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>> reporter: north korea, the engagement between president trump and the north korean leader, theres another summit thats set for the end of february. this was described by intelligence communities as extremely positive, but they want to see more concrete evidence that north korea is committed to dismantling its nuclear weapons program. heres the director of national intelligence once again, dan coats. >> we currently assess that north korea will seek to retain its wmd capabilities and is unlike...

Release. they have a north korean summit at the end of the month. venezuela. theres a lot to deal with in this short month of february. >> let alone if mueller comes out in some form. i think the north korea part was most stark for me listening to these intel heads talk about how they really believe that north korea believes that its essential that they have nuclear weapons and that nuclear capability to deal with what they consider the threat of their foes. that is a much different picture than...

Reward. the real question is whether weve structured this in a way that is likely to get tangible results. i see nothing that suggests we are prepared to discipline north korea and whats happening in the neen timeantime is all the e is unraveling, south korea, russia, they are moving closer to north korea. >> so, katty, count. he as naive but i thought after the first summit in singapore the entire pacific rim breathed a sigh of relief because the president of the united states told us theres no...

Saying not very much was achieved. you cant go into a second summit for just the photo opportunity and the coins and the first time this happened wow factor because it didnt achieve anything. there is no real denuclearization happening. all of our intelligence agencies are showing us that. the chinese are now more goods are flowing into china than they were at the time. if youre going to have a second summit, its hard for me to see how this is going to accomplish very much more than the first on...

The channels of communication going better. maybe thats why were talking about having another summit now. the fact that asia breathed a sigh of relief was partly because donald trump had ratcheted up the tensions and then eased back the tensions. you can point to trade, to the wall, a number of situations where donald trump says there is a crisis and then is de-escalating it and north korea falls into that category. >> theres two dangers here, one is we dont get enough from the north koreans sec...

Revealed during last weeks visit the north korean envoy gave president trump a new letter from kim jong un and trump reciprocated. kim apparently responded to trumps latest letter by expressing, quote, great satisfaction with the good personal letter and, quote, spoke highly of trump for his unusual determination for a second summit. the two are set to meet for the second time near the end of february. richard haas, youre back from that region. where are we in this relationship? we came out of t...

The united states are worried about both sides, we dont get enough and were prepared to do way too much for another rhetorical accomplishment at a second summit. >> still ahead, beyond walls. "time" magazine is out with a special report on why the forces of global migration cant be stopped. thats coming up next on "morning joe."

Having a summit in and of itself is not a victory. the fact that the president is anxious to have it doesnt sway me. what we want here is specificity. we want to know what the north koreans have. we want a timeline where they dismantle it and we can verify. in exchange, we should be prepared to gradually relax some sanctions. the danger is once again we come out of a second summit where they rhetorically commit to denuclearization, they maybe get rid of a couple of things and they keep adding th...

Potential site. vice president pence, yesterday, on fox news sunday saying stay tuned for more details. >> the president will be announcing details in the days ahead create the meeting that took place this week confirmed there will be a second summit, and at that summit we will be laying out our expectation for north korea to take concrete steps to begin to make real the denuclearization that kim jong un committed to. the president is very optimistic. >> kennedy: this is whats so tricky, david. ...

They already have lebanese hezbollah doing bidding. so i think they are seeing syria at the place where they can continue to threaten israel. this is going to be up to the israelis to show they will not stand for it. i expect to see more of the same, more irani and probes, more missile attacks and more israeli responses and then see how it shakes out. >> sandra: meanwhile, dan, second summit between president trump and kim jong un of north korea will happen in late february it is being talked ab...