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joining us now, david sanger. david, big picture, there's been no denuclearization of north korea.d, but the president has touted two things. end of missile tests and to nuclear tests, and the transfer of remains of u.s. mias from the korean war. that transfer is now off and north korea is again testing missiles. what does the u.s. have to show for these negotiations? >> not very much, jim. and the reason they don't have much to show is that beyond the initial singapore agreement of sort of general discussion of denuclearization, there's been no specificity since last june. bill clinton got more out of the north koreans in 1994 when they agreed to freeze their production of nuclear material. where president trump is today is that the north koreans are still producing nuclear material. the intelligence community believes they're still producing nuclear weapons. the two things that have improved is they're not doing nuclear tests right now and not doing long-range icbm tests. right now, you have the administration saying don't pay that much attention to these tests you're hearing abo

let's get more on all these developments, joining me now frederik pleitgen and david sanger, national security analyst and national security correspondent for the "times." frederick is on the ground in iran for us. david, you've covered this white house for some time, are very aware of the president's past statements on iran. so president trump as peace maker pushing back his own advisers who are pushing for perhaps military confrontation, john bolton in particular. on the other side going to the swiss to start talking with the iranians. what's happening here? >> i think what's happening here is that the president had not fully gamed out what would occur as the pressure rose here. what did he know? he knew, jim, that he hated the iranian nuclear deal and mostly what he hated about it was that it expired starting in about 15 years and then over time the iranians would be able to resume some nuclear production. not weapons, but they could produce fuel. so what did he do? he pulls out of the deal and the iranians a year later begin to raise the pressure in return by doing exactly those t

david sanger and julian barns have a great piece on this over at "the new york times" today. the danger of the president authorizing to declassified state's secret to meet his political need. the danger of the move by mr. trump was that it could endanger the agency's ability to keep the identity of its sources secret. including the source that tipped off the government about the attack on our election. the most prominent of those sources among them may be a person close to vladimir putin or russia who provided information to the c.i.a. about his involvement in moscow's 2016 election interference. he was reminded by reporter that treason is punishable by death. in response, did he take it back. trump responded by listing the fbi investigators he thinks are traitors by names. meanwhile, even as the president is raising the spectrum of treason, using his attorney general against his political enemies and allowing that attorney general to fire classified intelligence from a kind of confetti cannon out of the windows of the department. that same justice department is prosecuting j

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david sanger and julian barnes have a great piece on this over at "the new york times" today about the dangers of a president authorizing his attorney general to declassify state secrets to meet his political needs. quote, intelligence officials believe the danger of the move by mr. trump was that it could endanger the agency's abilities to keep its sources secret, including that source in the correct me lip, t kremlin. quote, the most prominent of those sources among them may well be a person close to president vladimir putin of russia who provided information to the cia about his involvement in moscow's 2016 election interference. last night, when donald trump re-upped his accusation that certain fbi investigators who participated in the russia investigation are guilty of treason, he was reminded by a reporter that treason is pu punishable by death. in response, did he take it back? nope. trump simply responded by listing the fbi investigators he thinks are traitors by name. meanwhile, even as the president is raising the specter of treason, using his attorney general as a cudgel aga

. >> and david sanger puts it in an article, here's the headline, trump said he would tame rogue nations are challenging him. he has a showdown with china but there are security issues at play, south china sea, et cetera, north korea firing projectiles. there's a u.s. carrier group going into the persian gulf in a message to iran. these are tense times. >> i would even add to that the situation in venezuela where the trump administration made this bet that supporting guaido would be easy and they could push maduro out. trump interestingly has found himself in his third year with foreign policy, national security really on the front burner. i think he's finding that some of his tactics, which are public pressure, direct face-to-face negotiations don't always work. and we're going to see i think in this year what's behind that. is there another gear in this administration on national security, which has not been a top priority or an urgent priority. >> last sunday we were talking about a tweet where he was still standing with kim jong-un after the projectile launches. and then the other da