on twitter. send us a tweet at @cspanwj. be president might very well at the white house by now. we are not certain if we will hear anything from the president after that long flight back from singapore, but if we do we will try to bring that to you as well. thet off, the analysis from front page of the new york times from david sanger. the headline, president of the pitch to kim yields val with few details. is nothing there president trump extracted from north korea leader kim jong-un in the summit meeting that his father and grandfather had not -- had given to previous american president. made clear, none of

that really matters to him. instead, he is betting everything on the terrific relationship and very special bond that he said developed with the 34-year-old dictator. trump's seeming certainty that he can now view the future elimination of north korea's arsenal of atomic weapons the same way. he swatted away suggestions that the phrase complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula means something different in pyongyang than washington. president trump might prove this time is different. this is based on his conclusion that past presidents got it backwards. your thoughts on the historic summit. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. ofs first of a number

editorial views, the main editorial in the washington times this morning. they write that mr. trump, uncertainty at the summit. mr. trump gets excited easily and speaks the language of the sales man. everything is terrific or wonderful, fabulous, maybe even stupendous, anti-punctuates with lots of exclamation points. this recalls george w. bush's admiration for vladimir putin, when he looked into putin's soul and elite all would be right with the world. more from the washington times editorial. talking isthat better than war, and everyone's estimation, until time runs out and talking is no longer better. we are in a better place they than we were a your ago, says anthony for lincoln, a deputy national security advisor and debbie terry secretary of state and the obama administration. negotiating at the top was worth

trying because the usual approach made by previous presidents clearly did not work. mike pompeo now has the hard work of translating the vague promises from president trump into something real. from washington, d.c., eric on our independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning, c-span, good morning america. i want to say president trump did a great job. he did a great job by starting the process, because the status quo was not the solution. i think that things from the democrats or the press is just injecting venom and hatred into what he did. and actuallyourage recognize that he did a great job. it is a process. we shall give the time. we will show -- we shall allow

north korea to comply with what they said during the meeting. host: in that process, what do you think the next step, the next time you would be looking for in real progress in this relationship? xt step would be for both teams to sit down. the president laid out the map. now north korea, south korea, and even america need to sit down and put it in writing exactly how they are going to work and verify that the denuclearization is going to happen. but it is not by just being hateful that we went to solve something. i do not know why the media is so negative. marietta, georgia, and we hear from marcel, democrat line. caller: hi, i think trump got

played. i think he has been played throughout this whole past week. war withrting a trade our allies at the g7, and then -- nowzing kim jong-un has normalization. he is one of the big boys now. of course, because he has nuclear weapons, but trump all this time was calling him little rocket man and steve moore lies in. then when he gets up to the guy, he just acts like a little kitten. it's embarrassing. it really is.

trump.ck of i wish someone would go on and stand up to him, but it looks like the only one who is standing up to him is our allies. host: ok, marcel. (202) 748-8001 is the number to call for republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. all others, (202) 748-8002. looking for your thoughts and reactions to the summit. we hear from the independent line inches him, minnesota -- in chisholm, minnesota. caller: i think things will work out. if you look around and see that buness, whe it ihappening mostly in the world, is in asia. russiae china, pakistan, , and they are concentrating more on a progress.

we have a problem that we are just sitting over here and we do not open up to the world, we do not go out and see what is happening. i spent a month in europe last year, the whole month of september traveling and seeing a big difference between europe and the progress. i think mr. trump is going to do the right thing, open up the world a bit to us, and then we will get together with the european allies again, but asia right now is the most important part. that is what i believe we should concentrate on. host: this is the story on the front page of the washington post. lack of detail clouds optimism from summit. when president trump flew home yesterday with what he called very, very

copperheads and agreements with north korea, even as lawmakers, analysts, and allies congratulated the effort, they question the subject -- substance of what had been a cheap. -- achieved. the documents provided almost no detailed except for the stable quote to denuclearize the north korean pew -- north korean peninsula, a promise pyongyang has made and ignored multiple times in the past. emily in san francisco, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to complement our president, president donald trump, and say he has done wonders for peace. it is a great thing that we can look forward to because -- i just heard from a senior person that would know all about this and is studying north korea that they have a hydrogen bomb. they also have in space, right above us, the ability to just

destroy our grid and they have weapons of mass distraction. this man is dangerous. -- weapons of mass destruction. this man is dangerous. he asked his father, how do you want to go out? his father answered, with a blast. i think president trump -- i believe after eight years of war under obama, under bush, no one did anything to defend our country and the world. the weapons this man has are pardon me military -- -- one million then. i think it is so important that he pursue what the president is wanting to do and i think he is a hero and his family, wonderful family, and i do not know how he didn't sleep for 25 hours and is still going.

we think our and prayers are helping. thank you. host: emily pointing out the president just returning this , touching down in a few hours at andrews air force base. we want to get your response, and we will also get perspective from congress throughout the program. joining us now is ted yoho, who sits on the subcommittee for asia and the pacific, and is in the chair of that committee. we have heard from some viewers this morning about the nuclear threat north korea poses. do you think the president will get the follow-through from kim jong-un on destroying the nuclear program that he has promised in the negotiation? want to make sure we get to complete denuclearization, but that is a long ways off. we have two people that have decided to do a project, like to build a house.

now they have to sit down and figure out what they want to do. they have some of the outlines of peace and stability. it has to be mutually agreed find and we have to complete denuclearization for you the united states -- for the united states, the world, and north korea. and finding prisoners of war, that is something we agreed on. agree 100%,aller, i and the second caller and even the independent. this has never happened before, where you have leaders of two nations sit down. that is why this is different, and all we can hope is that people like mike pompeo and others who are involved in the negotiations negotiate from a position of strength and bring peace to the korean peninsula. mike pompeo, the secretary of state, continuing that effort today, flying to meet with korean leaders. what do you think the message should be from the secretary of

state and other officials to those key allies in asia? that weet them know will stand strong, the sanctions will stay in place, and we will make a framework. a framework will come out to negotiate that. as things start to move in that direction -- it is verifiable. that is not something we have done in the past and that is the past three administrations. they started to negotiate but gave up the sanctions without verification. we can't do that again and i guarantee you that this president won't do this and mike pompeo won't either. they will stand strong. the choice of how we respond will be up to kim jong-un. what he wants to do, i think you'll see some good things come out of this. do you have any concerns about the setting in singapore elevates the leader of north korea to a stage equal with president trump? at all.not they are both leaders of their nations, but it is a night and day difference.

president trump is the leader of the free world, the most ross nation onprosperous the planet, kim jong-un is the leader of one of the worst economies. an invitation for kim jong-un to come into the 21st century, and i can only think when he was walking around singapore, looking at the different hotels in the structures and the prosperity, this for think, i want my people. let's hope he is thinkinthat host: let's talk about the structure of the agreement that might come out between the u.s. and north korea and south korea. president obama was criticized for the way the iran nuclear deal was handled. final expect that any agreement will be presented to congress, presented to the senate as a treaty? that is what we have heard and hoped for. if you have a negotiation that goes the treaty process and is ratified by the senate, what happens then is it creates longevity and stability of an agreement versus the jcpoa that was negotiated between president

obama, john kerry, and members of iran, and has -- it was an illegal binding agreement. it was a terrible agreement, and i am glad president trump pulled out of that. host: in an opinion piece three weeks ago, there was a piece about a bipartisan agreement between you and brad sherman of california. you talked about keeping the sanctions off. what about new sanctions introduced through legislation and the house? are you holding back on that? guest: no, we are not. josh rogan has done a great job getting this information out there. our goal is to continue putting pressure on china and any country that is doing negotiations or funneling money for north korea that is keeping them afloat. we are doing that to give the administration and people like mike pompeo an arsenal of tools

that they can always fall back on and say you know, i have the congress pushing ahead. they want these sections -- sanctions on, so that will strengthen their hands. we will continue to do that. , we: congressman ted yoho appreciate you joining us on washington journal. guest: have a great day. host: we will get more reaction from members of congress throughout the program and you as well. for republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. new jersey, thanks for waiting. go ahead. past 20 or 30he years, we have heard a lot of negatives about the north koreans and breaking promises and breaking agreements. i understand there have been signed agreements prio havr tbn signed agreements prior to this. my question is what will

president trump likely do if the negotiations don't go well and don't succeed in the eyes of trump? host: what do you think he will do? guest: i don't know, that is my question. i don't know what president trump would do. he has brought them to the table now, he's has -- he has threatened them before with those rocket man comments, etc.. i just wonder what president trump will likely do with the negotiations -- if the negotiations do not succeed. paul, the republican line in fort lauderdale. caller: good morning. i think the president trump has exposed -- that president trump has exposed the democratic party and the press, and their ideological craziness. people need to understand that president trump did exactly,

exactly what the press and the democratic party asked him to do, and that was negotiate instead of war. that is what he did. so we have to realize that the ,ress and the democratic party they themselves do not even believe what they are championing. is the strategy they are using it is pure ideology. they are front running with negativity. let me give you an example. if donald trump invented a cure for cancer, the democratic party it is not legitimate unless he puts it in the public domain. if he have 10,000 people cured of cancer, the democratic party would say there are millions and millions more. why has he. -- why has he not done more to get that you're out there.

they are front running with ideology. this is shameful and a threat to our nation. have the arm of the press coordinating with the democratic party to shape the peopleg of a population, need to realize it and do something about it and speak out against it. thank you very much. host: paul in florida, talking about the political nature of this. so is the hill. summit gives trump a political boost with risks is the headline. they write president trump is likely to get a political boost from his singapore summit with kim jong-un, but experts tell the hill the president also facesisk th he now "owns any futurehallges that arise from north korea. gainsrs caution that any by trump could be short-lived, given the politics of the korean peninsula are fraught. pyongyang is considered by many to be an untrustworthy partner,

and there is already an unease about whether trump has proved to willing to make concessions. congress is back today, talking about the summit, the overnight trump'sof president summit. here is what mitch mcconnell had to say as he spoke with reporters yesterday. [video clip] >> look, on north korea, we'll hope this will lead to something. we all know for sure that approaches tried in the past by the clinton administration, the bush administration, the obama administration did not achieve the desirable results, which is a denuclearize korean peninsula. so i am happy the president has been able to take another look at a different approach and we will see what we can work out. my assumption is, as i said earlier, if something is worked out congress will have a role to

play in it by approving a treaty or some kind of agreement that is ultimately reached. host: mitch mcconnell yesterday on capitol hill. president trump back at the white house, returning early this morning from the summit and tweeting about it as well. the latest from president trump saying "before taking office, people were assuming we were going to war with north korea. president said north korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. no longer. sleep well tonight." and reaction from our c-span viewers and listeners as well on twitter at @cspanwj. what heet, i'm not sure got from kim, he just keeps saying how great it all is. and just a quick look at the language he used from the financial simes -- financial times on what was agreed to in the summit. president trump and kim jong-un state the following.

we want to establish the relation in accordance to the desire of the peoples of two countries for peace and prosperity. number two, the u.s. and d pk dprk -- - the u.s. and the dprk commit to recovering p.o.w., mia prisoners of war. this includes the immediate repatriation of those already identified. this is from the financial times. connie in new jersey, your reaction to the u.s.-north korea summit? caller: a very bad reaction. i wonder of the people who call you even know what north korea is.

where are the borders of north korea, south korea, china, and russia. russia passes the oil to north korea. alliesre destroying our and rebuilding china and russia, and this wonderful man from north korea, who his people love him to death. trump loves us like the loves hisan leaders people, we are not having this conversation. understand that for some people, trump is jesus walking around. europe, i i'm from know these other people fully well, and what they did was a show.

a show and nothing else. thank you. john from pennsylvania, independent line. that woman just said the same things i was going to say. it is more smoke and mirrors from trump. he did not accomplish anything more than what bush and clinton and obama have tried to do before and has been done continually. like clean coal, our beautiful health care, and there is nothing coming. do a show about what do we think about angering and dissing our allies that have been with us since world war ii were before? it is just the same junk from

trump and the people who call in and support this lunatic ought to stop watching state tv also, known as fox news. host: you might be referring to the g-7 meeting this past week, but do you think these meetings with north korean leader -- with the north korean leader have angered allies in asia? they are probably on tender hooks. they do not know what is going to happen because everything trump says basically is a lie. keep that in mind in all things trump. i agree with the woman who just called. it is just a show. .t is a reality tv show we are at large now that we have this jerk in office who cares nothing for the united dates. he cares for his bottom line. he wants to open condos on the beaches in north korea. next,our republican line

larry in arkansas. caller: good morning, how are you doing? host: i am fine. people were down on donald trump for he even got in office, and what he is is a very strong, fighting president. that is what over in korea they are seeing. they are seeing that he is not going to give up without a fight, and i believe that is what is going to worry them the most. that is why we are getting what we want this time, because now they are starting to realize that he is not going to give up. herybody keeps saying that has made a good deal and all that kind of stuff, but they do not know what the deal is. goes into in accordance as ok, we have this wrapped up, he will not say what his defense is. host: let me ask you about your comment. you set about being frightened

-- do you believe the north frightened of what president trump might do or do you think the u.s. became that the nuclear program in north korea had gotten to a point where it was a , to can turn -- concern where the next logical step was negotiations? caller: we tried the negotiations before but none of the presidents would actually go over there. they would send negotiators over there. trump was saying that was not going to work. trump went over there himself. is one thing that is going to convince the north koreans to do what is right, and that is to denuclearize. -- -- larry,l finish of your thought. sorry. i was going to say with the united states sending the president over is going to scare

them into doing what is right more than sending a negotiator over. we appreciate you joining us this morning. (202) 748-8001 is the number to call for republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. we will be taking your reaction to the summit, and also hearing from members of congress as well. the front page this morning of theirshington times and analysis. trump under heavy pressure to build from summit. the singapore summit of president trump and kim jong-un rejected potent images of peace and diplomacy between two leaders that traded new year war threats a year ago, but the output generated a large wave of initials that the schism that the u.s. side had any tangible or permanent concessions from the north korean dictator on

tuesday. foreign-policy analysts said north korea and its allies, china and russia, scored a diplomatic victory in singapore legitimized mr. kim, a human rights abuser with a spot america's list of state sponsors of terrorism. our next caller, go ahead. caller: hi, my concern is going to be what is going to happen when we get all sorts of things to north korea and getting nothing in return, such as stopping the war games in south korea without even talking to south korea. is the next thing pulling our troops out? i am afraid we are on the road to fascism, and if we do not watch out, we will find ourselves where germany was. host: you are calling our democrat line. what do you think the reaction would have been if this had been barack obama in donald trump's

place? with the nuclear program have advanced as far as it has north korea? what are your thoughts? would havehink obama been more realistic and not made comments like in two minutes i can size the man up, which is ridiculous. upy are not going to give their nuclear weapons. that is what they are all about and that is what is giving him power, and i do not think obama would have gotten himself into that situation and said something like that, and he also would have considered our allies. this going it alone is very frightening to me. host: louise joining us on c-span radio. thanks for calling. more of your calls and reactions throughout the program. tuesday, four primary elections across the country. president trump on his way back from singapore actually weighed in on one. here is the tweet that came late

yesterday afternoon in the -- myon of representatives did not want me to get involved in the mark sanford primary, but with a few hours left, i felt that katie was such a good candidate and sanford was so bad i had to give it a shot. congrats to katie errington. that is the tweet this afternoon, or this morning from president trump. isning us at our news desk leah askarinam, the inside elections reporter and analyst looking at all four elections, primary elections across the country yesterday. that was a big loss for republicans, mark sanford in particular in south carolina. guest: right, and what you are seeing was last night was a good night for president trump. he intervened at the last minute to support a candidate who he

thought would be a better supporter of his own agenda in of carolinas first district. he also has -- in south carolina's first district. he also has a supporter, corey stewart, who ran for governor in the prima unsuccessfully last year but succeeded a lot of expectation how he would perform as aandidate whoad previously supported confederate monuments and was kind of considered to be not as competitive as some other candidates there. a bunch ofhelped candidates we saw get through the primaries. i would imagine the president is feeling pretty good about last night's results right now. staying with mark sanford just a bit, the republican congressman had been critical of president trump for a number of reasons. what does this say about future primary races and for

republicans who are running, particularly in the house this year? mark sanford is the second republican to lose his nomination, second republican incumbent to lose the republican nomination in this cycle so far. carolina, he also lost the primary. we will soon see if the republican from alabama's second district will be able to compete in a runoff for hersey's. i think you are seeing that republican divides in the party are magnified in a way that democratic divides are not right now. that is not to say that democrats do not have divides in their party, i think it is pretty clear, especially looking at the 2016 democratic primary, that there are major divides and we have seen those in a few races so far this year. it feels like given that republicans do not have the unifying enemy that the

democrats have, some of these divides are going to have a pretty big effect on the actual election results this year. host: leah askarinam, let's look at virginia next. barbara comstock, she will be running in that race. who is the challenger that came out of yesterday's primary? guest: state senator jennifer lexa and is coming out with the democratic nomination to face a republican incumbent. it is one of those districts where a republican incumbent is defending a seat that hillary clinton carried in 2016. it is one of the most-watched races on the house side this year, one of the most competitive along with the strongest republican incumbent who is fully prepared for a tough general election battle. what is interesting about jennifer lexa and's win last night is there were a handful of well-funded democratic

candidate, many of them women, and jennifer what extent -- lexton was the first to come out as a top candidate last year, and a few others had the funding to get their foot in the door, their ads in the washington, d.c. media market, which is expensive. it ended up being a relatively competitive race, but it was unclear if an elected official would have the advantage here, especially because she was the only top-tier elected official in the democratic primary. south carolina, virginia, nevada, and main holding primary elections yesterday erie in is leaving lepage that position, so there will be an open governorship. why is the main governor's race government race so interesting this year? guest:

this year their ballot is reformatted, so voters can rank their first, second, third choice for candidates instead of just choosing one. thee hopes this will make final outcome more representative of voter interest , and it was a question on the ballot last night whether maine would continue to use this. it seems to be passing at this point. again, it is a new process and i think there are still some -- there is still some counting going on up in maine, but it looks like it will likely be here to stay for a little while. host: i was going to ask you, the associated press has not called the race. you expect there will be continued counting this morning? guest: absolutely. from insideskarinam politics, looking at races and four primary states, south carolina, nevada, virginia, and maine. joining us today from inside

elections. you can follow her to a -- today on twitter, and we appreciate you for joining us. guest: thanks for having me. host: we will continue on your calls and comments about the north korean summit. returning tomp washington this morning. here is how to join the conversation this morning. (202) 748-8001 is the number to call for republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. others,ents and all (202) 748-8002. ron in florida, republican line. caller: florida, good morning. -- caller: hello. host: florida, good morning. forer: i have one question all the media and all over the place. if kim jong-un -- if you called me and said he wanted to nuclear

rise, i would say put your plutonium together in one crate, and then we will have a summit, and that is how i feel about that area i believe pompeo went on these meetings before and got all their plutonium. , andt has to be verified that is why i think trump is so confident that they are going to denuclearize. that is all i have to say about that. host: the secretary of state on his way to south korea today. --ine in st. louis missouri st. louis, missouri, democrat. caller: thank you so much for this outstanding service. says, time will tell. i think we as americans must give time time. i think there are so many other pressing problems on our plate as americans that we need our

is split.it we can bask in this moment and be happy that some progress is one, i feele i for devastated when i hear that we are sending more soldiers out to danger. our young are precious, and i really don't believe in war. and i think that we as americans, we can't squabble and beat each other up in public. are going to have to spend more time reflecting and try not to say as much as we are thinking. and look for ways to make america'soud and make moral character be exposed to everyone. the problem with the criminal justice system and the lack of a how you're going to

treat marijuana in our country, senior -- iggling i dostruggling senior, and not want to spend my senior year's worried about how i am utilities.y my i think that we as americans can do more. missouri, some optimism on twitter. lizzie says frankly, i am happy a prospect of peace. at least we know the president is trying something no one else has ever tried. yesterday on capitol hill, democratic leader chuck schumer weighing in with his thoughts and reactions to the summit. we will go to bakersfield, california, jimbo. independent line. caller: good morning, thank you

brian lamb and thank you c-span. full disclosure, i think both hillary clinton and donald trump are criminals and the long in jail, so i need to get that right out front. gots just thinking that i to see the president give aid and comfort to every despot on the entire planet. i am sure they are celebrating today. my thoughts and prayers go out to every political prisoner, every prisoner in north korea who is learning about this and now understanding that their chance for any kind of justice from the shining city on the hill is just decimated. understandingo with how not continuing the military exercises, ok, which are the only way that you keep dictators in check is through direct visual military force, i do not understand how that is in

my best interest. that terrifies me more than anything. all of this. also, china opening up its gates and flooding in all the oil and all of these resources, we had a visual thing that was just her renders. we are seeing our american flag -- horrendous. we are seeing our american flag touching the flag of north korea, the flag of three generations of tyrants who have practiced genocide on their own people for over 50 years. i think of my uncle as a marine in the tunnels of okinawa at 19 years of age, and the terrifying life and the trauma that it caused him his whole life. jimbo, it is that symbolism alone, those flags in a diplomatic setting, the flags of the two countries join

together, as you mentioned, it really angered you? caller: yes, yes it does. why not just defecate on the flag, to have the blood of all havee great americans who fought for democracy -- do you know what terrifies me? decliney is on the around the world. let's go around the world. do you think the people of russia really chose putin to basically be there de facto leader for life? in china, they have gotten rid of -- the leader is now there for life. justice in the philippines these days or do you get shot on the street? is there any kind of justice their? what i am terrified about is it seems like a democratic process representative democracy

took a hit yesterday when this .ll went down we decided that representative democracies are not important, because standing up instead for desperate -- despots who terribly treat their people and do not allowed for free and fair actions. jimbo and california, this is one of two opinion pieces in the headlines. to the president, another tyrant to admire. strongmansneers at like mr. kam, mr. putin, and mr. dutere, and mr. trump is similarly disrespected. as such, the president feels more confident and less defensive with these people then he does with leaders with whom a geopolitical spec of -- perspective views on a more equal footing.

kim, a including mr. global pariah from a devastatingly poor and dysfunctional nation to whom mr. trump can feel superior in every way. plus, mr. trump is way taller m, and size does matter. this is a headline in the washington post this morning. we'll be u.s. really and military exercises with south korea? president trump's unilateral pledged tuesday to end u.s. wargames with korea has emerged as a significant concession in summit with leader kim jong-un, leaving unclear the future of a practice that u.s. officials say is important to a decades-old military alliance. they write in a statement, a top military headquarters in south korea said tuesday it has received no official updated guidance on execution or cessation of any training exercises.

was in schreiber singapore for the summit as part of a delegation and will return to washington as the pentagon can enters its next move. the post writes the issue was confused further tuesday afternoon with editor cory gardner of colorado said that vice president pence had told lawmakers on capitol hill that regular military training in south korea would continue. lowever, he added that forma wargames would not. bentonville, south carolina, clarence. good morning. back in the 1940's, we were in world war ii. we took our troops home when we won the war. thenok them home, and north korea invaded south korea because we had no protection over there. this is what is going on now. if you stop the wargames, we are going to send those guys home.

they are going to invade. russia will help them, china helps them. it does not make any sense. and i guarantee that within six months, someone in trump's organization is going to be over land for ang to get hotel over there, just like he did in china and like he is doing in russia. himself,king out for not the american people. it does not make any sense. frank in hollywood, florida, republican line. morning.ood i want to remind all democrats, out of fear but never fear to negotiate. these are the words of john fitzgerald kennedy, president and democrats. thank you. in ohio, john, your thoughts on the u.s.-north korea summit? democrat line. caller: good morning, thank you

for taking my call. if barack obama were to sit down with that nut from north korea, republicans would be going crazy. they would be losing their minds, talking about he is weak, he sold us out. on the iran deal, they said he sold us out. just think what they would have done if he had that piece of paper that trump had in his hands. they would be going crazy. when are the people in this country going to wake up and see they have a man who is mentally ill in the white house? that man needs to be under psychiatric care. there is something wrong with that guy. he sat down for one minute with a nutcase and said he would be able to tell if he was being honest or not? how sick in the head is that? that is the only comment i would like to make.

next, independent line, spokane, washington. caller: i am just appalled that who we have the calm. what makes us any different than north korea and kim? crates, 80's, in little children with nothing but a soiled blanket. we are a despotic country. he has made us deficits -- despots. i am just -- i cannot even fathom. those babies need to come out of there. we are horrible. he has made us become horrible people. that man is nuts. ands just as nuts as kim, stopping those training flights -- it is insane. he has given him everything, and i believe -- i agree with what somebody said next, that there

is going to be a hotel there. this presidency is nothing more than making money. rita in washington state. we are spending the program getting your reaction to the u.s.-north korea summit and what may lie ahead. we will get back to more of your calls in a bit. more views from our editorial pages as well. from capitol next hill by brad schneider, congressman from illinois and a member of the board affairs subcommittee on terrorism, nonproliferation, and straight. on the nonproliferation issue, how confident are you that north korea will end their nuclear program? thanks, and it is good to join you this morning. the past, seen in north korea has made the promises made yesterday before. they have consistently made promises and every single time, they have broken those promises. in this case, i believe the

proof in the pudding will be in the tasting, and we need to wait and see what any agreement of the framework might be, how we can verify that, and make sure north korea moves back from its nuclear program. host: that was one of the arguments about the iran nuclear deal, the verification of iran halting their nuclear advance in any way. how do you see the u.s. being able to verify that north korea is doing that? guest: this is a case of the devil will be in the details, and what does the ultimate agreement they? we need to have, as we were calling for in the iran agreement, inspections to understand what north korea is doing, to give guarantees to the united aids and the entire world that if north korea does commit to denuclearize -- united states and the entire world that if north korea does commit to denuclearize, if they have any

clandestine efforts to rebuild nuclear weapons, we need to do everything we can to ensure that this regime cannot have a nuclear weapon in the future. host: we heard that vice president pence was on capitol hill yesterday, briefing republican members and saying those joint exercises with top korea, for now, will continue. that was the word from vice president pence, president trump saying he wanted the "wargames" to end. guest: on the one hand, it is good that the nations are talking and have gone the process. this will be a very long process and we need to make sure we need goals,tify our strategic including denuclearizing north korea, and it is important that congress has a role to play in evaluating the ultimate agreement. it is also important to recognize with any deal, and different, be no nothing should be agreed to until everything is agreed to, and one of my concerns is that the president has made

concessions to the north koreans without getting anything concrete in return, and -- and in particular, the training exercises. that is in both of our interests, hours and the south koreans, on the peninsula. until we know what steps the north koreans are taking, we should not be agreeing to anything. do you think brought kim jong-un to the table? aest: a numbers of things -- number of things. the sanctions were having a bite, we are trying to bring pressure on to the north koreans the d rth korean regime, but we c ao recognize that north korea for the past year and a half has demonstrated the ability to detonate large atomic devices, that they have demonstrated the ability to launch and control missiles, and not too long ago, they were u.s. cities and u.s.

territories. they may have achieved one of their goals. but at the end of the day it is important to recognize that we are talking. diplomacy is the only way we will enter these strategic objectives, but we need to enter these with clear eyes and realize that it ran -- not iran, north korea, has made concessions before. host: you sit on the subcommittee for terrorism, nonproliferation, and trade. let's talk about the trade aspect. our callers have mentioned hotels, etc. with north korea. what is the potential do you think for the u.s. in terms of trade with north korea and actually broadening the region for trade opportunities? guest: i think we are a long way away from looking at trade opportunities with north korea. we need to end their nuclear program, try to eliminate the nuclear weapons, stop the

international effort of spreading nuclear technology. focus.ve to be our first we have to strengthen our regional alliances and ensure our allies that we are committed to this region and working together. that, in the long run, leads to economic opportunities for the north koreans, so be it. but first and foremost, we need to bring peace and security to the region. host: one more thing on the sanctions, the president yang the sanctions would continue in place. we talked to congressman ted yoho earlier, saying his effort for new sanctions would move ahead in the house. do you support that? i do. we need to continue to put pressure on the regime. need toh koreans understand that the only path forward to enter the family of nations and try to bring some economics of her to their country is by abandoning their nuclear ambitions and ending the threats to their neighbors and around the world. we need to see a change in

behavior before we change our pressure tactics. one more thing, i realize it is early. has your committee or subcommittee given any indication when you might get testimony from administration officials to be deeper grief -- to be debriefed on the commitment? yet, but are not clear congress has its role in evaluating the objectives, assessing whether this agreement asieves the objectives, and it would be implemented, having oversight on the execution of the agreement. important that congress has a role to play and i hope the administration will be talking to us shortly. host: congressman brad schneider, thank you for joining us this morning. guest: guest: -- guest: great to be here. host: getting reaction from you this morning as well to the north korea summit. r republicans. fo democrats, (202) 748-8000.

independents and others, (202) 748-8002. on twitter, send us a tweet at @cspanwj. on the front page of the new york times, why truly disarming north korea is there difficult. they said that president trump agreed to meet with kim jong-un in singapore because there had been signaled a willingness to denuclearize, but that means different things in pyongyang and washington. the task of complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization, the phrase mike pompeo has been using, would be enormous because of the vast scope of the atomic program north korea developed over the past 50 years. 100 41 sitesas devoted to the production and use of unconventional weapons -- 141 sites devoted to the production and use of unconventional weapons. this covers more than three square miles. this challenge is made more difficult by uncertainty about how many new we are weapon north possesses.

estimates range from 20-60, and whether tunnel deep inside the north mountainside plans and global missiles. more at nytimes.com. arlington, texas, democrat line. caller: hi, how are you? host: doing well, how are you? caller: i am from waco. it is interesting to see, donald trump accomplished absolutely nothing. he brags about this issue anyway he goes. previously wanted denuclearization in 1985, 1992, 2008, 2010,2006, 2011, 2012, and 2016, and each time was a lie. if you believe the promise kim

made to trump, five failed casinos in atlantic city, he is just lying about it. congressmang else brad said about diplomacy, i cannot understand it. reneged on a nuclear deal, which was an accomplishment of diplomacy. they talk about after the canceled deal, when they pushed america away and we got isolated, what should we believe in? everyone is talking about diplomacy, but nobody is doing diplomacy, or is doing diplomacy in their own area to brag about it and collect more votes for the next time. florida,tona beach, sonja on our democrat line. caller: yes, this is sonja.

c-span.u for america should not be represented by a leader who stands hand americans have always been people who care about humanity. this man, and the two crazies who sat down together, i happen to be a psychotherapist, i know that donald trump has 4 disorders. narcissistic, histrionic, antisocial, and borderline personality disorder. he has symptoms of all seven of those. it makes it miserable for people around him. personality disorders do not go for help. all they do is make life miserable for anyone around. if we don't get this man out of our white house, our democracy is going down the road.

reaction.etting your go ahead. first, why aren't you directing these people that call up about those babies in the cages -- you know that was done .nder the obama administration those pictures were from then. you let them say it. you never corrected. host: that he i have a little trouble hearing you this morning. i hope your voice gets better. democratic leader, chuck schumer speaking to reporters on his take on the north korea summit. country like north korea with the leader who is a ruthless -- as ruthless as kim

jong-un is has nuclear weapons and icbms that can threaten the u.s., photo ops will not do. we need follow through. we need to see that danger is removed. president trump seems to have given away two or three of the major things kim jong-un wanted. next toing, the flags each other. no delay of exercises without getting anything in return. what do we believe? this is democrats. first, north korea must dismantle over move every single one of its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. they must in the production enrichment of uranium and plutonium for military purposes and dismantle their nuclear weapons infrastructure including test sites. they have to continue to

dispense -- suspend holistic missile tests. north korea must commit to any time, anywhere inspections for both nuclear and ballistic missile programs including all non-declared suspicious sites. if inspectors reveal violations there has to be a snap back to sanctions. any agreement must be permanent. in the statement that the kim jong-un put together there is no mention of any of this. we have a long way to go. while believe they are no longer calling each other names, we are these kinds of things, which are needed for american safety are not happening. unfortunately the communiqué issued by president trump and kim doesn't make much progress on any of these principles. the documents shorting its details.

it lists denuclearization as a far off call with no path on how to get there. so, with the lack of details, we are worried kim jong-un is getting something for nothing. host: some news from the u.s. house side from speaker ryan. this is the headline. the house will vote on immigration next week. house republicans every state deal to vote on 2 immigration bills. setting the stage for a high-stakes floor showdown over the fate of millions of illegal immigrants. house republicans will hash out the options at a closed-door meeting today. scheduling votes is symbolically huge, the first time since republicans retook 2010ol of the chamber in

they have put major legalization bill on the floor. the fact that two bills we put on the floor suggests there is still no unanimity over how far to go. to prevent another wave of unauthorized migration. your calls and comments on u.s. north korea summit. eric am a hello. eric: good morning. activityreshing to see out of the administration on this situation. i find it ironic that months back when there was name-calling and saber rowling you hear from the left screaming about the

beginnings of another nuclear war. trump is going to walk us into a new conflict. and now thee steps left is screaming something else. it is hard. the liberal pundits change their mind would rather cut off their nose to spite their face in the effort of progress. chuck schumer on the floor talking about not giving a great deal, not having this cannot having that. it is the first conversation of many. give the man a little bit of credit. let's let this play out. everyone needs to keep a cool head at the moment. let's see how things go before everyone jumps to assumptions. it would make a little more progress if we take that approach. host: appreciate that, eric.

here is a look of the things we are getting. and wonderful.ld if kim backs down from the deal the world will know. like we have known in the past. kim could not care less. talking is better than war because of nukes. donald trump announced to the substituted yet, but it is a start. republican line. good morning. agree with that tweet. it is a star. as far as chuck schumer, it is a joke. they did not come close to a summit with president obama. this is historic. it takes away the threat of american cities being vaporized. can we not accept that? like the last caller said, it is a beginning. ,ow we will work towards peace

hopefully. all the other presidents failed. now we have a chance. of course he is a tie wrap. they act like it is a slimy handshake. no, it is not. we have to work with other countries. the difference is kim jong-un has nuclear weapons, and threaten to vaporize america. ?rump got played good lord. he wanted to attack america. is 2018. it is time to try something new. democrats need to grow up and work with america, not against us. their hatred is on display with everything trump does. the proud we have pulled back from the brink of nuclear war, at least for now. we have a chance for peace in the world. i want to congratulate president

trump, ignore the negative whiners host:. here is a look at -- host: here is a look. churchill would recognize the strategy. ,hurchill, roosevelt and stalin announced trump and kim during world war ii and through the cold war, the most important summits were often two or three day meetings between superpowers of equal standing. the u.s. president who met to draw the map of the world. summit was shorter and brought together the largest economy in the world and one so small and isolated the international monetary fund cannot measure it. the stakes were just as high as the great summits of the past century. the outcome was not per year deigned. for trump, a summit seeds --

suits is negotiating style and make a deal. it is an attitude winston churchill would have understood. they have a photo here. photo of the yalta conference in 1945 with fdr and josef stalin at the yalta conference. your thoughts on what is ahead with the u.s., north korea summit? caller: i would first like to say i am supportive of our president three president trump has done something none of his to do.nt has been able i lived during that time when korea was fighting. i remember the lost lives. 80-year-oldis a tank commander from korea.

a shot in the dark. it was a shot in the right direction. he is a great negotiator. he is going to go down in history as a great president. one other, i want to make about c-span, you folks have become so liberal in your attitudes. your comments are liberal. your commentators are liberal. it is a shame. why can't you take a stance and more evenhanded in your coverage? i thank you for the opportunity. host: we've issued your call and your critique as well. new london, connecticut. caller: my common is that america needs to reap what they have sown. the spec in some and else's eye but cannot see the log in their own eye. we are a war country.

we have cops shooting people in the back in the streets. that is what our policeman do. we are calling this man a dictator. we can't see our own. our president has no morals. that doesn't seem to matter. he has no morals. the lead editorial, from your callers and listeners this morning for members of congress and editorial pages across the country, the lead editorial, no more concessions. was arite the summit triumph for kim jong-un, who has ordered the murder of his own gulag.members and runs a

president trump offered kim a and spokeession, of his wish to withdraw troops from the country. mr. kim did not commit to the irreversible denuclearization of the united states has demand it, nor do any other change in his regimes, no behavior. part of the editorial from the washington post. caller: good morning c-span. you are not liberal. you are fair-minded. you have the best poker faces i have ever seen. trump is the worst president we have ever had. fat heg-un, noticed how is? he will start his population to keep his regime going. soldierse shoulders -- who have defected were full of

forms. trump is a fool. he has not made a deal. you made a deal with the devil. he doesn't know what he is doing. i hope we can take over the senate and house, and get him out of office before he ruins this country any further. he is disgusting. i am onenow -- i guess of those liberal whiners because i know he is going to be out of office soon. host: on our republican line, michael. good morning. thank you for c-span. most republican callers are well spoken man the democrats are full of hatred. kids, whichth the you cut her off, that was under obama. that was proven. that was a pr thing. with your new york times

editorials, how about something from the american thinker? the best conservative editorial website. bill was right. you are leaning liberal. thank you. host: we will look at the wall street journal and their lead editorial on the u.s. north korea summit. this is the wall street journal -- their opinion piece, the editorial board riding donald trump and kim jong-un received what they most wanted from their one-day summit. images of the two men shaking hands, talking across the table, getting along famously. whether this achieved anything beyond th this is less clear. has persuaded the young cam .o abandon the nuclear program

he gave the legitimacy of equal billing on the world stage. the risk was worth the gamble and has paid off in a store and change of heart. chairman kim and i signed a joint statement which he reaffirmed. mr. trump told the press after the summit, we agreed to vigorous negotiations, and he wants to do that. not another administration that never got it started. and never got it done. the wall street journal riding the two leaders have mapped out a nonnuclear future. all that is left is for the two sides to work out details. peace is at hand. everything hangs on those details. not the promises which north korea has reneged on many times. there is little in the joint communiqué to demonstrate kim has committed to do what mr. trump claims.

alexandria, virginia. caller: giving donald trump praise for having this summit is preposterous. it is like someone who threatens to burn down the house and then says i'm not going to burn down the house. he brought this to the brinksmanship. now he is giving away all the u.s. leverage. he has no reason to follow through. propaganda. this donald trump is good at blowing things up but not good at building things. he does not do the hard work. this is a man who thought canada burned it down the white house in 1812 for pete's sake. we have a better chance of trump releasing his taxes than cam giving up his nuclear weapons.

-- then kim giving up his nuclear weapons. host: we take a look at the american thinker and their thoughts on the summit. a conservative website and opinion piece here. the key to trump's success in north korea she writes, who would have thought a real estate developer famous for plastering his name in big letters on buildings would be a champion in foreign policy. it turns out that being confident, tough and aggressive works well for a visit at dealing with dangerous pipsqueak's like isis and north korea. trump is not intimidated by anybody. not by business rivals, not by rogue fbi agents, certainly not by failed experts to urge meekness, caution and limited goals. to mansident is devoted -- one thing, our military.

he does understand how power works. it was protected by china. first trump remove the protection going after china. it has been pointing out for months that trade pressure on prerequisite to movement on korea. you can read that and more at american thinker. in austin, texas. good morning. caller: good morning. discouraging and sad , to hear the people that go on and talk about how other presidents were not able to get when theye with kim, chose not to go because they did not want to elevate this brutal desperate. unfortunately we are about

soundbites and not about understanding history. we are dealing with a president that is unique in one way. provablents are really lies. people are still following him. they would realize that democracy is on decline. leaders like xi jinping and putin, and other despots are gathering just like we did. they are doing that. we are helping them. trump is about one thing. he is about himself, his family. ,f you look at ivanka and jared but they have earned this last year, $82 million. while they are in washington.

that has never been done. read and not bother to investigate beyond the soundbites. he isre buying into what selling. it is sad to see. host: let's go to kenneth. caller: good morning. it is amazing that all of these experts get on here this morning and they know more than our president. they should know this is a democratic republic. it is not a democracy. also. , when youy was right cut her off, that the kids in the cages were not -- were in the obama administration, i'm sorry, but i'm going to quit watching c-span. you lean too far left. have the new york times. this is the first time you

actually went to a conservative newspaper. you used to do that more often if you're going to be level and even. that is what your program is going to be. you should balance it out with not just the worst -- washington post, new york times. you need a conservative point of view also if you're going to be balanced. bring as manyd to newspapers and sites from across the country. appreciate the caller suggesting the american thinker. we have read from the american thinker in the past as well. we do read from the new york times. the washington times. the wall street journal. the washington post. daily. becausethe reason is those are daily publications. there is daily reporting on what is going on. this morning we are focusing on

editorial reaction from those websites. we appreciate your insight. ay next.ar from j caller: thank you very much. thank you for c-span. as usual, i would like to respond to the article you read, at yalta the summit with roosevelt, stalin and churchill. to the current summit that just passed. i can't cite the source of that article. host: that was a usa today piece looking at the history of summits. go ahead with your comment. recall, roosevelt trusted stalin against the advice of winston churchill. i think i see something on your

screen now. churchill warned roosevelt not did.ust stalin, which he the result was a divided europe and a divided berlin. i think we have to be careful about foreign leaders in whom we put our trust as a nation. i would like to add that it doesn't seem to me you are left or right. i like the style of c-span as it is. i appreciate the articles. i would not find them otherwise. host: thanks for addressing that piece again. you can find a usa today.com. reaction from members of congress. we will join some live in just a bit. they number for republicans.

members of the senate, after their tuesday lunch is talking with recorders -- reporters on their reaction to the u.s. north korea summit. >> we have just gotten off the phone with the president on his plane back from singapore. he sounded confident and upbeat. he accomplished more than many thought possible. they have assigned -- a signed agreement. still working out the details. -- those who have our home withage no ransom paid. the president did push the pause button. he can change that and go back to active exercises.

to beesident continues clear eyed about the relationship with north korea. all options on the table in terms of political, economic, military and diplomatic. the world is more safe now in terms of safety and security than it was a couple of months ago. host: on the military exercises, concessions blindside south korea. south korea is rallying support. they were apparently blindsided. the office of moon jae-in, they were struggling to figure out the exact meaning and intentions and president trump's comment, ending the military exercises that could help mr. kim persuade

his people to agree to denuclearize and focus on economy.the country's mr. trump's announcement stunned many. ever since the 1950, 53 korean troops deployed in south korea, and in the annual exercises have been the most visual displays of the alliance. have facedforts resistance. in pennsylvania, it is lewis. democrats line. thank you for your service. you're doing a great job. don't let anyone discourage you.

my older brother got killed in korea. soldiers in career than we ever thought about in vietnam. no one said anything about it. i would not trust him to cross the street, whatever he says. campaigninghe was he had to go on with it. i don't trust him either. you are doing a good job. sons that have been in the service. iwould like three grant -- have three grandsons in there now. i served myself. you are doing a good job. keep the good job of. how're you doing? caller: people saying that obama

started those kids. the cages were started by trump. we all know this. a false move. people calling you and attacking you. you have to be fair. with everybody. they are attacking you because they want you to have fox news. i am not liberal. i am not democrat. i am none of that. i don't believe in that. i watch both sides. conservatives do more attacking. liberals get angry. they are frustrated.

conservatives always proclaim that -- the bible. says -- [inaudible] he was first elected in 2009. he was attacked every day. when president obama was saying it they were all propaganda. let's think about that. what really happened in this country. host: we stay in florida. jacksonville. caller: yes. i am calling. i think donald trump is doing a

great job. he is the only president that , to make anto take attempt to make peace. i didn't see president obama over there trying to help. i certainly would not have wanted hillary clinton over there? we don't need a thief over there. her and bill are a known thief. i would not wanted her in there as president. definitely not. host: on breitbart this morning, donald trump, at least we're not north korea 150 billion. the president saying i don't think a deal could be softer. payingf all we are not 150 billion. the president repeated the deal was a terrible deal while his agreement with kim jong-un cost little.

we are paying nothing other than you will see what happens. kimp appeared confident could reach deals with japan and south korea in the region to improve his country economically as part of his plan to denuclearize the region. said.important, he without that there is nothing to discuss. read more at breitbart.com. tucker. caller: i would like to thank c-span for taking my call. i would like to say i am a supporter of the border project. we need to focus on the average citizen of north korea. the average north korean citizen is struggling in extreme poverty. this piece with north korea and are able to denuclearize, that is great. we still need to focus on the

terrible atrocities they -- that are going on in that regime. people, ilping these do not think we have achieved anything. the: not much was said by president in terms of human rights. the human rights abuses reported from north korea. what would you like to see? caller: i would really like to see us have a concerted effort helping people struggling. had extreme famine in the 1990's and they are still struggling with that. aid, and provide food, assistance, keeping these people alive and curing diseases that would be beneficial to their society and help the world in general. host: we have had to members of

congress talking about sanctions. it sounds like you would be opposed if that meant food and other supplies would not be able to get through. caller: if we do have those sanctions, it is something that we need to protect ourselves from in terms of the nuclear aspect. the denuclearization of the peninsula is going to be an empty shell. when we help citizens in north less they are going to be oppressed by the regime. they are goingo be freethkers and not even want stage an nuclear attack in the first place.

president trump back at the white house. a long trip back. a stopover in hawaii. he has tweeted some. we will try to read some of those. .n hour and a half left the reaction. we would hear more from members of congress to take a look at opinions in the paper. here is how you reach us. for independence and others, this is the lead editorial in the financial times this morning. the u.s. korea summit must pave way to real progress. has nuclear weapons has been known for years. kim jong-un was developing missiles. with the aim of deploying an nuclear weapon that could directly threaten the u.s. mainland.

this threat caused a tremendous trip to contemplate a first trek assault on north korea. that would certainly have led to a wider regional war costing hundreds of thousands of lives. if north korea resumes testing, the singapore summit will have genuinely achieved nothing. the world will be heading back towards the days of fire and theory. if the regime takes advantage of the new atmosphere, the quietly -- to quietly freeze its plans that directly threaten the u.s. can the trip administration can claim genuine progress. the wider world would have cause for relief. the risk of war will have diminished substantially. that is from the financial times. now we hear from john on our public line. go ahead.

caller: i just wanted to say i support what trump has done. it is amazing people don't look at 10 months ago. they are going to bed worried about a nuclear bomb being fired at seattle. now we are discussing denuclearization. i agree that c-span is liberal. but i'm impressed how after the caller brought up the american victory you went right to it. i agree with what he said. but good job. we are certainly open for what people are reading in their online or local papers. sometimes it is tough to get access to those or read all of the things people are reading. we would love to hear about it. either i or my producible bring it up on the air for you. we love to hear about what

thoughts are out there as well. caller: i am proud of trump. i think god -- think god put him in there. we were in a bad situation if hillary got in. mentionedow if people that obama said when he was having a meeting with the russians, he said when i get -- ind i will have more other words, he could do more after he got elected. that was on an intercom. trump works day and night. when asked, he said i got him elected, deny? i don't understand them. most people that call and are

andlly, probably illegals everything else. i think trump, you can't build rome in a day. ,f they would give him a chance he is more interested in stopping nuclear than he is other things at this point. that comes out later. it is not going to come in a day. you have to work with the guy. he may or may not. i know he is not a good person. but he may change his mind. he would go down in history if he did. yetdy wants the wall but trump put a wall around that place in washington dc and close the street off. it is strange to me. host: janet, a photo from south

had a keenh koreans interest in the meeting between president trump and south korean leader -- north korean leader kim jong-il and. moon jae-in said it helped bring down the last korean war legacy on earth. caller: -- host: go ahead with your comment. caller: yes. hello. host: you are on the air. is, goody comment thing he spoke to the leader, but speak with iran next. iran next inake

terms of a deal? caller: if he can sit-down with north korea, let him sit down with the people of iran. think theou leadership in iran, after seeing what they saw would be more in ang now to sit down negotiation? caller: reached out to the people. reach out to the president of iran. host: in a negotiation? your calls and common throughout the program here on washington journal. we go back to capitol hill. we hear now from joaquin castro. of's address the issue denuclearization and how the u.s. make sure that happens. what are your concerns? >> we are pursuing diplomacy

after a nuclear stare down where president trump and kim jong-un were in a war of name calling. i am glad the leaders have moved beyond that. it is hard to say there was much of a deal made yesterday. put in concrete was writing, no timelines can no way of verifying. i am hopeful that this will lead to something greater and better right now it is hard to say much has happened. your statement on this as well. on the issue of the exercises with south korean troops, saying the president has pledged to join -- halt joint military exercises with allies. why are you concerned? is we: part of the reason have not gotten any concessions on the other side.

far as weas understand the north korea already has a certain nuclear capability. decent testing is not going to keep them from maintaining that nuclear capability. we have given up these exercises. back-and-forth debate after mike pence spoke to republican senators indicated those exercises would continue with south korea. cory gardner, a republican, said the vice president said they would continue. in the vice president denied that. you have to be ready militarily. host: who would you like to hear from first on the administration detailing what they agreed to,

and what may lie ahead? guest: the american people would like to hear details from the president. he and kim jong-un were the only people in the room for the conversation where this deal was made. for congress the secretary of state should come forward and and the the senate house foreign affairs committee. host: a remarkable stretch of time with the g-7 summit ending last weekend in canada and the president flying directly to his meeting with kim jong-un. >> our relationships with canada. they are badly beaten up right now.

they are not in good shape right now. those nations are anxious about the direction president trump is taking the relationship. tariffs ones imposed many allies. the european union has talked about doing that. the president will return the nato meetings overseas. do you think things will have cold by then? can theions administration take? guest: the president has, a long way from when he was a candidate. it talked about doing away with nato and now has participated in these nato meetings. that is a positive thing. badthere is a lot of feelings and questions about alliances we have had for a few generations now that have kept the united states and europe

calm and peaceful. understand there is a new podcast. tell us about that and the guests you are having on. the diplomatic cable is recorded in the halls of congress talking to foreign policy experts, average americans, and folks i serve with in congress about american foreign-policy and its future. whether the united states will remain a leader among the nations of the world. our first episode was with a candidate, nominee to be ambassador to south korea before president trump withdrew that nomination and wendy sherman, the woman who was the lead negotiator for the iran agreement. host: on that issue of an ambassador where do things stand? have we nominated a new nominee? guest: the president is in the process of doing that. host: joaquin castro,

congressman from texas. where can folks find that podcast? caller: on itunes and my website. we made sure it is available on social media platforms. host: we appreciate you joining us this morning. we will continue with your calls and comments. for republicans, independents, others -- we welcome your comments on facebook. c-span.et us at there you go. caller: good morning. i like your show. i think you are fair. i am just thinking everybody is did a how president trump good job. i know he is a businessman.

but i can't give him the nobel prize this is what putin wants. everybody forget that putin and , they are going to knock america off her foot because america is a superpower now. russia always wanted to be a superpower. this is the time. they didn't do it in the election. what president trump is going to do is make america week. everybody needs to wake up. this is our future. they need to pay attention. korea and russia. we need to wake up. host: let's go to jacksonville beach. caller: hello. i think what trump has done is great.

but, i hope we learn from our mistakes. , he stopped the talks and blew up pearl harbor. i think the troops -- trump should talk to the more and understand them more. to repeat world war ii. i think you should talk to them more. host: president trump did mention possible meetings with kim jong-un. no word on when that might be or make that happen. morning, withs mark zuckerberg, some follow-up. facebook knows when you need to charge your phone. lawmakers want answers on privacy practices and they got a 450 page apply. facebook tracks when you need to recharge your phone and even

knows when you're looking at the facebook page on your computer screen. regulated as being long as it gets to help with the regulations. made were the disclosures by the world's largest social network on the senate released 450 pages of answers. mark zuckerberg repeatedly promised lawmakers his staff would fall upon questions about facebook's approach to privacy during two days of grueling congressional hearings. had 2000 questions in advance of that which followed outrage over revelations facebook new cambridge analytic about personal data without the user's consent. read more of that at usa today.com. you can follow those hearings we

covered. at can find those online c-span.org. i am not sure if the senate has released those responses. it would be a big pdf. maybe we can find a place to link that. that is from usa today. thomas is next. caller: hello. host: make sure you meet your television. go ahead with your telling -- go ahead with your comment. caller: thank you for taking my call. recent, according to nuclear deal with iran, most likely north korea doesn't want to make iran's mistake. to trust the united states. before they do anything to their program they are going to demand guarantees. decision's 8 -- once a to renege on the nuclear deal

tatianught his repeat all -- his reputation all around -- host: independent line. caller: i'm calling on the independent line. i am left-leaning independent. nowadays you have so many people saying they are independent and many are conservative. just about everything that has the said this morning about new thing with north korea shows people are going to look at it from their point of view. the same people that raged at the obama -- at obama for saying he would talk to more leaders, even ones we don't like, the right wing rage, congratulating credence to the

modern day stalin. what prompted me to call was you had a call or a wild back, like many conservatives that call you marie and you guys are too liberal. i listen to you because i like to hear all the points of view and see what the other side is thinking. so i can see these poor full just want to hear what trump says and does. but the instant someone said to you you are too conservative you are not there to us, and you pulled the american thinker up and quoted it. you have to check into things more before you just listening to that. the guy who said you are not fair to us you should bring up nation,ont or the area

would you do that? american thinker is well known as being an ultra-right wing type of place that promote ideas like the right-wing conspiracies, pseudoscience. they were top among the birther promoters. i can understand wanting to be fair and i want you to. but you need to be judicious about that. you've read a lot of articles from the wall street journal, from the national conservative. you give time to conservative publications. you don't need to give time to altra, ultraconservative or even types things.d host: you make a good point. i think we, as hosts and producers here, and are on the

side of more than less if we can bring more commentary. i understand about potential viewpoints or editorial views of hese blogs, etc. that is a real concern. our view is more discussion is better. we let you decide on the validity and veracity of what people are reporting. we appreciate the input. ,e go to our republican line next. caller: i think mr. trump is doing very well right now. a lot of people are demanding perfection or demanding everything to happen in one meaning -- meeting. nothing was done? up until the meeting we received three prisoners back from north korea. they destroyed a nuclear testing

site. they are also going to destroy a rocket testing site. he has agreed to denuclearization. he has agreed to it. he is a young fellow looking across that line of demarcation. mr. trump has going for him. it is going to be easy for him. this is a young fellow who is bendable, changeable. old like a lot of those politicians that will crumble before they change. he is looking across the line of demarcation and saying lives -- seeing lights 24/7, and a chicken in every pot. there are big changes to be made in his mind.

he realizes, he wants his country to love him rather than fear him. that is what mr. trump promised him. south korea, it is yours if you put those rockets and cylindrical files -- i believe that young fellow wants more than what his father and grandfather did. he sees communism isn't working. it is so obvious to him. video from the summit. all of our coverage available on c-span.org. ,ncluding the news conference with reporters which was preceded by a film in the washington times, writing about this this morning, their headline, trump peaks imaginations with the film starring kim.

dave boyer writes to late north korean leader kim jong-un to abandon nuclear weapons club president trump: his experiences as a casting director, real estate developer, and a bluffer. mr. trump cast mr. kim as the star of his own film, a four-minute video from destiny pictures that was similar to a movie trailer in the u.s., narrated with a musical score. it depicted the north korean as two menmr. trump who could change the course of history. here is a look at some of what that film looks like. inhabitbillion people planet earth. willly a small number leave a lasting impact. only the very few will make thations or take actions were new homeland and change the course of history. itself.may up to repeat

cycles that never seem to end. there have been times of relative peace, and times of great tension. repeats, thecle light of prosperity and innovation has burned bright for most of the world. evolving. always there comes a time when only a few are called upon to make a difference. the question is, what difference will the few make? the past doesn't have to be the future. out of the darkness can come to light. the light of hope can burn bright. that is part of the video produced by the white house. , justhouted to reporters ahead of the news conference the president held. youtube.ind it at

thank you for waiting. on our democrats line. yes.r: i do not know how fairer you can be with your comment tatian. forget, the south korean we forget that the south korean president ran on the idea that he was going to reunite the koreas. .- two koreas now we are involved in trump inking that he's making progress? maybe he is. he talks about how his people are starving. but all these sanctions that we put on him have something to do with the people not being sovereign. doforget the things that we to those other countries and we want them to be like us and these north koreans are not to our way of living and they don't want to live the way that we do,

but we want to force that on them. that is my comment. i will never vote republican because of their it behavior, but i'm looking at the democrats . we want to tell that country what they should do and they are afraid of us, more so than anything. present youryou program, i'm going to continue to listen to you and say thank you. host: glad to have you on the line, ralph. there's about one hour left in our program and your reaction to the u.s. north korea summit. (202) 748-8000- four republicans, (202) 748-8001 four democrats, and for everyone else, (202) 748-8002. we are joined on the phone by peter, the senior editor at

recode. what is the significance of that decision by this federal judge? it's a big-- guest: green light for vertical mergers . for someone able to reach customers through broadband or wireless lines through content companies. we will see a lot more moves. specifically today you will see comcast formally announce a bid for some 21st century fox assets that disney already wants to own. it was a long statement from the judge, reading it from the bench. anything in their giving us an indication of what may lie ahead? you said more mergers, but what was his reasoning? to sum it up. guest: he said look, i was interested in whether or not -- which wel merger should just explain, was feasible in 2018.

essentially at every turn the government failed to persuade me that this is something that shouldn't happen. in the extraordinary length that he went through to explain how poorly the department of justice made its case. he didn't really give them credit in any way. the other extraordinary thing about it was that in the end he said -- feel free to appeal this, but please don't, don't file an injunction to stop this deal. he made a specific allusion i think to the political nature of the case. i'm going to read you a quote here, if you want. there is a grave and understandable fear on the part of the defendant that the government will now seek to do indirectly what it couldn't accomplish by seeking a stay, which i think is an extraordinary statement, judge to the department of justice. quickly, some of the topline things that you think will happen when these two companies join forces. that's a good question.

i been confused by the logic of the deal since it was announced. these things are slow rolling edible formally close in the next few weeks. it will take a good year or few years for these companies to integrate. the question will be how quickly or not does at&t seek to try to combine some of the media assets with its telco assets? i interviewed randall stephenson a few weeks ago and he said that neither time warner as a creative company -- we will allow them to do what they do best, not try to micromanage them. temptation for any company that buys another company is to micromanage it. you just want to spend $85 billion on that asset. host: reading your piece from yesterday, the subhead says no conditions, no restraints, a victor former germania and a

loss for the trump adniration. why is that? guest: donald trump, as i'm s that your audience knows, campaign for president in part against cnn and said specifically that he would try to stop the time warner at&t deal. there has been an ongoing question for many months now as to whether or not or his office had anything to do with the department of justice seeking to stop this deal. the doj and the white house of say for the record that that's not the case. a lot of folks look at this and go -- the only reason the doj would have brought this case with low odds of success was at the president possibly hast. it's an open question. host: we look forward to your reporting on this merger and others, peter kafka, senior editor at "recode." thanks so much for the update. guest: thank you. host: this morning, getting your thoughts, your reaction to the summit between president trump in the north korean leader, kim

jong-un. is the line for republicans, (202) 748-8000 for democrats, and for independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. bob, york, pennsylvania. first of all, i want to thank your station. i think you are very impartial and is one of the few areas you can go to to get into how people feel and hear the true events of the day. i get appalled at both fox news , two totally different reporting groups, one for the liberals and one for the conservatives. i used to be a democrat, but definitely not with that party any longer. i cannot believe that it has taken everybody so long to just complain and whine about everything that trump does. i'm not a big trump supporter, but if you look at the economy, look at him as finally being

able to talk to somebody like he did with this fellow in north , thatthat has taken years nobody else has. seems like chuck schumer just complains all the time about what happens, everybody whines about the economy. i think he's done a pretty good job. less about what bathroom people had to go to and more about improving our country, both domestically and on the foreign front, i think we would be a lot better. thank you very much. host: jack, california, maryland, republican line, welcome. caller: i love your show. i have been watching for years. this is the first time i have ever called. host: glad to have you come in, thank you. caller: sure, sure, thank you. i haven't been watching a morning and someone else may have made this link, but it's about -- i think this whole notion that we are deal -- doing away with these military

exercises in south korea is way overblown. they are done on an annual basis. they were just done in april of this year and they are not scheduled again until next april. so, they are suspended. you can always relocate. host: sounds like you have some familiarity with it? caller: is just what i read and what i see on tv. host: kind of losing you there, you on a speakerphone? caller: i am wanting to turn that off? host: yeah, shut that off, pick up your receiver and go on -- go ahead with your comment. caller: i'm actually shaving, getting ready for work. host: [laughter] well, we don't want you to cut yourself. caller: i'll stop, i'll stop. host: did you have any further comments, jack? go ahead. caller: no, i really don't. i'm a republican, but i don't like everything donald trump does.

like the previous caller, i do like some of the outcomes. i'm hopeful. host: appreciate that. get that shaving done. sorry to interrupt that, thanks for calling in. glad to have you. amy, republican line, good morning. alexandria, are you listening on c-span radio question mark caller: hello? -- radio? caller: hello? host: you're on the air, go ahead. caller: can you hear me? host: go ahead. caller: i call the independent republicanm i on the line question mark anyway, thank you. host: amy, you are on the air. go ahead with your comment, your statement, whatever you want to say. i think she may be just a little confused. , republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000.

for independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. reading commentary and editorials from across the country, front page as well, this is "the financial times" and their look at the story. "mr. trump said that mr. kim had agreed to verification and the destruction of a major missile site, he's

denuclearizing the whole place, it's going to start very quickly . the president said u.s. sanctions against north korea would remain but lack any mention of irreversible denuclearization, which u.s. officials as recently as monday said was necessary. senator mark warner, they write, said it was cloaked -- it was clear that tim johnson walked away from singapore with exactly what he wanted. the palm, circumstance, and prestige of a meeting with the president of the united states without making any specific commitments in return. john is in nashville, tennessee. good morning, go ahead. hi, john, go ahead. caller: this is my. calling.time i would like to thank you, first. host: glad to have you on. led to the conversation buy president trump, that

conversation was talking about the war. i'm wondering now, do america realize the effect on our poor? if we are sof? concerned about poor people in other countries, you know? maybe we should have a summit here, the poor against the rich. thank you. is curtis,da, this independent line. caller: good morning. thanks for c-span. i call to point out something that i haven't heard anyone point out this morning. that is -- i wonder if that summit would embolden some other small country into getting or attempting to acquire a nuclear weapon.

if mr. kim can get that kind of attention by having a nuclear weapon and can be on the world , ite with our president makes me kind of wonder if somebody else wanted attention from us wouldn't attempt to acquire nuclear weapons. thank you. host: thank you, curtis. headline inside of the jump page of "the new york times." "sales pitch to kim generates promise, no guarantees." they write "among the most glaring omissions after the , according to daniel r russell, a diplomat who work for barack obama, the lack of reference to north korea's ballistic missiles.

host: reaction from congress.

senator chris coons speaking to reporters after their weekly meeting. [video clip] >> america's adversaries have had a great he. north korea, china, russia, all making our resident recent days. as i just heard from my senior colleagues, we prefer diplomacy to the exchange of adolescent threats on twitter. but if you think about what we gave and what we got in singapore in a summit with kim jong-un, he gave what his father and grandfather gave. commitments to denuclearization that are unlikely to ever be accomplished. but he got what they never got, a chance to stand side-by-side with the american president on the world stage. with an invitation to the white house. our president rolling back joint , clearlyexercises without consultation. they are already asking for consultation about what this means.

this is a handshake reality tv photo op summit. as both senators who spoke before me said, north korea is one of the worst human rights violators in the world. i am meeting with north koreans later today. we should not abandon our global on human rights and values. that is what has made us strong. what happened at the g7 summit where president trump said russia should be included in the community of democratic world leaders was, i think, a huge mistake, giving top some of the ground we should hold. instead he picked fights with theclosest allies among democracies of the world. he left canada to go to singapore, not strengthened by the fight, but weakened by it. it goes to a core question, what makes us strong? oure had the support of

vital allies in enforcing sanctions as north korea, i think president trump would have been stronger going into that summit. host: your reaction to the summit from hudson, florida. loretta, good morning. caller: good morning. think i perceive and, is one of the most fair and balanced news reporting and opinions. my comment is something i haven't heard this morning. i don't think this meeting had anything to do with peace or denuclearization. i think it had to do with the president's desire to achieve the nobel peace prize. and the million dollars that goes with it. that is just the first thing that came into my mind when i heard that he was actually going, you know? don't think his assets are

nearly what he brags them to be and i think million dollars really would come in handy. thank you very much. host: denise, upper marlboro, maryland, hello there. caller: i hear all of these republicans talk about their taxes and how much a are making, getting more on their taxes, but they did not because the president did not sign the tax cut job back. if they go to their tax paper they will find out that they did not get anything. they believe anything that this president says. they believe they got more money. he did not sign that for the working people. the only thing that he signed was for the rich and for himself. he did that in his career and it's nothing. you got to give him time.

he's not going to a college anything. thank you. kevin's next up, naperville, illinois. your thoughts on the summit? caller: first of all, thanks to c-span for allowing the united states people to express themselves about this so-called person at the white house. i refuse to address him by his because of his disrespect of president obama. his name is 45 or the orange man. all, regarding the summit, this was a publicity some. the united states did not get anything from this. once they leave out, no one will be able to secure the area. they have no way of breaking down or knowing where the nuclear are or how much it is.

how much is this going to cost the united states? is this a joke? it's not right. and then the next thing i want to talk about that no one is talking about is the fact that all of these so-called republicans get on here to talk about how great he's doing, a good job. this man has not passed any legislation, has not done anything to make the economy better. that is from the work that president obama did when he was in office the last eight years. and that's the result of this economic boom. not 45. he has not done anything. he has not helped the people. all he is doing is a distraction and they need talk him up immediately. that's what we need to do. stop playing around and talking about it. need to get the job done and get that man out of office.

he's going to hurt some people. my cousin died when they shut down the government st time. rm. this is serious. people are being hurt. they are joking and walking around, taking pictures, shaking hands. it's a mess. host: we may hear more speeches from the house in session today, the senate taking up more work on the defense authorization bill. pentagon programs and policies for 2019 at 10 a.m. eastern live on c-span two, the house all weekend focusing on opioid legislation, legislation that is designed to fight the opioid atdemic, the opioid crisis 10 a.m. eastern this morning, the house is a is here on c-span. camp hill, alabama, bob is on the republican line. welcome. >> yes, good morning. i would like to say, you had the

previous caller talking about hish korea, he had killed uncle and everything like that, president trump wasn't going to set back -- hello? host: bob, you are on the air, we are listening. isler: yeah, what i'm saying , you know, the people called talk about this guy, north korea killed his uncle and killed his half-brother -- president trump wasn't going to sit back and let him kill american citizens. he wasn't going to let him send a missile over here to kill american citizens. and, and, and, i was the man has done is remarkable. he's not worried about no nobel peace prize. he wants peace for the people in this world. i tell you another thing. you take like a little boy up there in canada, he's just like -- i raised kids, i've got grandkids.

what's happened to him up there, if donald trump pulls the sucker out of his my -- mouth, he starts crying. that's what little kids do. when you pull the sucker out of their mouth, they go to crying. these people, all of these countries. they are stealing is blind. the people in this country are tired of it. he is going to put a stop to it. that's the way it is. the guy said earlier about what would prevent these small countries from getting a nuclear bomb? , you know, a bribe country with it? i tell you what prevented it, we elected donald trump while hillary clinton and barack obama couldn't sell them uranium to build a nuclear bomb. have a good day. host: throughout the morning we are reading opinion pieces from some of the major papers in the country. we touched on the opinion piece from "the washington times

earlier this morning. a lengthy editorial titled uncertainty at the summit. going to read just a bit more from that. we touched on the first part of it earlier. they write -- now mike pompeo has to do the hard work of translating the vague promises into something real. north korea has always been a slippery foe because words only mean what mr. kim and his men want them to me. mr. kim and john bolton must remind the president that he is dealing with a nave and a group behind the smile --

host: read more at washingtontimes.com. lou, republican line. caller: yes, sir, thank you for taking my call. you do a great job on your show. a comment i haven't heard today, we may be watching history repeat itself. i was in active duty in 1987 and when i returned with horses to that exercise stopped the following year, in 1988. in 1989 the berlin wall came down. something like that were to happen and they let capitalism into north korea, i think it would change the tenor of that country and would even solve some of the worst of the human abuses problems. in fact, the korean armistice is

27.ng up here, july i wouldn't be surprised if we saw a signing of the end of the as an actual event. i hope so. host: thank you. new windsor, maryland. greg, good morning, independent line. caller: caller: what -- caller: what you are going to hear a lot of people talking about is the imperialistic system that we live under. you know, i'm a firm believer that atrocities come from everywhere, from all over the world. media believe that our

very well could be making up a lot of things about the north koreans. i know that we have had people come here to america from north korea and talk about the atrocities they go on their and what things are like in north korea, but how do we know that they are not being put up to it? seems that every day we are being fed lie after lie after lie areas chuck schumer, senator coons: mustering up trouble, basically, making their accusations about trump, doing this for publicity. that guy gets publicity like nobody else out there. he made comments about how he would know what kim jong-un is all about within minutes. you know? i just don't think that people and a lot ofhumer these politicians, clinton, obama, are able to en grasp the concept because they are so out of touch with people, with the everyday people and the way that they think, the way that

they act and behave. host: greg, do you think that the way the resident has handled the g-7 meeting and his approach to meeting with kim jong-un, because it is so very different from previous presidents, has sort of, i guess, upset the apple cart in a way that washington, that government normally proceeds on these sorts of things? i think a lot of these things in our government have been happy to have this country -- for us to be at wits with them. it threatens us, keeps a scared. makes us feel that we need the protection. donald trump just wants to make peace. the man is trying to make these. valuesw, america and our , our original values, freedom for everyone, let's just face standingca is the last

example of true freedom in this world. and yet we don't really even have that under the current monetary system that we on -- we operate under. i don't believe that the people of north korea want anything to do with that. kim jong-un and his daughter have worked hard to shelter their people from that stuff. [sighs] change needs to be made all over the world. host: thanks for your comments. notable and historic yesterday terms of diplomacy. on capitol hill, here's the news.com on theox achievement of mitch mcconnell. "as of yesterday he has served 4179 days as republican leader, how passing bob dole in that

record. the majority whip from texas talk about that and recognize the majority leader yesterday on the floor. >> he is a member of a story group that includes the likes of charles curtis, the first official majority leader of the senate, famous for his native american ancestry and racing horses, i'm told. ,he group includes robert taft ohio, studying the rules of the senate in order to outmaneuver his opponents. it includes lyndon baines johnson, who would go on to become president, as well as mike mansfield of montana, who went on to serve as majority for 16 years. in more recent times there have been great statesman, like bob dole and trent lott. we all know that senator mcconnell is an avid student of

history. he has learned a lot from all of these leaders, there examples, their ups and downs and successes and challenges. in a sense, he stands on their experienced, great leadership, each of them demonstrated great leadership for all of us, but no one worked more than our leader, senator mcconnell. host: republican john cornyn, of texas. about half of an hour left on your calls in comments on the north korean summit. republicans,1 four democrats,000 for for independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. houston, democrats line, brenda, welcome. caller: thanks for taking my call. to the west illinois man, right on, you are spot on. to the alabama man, wow.

a mind is a terrible thing to waste. bill, is there an article that you have read regarding who is meeting with kim next? isn't it? pooh-poohed --it isn't it vladimir putin? good that's a really point. i will track that down, i think you may be right. caller: already. my prediction is that they are going to deliver him a winning in this. it's going to give the illusion that there is going to be peace and, you know, everything is going to be all hunky-dory. that is going to cause trump to have a real loud drum to be around election time. and this will be the absolute beginning of our end. to the republican christians,

according to the bible, who is the ruling class in the last days? isn't it china and russia? -- magog? god thanks for taking my call. headline ofs the pri on their webpage. kim jong-un and his next summit will apparently be vladimir putin and wash are all aside. carlsbad, california, kevin on the independent line. good morning. i wanted to compliment you on your evenhanded tone and your efforts to reach out and gather information that is more than just talking point. i am a 40 year newsreader, military veteran, grandfather, working his way up from the print center in the old days to become the editor of a paper. i remember how it used to be in journalism.

who, what, when, where, why. you wanted feedback on how to get debt with a bit more information about the news that you might profit from, i would suggest a couple of your radio stations. you could have your producer listen in once in a while to the web show. how that guy does his research, i don't know, but he's very respectful, as you are, and i like that. the other one will be mark within, setting some democrats on fire, that guy is very in depth, thoughtful, he would profit from some of that stuff there. last but not least on the hypocrisy of the media on this summit, i don't think anybody with common sense in flyover country is missing that. the only thing i would say to you that is that because you are in the bubble, you are selecting across what's available to you,

you are automatically going to be skewed left. you have to work harder to find news, and i appreciate that you at least cite the washington times because, let's face it, the bezos log has lost credibility. i don't read those guys anymore than i would the new york times. thanks very much for listening. thanks for the critique. you mentioned mark within. i don't know that he has been a guest. you can find a list of guests on our website. reaction and comments this morning on the u.s. north korea summit. we are joined next from capitol hill by dana rohrabacher, who also chairs the foreign affairs subcommittee on the eurasia and emerging threats. congressman, welcome this morning. how do you think that the u.s. will best follow up on the little agreements that were

announced between president trump and the north korean leader? what is the next step, which you say? guest: first of all, let's make sure that we understand that this has been a big step forward from being a total hostility, someone who's going to be angry and threatened to drop bombs on someone. this is a huge step forward. our democratic friends of horse have to continue in their unrelenting hostility towards donald trump, even to the point where they seem to be wishing that this is not going to be a endeavor. the next step, we will be more definitive. we set down in principle, what you are trying to accomplish, which the president did. the next step is to make sure that you negotiate the exact meaning of that principle. president trump us team

has signal that any agreement would take special approval. is that the form of a treaty? anything of significance would require a vote of congress. whether it's a treaty or a vote. i remember one of the first things i rallied against was -- i think it was bill clinton who gave millions of dollars to the north korean dictatorship and they of course said that they were going to end their development of nuclear weapons. use the money, we know now, to create an infrastructure to build nuclear weapons. so yeah, i remember i voted against that. whether or not the next step with president trump means that we are going to have to have a congressional vote specifically on that, we will wait and see how substantial it is. however, we have taken a huge

step forward. because we are starting to talk just like this. of the u.s.,think that congress should make it clear that the u.s. does not support regime change in north korea? guest: i think that if we are talking about -- if what we are trying to do is reach a goal in which regime change comes easily, maybe in the best part of reunification, we don't have to do find that right now. however, i think that president trump has set us on a course that could lead to a very dramatic regime change in the sense that you could have a demilitarized or denuclearize korea, with total reunification. my problem with north korea is the fact that we have had tens of thousands of american troops there all of these years, that's been ridiculous.

again, he's being the guy that doesn't do with the normal way and i think he is on the verge ofetng somhing done. man ofresident clearly a action, wanting things done more quickly. what do you suspect the next step is that we will see from the u.s. and north korea? guest: the next step might be having cam come to the united states. that would be huge. maybe even having the president go to north korea. but that's not the next stage. that would be three or four steps down the road. but i remembered -- listen, i was in the reagan white house when he went to reykjavik. i remember ronald reagan walked away from what he thought was a bad deal, even though all of his staff are pushing him, you can't do this. reagan made the decision. he operated independently from the pundits that were going to attack him and in the end he

helped to make this a better world and i think that is what we are going to see from donald trump. you chair of the subcommittee on asian, pacific, and foreign affairs. any thoughts on whom from the administration you might ask to debrief your subcommittee? by subcommittee deals more with russia and europe and doesn't include korea, but i would imagine that there are a number of experts. we would have to make sure that we talked to military people as well as who could come in and let us know what the dangers are and -- of course, we have intelligence people. we have what looks like president trump has included the cia and the state department, as well as his own advisors in on this. there's a wide array of experts. on the usual of russia, you have made no secret in the past that on some critical vote

from administration's about how the dealings with russia caps off. last weekend the president suggested that russia should be. mid it into the group of nations. what are your thoughts? we are cooperating with russia, where we can cooperate, they could play a positive role in helping us create a more peaceful situation in korea. they could help us in syria as well, by finding ways of cooperating. unfortunately what we have had is, as again, this unrelenting hostility towards russia. that, we should find ways that are mutually beneficial in cooperation. korea is one of the areas where i think that could work. host: congressman dana rohrabacher, joining us from capitol hill this morning. thanks again, congressman. got about 20 more

minutes or so of your calls and comments. your take on the u.s. meeting, president trump's meeting with kim jong-un. for republicans, democrats it's (202) 748-8000, and for all others, independence, it's (202) 748-8002. republican line, new jersey. caller: hi, thank you for taking my call him for having such a good show today, with so many diverse opinions. i think that this has been a truly of -- truly remarkable accomplishment. just to get them to sit at the table and stop their testing at think, a major concession and had it been done by any other president, democrat or republican, they would have gone from the summit right to collect the nobel peace prize. that's my opinion. i think that many people are doing themselves a disservice by

forgetting how significant of a threat north korea is. like, anyone who wants to review this for themselves can pretty much go to youtube and do a lookup for the words mark fahey and the word social. they will see a video there from a conference that he had. mark is an australian journalist who had gone to north korea multiple times and basically went in and did social engineering to go and see a lot of behind-the-scenes information that most western journalists wouldn't see. at the end, at the one-hour mark, they have a video that were shown a guest on korean ,elevision of kim jong-un basically set to music, launching a bomb that goes to the u.s. and blows it up.

the threat of nuclear weapons from korea to the u.s. cannot be underestimated. all that one has to do is think of our most honorable place, the west coast. you know, three bombs, one in san francisco, one in sacramento, one in los angeles could trigger the san andreas fault. think that this is a tremendous accomplishment and i really wish that the democrats and republicans would get behind it and technology it for what it was and i wish that you could and have him fahey on. host: who does he report for, dale? well, he -- i saw him at a conference. he -- he built himself as an australian journalist. host: ok. caller: he's certainly -- there's more to him than that.

called northite korea behind the curtain. host: how did he get -- caller: it was on ipod, ipad or something. host: how did he get into north korea? there many times. i'm doing this from memory, but he had gone in as an independent journalist from china and north korea. i guess he reported favorably on them for a number of years. they invited him in and he came in with a number of american people who were hackers and they went in and they were going into the hotel. basically what he did was he did a video of himself and his group and they had concealed cameras where they were walking around, showing the korean people who were basically their guide,

controlling everything so that you could see pretty much everything going on in north korea. in their hotel, they went in the middle of the night. they noticed that the elevators, i think it went from one to 5, 7 to whatever. they found a way to get from the elevator to get inside of the sixth floor and there, that was like a worker only area. they had these posters wherein said death to america and all of this other stuff, where the workers would go. a fair amountwith of risk. the guy can't go to north korea anymore, obviously. it was pretty-- eye-opening. i had no idea about north korea before this. i thought it was more or less a joke, you know? that they had nuclear weapons but were not really a threat. after seeing this, and especially with the end video, have your people look at it.

they could cut down some of it and just -- just do a couple of key segments, do it probably in 30 or 40 seconds. host: we appreciate that suggestion, dale. next we will hear from montgomery, alabama, democrats line. good morning. caller: i just want to say that my opinion of donald trump is that he's a great man and he has been trying to work a lot with -- for our country. even though i am a democrat, i voted for him. because i felt that he had something, that he was going to try to do good for our america. and he has been. i'm very proud to say that i'm an american and thank you very much. thank you,- host:

this is from cq, the senate agriculture committee meeting today. grassley seeking farm bill subsidy cut for rich off farm owners, expected to offer an amendment to the draft to the farm bill today that would make it tougher for millionaires and people who work on wall street to collect agriculture subsidies just because they owned farmland . he wants taxpayer-funded subsidies limited to farmers who live and work on their land and like he says, have dirt under their fingernails. the markup is underway and you can follow that live on our companion network, c-span3. we are also streaming that online at c-span.org. portsmouth, uighur from robert, next on the independent line. good morning, robert. morning, sir. like your show. i'm a military veteran. when i was coming up, john f. kennedy was president. the cuban missile crisis was

definitely, definitely a bad thing. to have nuclear missiles that close to the united states, even threatening the united states -- i would say that president kennedy would come right up in just say -- stay the course, let's call a nato security council meeting. give them a time limit. knock them down. , you know, man, it's a threat to the united states and our allies. kudos to the man for new jersey. calling.nk you for diana, gaithersburg, maryland, democrats line. yes, i don't trust the leader of russia, don't trust the leader of north korea. i don't trust the leader of the united states of america. they all have similarly narcissistic personalities.

anybody that is going to get hurt. i have been hurt by someone like that in my personal life. fact did interfere with our elections to help get donald trump elected, it was not because they thought he would be good for our country. it was because they thought he would not be good for our country. unfortunately, he's someone that only cares about himself and how he looks. he does not care about me. he does not care about the poor person under the bridge in washington, d.c. on whitehurst freeway that lives on a 45 degrees slope in a tent. he does not care about those people. neither does vladimir putin or kim jong-un. anybody who is stupid enough not to see what kind of people they are needs to do some self-examination and

look around them. thanks a lot for listening. thank you. we have had a couple of people commenting on previous summits, talking about the reagan white house ahead of the reykjavik summit. back to this piece in "usa today." it is about the summits from the past. churchill would recognize the trump summit strategy. the caller from virginia a moment ago talked about john f. kennedy. so, here's a visa about the meeting with nikita khrushchev. writes, "itll, he is far better that we meet at the summit than at the brink

host: missouri, independent line. k? caller: hello? i for you had cut me off. i am, again, pointing out that there are four things that rural and poor people, the elderly and poor people need that are not being discussed. or even considered, in my view. that is -- [no audio] host: k, are you there? bankston, missouri. i think we lost her. apologize about that, k. moving on to pompano beach,

florida. boy, looks like -- looks like we lost our phone lines for a bit. we will wait to that comes back for you some news instead. this is from "the wall street journal and the political capital column this morning. the risky calculus of the trump kim embrace. "this is a much different time and this is a much different president, trump says. president donald trump offered thisasic argument for why effort at diplomacy with pyongyang will succeed where so many others have ailed. timeis a much different and this is a much different president. as it suggests, the prospects for turning the vague agreement into lasting change on the korean peninsula hinge on two factors in the equation.

the first is the calculation that mr. kim represent not just the younger leader, but a completely different one prepared to shift his country's strategic goal of away from request for more powerful arms and into a more powerful economy. short, is that this is a different time, because the young mr. kim, rather than his father or grandfather is running the show in pyongyang. possible to turn the normal process of reaching significant international agreements on their heads, normally leaders have support carefully work out the details of the big deals beforehand. before leaders personally expose reputations and run the risks that come with shaking hands on a big world stage, writing that this time mr. trump is doing the opposite. the trump kim handshake was at the outset and needs to be followed up on later.

there is no agreement yet on how to verify the north korean promise to denuclearize, how to make that agreement irreversible, or when the u.s. will lift economic sanctions. those are key elements of an actual deal and will have to be left to underlings to resolve going forward. let's see if we have k on the line. we don't. four republicans. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. and for all others, (202) 748-8002. bringing you reaction on capitol hill, getting your reaction to the summit between president trump and kim jong-un, let's hear from the democratic leader yesterday after the weekly party conference meeting, chuck schumer. [video clip] >> with a country like north korea and a leader as ruthless , photo ops-un is will not do.

we need follow through. we need to see that the danger .s removed and yet, president trump seems to have given away two or three of the major things that kim jong-un wanted. a meeting, flags next to each other. now no delay of exercise -- now a delay of exercises with south korea, without getting anything in return, the danger to america is ever present. what do we believe? first, five things, first north korea must dismantle and remove every single one of its nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. of the they must end production and enrichment of uranium and plutonium for military purposes and permanently dismantle test sites. third, they have got to continue ballistic missile tests. fourth, north korea must commit to anytime anywhere in sections

-- inspections, including all non-declared suspicious sites. if inspectors reveal violations, there's got to be eestnet act to sanctions. lastly, any agreement must be permanent. in the little statement that the president, that president trump in that little statement that they put together, there's the mention of any of this. we've got a long, long way to go. while we are relieved that they are no longer calling each other that thesere worried kinds of things that are needed for american safety are not happening. unfortunately, the communique from president trump and kim doesn't make much progress on any of these vegetables. document, short in its details, listing denuclearization is a far-off goal with no path on how to get

there. details, we lack of are worried that kim jong-un is getting something for nothing. headline this morning from "the washington times," "trump extols peace pact with north korea, skeptics wonder what's in it for the u.s.. let's go to david, couple more minutes for comments and calls. david, the house is coming in in a couple of minutes. yes, yes, i would like to remind people about what undered in the ukraine the clinton administration. an agreement was made about the ukraine signed by russia, the britaintates, and great , we would protect their borders and maintain their security. what happens? russia goes over and invade

eastern ukraine. obama does nothing. the u.s. does nothing. what does that tell north korea? i don't believe they are going to give up their nukes. that's my opinion. david, appreciate your call this morning. this is "politico" this morning. four primaries, mark sanford losing in south carolina. his fatal sin, crossing donald trump. the former governor, the congressman, sticking to his principles, taking on the president to the bitter end. president trump tweeting his opposition to the candidacy of mark sanford. call.hear one more georgia, milwaukee, go ahead, the house is coming in, so keep it short. caller: i would like to thank c-span for taking my call. with the summit with donald trump and kim jong-un --

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