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>> well, trump contradicts his intel team again with just days till his second summit with kim jong-un. what should we expect the second time around? joining me is sumi terry, senior fellow an the center for strategic and international studies and former director for korean national security council and john macculloch lynn, nbc news global fairs analyst and former cia acting director. welcome to you all. we were talking about what we can expect. second meeting of these two men there. one-on-one...

Theyre buying time to make progress on their nuclear program. they may not need to have more nuclear tests. thats what the freeze proposal may mean. now they may be manufacturing nuclear device. >> bill: last point on this, if you believe theyre nuclear by the end of 2018 that would be something else. who makes the next move in the game? >> i dont think we should let them get to that point and that prediction is based in part on what cia director mike pompeo has been saying theyre within a handf...

Efforts in the region the chinese have been making these concerted efforts with the freeze for freeze proposal the chinese and russians have been advocating this idea that north korea would freeze its nuclear weapons development activities in return for the united states and south korea freezing their military exercise. were seeing some of those pieces take place and from the chinese side there is an effort there to frame whats happening now as the beginning part of their process of the freeze f...

Trade between the two countries was worth nearly $650 billion. it is clear that its not just in chinas economic interest, its also in the regions interest that they do something to stop pyongyang. whether they act to do that is anyones guest. >> chinese are floating a freeze proposal at the u.n., haley describing it as insulting. back to you if anything comes out from the white house in the next couple of hours. heather? >> with more on the presidents response to north korea, lets bring in steve...

Antimissile defense, either trying to hit guam or the u.s. nevertheless, six congressmen in china, korea, and japan over this week, and they are going to basically discuss this freeze proposal by russia and china that the u.s. would freeze military maneuvers on the peninsula in exchange, korea would freeze its missile and nuclear program. thats where, arthel, a lot of people say this would be a fools errand because of course history tells us that north korea cant be trusted. back to you. >> live...