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>> DONALD TRUMP AND KIM JONG UN
COME FACE-TO-FACE FOR HISTORIC
SUMMIT ON JUNE 12TH IN
SINGAPORE.
TODD: THE PRES. MAKING IT HIS
MISSION TO DENUCLEARIZE THE
KOREAN PENINSULA.
YEARS LIEUT. GEN. RICHARD
NEWTON, FORMER ASSISTANT VICE
CHIEF OF STAFF FOR THE U.S. AIR
FORCE.
THANK YOU FOR COMING ON THIS
MORNING.
>> GOOD TO BE WITH YOU AGAIN.
AND COTUIT THIS DECADE SEEMS
THERE'S A GREAT DIVIDE AND A LOT
OF SPACE BETWEEN WHAT EACH OF
THESE MEN ONCE.
SEEMS LIKE LOTS TO BRIDGE THAT
GAP.
>> IT IS.
DONALD TRUMP IS GOING INTO THIS
SUMMIT TAKING PLACE IN SINGAPORE
FROM A POSITION OF STRENGTH AND
THAT IS HOW HE NEEDS TO APPROACH
THESE NEGOTIATIONS WAS A
POSITION OF STRENGTH NOT ONLY
MILITARILY BUT ECONOMICALLY AND
DIPLOMATICALLY AS WELL.
SECONDLY HE GOT TO KEEP IN MIND
AND NOT KEEP IN MIND BUT KEEP IN
THE FOREFRONT THE NUMBER ONE
OBJECTIVE IS DENUCLEARIZATION OF
NUCLEAR -- THE NORTH KOREAN
PENINSULA.
WHATEVER NEGOTIATIONS COME
THROUGH AND WHATEVER END GAME
RESULTS FROM THIS SUMMIT IT HAS
TO BE COMPLETE, VERIFIABLE AND
IRRESISTIBLE, NOT IRRESISTIBLE
BUT IRREVERSIBLE WITH REGARD TO
THE DENUCLEARIZATION.
THAT IS A VERY TALL ORDER.
IT WILL BE TOUGH GOING.
JILLIAN: YOU HAVE TWO SIDES
WILLING TO GIVE UP A LITTLE BIT
TO GET SOMETHING ELSE.
WHAT IF NORTH KOREA DOESN'T WANT
TO COMPLETELY DENUCLEARIZE, WHAT
DO YOU SEE DONALD TRUMP DOING?
>> HE HAS TO STAY AT THE
NEGOTIATING TABLE, BRINGING
OTHER DIPLOMATIC PARTNERS, WITH
JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, CHINA AS
WELL.
IT IS IN EVERYONE'S INTEREST TO
DENUCLEARIZE PARTICULARLY IF KIM
WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HIS
OWN EFFORTS TO HELP THE ECONOMIC
SITUATION NOT ONLY FOR HIM BUT
NORTH KOREA AS THEY MOVE
FORWARD.
THE OTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND
IS TIME IS ON EVERYONE'S SIDE I
BELIEVE.
THIS IS GOING TO BE A LENGTHY
PROCESS NOT JUST THE JUNE 12TH
SUMMIT BUT WHAT COMES
AFTERWARDS, WHAT COMES IN THE
ENSUING NEGOTIATIONS AND WHAT
WILL CERTAINLY BE MULTIPARTY
TALKS WITH THE US AND AS I
MENTIONED WITH JAPAN AND CHINA
AS WELL.
WE GOING WITH OUR EYES WIDE
OPEN, NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA
HAVE BEEN AT WAR.
ALL WE HAVE IS AN ARMISTICE
SINCE THE WAR BROKE OUT ON
JUNE 25, 1950.
THERE HAVE BEEN GENERATIONS
WHERE THIS IS BEEN AN UNSTABLE
SITUATIONS.
THEY ARE A LOT TALLER.
>> SEEMS LIKE A TALL ORDER.
THAT MOVED TO ANOTHER PART OF
THE WORLD, WE HAVE THIS
SITUATION WITH IRAN AND ISRAEL
FIRING MISSILES AT EACH OTHER
AND THIS HAS ESCALATED.
THE UNITED STATES PULLED OUT OF
THE IRAN DEAL AMID SO MUCH
CRITICISM, THE REASON IRAN IS
LINED UP IN SYRIA IS WE PUMPED
SO MUCH MONEY INTO THEIR ECONOMY
BECAUSE OF THAT DEAL.
WE HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO ARM UP
AND SET UP OTHER FACTIONS THAT
ARE ANTI-ISRAEL.
IS THIS NOT WHY WE PULLED OUT OF
THE DEAL?
>> IRAN IS THE LEADING STATE
SPONSOR OF TERRORISM.
AND WHAT WE HAD THURSDAY
MORNING, ENCOURAGE AND ATTACK
FROM THE GOLAN HEIGHTS AREA INTO
ISRAEL ATTACKING ISRAELI DEFENSE
FORCES IN A ROBUST FASHION, MORE
SO THAN WE HAVE SEEN IN A 7
YEAR. GO OF THE SYRIAN WAR.
IRAN BEING MUCH MORE ENTRENCHED
AND INVOLVED WITH THE SYRIAN
CIVIL WAR BACKING UP ASIDE.
ISRAEL SEES THAT AS A THREAT AND
THEY RESPONDED SIGNIFICANTLY IN
THIS CASE.
I WOULD HOPE BOTH SIDES DAMP
DOWN.
AND THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS IF NOT