that the politicking i'm talking with john negroponte the former deputy secretary of state u.s. envoy to iraq and the u.n. was also the first ever director of national intelligence ambassador negroponte joins me from washington d.c. ok what do you make of our getting out of the iran treaty well but. first why i'm not surprised there was a lot of resistance to the agreement when it was first negotiated by the obama administration. and i think it shows frankly one of the problems that can arise if you have an agreement that has such a thin margin of support i think the founders the founding fathers created the treaty process for a reason as you know a treaty has to be approved by two thirds the two thirds majority of the senate and this agreement was not a treaty it was an executive agreement and based on

about the politicking i'm talking with john negroponte the former deputy secretary of state us on water iraq and the un was also the first ever director of national intelligence and basle negroponte joins me from washington d.c. ok what do you make of our getting out of the iran treaty. well that. first why i'm not surprised there was a lot of resistance to the agreement when it was first negotiated by the obama administration and i think it shows frankly one of the problems that can arise if you have an agreement that has such a thin margin of support i think the founders the founding fathers created the treaty process for a reason as you know the treaty has to be approved by two thirds the two thirds majority of the senate and this agreement was not a treaty it was an executive agreement and based on a very thin margin so what happens the new team comes in and they khana reopen the question and it doesn't and they're free to do that because the agreement doesn't have the force of a treaty so that's one point second thing is there are some things that could be improved in that agreemen

meeting in singapore what will be considered success for mr truong let's talk about that with john negroponte a great american formerly served as the u.s. deputy secretary of state was the first ever director of national. by george w. bush he also served as u.s. ambassador to iraq the u.n. the philippines mexico and honduras the embassador joins me from washington the system that's it or what's your assessment of the administration's handling of this whole korean situation so far well mercurial is right i mean it's been kind of up and down but it seems to be in a good place right now larry and looks like the meeting is going to go forward i think the president's right to try and manage expectations you can't solve everything overnight but you could have a meeting that gives us a sense of direction where these talks are going to go.

back to politicking i'm talking with john negroponte the former deputy secretary of state u.s. envoy to iraq and the u.n. was also the first ever director of national intelligence and bassam negroponte joins me from washington d.c. ok what do you make of our getting out of the iran treaty well that it first why i'm not surprised there was a lot of resistance to the agreement when it was first negotiated by the obama administration. and i think it shows frankly one of the problems that can arise if you have an agreement that has such a thin margin of support i think the founders the founding fathers created the treaty process for a reason as you know a treaty has to be approved by two thirds the two thirds majority of the senate and this agreement was not a treaty it was an executive agreement and based on a very thin margin so what happens the new team comes in and they khana reopen the question and it doesn't and they're free to do that because the agreement doesn't have the force of a treaty so that's one point second thing is there are some things that could be improved in t

back to politicking i'm talking with john negroponte the former deputy secretary of state u.s. envoy to iraq and the u.n. was also the first ever director of national intelligence and bassam negroponte joins me from washington d.c. ok what do you make of our getting out of the iran treaty well that it first while i'm not surprised there was a lot of resistance to the agreement when it was first negotiated by the obama administration. and i think it shows frankly one of the problems that can arise if you have an agreement that has such a thin margin of support i think the founders the founding fathers created the treaty process for a reason as you know the treaty has to be approved by two thirds a two thirds majority of the senate and this agreement was not a treaty it was an executive agreement and based on a very thin margin so what happens the new team comes in and they khana reopen the question and it doesn't and they're free to do that because the agreement doesn't have the force of a treaty so that's one point second thing is there are some things that could be improved in

ambassador to the united nations and the philippines, former deputy secretary of state, john negropontefor joining us this morning. governor, let kick it off with you. you've been in talks with the north koreans before. your take-away from this summit? >> on the positive side, a potential normalization of relations, the two leaders getting to know each other, perhaps trusting each other, difference in tone. a year ago, we were in terrible shape in the peninsula, enormous tension, a lessening of tension, all of that's good. on the mixed side, i wanted to see more meat on the bones. i wanted to see more specifics on verification, on inspections. we have a vague statement that commits to denuclearization with both sides having different interpretations. i would have wanted to see more on what we're going to do about freezing missiles and nuclear weapons, the negotiating process which is starting, which is good. lastly, i wanted to hear more on human rights. i wish we had been stronger. the president did mention something that's very important to me, get the remains of our 5100 soldiers bac