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Screwed up in being so tough. the week before. and in their rhetoric against vice president pence and others that they had gone too far reverting back after kim jong-un had gone to beijing and visited with the chinese, presumably to toughen up his negotiating stance that they made the rhetoric so unacceptable to president trump that -- you know, president trump felt he had to break off the summit and did it with very little communication and very little dialogue with his national security adviso...

Purely for optics sake? by that i mean kim jong-un, president trump in a photo that would be plastered on the front page of every publication in the world for a day or two and after that not much else in terms of substantive policy changes? >> well, two things. i think they will be -- there will be a summit. im with andrea on this. i would bet on that. whether the 12th -- >> a substantive summit. >> on the substantive issue. again, if you follow what the secretary of state has said and he seems ...

Hears to be on for june 12th. on again/off again, on again/off again, now back on again. i want to bring in kelly odonnell. kelly o. is standing by live at the white house. what do we know, or do we know, whats going to happen once this face-to-face wraps up? >> reporter: well, our viewers have come to hear us talk about the pool. we have a small group of our colleagues who on a rotating basis are assigned to be closest to the president. so weve been waiting for word from them about any next ste...

But there are some schedules today that we will look forward to those data points. where the president speak on camera? make that available to colleagues waiting close by in the pool? and when he departs for camp david for the weekend, will he give us his own readout of this important day? craig? >> all right, kelly odonnell for us at the white house. david knock knonakamora. a question posed to another panel lift here. we are all acutely aware of the ramifications, cloe s globally this is a sum...

Adversaries, if you will, both spy chiefs, when he was cia director and his first mission, secret mission to north korea to meet with kim yong-chol and kim jong-un that first -- beginning to discuss the summit, and then the second meeting, of course, was only two weeks ago. i think only two weeks ago when we were seeing the arrival, two or three weeks ago, the arrival in america. the three detainees when pompeo brought them back. so now pompeo has been really carrying the ball on this. the presi...

Delivered by a top official to the president of the united states. its an extraordinary moment. just a little more than a week in advance of what would be the summit between the president and kim jong-un, if it goes forward. all signs certainly appear to be pointing towards the progress being made. also the president, of course, will meet with secretary of state pompeo and he has been at the heart of negotiations at the ministerial to try to prepare for a summit of this magnitude. one of the big...

Of new york real estate operators of their own. north koreas made a lot of promises in the past too, to a number of previous presidents that they have not lived up to. what we know is, if this summit off again/on again summit does become on again and happens, trump will declare victory. what we need to do looking at it and analyzing it is to recognize that the proof will be in the pudding of that victory and in the monitoring. monitoring that they said was inadequate when it came to deal wig the...

So i think there are enormous amounts of geopolitical risks here, with a summit that is being set up in a way that no summit ive ever heard of has been set up. with meetings between principles before all of the submeetings have happened and this unusual presidents meeting, but i think that the geopolitical risks are a little greater than the political risks for president trump at this point. theres a lot of up side to him. people like to see their president acting presidential, and that means ne...

Calculations made here by this white house? >> everybodys made the point in the last three months since trump quickly decided to do the summit he was taking a big risk. normally you work up torwards a summit and make small agreements along the way. trumps doing it the opposite way. staked a lot of his political foreign policy capital on this. sort of elevating north korea to essentially his biggest foreign policy priority and jumped all in. im the master negotiator, will take it from here. kim j...

Chief of staff, yes. >> the scene a few moments ago. we did not get a look at kim yong-chols face but a shot of the back of his head. happened quickly out of that suv. this is a live shot. a live look at the colonnade. you can see kim yong-chol there walking with chief of staff john kelly and also walking with presumably some of his aides as well there. from north korea. a smile. it looked as if there was a bit of a smile there. seems to be in good spirits, andrea mitchell. we know he has been m...