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The summit clapollapsed. it was very embarrassing for both sides but especially embarrassing for chairman kim. its clear he went back to pyongyang and began firing people, working carefully about what he would need to do. by early may there were signs he decided to move forward. we had an exchange of letters between him and president trump. president trump talked about wonderful letters, my dear friend, unusual stuff. but something else happened since may when kim decided he need to find a way t...

Working level of dialogue about details of what denuclearization would mean since this process began at the singapore summit last year. weve been waiting for this kind of ability to get down to the details. clearly something was needed to an event that would then prepare a way. so i think we need to be very skeptical as this moves forward, is there anything real yet? but the fact that the working level dialogue is resuming now, thats a good thing. >> what do you think changed behind the scenes t...

National security risk. i think participating in a dialogue with north korea is an appropriate thing to do. im frankly concerned about how were going about it. as david says, it could work but certainly without precedent. i know folks from the state department both republican, republican administrations who have told me that the lack of preparation for these highly significant meetings is without precedent and its very difficult to accomplish anything without that kind of preparation and meeting...

Mentioned, prides himself on this personal diplomacy. he had somewhat of a breakthrough with the chinese in his bilateral meeting, suggesting that trade talks would resume, that there would not be more tariffs introduced next week, as he had been threatening to do, and this very surprising decision where he appeared to backtrack on the ban -- selling american equipment to huawei. so, there seemed to be a fall there. there is now this resumption of personal diplomacy between president trump and k...

What trump has been intimating lately? >> i think it could be. its important to understand with lindsey graham, hes one of president trumps top allies on the hill. hes really good friends with joe biden and he ran for president himself. he has a certain level of empathy and sympathy for biden and others running. i think stepping back a little bit, you have seen president trump sort of diversify his attack. initially, it was all about biden as he looked like he might be the front-runner. weve als...

Ghosh. sue, ill start with you. how you expect the talks to proceed considering the major divide on the national security team. i mean, how have lower level talks gone in the past? >> bobby? you want to take that question? >> yeah. well, theres not been a consistent pattern established. after the meeting in singapore, there was a communication between lower level officials from secretary of state level downwards. but those never actually got anywhere. the north koreans were offended or claim the...

Earth, and it only feeds into his terror further for human rights violations in his country. >> there is no doubt he is one of, if not the most repressive leader on the planet. so, ned, do you think after this, after this gift, some say, to kim, will the next set of talks be anyex different than t last tries? >> i mean, were going to have to find out, jo. this is oneou of those things where i think trump, again, hes not going down the path of the more traditional diplomacy that the obama and bus...

The dmz. i am sure the papers would like to get the handshake on their front pages. but what about the coverage? what do you expect the headline will be from this moment in the dmz? >> i hope it will just be the event itself. the historic hand shake. this moment in which there is at least the possibility to unfreeze what has how since hanoi a fairly frozen relationship at the working level. we dont know if north korea will ever be willing to denuclearize. we havent heard a word since that demand...

call me maybe, ill be in the area. lets meet at the dmz. this is emblematic of trumps diplomacy. sometimes it works. with north korea he has had some success in getting kim jong-un to this point. the next level of this is really getting some sort of deal. this is where the trump administration has fallen flat in their first two attempts. i think what they really need to focus on right now are hammering out at a working level some of the details and then teeing that up for the presidents. >> s...

Possible. even though the leadership is saying we dont want war. at the working level, it seems like they arent totally quitting it when it comes to what theyre saying about the possibility of conflict. >> there are hawks on both sides who would like to see that happen. kelly, we know youll stay on that, thanks very much. p good news for president trumps former campaign manager, paul manafort, he wont be going to new york citys most notorious prison thanks to an unusual move by the justice depa...