'I think having a fake hearing like that in the middle of this very important summit is really terrible,' President Trump said of his former attorney and fixer Michael Cohen's public testimony before Congress.
A working lunch between the two negotiating teams was scrapped. So was a ceremony intended to mark the signing of a joint agreement between the two countries. Plans for setting up a liaison office in North Korea, which the two leaders discussed in front of reporters on Wednesday, never materialized.
The president had teased the idea that the summit would yield big results. But leaving without a deal was always an option under consideration, according to a senior administration official. sanctions relief — a concession the president said he wasn’t willing to make for the partial denuclearization the North Korean leader was willing to offer.
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