much longer he and others devils can go on working who is president and sort about all is with chris whipple award winning journalist author of the new york times bestseller the gate keepers how the white house chief of staff define every presidency and that has now been out in paperback including a new chapter on the trump presidency he joins us from new york. in terms chris of how that some white house reads in the term presidency is being defined what do you take away from the singapore summit well you know it's the latest example of how this is a president for home process and discipline are anathema you know chris hill the former negotiator described this as speed dating you know the walk up to the to the actual summit somebody else said that well now maybe it was more like internet dating where the guy who shows up is shorter than he looked in his picture but in any event it was it was absolutely unprecedented clearly you know none of the details had been worked out and at the end of the day you had the president of the united states giving an awful lot away in return for quite frankly

chris whipple always great talking with you thanks for your time today great to be on with you larry while president trump and his team face many questions a home whether he gave away too much in return for way too little at the singapore summit north korea's state media touted conjunctions success in his dealings with america who's the real winner or loser and what happens next with north korea's nuclear arsenal few people know the so-called hermit kingdom better than our next guest old friend compatriot michael general oyo senior fellow at the u.s. china institute at the university is something california former c.n.n. senior asia correspondent and the author of meltdown the inside story of the north korean nuclear crisis mike has visited north korea seventeen times and d.d.b. on the us at c.n.n. i'd be in washington or l.a. and mike would be in north korea those were great days weren't they mike allen on time ago but there are three issue hasn't gone away when was the last time you were there i was there about forty five years ago all right what's your assessment of what happened

we are where we are today because our elected leaders have failed us, that's on both sides. >> chris whipple want to bring you into the conversation. on that point george will writes about that in his column for the "washington post" this morning. we have a republican congress seemingly unwilling to stand up to the president of the united states. how much has that fed when we're seeing now? how much will it continue to feed what we're seeing now. rina talks about the way the president controls the narrative. when you look at the articles in the "washington post" and "the new york times" detailing the policy whiplash within the white house, and it's mirrored in the policy side of things as well. >> nobody said it would be an easy problem to solve. immigration has been a problem for previous presidents and it clearly has become a fiasco for donald trump. i would usually agree with almost anything john alter says, let me argue with the notion that this is trump being very clever when he appeared with the familiar list. this reminds me of, it's almost as though it's right out of steve bannon's p

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much longer he and others devils can go on working who is president and sort about all is with chris whipple award winning journalist author of the new york times bestseller the gate keepers how the white house chief of staff define every presidency and that has now been out in paperback including a new chapter on the trump presidency he joins us from new york. in terms presume how that some white house rigs in the presidency is being defined what do you take away from the singapore summit well you know it's the latest example of how this is a president for home process and discipline are anathema you know chris hill the former negotiator described this as speed dating you know the walk up to the to the actual summit somebody else said that well now maybe it was more like internet dating where the guy who shows up is shorter than he looked in his picture but in any event it was it was absolutely unprecedented clearly you know none of the details had been worked out and at the end of the day you had the president of the united states giving an awful lot away in return for quite frankly an emp

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