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A sign of progress, thats how a senior state department official is now characterizing the early ending to a meeting between secretary of state mike pompeo and north koreas kim young chu. a short time ago the secretary tweeted this. substantive talks with the team from north korea. we discussed our priorities for the potential summit between our leaders. but theres more. that senior north korean official will now receive a special waiver to make a special delivery tomorrow. listen to this. >> i ...

Power, and certainly a meeting like this under sds scoscores t. >> and you saw, kim jong-un really got good status right now. he met with president moon of south korea, he met with secretary pompeo several times, and now foreign minister lavrov of russia is going to be there. so kim jong-un given that world status that he really wants and president trump is ready to treat him if not as an equal but a federal world leader. >> hes met twice with president xi of china as well, so hes developing int...

President is watching and i know the national security team is ready. he now dictates his life and he dictates what happens between the united states, our allies and his regime. >> i want to bring in cnn global affairs correspondent elise l lavin. the trump team says it is preparing russian strikes as early as this week. so how is nikki haley handling all this? >> perhaps export arms or helicopters to syria. you saw one of those oligarchs last week. one of those companies was supplying those s-4...