His behavior has raised the stakes for himself. And one of my big concerns about this whole thing from the moment that he signaled apparently on his own that he was ready to have this meeting is that he now is under pressure to produce something from such a meeting.
Axelrod commenting on Trump's pressure to achieve results from the summit with North Korea.
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I think there's a lot of concern among Republican officeholders. Governor Pawlenty could speak more readily to this than me.
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