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I think director for u.s. citizenship and immigration services,al crisis at the borde. all that right here, right now. we begin president trump making history as the first american president to step foot in north korea. kim jong-un accepted a last-minute invitation to meet at the tmz which the president tweeted out just before leaving the g20 in japan from south korea. the agreed to restart the nuclear talks in washington. >> i believe this is an expression of his brilliance for all the unfortun...

Senior fellow and director for chinese strategy. to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> you may have heard tim ryan. >> i did. >> first, can you go through what the strategy is with china at this point? >> the most important thingk was to get him to return his dedication to the talks. there was a major breakdown six weeks ago, talks based extinction at that time. they were taking back a lot of major points, refusing to go further on the mechanism. is a pretty bleak situation. what had to h...

Its a brilliant stroke. the president deserves a lot of credit. he hasnt spelled out details, he hasnt said 5g around the world but he has focused on american technologies suppliers, this gives him the face he needs to face down his hawks in china and restart the talks. huge success for the president. >> weve been talking about adhering from the president about the massive national sssecurity threat. does that fly right into the face of what the president has been telling us for so long? >> this...

Serious, given the proximity. so north korea, clearly front and center here at the news conference. we want to play you just a bit of what the president had to say when asked specifically about those tetests. >> i view it as a man, perhaps he wants to get attention, and perhaps not. who knows. it doesnt matter. all i know is there have been no nuclear tests. there have been no ballistic missiles going out. there have been no long-range missiles going out. and i think that some day well have a de...

Did he put kim jong-un back on the world stage, allowing him to sit across from an american president without knowing what was going to happen? before it all fell apart, there was the dinner last night, then the meeting today. the north korean dictator even took a question from a reporter on denuclearization, something hes never done before. but a short time later, the announcement. the working lunch was canceled. the table empty. the white house revealing no agreement. and tonight, the north ko...

People here and at home hope it is not the only thing to come out of the meeting, that photo up, the handshake but they are looking for a real concrete path to denuclearization. heather: must be exciting to be there. what would a win look like from both countries from this we summit. here to weigh in is our foreign-policy panel, defense priority policy director benjamin friedman and former spokesperson to the mission to the united nations, and asia expert with the heritage foundation, thank you ...

Advisors. at the forefront of kim jong uns mind are the lessons learned from other dictators like muammar qaddafi, who gave up his nuclear weapons capability and was overthrown. and i think you get back to something your previous guests said, and enter the war would give kim jong un some level of confidence that we recognize his regime, that might be something that we tell mike might him to pursue at least some initial steps towards denuclearization. >> shannon: down half their life on the groun...

Nuclear materials at one of its primary facilities that we heard about during the singapore summit. it would include 300 different buildings and several acres. what do you think of that? if any of that ends up being true? >> that would be an okay deal but it would fall pretty far short of denuclearization let alone fire viable -- verifiable denuclearization. it is a step towards better relations but pretty far short of what some people expect. it would be a poor mans agreed framework which is wh...

Lauren blanchard continues team coverage. thank you so much. >> the president is back at his hotel resting up before his dinner with kim jong un later today. is trying to make the message between his tweets and remarks earlier that north korea could have a better economy like vietnam but the cost is denuclearization. >> the world is getting to see the incredible job you have done in vietnam in a short period of time. i look forward to the meeting tonight. chairman kim wants to do something on pa...