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U.s. official that joe hagen, going back to him, and other officials went to singapore and were stood up, as this official said. and the u.s. was still planning to go forward with talks with north korea. it was only after those insults that were hurled aa -- at the vice president and what president trump called a nuclear showdown threat that they had to walk away. >> my theory is that the north koreans had no idea how to engage with anyone other than china, and even not that well. and they dont ...

Franchesca chambers, white house correspondent of the daily mail.com, courtney kube of msnbc, where she covers the pentagon and national security, josh crashauer of the "national journal." welcome, you three. franchesca, ill start with you, with the korea summit, on and off, off on thursday, on on friday. what was the reaction to the pentagon on thursday? >> surprise. a tremendous surprise. thursday, after the letter came out, it was scrambling to figure out what exactly it meant. did it mean it...

He has them over to the pentagon once a week or so for breakfast. hes trying to put them all on the same page, then to be able to present an alliance to president trump as he did with secretary tillerson. it does not appear that thats working out with john bolton so far. it seems like mattis and pompeo really are more on the same page, specifically about north korea. it seems like they were on the same page on the summit, but its not really working out with bolton yet. >> does the national secur...

Weekend to singapore for the summit. so, it is off, as far as we know, but theyre leaving open the possibility that it could be back on. >> josh crashauer, on friday morning, i had senator lindsey graham on my radio show. an absolutely chilling exchange. he said, president trump is going to resolve the korea north nuclear weapons program, one way or another, and he talked explicitly about war. is that the alternative to whats going on here? >> lindsey graham is being very stark and i think thats...