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The works for the weeks. the white house wouldnt officially confirm it, but we knew that was coming. the kim invitation does appear to be relatively spontaneous. taking both governments, u.s. and south korea, by surprise. when the president offered it over twitter while we were still in japan on saturday. with, you know -- by the end of that day there was a sense that chairman kim would show up. the white house of course did not confirm that. until just a few hours before we went to the dmz. it ...

Contributor. how is the tour with tim degraw going? >> i got off the bus -- >> rock star. >> so lets speed it up. >> a rock star in loose fit khakis. jon meacham. >> these go to 11. >> lets take about the trip overseas, hes just returning on friday. he tweeted this, if chairman kim of north korea sees this, i would meet him at the border, dmz, just to shake his hand and say hello. followed an question mark or exclamation point. he led president trump over the border at the heavily mortified demi...

This idea of a trump/kim jong-un meeting at the dmz has been floated for many, many months and it was seen eternally as just a hail mary pass. too high risk for the president. in the end, the president overcame that skepticism, im going to do it. and its clear that bolton wasnt really on board with that. and didnt go to the dmz. but the issue going forward, what happens in these real negotiations? is it real, does it make denuclearization real? >> so john bolton was not there yesterday at the dm...

Has let on? was it really just a tweet that kim jong-un and he people heard about and they agreed to step into the dmz zone? >> lets flash back when the president tried to make the first visit to the dmz. mind you this is the height of the rhetoric like fire and fury when the two nations seemed to be on a collision course perhaps even for conflict. at that time, the president, you know, i was on that trip as well. we were five minutes away from the border when they had to turn the helicopters ar...

John bolton is a legendary bureaucratic infielder and he can manipulate it to the certain extent because president trump might issue an edict or command but its not followed up but at the end of the day, president trump is the president. bolton is not getting the heavy hand that he wanted to shake power and the strategy when you have a leader who is fully unencumbered by any confines and will get on twitter and cross into north korea. >> jonathan lemire, not only were you watching this play out,...

Testing. i wanted to add to it, willie, whats also interesting you had the absence of the national security adviser from the demilitarized zone. >> where was he? >> mongolia. you know, really strategic priority for the united states and the trump administration. >> yeah. >> the -- then he issued a tweet back drop, "new york times" ran a story a few hours ago that the administration is thinking of accepting less than full denuclearization. but theyre willing to entertain the area of an interim or...

This president is doing. i mean, we have talked a lot about north korea and thats obviously an incredibly historic and important part of this. but think about what happened in the days leading up to that step into the dmz. the president was joking around with vladimir putin about russian meddling. he was shaking hands with mbs who the world community has basically declared killed a "washington post" journalist and chopped him up into little pieces. he was meeting with president xi of china. this...

Mongolia. he is a north korea hawk, he did accompany the president to the dmz and jared kushner and ivanka trump were meeting with chairman kim and later made their own trip across the border. they stepped in to north korea for a few moments but not in front of the cameras. there is a divide here as to whats supposed to happen next. join, whether bolton on one side and the president whos starting to tune out the national security adviser according to our reporting. he seems more eager to make a ...

>> i was going to let you take a cheap shot. the yankees sweep the red sox while you were in london. k.d. and kyrie coming to brooklyn and not to the knicks. well tackle those coming up. if chairman kim of north korea sees this, i would meet him at the border dmz just to shake his hand and say hello. followed by a question mark and an exclamation point. kim jong-un apparently saw the tweet yesterday, leading president trump over the border at the heavily fortified demilitarized zone. together th...

With chairman kim. we havent talked about otto warmbier yet, the young american killed, im sure it wasnt easy for his family to see the photos. but he views this as a transactional matter. he feels like hell deal with anyone. hell negotiate with anyone, no matter what their human rights records may be. if he can get a deal in americas interest and is not going to use the power of the presidency or the power of the moment like so many of his predecessors to try to suggest to other leaders that th...