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nailed down. I heard some good journalism on on this yesterday. A little fathead does travel with his own toilet and they do collect his leavings. Oh boy, treating a good journalism. Good work. If you can get even better than that journalist, what do you do for the for the government? Deborah J. Saunders is the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review Journal and an honored guest here on The Armstrong and Getty Show. Hello, Debra, how are you? I don't
clean toilets at the White House? Yeah, that's a heck of a job, collecting that stuff and storing it for future generations. Analyze, I haven't collected it, but we both in our lives, have had to clean the john's at that little radio stations we worked out exactly. We've all had to do it at some sometimes, and of course I do it at my house to you know, more than occasionally. So listen to everyone more enlightened higher plane discussion or the president in Hanoi for the big summit
and uh, and it's all about the expectations game. Depending on who you ask, I guess well, I mean, the question is will something come of this? Because we had the big summit in Singapore and they came out with a nice sort of agreement. It didn't say much and it actually pulled back from some agreements in the past.
And so the question is are we actually going to get something for all this pump for for for this kind of summit that puts Kim Jong on in sort of the community of world leaders who get to do summits, or is this going to be another exercise and showmanship And that's about it. Well, that's I'm going to accuse you of being stuck in the uh, the forms of the past, just because the idea of does he deserve a summit? A summit is where you have deliverable, elevated exactly.
You spend months preparing and then the two leaders come together, smile at the summit, and sign the big agreement. I just don't think that's the way Trump works. I think he's trying to forge a relationship that are bare fruit in the future. Well he does. He's a salesman, and every salesman I've ever known thinks they can sell you anything, right. I think if they just spend enough time with you, they can get you to buy this. Yes, that's Trump's deal.
So I'm not saying you're wrong. I'm just I think he's approaching it in a very different way than Barack Obama would have. And I completely agree with you. But but you can only do that for one summit. You
can't keep doing that, right. In other words, so you can say uh, and and there are people who say it that Trump had to deal with him differently UH Asian UH leaders like to deal with having the big the big people out front and then have other people do the details later, and that this was a different way of dealing with with with the Hermit Kingdom. This was a smart way to do it. That's why I
hear that. I accept that. The thing is you can't keep doing that, and at this point in time, there has to be some sort of pulling back of uh beyng Young the where they produced nuclear material. There. There's talk that they may cut a deal where they will they will basically destroy that facility. If that happens, that would be good, and I assume that the US will pull back on the sanctions. That would be something that could come out of this. Or not, we'll find out.
I'm disappointed in the coverage we were talking about this before. Um, all the coverage comes down to this help Trump or hurt Trump politically, and not enough on the actual what we're actually trying to accomplish. This is a big deal. We have a country run by a nut job with nuclear weapons and keeps, you know, saying the nutty stuff. So it would be nice to get some deliverables, whether
it helps Trump or not. Yeah, I agree with you. Um, you know I The thing that I was really concentrating on last week before they left is are they going to be alone? And I think that there's this part of a lot of people in the international community, the foreign policy wag stuff like that, who don't like the fact that Donald Trump likes to be alone with these leaders translators only Now in Singapore, he met with Kim alone and then they had a big expanded bilateral. All
the other big shots are there. Um. So the question always with Trump is how personal will this get? Is he gonna come out really, you know, clutching a letter with talking about how happy is and how how much they love these letters. How personal? I mean he he makes it so personal, and it's one of the reasons why people look at it that way. Uh Barack Obama didn't try to get into the personalities of this in real look more at, for example, the human rights record
more Korea. So listen, I guess I take a really unconventional view of this, and and there is a major caveat to this. But the Kim Jong un is not a nut job. I know he is by our standards. He's he's highly irrational, but he heads up the hermit kingdom famously isolated, maybe the most isolated country on Earth. And I think drawing him out, putting him on the world stage, forcing him to engage in the world is a very productive goal. Now, it's definitely playing a long game.
And honestly, it depends, like you're describing on Trump and personal meetings and private meetings and the rest of it. Um and and as soon as the administration changes, well that'll go up and smoke, which is why specifics are important and foreign policy. But see, I think having sum it after summat and having this guy more and more engaged in the world is actually the ruble in itself. But you know, we'll see. Deborah Saunders of the Las
Vegas Review Journal is on the line. Do you have any idea how Trump will be taken in the information tomorrow when Cohen's testifying, And there's some reporting out today that Cohen's gonna claim Trump is was breaking laws while in the White House and making racist jokes and all kinds of different stuff. You know, this is really nasty, the fact that they're going to have Michael Cohen testify while the US President is in Vietnam trying to put
together a summit to de nuclearize North Korea. I mean, having them be the world from nuclear holocaust. Yes, yeah, that's right. So I mean, I just think we'll see how far these guys want to push it. But I don't think it looks good to have Michael Cohen testifying. Well, uh, Trump is trying to get a deal, and and I may be skeptical about what will be done, although you know something could could easily could happen. There are a lot of people who want to see something good come
of this. But the idea that Trump has to put up with this at this moment, it's just long. I think we would agree on that. Yeah, God, you would think, so do it do it Friday or do it next week. You could get to it fine with the whole Cohen stuff, But God, Danny can't have the president, like Joe said, trying to avert nuclear armageddon and then somebody whispering his Cohen just said, you'd called a bunch of black guys, but the inn word and a bunch of people are
now seriously talking about impeachment, sir. Anyway, Kim Jong Luin is waiting for you in the next round. You can't have that, that seems I mean, I can picture the WAPO in the New York Times going berserk if the Republicans were trying to undermine Barack Obama as he's in the final moments of, for instance, the nuclear arms deal. By the way, the Washington Post has a full page story today about a campaign staffer who said that Trump
tried to kiss her. Yeah, I heard about that, and everybody who was said to have been there said that didn't happen. So that's great. Yeah, we're going to get to a Columbia School of Journalism poll of Americans about their attitudes toward journalists. And it's it's not super it's it's a little if faith, Deborah. I wonder why I saw that story this morning. I could couldn't believe it.
I mean, it had been up online yesterday, but you have a fully at least it wasn't on the front page, which is what the New York Times had done in sixteen. But I mean, I I'm sorry, I just don't consider that to be curious full page curious people would actually want to write a huge story about interesting. Yeah, yeah, we shall see. Deborah J. Saunders is the White House correspondent for the Las Vegas Review Journal. Well you might
have some fancy righting to do, Debora. We'll let you rest your right and wrist and get it stretched out. Maybe I sit a little bit and get ready. Okay, all right, good to talk to you. Thanks. So I haven't read this. Uh, Sean mentioned it was on a Twitter on a tweet yesterday from somewhere, but it's now. It's in the Washington Post. Some woman claims that Trump kissed her, tried to kiss her and she turned her head, and now she's suing for many many dollars for emotional distress.
That somebody tried to kiss her. It could be true, But why now seems pretty weird, just in that you didn't want to bring him down during his campaign in no time during the last two years? What what? What's the Is there an answer for the why now? I don't know. There could be an answer, but I have not gone deep into this story. So the theory I saw thrown out is that she was lawyering up to figure out how to break her non disclosure agreement that that Trump signed, and part of working with it, you
signed these things. Okay, she was part of the campaign. That's funny. I heard about this story a couple of days ago. I hadn't realized it was the same girl. Okay, woman whatever? Um? Alright? So yeah, wild was she at the time? But I don't know. I quit asking me stuff. I haven't looked at the store. Say it's ridiculously just happened. I'll find out our age. Yeah, I just wonder she is point two year older fifty two year old one. Alright, well,
it's going to become a thing. It could become a thing. Why don't you cover that story. I'll cover the nuclear arms peel. It could be the big story the next next two weeks for all, I have some really good condescensial. Oh yeah, hey, the view from this high horse is fantastic. You can see the mountains. When you're ready to ride Metro, we want you to know we're ready for you. Here are just a few of the people at Metro to tell you how we're doing our part to keep riders safe.
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