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I can't get more explicit than May.

Let's just say it may.

It's Monday, March 4, 2019 from Slated to the Gisdai Mike Pesca.

On Sunday National Security Advisor John Bolton was on CNN and faced the nation, and it

was on face the nation when he was asked to explain the failure of the North Korean summit.

You know the summit that just failed.

Here was his answer.

Well, I don't consider the summit a failure.

I consider a success defined as the president protecting and advancing American national

interest.

There was extensive preparation for this meeting, extensive discussions between the president

Kim Jong-un, and the issue really was whether North Korea was prepared to accept what the

president called the big deal, which is denuclearized entirely under a definition.

The president handed the Kim Jong-un and had the potential for an enormous economic future,

or trying to do something less than that, which was unacceptable to us.

So the president held firm to his view.

He deepened his relationship with Kim Jong-un.

I don't view it as a failure at all when American national interests are protected.

And still, and still, I kept listening.

I continued on.

Why do I do it to myself?

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