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Needed. [speaking foreign language] >> but here we are today in front of each other and have a hope that we will be successful this time and make certain that happens. >> thank you. i want to just say its an honor to be with chairman kim. its an honor to be together and really a country vietnam where they have really rolled out the red carpet and they have already offered to have us and its great to be with you. we had a very successful first summit. i felt it was very successful. and some peopl...

Hour ago. reporting on my intentions with respect to north korea and kim jong un and i are very hard to work. we are going to work very hard to work something out on denuclearization and making north korea an economic power house. i believe china, russia, japan and south korea will be very helpful. steve: ed henry is still with us. is he live in hanoi where he has been covering the presidents summit. when the president arrived and he sent out a message yesterday that vietnam is thriving, he said...

Cohen and his testimony? [inaudible] ainsley: you see the bars there, the president said basically we are finished with the one-on-one. now we will sit down and have dinner. he did remind us they are meeting tomorrow. even though that one-on-one was short. and this dinner is supposed to be a social additional. this is just step one of this longer summit. steve: we apologize it was so hard to hear what they were saying because you had all the world press and the motor drives and you have the simu...

How damaging is this going to be? >> i dont think its damaging at all, brian. listen, i have spoken out about this topic before. this has all been baked into the cake. there is no news here. can i just say that doing this now by the democrats, calling this hearing while the president is in this incredibly important denuclearization summit is really one of the more disgraceful episodes in a litany of disgraceful episodes we have seen from this radical far left democrat party. this isnt a time for...

The north korean regime. its that they cant feed their military. if their military cant be fed and paid, then they have a serious problem. economic growth. we have a lot of leverage here. and trump knows that. thats why he keeps -- do you notice he keeping emphasizing the economic angle in this. thats for a reason. not just a business guy but tactical reason, too. steve: sure, at the first summit they put together video where it showed what it would be like if kim were a world leader and joined ...

A president who is up in the white house residence watching the hearing and then watching the coverage for 24 hours straight, a person close to the president said. and the blessing counting here is, not that the president cant see the coverage live, its the post-game that gets him riled up. >> thats absolutely true. i think that those golf weekends, the long weekends at mar-a-lago or bedminster where hes thinly staffed and watching coverage and reading the papers and talking to people and callin...

A president who is up in the white house residence watching the hearing and then watching the coverage for 24 hours straight, a person close to the president said. and the blessing counting here is, not that the president cant see the coverage live, its the post-game that gets him riled up. >> thats absolutely true. i think that those golf weekends, the long weekends at mar-a-lago or bedminster where hes thinly staffed and is watching coverage and reading the papers and talking to people and cal...

Advisers have privately expressed relief that the hearing will take place while the president is limited in his ability to monitor the coverage. this is maybe the definition of counting your blessings. quote, youre not going to have a president who is up in the white house residence watching the hearing and then watching the coverage for 24 hours straight, a person close to the president said. and the blessing counting here is, not that the president cant see the coverage live, its the post-game...

If it happens, kim will be the first north korean to visit soul since the end of the korean war. and the second the denuclearization summit between north korea and the us is, quote, near at hand. rob: jamal khashoggi choked to death and dismembered, prosecutors laying out gruesome details of the columnists murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul, his body still has not been found. the youngest brother of king salmon now returning to the country in hopes of ousting his own nephew, the crown pri...

They basically have been cheering defeat here. they have been cheering lets not have this denuclearization summit. abby: you talked about setting the right expectations. smart to do it. playing the long game. he knows that the media wants -- a lot of the them want this to fail. they dont want the president to succeed. not everyone in the media. folks laugh at this. notes if they walk away from singapore and not that handshake at the end saying this is not the end of the 70 year war. we are denuc...