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Dr. Melvin Earl Liter (US Army, Lt. Col., retired), beloved Husband, Father, and Poppa, passed away August 17, 2023, in Lexington, KY, at the age of 78.

Parallel gesture. more than a gesture, a security assurance. what does that mean to you? >> well, i hope it doe mn that the president would agree to remove u.s. troops early on or that he would take away the nuclear security umbrella we have for japan and south korea, or we would realign our forces in northeast asia. those are steps that shouldnt even be contemplated until north korea really tells us where all the nuclear weapons are and what theyre going to do to dismantle their program. where ...

>> wendy sherman, thanks so very much. michael, thanks to you. good to see both of you. thanks for joining us. coming up, men in black. what more do we know about the reclusive dictator from the hermit kingdom who surrounds himself with a wall of security guards wherever he goes? youre watching "andrea mitchell reports," live from singapore, only on msnbc. stay with us.

>> michael, we have known so little about kim jong-un up until now. yet he arrives in singapore and goes out on the town tonight, going sightseeing until about midnight, looking at the sites here in singapore. hes completely remade his image in the last couple of weeks, since agreeing to this summit with president trump. what do you make of it? >> i think this is -- kim jong-un has been, and north korea has been one of the targets for the u.s. intelligence community for decades. and i think that...

Witnessed? >> well, it is a circus. if you needed any more -- any more crazy events to take place in singapore on the eve of this summit, the arrival of dennis rodman, who we now has gone and done basketball exercises and tourneys with kim jong-un and is a favorite of kim jong-un. the he is getting on the train at the airport. i mean, excuse me, getting into the -- getting into a car here at the airport after arriving at singapores airport. its only about a 20-minute drive into town. presumably ...

He wants and has a game plan hes going to follow. and dennis rodman, who is cheering from the sidelines. its quite unusual. >> michael liter, one of the big challenges here is to figure out if there were a deal, if they come out with some statement, and pochmpeo said its going so well were going to wrap it up quickly and the president is going to be leaving tuesday night singapore time. quite a bit earlier than originally planned. how do you verify an agreement that comes out of these talks? >> ...

So i think that there is a broad conversation to have about administration that is tolerating right-wing extremism and hate as well as obviously the continued threat of a war that were continuing to not prosecute well overseas. >> michael. >> i think being tough on terrorism means very different thins. it means going after sources of intelligence. but it means engaging the muslim community in a way that actually encourages their cooperation in this. there is no way to do the war on terror while ...

Removed, five days away from the uk snap elections. joining me now, nbc news national security analyst, michael liter. obvious low -- she wasnt talking about -- she was talking about safe space in the digital environment. she believes, that is what she brought up first, not people going back and fort to syria. >> i think shes exactly right. she sees people arent necessarily going to sere wra and training, theyre staying in london, staying in manchester and getting that engagement. she made this ...

Terror attack and one of our dearest alliances in london. so, number one. nuer two, hes piticizing it by attacking mayor of london, yor of london saying no reason for alarm. hes trying to calm his citizens. and the president is making -- essentially making fun of that. and then hes politicizing it by bringing up the travel ban. forget the legal argument. what does it in the supreme court by saying the ban is a ban even though theyre arguing that its not a ban. >> right. >> politicizing a moment ...

A little bit of what the prime minister theresa may said. i want to focus on the specific phrase she used, mr. secrety, that tolerance of extremism has been too -- for too long, too much tolerance of this extremism in the uk. is she right? >> well, thats a judgment shes going to have to make about their own relationship with the muslim community and great britain and as michael just said, theyve had a longstanding problem with respect to greater levels of alienation, a harder time assimilating i...