Jack Reed: Yes Trump ‘Miscalculated’ in His Meetings with Kim Jong Un

‘For a meeting with President Reagan, they went in detailed guidelines or pathways that they were going to pursue’

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REED: "Well, I think there were two critical mistakes that were made. Despite the great work of the Special Envoy Steve Biegun to set the meeting up, there was no detailed listing of the nuclear sites and the nuclear facilities that are really the heart of our discussions. Typically for a meeting, and president Reagan had many meetings with Gorbachev, but they went in with pretty detailed guidelines or pathways that they were going to pursue. They didn’t have this in this case. The second mistake in Singapore, President Trump, I think, sent the signal to Kim Jong-un that this is all going to be a one-on-one private conversation. You can ask me and I’ll give it to you. Particularly with respect to the military exercises. When the President conceded off the cuff that we wouldn’t have military exercises, in fact, described them as provocative war exercises, I think that sent the wrong signal to Kim Jong-un. I think he said I don’t need this preliminary negotiations, I’m just going to sit down with him and ask him to take off sanctions, he'll probably do it. And so, the setting was all wrong."

CAVUTO: "But he’s miscalculated."

REED "Yeah."

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