to nod. >> van: this is my new friend. only hours to go until the highly anticipated summit between president trump a north korean leader kim jong un. amid growing questions now over whether the president can actually make diplomatic progress with the rogue regime on ending its nuclear and missile programs. secretary of state mike pompeo said just this morning, the ultimate objective for these negotiations has not changed. because the complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the korean peninsula is the only outcome the united states will accept. sanctions will remain until north korea completely and verifiably eliminates as weapons of mass destruction programs. if diplomacy does not move in the right direction and we are hopeful that what we continue to do so, those measures will increase. >> harris: meanwhile, president trump sounding optimistic ahead of the talks tweeted this earlier.