BONUS: Decoding Trump, Post Summit

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🗓️ 12 June 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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While we were sleeping, President Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore. They signed a "very comprehensive document," but what was in it? And what does it all mean in the long run? Emily Stephenson hosts, joined by foreign affairs correspondent Halley Toosi and Michael Crowley, national security editor to break down what happened and what the future could hold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a bonus nerd cast.
0:02.0	I'm Emily Stevenson and I'm hosting today.
0:10.0	I'm Emily Stevenson and I'm hosting today.
0:13.2	Donald Trump is headed back to the US after meeting the North Korean
0:16.2	dictator Kim Jong-un.
0:17.8	The upshot, the US will stop doing military training drills in South Korea,
0:22.3	and North Korea says it will eventually
0:24.5	give up its nuclear program. But the details are pretty scant. We'll decode what
0:29.4	President Trump said after the summit with our guests. Foreign Affairs Correspondent Holly, Holly,
0:34.2	Hello.
0:35.0	And Michael Crowley, National Security Editor.
0:37.0	Hello.
0:37.5	All right.
0:38.5	The first thing we want to pick apart, this line from President Trump.
0:41.2	We signed a very comprehensive document today,
0:44.5	and I think most of you have been given that document,
0:47.6	but we signed a very, very comprehensive document.
0:50.9	Michael, help us out. Well, you know, this is Donald Trump.
0:55.0	So anything he does is big and bold and comprehensive, but I really don't think the reality
1:01.6	matches the rhetoric. Surprise rhetoric surprise surprise we knew that
1:04.7	Donald Trump was going to claim a huge victory and success he basically said as much
1:10.3	going in but this document, although wide in scope, is not comprehensive at all
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