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>> he cant conduct nuclear testing. hes got to stop the missile testing that hes been hard at for the last years. lets got to continue to allow us to perform our militarily necessary exercises on the peninsu peninsula. then hes got to make sure he leaves on the table that discussion for denuclearization. these are conditions that the north korean regime has never submitted to in exchange for conversations. >> melissa: those are the things that theyre, you know, saying theyre going to do now. how...

Dont want to deal with me." >>okay. potentially setting himself up to get out of some of those saks sanctions. he now has videos and pictures with him with president trump. and now people think hell have the credibility or authority of having gotten to sit down with the sitting u.s. president. whats the win for this in our administration? >> only if the president follows through on what he says consistently. it shouldnt surprise anybody that he agreed to meet with him. the question is whether by...

Dont want to deal with me." >>okay. potentially setting himself up to get out of some of those saks sanctions. he now has videos and pictures with him with president trump. and now people think hell have the credibility or authority of having gotten to sit down with the sitting u.s. president. whats the win for this in our administration? >> only if the president follows through on what he says consistently. it shouldnt surprise anybody that he agreed to meet with him. the question is whether by...

Its nuclear weapons and normalizing relations with the u.s. do you think kim jong-un is sincere? >> weve been there before. but look, i want to give credit where credit is due. i think the trump administration has done a good job in sustaining and even building the pressure on north korea, economic pressure, to give it incentive to come back to the table. thats a good thing. the fact that theyve now said they are prepared to talk about de-nuclearization is a good thing. its been refusing to do t...

The united states is also grateful to sweden forred a voengi advocating for americans detained in noor north korrth k. i want to thank them for securing the release of american college student otto warmbier last year a terrible tragic event. we continue to pray for ottos parents two, terrific people over the tragic death of their son and we remain determined to achieve a de-nuclearization of the korean peninsula and there has been a lot of news on that today. hopefully its positive, hopefully it...

>> a good point. will ripley to you, an incredible perspective there in the east. i was handed this bit of color from an official of deep knowledge of korea, kim jong-un wants the whole world to know he has a clear strategy and he is the sheriff in town. >> i just had a conversation with that official, brooke, basically what he says is that what kim jong-un is going to ask for here in exchange for a potential commitment to de-nuclearization is a goal that north korea and chosen and russia by the...

False alarm. the administrator says this will never happen again. they are changing protocols inside. >> thank you. i want you to listen to congress woman, democrat from hawaii. she is not happy with what happened yesterday but said there is a bigger issue to address. watch. >> what makes me angry is yes that this false alarm went out and we have to fix that in hawaii, but really we have to get to the underlying issue here of why are the people of hawaii and this country facing a nuclear threat ...

South since its weapons are only aimed at the united states and not its quote brethren in the south. joining us chief global correspondent bill neely. bill, it seems like the talks cant go anywhere when you have the leaders saying they wont skep e accept a nuclear north korea. >> reporter: yeah, good morning, guys, president moon has said this before that he would sit down at a summit with kim jong-un. it always comes with the same condition towards de-nuclearization. we know that will not happe...

Before committing to talks? >> our policy is the complete verifiable irreversible de-nuclearization of the korean policy. that is a policy held by everyone in the region as well. the chinese has it as a stated policy. russia has it as a stated policy. everyone in the international community are well aligned on the policy. how we achieve the ultimate end point, the final, the full de-nuclearization, the verification of that and irreversibility of it, clearly that will take some time. how we begin...

Presidents tweet on the nuclear button. but you know now north korea is talking with south korea. do you think that tough rhetoric has worked here? >> i this i the rhetoric that north korea understands is while it is our objective and the president has been very clear to achieve a de-nuclearization through diplomatic efforts, those diplomatic efforts are backed by a strong military option, if necessary. >> that is not the first choice and the president has been clear thats not his first choice. ...