barack obama and michelle get ready to depart washington and get on marine-1. did you speak to them since then? >> well, not much. initiately right after i took office i did. one or two times. i spoke to them before taking office. that's a ritual. it was 15 minutes and it ended up being quite a bit long tore put it mildy. it was an interesting conversation. he told me about north korea and the problems and that was the greatest problem we and i to it a large extent solved it. they understood we were not playing games and we got along great. not very much. >> sean: you once told me that you thought we were on a path towards war with north korea? >> i did and so did president obama and that would have been a nuclear war. we met in singapore and in vietnam. we had great meetings and we established a great relationship. i liked him and he liked me. we had some interesting conversations. >> sean: we got back the remains of our soldiers. >> we did. >> sean: i was at both summits. he stopped the fest firing of missiles -- test. that was a good thing. the second one th