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CNN’s Erin Burnett Reveals the One Way Trump Can be Considered a ‘Great President’

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News of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un and President Trump’s imminent meeting flooded headlines. However, during a panel discussion Thursday, Mar.8, CNN host Erin Burnett declared Trump could down “as a great president” if the issues with North Korea are resolved.

The news reporters shocking words come on the heels of the South Korean National Security Office Head, Chung Eui-Yong announcement of Jong-Un possibly enacting denuclearization and stopping tests around the nuclear weapons program. Trump also tweeted about the meeting Thursday evening.

Burnett said, “Just an extraordinary evening and, of course, opening the door to the big question,” she exclaimed. “If President Trump could truly solve this problem, that would be going down as a great president. There is no getting around that. That is the reality here.”

Major General James Marks, a CNN contributor, added the North Koran dictator may be viewed as “irrelevant” and “not to be taken seriously” if he chooses not to recognize the military partnership between the United States and South Korea as not “one of the best in the world.”

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