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Parties be willing to give up to move forward. >> so far, they have come to lagerheads, in the negotiation process. both sides have not been willing to move far from the original positions. the north koreans want sanctions relief. and want the economy to be free from the chains that the trump administration placed on it and successive u.s. presidents applied. and the trump administration stuck to it that north korea give up their nuclear weapons before sanctions can come off. neither side has mo...

From the negotiation process. >> thats right. >> reporter: so, there is this sense that these teams are coming together again, but the sense that weve been here before, that this essentially pushes reset, returns us to where we were 15 months ago, but north korea still not pledging to give up its nuclear arsenal. it has added to its stockpile over the past several months. it has resumed testing short-range ballistic missiles as well as weapons, something that president trump dismissed today, say...

President have to say on this historic day? >> sure. well, we know a little bit what was discussed in that meeting behind closed doors because the president was at the air base talking about how he was offering economic prospects. economic opportunities to the north koreans. it gives you a sense of what these negotiation rs like. one bit of news from the president aside from the conditional invite, the conditional offer to the white house was the idea that sanctions begins north korea could be l...

Now, on china -- >> yes, we did. >> bill: watch here. >> i think that we will eventually probably make a deal, but if we dont, the president is perfectly happy with continuing the tariff movement. we have already announced it, as well as imposing new ones, that is temporarily suspended. >> bill: how was i going to fly? what did you think of that? >> when he said i think we are going to get a deal, i think that we are, that is what we should get. china and the u.s. need each other desperately. th...

With the threat of contempt? >> i do. and i think what william barr who is savvy, i agree with katie hes a savvy skilled smart attorney understood, one, it doesnt look good to hide what ultimately will become public eventually. and that he has much more control over the narrative if he agrees to a deal and then ends in a negotiation process over time than he does if he keeps stone walling where theres not a strong legal argument. that just doesnt make it -- it makes for bad optics. >> its not a ...

Control over the narrative if he agrees to a deal and then ends in a negotiation process over time than he does if he keeps stone walling where theres not a strong legal argument. that just doesnt make it -- it makes for bad optics. >> its not a good look. >> its not a good look. i will say whats most important for democrats right now is to focus on the story. the reality is what we know of william barr is he is sitting in his chair thinking about protecting the president rather than the public....

Agrees to a deal and then ends in a negotiation process over time than he does if he keeps stonewalling where theres not a strong legal argument. that just doesnt make it -- it makes for bad optics. >> its not a good look. >> its not a good look. i will say whats most important for democrats right now is to focus on the story. the reality is what we know of william barr is he is sitting in his chair thinking about protecting the president rather than the public. and what that means is that he wi...

>> reporter: theyre accused of torture in isis network of prison cells, which they deny, but now they do offer a rare confession. they tried to arrange ransoms for some of isis european hostages. >> i was a fighter abstracting from them email addresses for communications. >> if it was a proof of life question, something that only they would be able to answer. >> why did you agree to that role? >> it just so happened that way. >> same as what alexander just explained. initially just liasing betwe...

Initially just liaising between the foreign prisoners and people dealing with their negotiation process. >> with their families to try to extract a ransom? >> yeah. yes. >> reporter: koti admits to helping via remote from syria to getting a firearm for an isis fighter for his failed assassination plot in 2016. >> i was the acquisition of the firearm. as far as the details of any plot and what he then went on to do, i had no involvement in that. >> reporter: the grins they had when i met them a y...

Closed doors. that notion became a sticking point. democrats believe the public needs to hear directly from the special counsel. they say numerous options are considered in the negotiation process. first on cnn, the justice department offering a deal to adam schiff to back off against attorney general bill barr and democrats can see counter intelligence materials from the mueller investigation. last week, schiff vowed to take unspecified actions for not providing documents to the committee. he...