Posted on 06/08/2018 4:40:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Americans should “be rooting” for President Donald Trump at next week’s U.S.-North Korea summit on denuclearization, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday.
“I think we should be rooting for [Trump] to succeed with the North Korea negotiations,” Clinton said in an interview with PBS NewsHour managing editor and anchor Judy Woodruff.
Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un are meeting June 12 in Singapore to discuss ending the regime’s nuclear weapons program — a goal that has eluded previous U.S. presidents, including Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Clinton.
The summit could be successful even if it doesn’t produce a full denuclearization deal, Clinton said, so long as North Korea makes other commitments such as allowing inspectors to monitor its nuclear weapons program.
Next week’s talks, at a resort on Sentosa Island, will be the first ever meeting between a North Korean leader and sitting U.S. president. Clinton called South Korean President Moon Jae-in a “genius” for helping broker the talks.
Trump has expressed optimism ahead of the summit, while cautioning that talks might not result in a final deal and could take longer than one day. CNN reported Thursday that Trump and Kim could meet for a second day if the first day of negotiations goes well.
“Anything we can do to reduce that threat [of North Korea’s nuclear weapons program] is a positive thing,” Clinton said.
Clinton spoke to the NewsHour alongside best-selling author James Patterson, with whom he co-wrote “The President is Missing,” a thriller about a fictional president’s response to a cyber attack. The book was released this month, putting Clinton back in the spotlight two years after his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was defeated by Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Other highlights from the interview:
• Defending NAFTA: Clinton defended the North American Free Trade Agreement, his signature trade deal with Canada and Mexico. “On balance we’re a lot better off” because of NAFTA, Clinton said. But said the agreement — which he signed in 1993 — “needs to be upgraded.”
• Have Democrats moved in the direction of protectionism on trade? When asked by Woodruff, Clinton said yes. “But we pretty well know who is going to be hurt in a trade agreement — who will be helped, will be hurt. We should get our money on the front end from now on, but otherwise, I still believe in trade.”
• Is a cyber attack the most serious threat the U.S. faces? Clinton, whose new book is about a fictional cyber attack, said while a chemical, biological or nuclear attack could kill more people more quickly, “it is more likely that a serious cyber attack could do a massive amount of damage and be successful.” The comments come weeks after the White House eliminated its top cyber security adviser position. The annual report from the director of national intelligence identifies cyber security as the No. 1 threat to the U.S.
Bills must be wanting assisted Arkencide in his old age
Loral and Hughes corporation were the passing group. That is why they were fined millions for their “indiscretion.”
The following article from the Wall Street Journal was written about the investigation done by the DOJ and what happened is factual.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB891797160649833000
And what’s worse, when Sec. Brown was going to go public with it when he briefed Clinton in Croatia in 1996 and flew out the next day, his plane crashed and he and 32 others were killed.
When the autopsy was done on television, they displayed x-rays that a comment was made by the commentators that the shape of the hole in Brown’s head appeared one like would be accomplished by a drill or a gun shot. The television went black, and a new briefing was accomplished a week later this time without x-rays.
Furthermore, a maintenance chief at the airport where the plane was headed had “committed suicide.” A lot of that happened around the Clintons.
rwood
Loral and Hughes corporation were the passing group. That is why they were fined millions for their “indiscretion.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/mar/06/business/fi-boeing6
The following article from the Wall Street Journal was written about the investigation done by the DOJ and what happened is factual.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB891797160649833000
And what’s worse, when Sec. Brown was going to go public with it when he briefed Clinton in Croatia in 1996 and flew out the next day, his plane crashed and he and 32 others were killed.
When the autopsy was done on television, they displayed x-rays and a comment was made by the commentators that the shape of the hole in Brown’s head appeared one like would be accomplished by a drill or a gun shot. The television went black, and a new briefing was accomplished a week later this time without x-rays.
Furthermore, a maintenance chief at the airport where the plane was headed had “committed suicide.” A lot of that happened around the Clintons.
Later that afternoon, Niko Jerkuic goes home to collect his reward. It is to come three days later: a bullet through the chest, just shortly before he is scheduled to be grilled by the U.S. Air Force accident investigation team. A hit squad wraps his hand around the gun and departs. Like many of the White-water dead, Jerkuic is immediately labelled a suicide even though there’s no evidence.
http://dangerouslogic.com/ron_brown.html
rwood
Should we be taking “Me Too“ seriously if no one else is?
I can agree that your point is open to debate. :)
I doubt he wrote any of the book. He may have consulted, but mostly he was paid for the use of his name, IMHO.
Read about brown. I thought Clinton approved the tech sale
The tech sale he approved, in his stupidity, was for the computers designed to process industrial grade uranium. But in his stupidity, at least as we don’t know if he knew they would or not, he missed that they could upgrade the computers he sent to process weapons grade information and create more nuclear weapons as they were being backed by Pakistan and Russia.
Here’s a good article from the History channel. But you’ll notice there is no mention of what the US gave up during the Clinton tenure to make a deal with Kim who is very pro nuclear and took over when his father died.
https://www.history.com/news/north-korea-nuclear-deal-bill-clinton-agreed-framework
rwood
thanx
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