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Again, here we are seeing the president of the united states and the leader of north korea kim jong-un. we saw the hand shake, and second moment armed only with their translators. we dont think there will be policy makers. a second press opportunity. the media is sent out of the meeting. jim clapper, the president says this is an honor. we are going to have a terrific relationship going forward. kim jong-un responds through his translator, that there were a lot of obstacles to get to this point....

In singapore. thank you. >>nk you, brother. all right, brother. >> jim clapper, looking at the moments earlier, it is bizarre to say the least, here i am with former director of the government, and dennis rodman, always known as the worm for how he played basketball. he is our best resource at this point for understanding the minds of the two men, especially kim jong-un. >> i agree, chris. >> as weird as that is to say. >> they made a movie about that and it is still weird. >> this whole thing i...

Jong-un and president moon greeting each other at the dmz. >> what was said , president trump said how do you feel? this is great. this is an honor. and we will have a terrific relationship going forward. m jong-un was gracious and said there were a lot of obstacles on the way here but overcame all of them. the right thing to say at the right time. jim clapper, former director of national intelligence has been with the north koreans and negotiated with them. and has said he thought he would neve...

Ha art of the deal," and he read it. >> i have been involving dennis rodman -- >> so jim clapper, you saw dennis rodman as relevant? >> i do. he is a unique person since he has a relationship with both kim jong-un and with donald trump and obviously has great rapport with kim jong-un who is a basketball fanatic himself. so i think there is potential here to engage dennis rodman in a serious way in promoting this relationship. >> so we just found out that the person with trump is the division chi...

And just like that, history h been made. we have anderson cooper and jim clapper with us. the men speaking with i guess who is anticipated to be their translator. >> it does to me. and i have concern about engaging people through translators. huge cultural differences. my own experience and trying to engage the man or woman that you are dealing with through a translator, it is not the same as real estate in new york. >> we do hear them speaking to ch other. do we know if kim jong-un speaks engli...

Yet there they are. a warm moment. and they went and we saw them sitting in chairs. jeff zeleny reports that was because of the height discrepancy. the president of the united states said this was an honor. they are going to have a terrific relationship. the leader of north korea said there have been obstacles but overcame all of them. now we anticipate the two leaders will be only by the people you see on the screen right now, the translators, no policy people. how long will it take. it will be...

There that are absolutely critical to the safety of south vietnam as well as -- >> you have to believe that that is going to be on the table. north korea has such existential concern. jim clapper was on with me and hell be on again. he said when he met with the north koreans that they had paranoia about bombers. so even if its not about the personnel on the peninsula, that will get tricky if the north and south have peace, but the idea of bombers may be on the table, military capabilities, ships...

To hate and fear the united states of america and now theyve had this sunday turnabout. so he has to convey to his domestic audience what is it that north k is going to gain if we give up a capability that weve struggled for decades to achieve. >>ut it will be very interesting to see what comes out of this for the united from the north korean perspective, you have to be happy with this. but republicans and conservatives have been very damning of any type of light treatment of despots, certainly ...

I also wonder whether dni clapper -- this is an amazing moment, but it is a little bit nixon goes to china. he is a republican president. the republicans are not going to criticize him where they may have crucified a democrat for doing the same thing. this is an important moment to grab the initiative to see whether it can actually pay off down the road. but there needs to be a minimum gotten out of kim jong-un at this summit where he is transformed himself on the international stage and already...

Parity and to be treated as equals. for kim jong-un, hes done a total 360 in the space of several months. hes gone from international pariah to international statesman. hes gone from the madman of the hermit kingdom to the m who is able to summon a summit with the the president of the united states having already laid the groundwork with the president of south korea and having just presented himself as somebody who is able to almost flip on a dime. >> so lets bring in jim clapper. this is fairly...