joining us is gordon chang and morgan ortegas.aid to me as soon as you heard that that readiness is so critical. tell me about that. >> these exercises just make sure readiness is at a high level. we need readiness there. we to deter north korea and defend south korea. readiness declined quickly especially when you have two militaries working together. i am concerned about that. we can make adjustments so for instance if you stop the big named exercises you can do training in a less conspicuous way. but nonetheless, we have to have readiness. the korean peninsula is a dangerous place even at the best of times. maria: vice president mike pence said we'll do away with the large-scale exercises but we'll continue training. people raised a red flag about this. they said no, these exercises will continue. >> the north koreans have two big exercises in the winter and summer training cycle. they forward deploy their military. and they have chemical and biological agents. this is a dangerous situation. maria: by all accounts given the sit

. >> joining me is state department official morgan ortegas. we really appreciate it.at are your thoughts on this? the obama administration knew about it and didn't do anything about it. >> it shows a pattern of behavior over eight years of the obama administration. pres. obama said he was going to have leverage to vladimir putin after his reelection answer are russia returned to the middle east and far russia invade ukraine and when that happened did nothing about it. it doesn't surprise me after watching eight years of russia taking more aggressive steps, when it came to medley in our election the obama administration did nothing. heather: did they think it was a given that hillary clinton would win so they didn't need to do anything? where they trying to set up the trump campaign and see what happened? >> there publicly stated excuse is they didn't want to look like they were interfering and tipping the scales on the election. it is unconscionable we could have these actions and the pres.'s response to vladimir putin is you need to knock it off. that clearly didn't

joining us is gordon chang and morgan ortegas.aid to me as soon as you heard that that readiness is so critical. tell me about that. >> these exercises just make sure readiness is at a high level. we need readiness there. we to deter north korea and defend south korea. readiness declined quickly especially when you have two militaries working together. i am concerned about that. we can make adjustments so for instance if you stop the big named exercises you can do training in a less conspicuous way. but nonetheless, we have to have readiness. the korean peninsula is a dangerous place even at the best of times. maria: vice president mike pence said we'll do away with the large-scale exercises but we'll continue training. people raised a red flag about this. they said no, these exercises will continue. >> the north koreans have two big exercises in the winter and summer training cycle. they forward deploy their military. and they havehemical and biological agents. this is a dangerous situation. maria: by all accounts given the situa

morgan ortega sweating out the details. but this is a remarkable event for china's number 2 to be meeting in the oval office for as long as he was and for the president of the united states to escort him out. something he normally doesn't do. what did you make of this? >> i feel like we're watching season 2 that we're bing watching season 2 of united states and north korea. i said on fox, this is like for foreign policy geeks like me, this is the best soap opera that we've seen. the people that are most surprised, neil, had to be the north koreans. you can imagine two years ago or even a year ago, they probably had no thought that a senior north korean official would be in the white house. now we're seeing a lot of criticism from the democrats about the way trump is handling this. but i have to say, i think this administration, especially secretary pompeo and especially the president, have it is forth a precedent that the status quo, the way that the united states has operated over the past 30 years of north korea will not

from a national security analyst morgan ortega's. if the democratic state a just and fox news contributor jessica tarlov. in the center seat, republican congressman from new york, please eldon, member of the house for an affairs committee. "outnumbered" today but with so much for an committee staff today, we feel it's pretty pretty great to see you. >> lee: happy to be here. >> harris: let's get to the news. that historic summit between president trump and north koreans kim jong un has ended with the two leaders signing a joint statement reaffirming kim jong un's commitment to denuclearize. and president trump's pledge to provide security guarantees. a president from sounding they met telling reporters he trusts kim jong un. >> eyes are wide open, but pieces always worth the effort and especially at this case. this should've been done years ago. it is right there, it's within our reach. it's going to be there, it's going to happen. this is complete denuclearization of north korea. and it will be verified. you'd be very surprised, ver

national security analyst morgan ortega says here. morgan can talk about business cut it to legit gathering, international relations, citrus crops in florida. >> much to my husband chagrin he probably agrees with you. the house oversight committee chairman jason chaffetz. good to see you. we talked about golf. you can try and explain the crazy ways. dagen: with a famous. it's been made worse since he laughed. >> well, thank you pivot the best complement going to be able to get. let's get to our top story. jason, nice to see you. a growing outcry at the border. major blowback over its alleged practice of separating famil crossing the border illegally. lawmakers on both sides blasting the practice which is to move nearly three dozen children from their parents in just six weeks time. members of the white house showing their own uneasiness with the policy. >> as a mother, a catholic, someone has got a conscience, i will tell you he wants this to end. congress has to act. congress passed a law that it is a crime. this is a congressional fo

morgan ortegas. there seems to be some confusion when the presidentirst said that's what north korea wanted. >> it's a very broad term. these exercises can come in a variety of different forms, not just troop movement. it can also be done with the real future of war is headed in savers based. many they can do their. these are all set. another one set for august to be more of a computer cybertype. really broad and encompassing term and that's where the congress wanted a clarification. maria: yesterday i spoke with gordon chang and he madethis ise cyberwar games. readiness is so critical. are you concerned that the readiness takes a hit? >> i'm really not. such a broad category. exactly on what he willtep down on, woody won't step down on. if there is the slightest blip in the agreement, they are back on again and they'll be able to surge the readiness capabilities. i wouldn't want to nitpick on that particular point. >> does this mean the u.s. would be training anymore or does that mean they're not do

here to discuss, kevin walling, a political strategist and morgan o ortegas.ple are parsing through this thing. but the idea someone would have this level of political bias and act on it in such a high position is startling to a lot of people. >> i expected a lot of bombs coming out of this i.g. report. reading through the text messages and how fbi members were taking dinners and sporting tickets from members of the media. it's shocking. and i am the first one to say i have served with many people who are the range and filed in the fbi who put their careers and lives on the line to protect this country. people watching your show, charles are very frustrated to see people in leadership positions of the fbi could be so callous about what they say about trump supports and trump voters. it's an arrogance that is beyond control. there needs to be a lot of oversight. charles: i don't see this helping the democrats at all. >> it's disappointing to the administration who campaigned and said the report would find political bias and prove the mueller investigation happe

morgan o ortegas centers square and david tafuri worked under former president obama.d morning, everybody. thanks for getting up so early. first question, ask all of you this. on a scale of 1 to 10, how big a deal is this? agarr? >> i'm going to put it ought a 10. steve: is it? >> yeah. listen, at the end of the day, this is historical. regardless of how you look at the deal that came out of this, right? because you have two leaders. first ever sitdown meeting between the leader of the united states and the leader of north korea. regardless it's positive. even though i do think there are a lot of missing details there is a lot to work out. at the end of the day, it's incredibly significant. steve: ultimately, they did agree to a complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula which is a big deal. so on a scale of 1 to 10, how big a deal is it? >> that's a lot of words to say this morning, steve. steve: right, a hard one. i agree aga certainly it's a 10. normally what you see in the diplomatic process is you will have a year of negotiations for example leading up to a

from a national security analyst morgan ortega's.cratic state a just and fox news contributor jessica tarlov. in the center seat, republican congressman from new york, please eldon, member of the house for an affairs committee. "outnumbered" today but with so much for an committee staff today, we feel it's pretty

neil: if he could stay there i want to bring morgan ortega back the former deputy assnt secretary ofave heard separate reports from what deirdre saying that the north korean leader had complete ignorance or didn't hear the question but no reallear clarification here. >> the north koreans are notorious for playing the long game. they make concessions here and make concessions there and drag it out. that is why president trump has tonsist that we have real milestones that are irreversible by the end of his first term. john bolton has seen this movie before. he was the undersecretary of state for policy and had to deal with armament that he saw what happened with the bush administration in 2005. we cut a deal and they took him off the state-sponsored terrorist list and oh by the way they were so close to shut down the pyongyang nuclear facility. neil: he is sitting at the table. >> deirdre mentioned kim jong on showed up seven minutes early as a sign of respect and president trum has a red tie on which is a favorite color. i think something that is interesting we are seeing what would b

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