Trump Meets Kim Jong Un. It Was the Photo-Op We Thought It Would Be
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
The historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un actually happened. What does it mean? What was accomplished? We break it down all throughout the show. It's early, but it looks like it was nothing more than a photo op.
Vice News' Evan McMorris-Santoro and Gregory Hellman from Politico join Bill to break it down.
Plus, the Trump administration continues its assault on Obamacare. Sam Baker from Axios tells us how.
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| 1:07.8 | Little Rocket Man meets Big Rocket Man in perhaps the most overrated photo op in history. Hey, |
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| 1:28.9 | Thank you so much for joining us here on this Tuesday, and of course the big news is the summit. |
| 1:36.7 | Yeah, Tuesday here in the United States, but it's almost Wednesday over there in Singapore, |
| 1:42.3 | and last night at 9 p.m. East Coast time is when a very well-orchestrated little scene. |
| 1:50.1 | The president coming in from stage right, Kim Jong-un coming in from stage left, meeting in the middle with a big handshake, then a little private session, and then the actual meeting with |
| 2:02.6 | the North Korean team and the United States team, and the president doing a sit-down |
| 2:10.4 | little interview with Sean Hannity, of course, George Stephanopoulos from ABC News, |
| 2:16.4 | and then holding a news conference, his first since last February, I don't mean 2018, February 2017, for an over an hour there in Singapore. |
| 2:27.1 | And he said, they got along so well that he has invited Kim Jong-un to the White House and Kim Jong-un has accepted. |
| 2:36.4 | Yes. |
| 2:37.0 | So no more meetings with Trudeau or Macron or Merkel or May from now on is going to be Putin and Kim Jong-un at the White House. |
| 2:46.2 | Oh, my God. |
| 2:47.3 | Where does this go? |
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