connell: go ahead, lanhee, real quick.ahead. >> be careful here because the north korean regime, these are people that have had some serious problems in the past, serious violations of human rights. so we need to be careful not to be appear to be too cozy with them. connell: exactly. we have to wrap it up. doesn't seem like the human rights issue will come up. with all these things, once the two of them get in the room you never know what will come up. lanhee, peter, good to see both of you. thanks a lot. >> thank you. melissa: pancake lovers are flipping out. see what i did there? connell: there with you. melissa: mystery of i hob. after days speculation, ihop is revealing what the b stands for. fans are not happy. we're going behind the rebranding, with marketing guru and specialist, the only man who can solve this mystery, bruce turkel is next. ♪ had a coach in high school. really helped me up my game. i had a coach. math. ooh. so, why don't traders have coaches? who says they don't? coach mcadoo! you know, at td amerit

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i'm lanhee chen, the david and diane steffy research fellow at the hoover institution at stanford universityd i'm just really pleased to be onstage with amy chua tonight. amy is the john m. duff, jr. professor of law at yale law school and acclaimed author. many of you may know her for her parenting advice, but we're not going to talk about parenting tonight. we're going to talk about a subject that, you know, i think is very

>> reporter: richard, i think that lanhee captured it perfectly and to emphasize that conversation youudience that shinzo abe was with the president days ago. we talked about how the president is impulsive in his decision making, sometimes he reacts based on the last voice in his ear. it did suggest that visit that the japanese were hoping to be among the last voices in the president's ear before he headed off to the summit in singapore. i asked the president in that visit, i said, will the japanese be invited into any of these meetings with the north koreans? there's been suggestion from president moon and prime minister abe that they would like to have some role. the president said no, they will not. it will be me and kim jong-un, the united states and north korea. but the white house, this administration -- the trump administration recognizes the importance of engaging its allies on this topic. secretary of state mike pompeo telling us, a matter of days ago that at -- upon its conclusion, he will be traveling to those asian capitals. he will be going to tokyo. he will be going to se