Michael Cohen's testimony gives everyone what they want. Rashida Taleb goes off the rails, and President Trump's North Korea Gambit comes apart. I'm Ben Shapiro. This is the Ben Shapiro Show. We have a lot of breaking news on the North Korea front. We're going to get to that in just one second. First, let's talk about hiring at your business. Hiring is challenging, but there's one place you can go, or hiring is simple, fast, and smart. It's a place where growing businesses connect to qualified candidates. That place is ziprecruiter.com slash daily wire. ZipRecruiter sends your job to over 100 of the web's leading job boards, but they don't stop there. With their powerful matching technology, ZipRecruiter scans thousands of resumes to find people with the right experience and then invites them to apply to your job. As applications come in, ZipRecruiter analyzes each one and they spot like the top candidates so you never miss a great match. ZipRecruiter is so effective that 80% of employers who post on ZipRecruiter get a quality candidate through the site within the very first day. And right now,

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My feeling was... failure. It is just, it's a giant fail. I have been very critical of the president's strategy on North Korea,

but I was willing to withhold judgment. My feeling was, if the president wants to try his sycophancy for denuclearization negotiation tactic, if he wants to pretend that he can flatter Kim Jong-un into giving

up his nuclear weapons, which again, makes no sense. The only reason Kim Jong-un is even a

player on the world stage is because of his nuclear weapons. But if Trump thinks that he can

flatter him into something, if he thinks that he can grant him world credibility by meeting with him

and conferring America's imprimatur of quasi-approval upon him, if he thinks he can get him to denuclearize, well, it's a high-risk, high-reward strategy, because if it works, then the president wins the Nobel Peace Prize. But if it doesn't work, then the United States has just sunk down to the level of the North Korean dictatorship diplomatically by sitting in a room with one of the worst people on planet Earth, a man who is keeping millions of people in a giant gulag, a person who has executed legitimately tens of thousands of people, a person who kills his relatives with anti-aircraft guns and anthrax at airports, the president of the United States sat down with that guy not once, but twice. And again, if this was all part of some grand plan, fine. It turns out today it was not part of a grand plan.

And I'm going to show you how this whole thing fell apart, that was never properly planned,

and how the president of the United States made the United States look foolish in this entire

endeavor and continues to do so today in his talk about Kim Jong-un. The bottom line is this.

Negotiation takes place between people who are seeking some sort of common interest.

The United States does not have a common interest with the Kim regime. Now, is it possible that

negotiators could find such a common interest? Perhaps. But that would require actual diplomatic

initiative. That would require pre-negotiations. That would require that Kim Jong-un had already

signed off on some stuff before President Trump ever got in a room with him.

What you don't do is send the President of the United States around like a used car salesman

trying to pawn off a bad lemon on some unsuspecting schmuck.

That's not what the President of the United States is there to do.

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