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Planned this out in ways we dont like but it may not matter. hes created markers by himself by making all these pledges to give up his troops. president trump may think hes powerful but theres a whole bunch of other forces on him including south korea that is not helpful to us at this particular time and china is trying to reassert itself in the process. we saw kim jong-un going to china twice in a row which is unprecedented, a break in protocol. theres a lot going on here and i dont think that ...

>> when we look at the approval ratings for north korea, let me pull up what our cnn polling is telling us and youve got -- even the majority of democrats who are very supportive of the president on this, very supportive -- the job ten-point jump in just two months from overall american approval of how the president is handling north korea. the significance, david? >> the president deserves credit. he used a lot of this tough rhetoric and for whatever reason kim jong-un is now talking to him. yo...

Singapore. the president had said in the last several days that a time and date was set. he did not announce where it would be but he did rule out the demilitarized zone between the north and south and singapore is looking like the most likely location someplace in the asia region close enough for kim jong-un to reach by plane, john and poppy. >> our new polling shows that many americans are very supportive of that meeting happening. abby, thank you very much. with us now gordon chain. good mo...

Different relationship we had with north korea and you can see it in the treatment of the two sets of individuals. >> the president, david, also said this morning -- i believe we have it. lets play this. >> we want to thank kim jong-un who really was excellent to these three incredible people. >> so the word excellent, they were excellent to these three people, these were americans detained against their will in north korea. excellent? >> no. so heres the danger and as a former captive its hard ...

Let these hostages dictate your policy. you cant reward regimes too much and so theres a danger of going to the plane and making it this big moment because hostage takers see this and think, these hostages are worth a tremendous amount so let me take more of them. >> when you look at this, does this keep on raising the stakes for this meeting between president trump and kim jong-un? everything seems to be pointing toward a successful meeting. well get there but what then? >> the stakes are high....