Is it exciting for you to be here . Exciting to be a part of it. The summit comes on the heels of trumps controversial showing at the g. Over the weekend, the president went after one of americas closest allies, unleashing a scathing sear of tweets slamming canadas Prime Minister, justin trudeau. Now germanys chancellor Angela Merkel hayes any response on the tariffs are going to come at a quote european level. With me now, nbc White House Correspondent kelly odonnell, and nbc news chief global correspondent bill neely. Kelly, we are six hours away from the beginning of this. There is a lot of anticipation here, as there would be for any sort of gleebl event beyond the serious subject matter of Nuclear Talks there is an energy that has come to this city state of singapore and certainly a lot of attention around the world. When you consider the time difference a morning meeting of 9 00 a. M. Here in singapore results in a candidate p. M. In the United States. Which is typically the time if the president wanted to make a serious announcement to the nation he would ask the networks for that time slot. The president gets primetime slot when it comes to this First Encounter with kim jongun. They have 15 minutes in the schedule for the initial meeting. It will be recorded here and perhaps replayed for years or decades to come to show that image of an american president and a north Korean Leader one with a history of deception and misdeeds on the human scale, come together for this turn of perhaps new relationships. Then there will be an opportunity, 45 minutes built in for the president and kim to have a bilateral conversation. Thats documentic talk for just the two of them. And their translators. Then it will be expanded to include the delegations, people with expertise and support for each leader so that consider that the secretary of state, the National Security adviser, the top working group negotiators for both countries who have been dealing with all of the detail about what is on the table. And then there will be a lunch. In part, this give us i think this is the influence the president not the north Korean Leader. There are intervals throughout this series of meetings where there will be some degree of press coverage, wch is certainly unusual. And singapore not the most open in terms of press coverage so there are some redescriptions. But we will have opportunities to see and have the American People assess themselves the body language, the sort of what you can learn from seeing interaction. Do they look at ease . Are they smiling . Are they talking . There will be those sorts of opportunities, which gives us some bit of insight until later when we learn the results. Right. Also interesting, the president had forecast he was willing to stay a day, maybe three. I think when we look back on this, ali, it will be important to see what caused the sort of hurryup schedule based on what the president was willing to do. Now its a more condensed schedule. He will do a News Conference with the credentialed media, the president by himself, to th with kim. And then begin the journey home. The president anticipated and forecast a willingness to stay longer. That is not the plan now unless thats tactical to say we are going to extend and that means things are going well. We on the know yet. But that will be determined later on when we learn what is going to go on in the time line that we dont yet see. Bill neely, lets assume this doesnt implode, its already been something of a success for kim jongun because he had the media following him around today as he walked around singapore in the late evening singapore time. Tell me about what his preparation for this summit is looking like. Well, guess who hogged the limelight today . Guess who will get the photographs on the front pages of newspapers . It was kim jongun, who left the hotel for just two hours, but in a wholly unexpected fashion. We think he was preparing earlier on, but for two hours he was out of the hotel, and i think ali, we can now say he is out of international isation. Because this was like the tour of some kind of rock star, at least thats how he was greeted in one luxury hotel where he went up to the 57th floor to admire singapores skyline, a skyline i think he would like the replicate in his capital, pyongyang. So what was this all about . Was this a natural curiosity of a 34yearold leader who frankly hasnt been out very much . Was it the cynical ploy of a man who loves to manipulate images . Or was this part of his simple makeover, his charm offensive, his desire to be seen as a normal leader of a normal auntry . Hfterll is behind the north korean push. Thats what he wants tomorrow with the hand shake and with the summit. He wants international recognition. But most of all, the respect of the United States, something that his father and his grandfather failed to get that he hopes to get. He has also been preparing his people. On north korean trefls and in the north korean newspaper they have been preparing people for what they have been calling a new beginning and a new era. On north korean tv their most famous anchor has been talking gushingly about beautiful singapore and mentioning in his full name the words donald j. Trump. So North Koreans are prepared for what might happen tomorrow. One thing about the schedule ali struck me. I think it is a risk worth highlighting is the one on one, the 45 minutes or so that have been set aside when the two leaders just sit down with translators. In other words, no note takers, no written record of what is agreed by the two men. So they can come out actually, they can tell the world entirely different things, or donald trump could tweet something maybe based on his memory or maybe based on something else. I mean, this, along with all the opportunities at this summit there are ge risks. That strikes me as just the first of them. Bill neely, thanks very much. Kelly odonnell. Much the cover. We begin our full time coverage of the at 8 00 p. M. Top. Hours before the meeting mike pompeo called this a quote mission of peace but also affirmed that Firm American objective. The ultimate objective we seek with diplomacy of north korea has not changed. The complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is the yoenl outcome that the United States will accept. Questions remain over what exactly that complete verifiable denuclearization entails and what diplomacy looks will like. Lets bring in michael allen, worked with george w. Bush and now the managing director of beacon global strategy. Also with us, mike fuchs, a former Deputy Assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. Now a senior fellow at the center for american progress. Thank you for being here. Michaelen, lets start with you. We are just not going into this summit, this meeting with a clear view of what is supposed to what success looks like on the other side. Mike pompeo stated what complete verifiable denuclearization as a goal looks like. But this is this doesnt look like enough of a summit to actually achieve that sort of a goal. I think thats exactly right. Its going to take too long to hammer out those details. I think what they have set expectations for tonight is sort of a great Public Relations bonanza for both leaders. And i think the United States is signed up to a fundamental bargain here, which is that as the secretary of state said this morning, we are willing to put fundamental security assurances on the table. What does that mean . That means we are likely to offer to reduce the number of u. S. Troops on the Korean Peninsula in exchange for real denuclearization. I think that is what pompeo is signaling this morning. Well see if it comes to fruition when the leaders meet tonight. Mike fuchs, i want to just put something up on the screen that was in the washington post. It says with smiles and a handshake, trump and kim could mask the gulf on nuclear arms. Discussions led by secretary of state mike pompeo floundered repeatedly over basic issues of what the summit should be about and inability to close fundamental gaps over understanding north korean denuclearization. Mike, the issue here is its complicated. Denuclearization is complicated. President trump has said he hasnt had to prepare much for this meeting. He said he will know within the first minute whether this is going well. He is not taking skooin scientific and technical experts. He doesnt have a scientific adviser. As bill neely said a few minutes ago is what we have seen is the coming out party for kim jongun. The coming out of global isolation party. Absolutely right. I think if that reporting is correct and there is really a very serious gap between the two parties going into the summit in the coming hours, then this spells deep trouble. As you mentioned before, kim jongrl is going into this summit already in many ways pocketing a victory, getting a face to face meeting with the president of the United States, the first time that will ever happen, something that his father and his grandfather both sought for decades but neither of them were able to achieve. As you said, he is going to couple out on the world stage looking like a rock star testimony question the what is the United States going to get out of this summit . Right now, i think all we are looking for is some very concrete specific declarations from the North Koreans about what they are willing to do. And here the reality, though. Even if they some of those very extreme and maximalist promises from the North Koreans, you cant trust them. You have to verify what they will actually do. We dont know what they are actually willing to to for weeks, months, maybe even years. Again, we are not really going to know whats going to come ott of this summit probably for quite some time. Michael allen, in fact when we look at the Iran Nuclear Deal it accelerated inside the course of two years when the United States got heavily involved but it was ten years of negotiations to get to that deal that the United States has now stepped away from. But President Trump likes to talk about the fact that his predecessors did not do this. When you were working for george w. Bush why did president s of the United States not take the opportunity to meet the leaders of north korea. They were worried, especially president bush, on giving the north Korean Leaders some sort of acceptance by the international community, the conference of legitimacy by the leader of the free world. I think, though, President Trump, you know, to put this in its best light i think what hes trying to do here is say look this guy is 34. Hes at least been in the west a little bit for his education. Lets test his intentions. I would have rather gone through hard negotiations over a long period of time and put a leader visit a visit with the u. S. President at the end of the process. But i guess since we are already there and already here lets test this guys intentions, see if he is for real, and see if we can do a historic break through, which i agree will take years, though. Mike fuchs, there are many who would say dialogue is better than the absence of dialogue and isolation. For those of us who want to put this in the best light it is still worth reminding people of what the kim regime is about in north korea. It is an pressive, repressive, cruel regime with Human Rights Violations that donald trump says hes not bringing up in this meeting . No. Absolutely right. And the news that the president very well may not raise human rights is absolutely shameful. This is a core value of the United States and an International Norm that absolutely must be on the agenda of any talks. Now, that said, you dont make peace with your friends. And so we absolutely need to be talking with the North Koreans. Diplomacy frankly is an essential component of any effective way to address the entire panoply of north korean threats and challenges. But we are obviously here, by meeting with the leader of north korea face to face with all the world watching, legitimatizing kim jongun, and again, in some ways, many people will see the United States, unfortunately, as whitewashing some of the absolutely brutal Human Rights Violations that go on in north korea if the president is not going the raise the issue. Guys, thanks very much for your analysis. Michael allen, former senior director for counterproliferation strategy at the National Security counsel. And mike fuchs former assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Coming up, President Trump accuses the Prime Minister of canada of being dishonest. You may not realize just how important our relationship with canada really is and how Many Canadian goods affect your everyday life. We will explain next. Ble with r. Learning from him is great. When i can keep up anncr thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. Dads got all the answers. 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