President Trump surprises the world by brokering a meeting with Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea.

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Yesterday, there were a bevy of headlines coming out of the Trump administration. We'll get to all of them. We'll do full analysis of the president's big announcement that he wants to meet with Kim Jong-un, the dictator of North Korea in just a second. First, I want to say thank you to our sponsors over at Blue Apron. So everyone in the office is using Blue Apron. People all over the country are using Blue apron. That's for a reason. Blue Apron is the leading meal kit delivery service in the United States. And here's the way that it works. They send you the freshest ingredients, all prepackaged, in the proper amount, and you sit in your house and you cook with your family. There's no more fun thing in cooking with your kids. I know I do it with my daughter all the time. time's a blast. And not only that, when you cook that fresh home-cooked meal, it just tastes better. It's better to eat at home with the kids. Now, I'm in a situation in my house where I've got such young children. When we go to a restaurant, there's a good shot that some table is going to get pushed over. So eating at home is a must. When you have young kids, there's nothing better than eating at home. And there's nothing easier than making it happen with Blue Apron. They're the number one, fresh ingredient and recipe delivery service in the country. And they offer a wide variety of plans. They offer convenience and variety. They deliver fresh proportioned ingredients, step-by-step recipes right to your door. These can be cooked in under 45 minutes. The menu changes every single week based on what's in season. It's designed by Blue Apron's in-house culinary team, and they offer 12 new recipes. Every week, customers can pick two, three, four recipes depending on what best fits your schedule. And of course, they send only the highest quality ingredients. It's just awesome. And Blue Apron is treating Ben Shapiro listeners to $30 bucks off your first order if you visit

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It's possible. They're talking about the president doing this in May. Well, there are a few issues with this. And it's very interesting to watch as the right and the left split on this issue because the left cheered when President Obama. You remember when he was Senator Obama in 2008. In a speech, he said that he would meet with the leaders of Iran, North Korea, without preconditions. He would meet with them without getting anything in return to even sit at the table with them. And a lot of people, people like me, said, that's terrible. Why would you possibly do that? Because now you're giving legitimacy to evil regimes without them having to give up anything. And well, now President Trump seems to be doing some of the same sort of stuff and people on the right are split. There are a bunch of people on the right who think this is just great and a bunch of people on the right who think it kind of stinks. And then there bunch of folks on the left who celebrated when Obama said that. Oh, look at that. It's a new,

open foreign policy. It's just

going to be amazing. And now Trump's doing it and they're confused. Are they supposed to be mad or are

they supposed to be happy? And so you're seeing this bizarre split in alliances among political allies

and weird new alliances forming among political enemies,

all about Trump meeting with Kim Jong-un.

So first, we have to do a little bit of the background here.

So Kim Jong-un, obviously, is the dictator of the most repressive country on planet Earth.

It is basically a giant gulag.

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