Ed Henry on Trump-Kim Summit: It Was ‘Hardly a Good Deal’ for the US

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HENRY: "Yeah, the lunch seemed to change, but also we were working through the night and originally at 2:00 Eastern Time there was going to be a signing ceremony. That is what the White House called it. All of a sudden, in the middle of the night we are told that is off and it will be a solo news conference by the President. That tells you the two leaders are not coming together, they don’t have a deal. The President came out, addressed the international media and said, 'Look, I could have had a deal but I walked away because it wasn’t good. Kim Jong-un put on the table the Yongbyon nuclear facility which is something everyone anticipated would be on the table and said, 'If I dismantle that, you need to lift all U.S. sanctions to get my economy going again. That's hardly a deal for the U.S. The president and his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo backed him up on this point saying that was simply not good enough, it was an option they wouldn’t take. They tried to push Kim Jong-un to put other nuclear material on the table, when he wouldn’t do it they simply walked away. Mike Pompeo underscored that he thinks they made real progress in round 2 of the summit. They have the door open to a round 3. Pompeo said here they are, closer to a deal than they were 36 hours ago at the beginning of the talks in Hanoi, but made it very clear that they were not going to take a bad deal.”