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Before. >> reporter: in a meeting with south korea 24 president moon earlier this week, trump hinted the summit may not happen on its original time line. >> may not work out for june 12th but theres a good chance well have the meeting. >> reporter: real trouble started wednesday night when north koreas vice minister of foreign affairs called vice president pence a political dummie saying if the u.s. will meet us or nuclear to nuclear show down is entirely dependent upon the decision and behavior...

From statement from the regime. especially to, quote/unquote, "libya model" regarding north korea from our experience here. pyongyang takes that to mean regime change and hates it. also getting the white house angry, the threat to go nuclear to nuclear in a showdown between the countries. we understand also that president trump spoke to japanese president abe a firm ally in the region. and yes, now on to the event to the northeast of where we are. ironically this was supposed to be a day when th...

Hours once shes back from pyongyang with some instructions. well have to see whats in the communique. at this point, its kind of hard to speculate. certainly, i think its worth following. i commend the administration for doing that. i think theyve got people deployed which is what they should have done in the first place. i think its very important that theyve stopped with these kind of media opportunities. were not hearing john bolton talk about the libya model, whatever he means by that. all o...

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>> lets unwind these rhetorical gymnastics with dana bash and jim sciutto and brian carom with us as well. just to be clear, what happened was john bolton, his new national security adviser said were looking at the libya model, libya hands over its nuclear parts, its a different situation than what north korea has and sanctions are cgadhafi. and trump is saying no, no, no, no, completely throws john bolton under the bus but says says if these dont work out, maybe that is the model. >> two very c...

Get to a place where its something slightly less than that but we can verify its a good deal for the united states, well, then thats fine. but we should be pushing for the maximum possible benefit to the united states right now. >> melissa: what do you think is the maximum possible benefit? he said 20-year freeze was the best we could hope for. >> i dont think that is right. we need to, we need to work with china and our allies in the region, in seoul and in tokyo to come up with a plan that wil...

Watch the tape. he was killed because we destroyed his army through the air raids so his enemies were there to kill him. putting forth that as the model and saying that is our negotiating position, that is what is going to happen, i cant imagine that we are going to achieve that in negotiations. >> melissa: the libya model was used as a way of saying they will take the product of the nuclear program and bring them back for verification. the fact that he was murdered later wasnt part of that orig...

Xi, but fair trade is going to be fair to both sides. a $500 billion deficit is not fair to the people of america. >> the president said the libya model only kicks in if they dont come to the table and talk. we heard today, he said clearly, that he offered security, safety, to kim jong-un, because he doesnt want to end up like muammar qaddafi years after he gave up his nuclear weapons. in terms of that, if this summit doesnt happen, were back to aggressive military posture and options ha? >> the...

This meeting is going to move forward, it comes as north korea last week threatened to pull the plug on the meeting after the u.s. and south korea launched those preplanned military exercises and in the words of south korea, said that that would be fine, they changed their tune last week, started flexing their muscles and that really caught the white house off guard, it caught the president off guard as well. of course you also had what you reference, john bolton suggesting that north korea woul...