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Compromises. in a negotiation you have ups and downs, you have sessions that produce agreements, you have others that end early and hope flip people will come back to the table later. if the key thing that president trump said is that he had been given a verbal assurance that north korea would not return to nuclear or missile testing. if that holds, were then in a period where there will be expiration of options, the kind of process thats appropriate in diplomacy. its broken, then we fall right ...

It was something trump wanted to do in part to distract from some of the domestic troubles hes had back home, the government shutdown, the cohen testimony, the mueller investigation. that it was not going to be as easy as trump thought it would be. today seems to be a fresh reminder of the limits of this personal diplomacy brand trump has tried to have the last two years. >> and the belief he has in people like vladmir putin and kim jong-un. after the talks broke down, the president did claim vi...

He also talked about still believing that there could still be ongoing meetings, thats something that secretaryf that secretary of state mike pompeo said. so it is not ending on bad terms, they suggest. however, this was a real disappointment in terms of what the president had suggested could be achievable here, and that just simply pan out. so this was a lengthy news conference. the president took a lot of questions, but there are still so many more issues to come. one thing he also said is tha...

About trying to work towards denuclearizing the korean peninsula. theres a lot of work ahead. the administration and the president supporters will say hes already accomplished quite a bit, that there has been a real low in any real testing there. others will say that satellite imagery and intel shows that north korea still moving ahead with the nuclear program. so what can we expect out of this second meeting? we can expect probably it will be incremental at most. so lets bring in for advice, fo...

Korean peninsula or easing sanctions so south korea can trade more with north korea. some possibilities are small and incremental and others symbolic. others bigger. we just dont know yet until this meeting happens. >> michelle kosinski in hanoi. joining us now retired rear admiral john kirby and former state department rear admiral spokesperson, thank you for being with us. you listen to the president, he has defined success for this meeting as keeping north korea from any additional interchann...

Towards denuclearization? thats something secretary of state mike pompeo said that the president wants. >> a real step is something that i know president trump is very focused on acloohieving. >> he is happy with a halt in missile testing. >> i dont want to rush anybody. i just dont want testing. as long as theres no testing we are happy. >> white house officials tell cnn theres no agreement between the two sides on what denuclearization even looks like. that is something they hope to hammer out...

The question is it up to the administration, the president. is it the appropriate course of action to give something in return for -- for what? especially if we dont have proof that north korea is going to do anything other than stop the missile testing which is no small thing. >> its a good point. especially on multiple networks hearing pompeo lambaste the previous administration for what he called kouri ingcowering and. they need to show they can get concessions from north korea. dont go anywh...

>> reporter: theyre really going to kick off tomorrow. theyre going to have something a little different than they had in singapore. that will be a dinner between the president, mick mulvaney, kim jong-un and a few officials in that small dinner before kicking off the summit the next day. after that meeting that they have, the president and kim jong-un will discuss will there be a signing ceremony and it will be anything meaningful? the president says there is success in that north korea stopped...

Their goal is to have both those powers. >> from the secretary of states stance, you have to wonder, mike pompeo has been telling the president it is one thing for them to have stopped the missile testing. thats great. they can always restart that and we dont know where a lot of these missiles and other weaponry are. and he has urged the president to kind of hold their feet to the fire. he has as well. what is holding their feet to the fire mean? what would have to be verified to leave this summ...

Actions of president trump. we have havent had any missile testing or nuclear weapons testing by north korea in over a year. weve had a return of some of our lost soldiers from the korean war. i think that the heat at the demilitarized zone has been turned down. this will be a long and winding road. you have to be very clear-eyed. its not just kim, his father and the father before them, all of them brutal, ruthless, unforgiving, corrupt dictators. thats who youre dealing with. but i think its cr...