June 12, 2018
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
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🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing. |
| 0:05.7 | Stay tuned after the podcast for a message from the American Public Transportation Association. |
| 0:11.0 | The big news this morning, of course, is President Trump signing a document that he said would represent the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. |
| 0:18.8 | He gave a wide-ranging press conference lasting 65 minutes where he called |
| 0:23.3 | it, quote, the first bold step toward a bright new future for Kim Jong-un's people. |
| 0:28.7 | Anyone can make war, the president said. Only the most courageous people can make peace. |
| 0:33.4 | Trump said North Korea would get rid of its nuclear arsenal as soon as possible. |
| 0:37.0 | A lot of details were not hammered out. |
| 0:40.3 | Asked what would happen if North Korea did not follow through. |
| 0:43.9 | Trump said, I don't want to be threatening. |
| 0:46.5 | They understand that. |
| 0:48.2 | Other notable things from his press conference, |
| 0:50.8 | Trump said that the war games off the Korean Peninsula should stop. Trump also said the deal |
| 0:56.3 | wouldn't have been possible without Otto Wormbeer, the deceased American student who was detained |
| 1:01.7 | and abused by the North Korean regime. Trump also got several questions about North Korea's |
| 1:06.6 | gruesome human rights abuses and said they discussed it, but it was a relatively short conversation |
| 1:12.0 | compared to denuclearization. Trump also said Kim was a worthy negotiator and had a great personality, |
| 1:18.0 | very smart, good combination, according to our own Ileana Johnson, today's pool reporter. |
| 1:23.3 | Trump said the two will meet many times. Trump said he will be inviting Kim Jong-un to the White House at the appropriate time |
| 1:30.3 | and said he would go to North Korea at a certain time. |
| 1:33.9 | As a side note, the president said he noticed North Korea has great beaches during nuclear test videos |
| 1:40.2 | and said to think about this all from a real estate perspective. |
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