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Korean here on the southern side along with some 28,500 u.s. troops based here in korea, north korean troops of course on the northern side. this is a tense point, perhaps one of the most tense points in the world. this was just moments ago as president trump arrived there with president moon of south korea behind him. at the point where in a very short time he will have a handshake greeting with the north korean leader kim jong un, and as i was saying a short time ago, previous u.s. presidents have come here. they have come to the observation point, they have looked through binoculars, they h...

And a step toward a peace treaty it doesn't mean u.s. troops need to pull out. we have heard similar voices from the u.s. side as well but of course you raise that point that kim jong un is going to look around and say the state of war is over, what are all these 28,500 troops doing in south korea? you're going to have that debate coming up next. >> bret: we'll see what happens after this, thank you both for coming in. we appreciate it. next up our panel in washington on the effort to overturn the president's national emergency declaration, the house voted to send that over to the senate, plus...

South korea is honing up less than a $100 million in funding this year. is trump inflated figures of the number of u.s. troops in korea. his own defense department told us, 28,500 and not 40,000 as the president keeps saying. where does this rhetoric fit in. what is he trying to accomplish by making it look as if we are paying too much for south korea's defense. >> he has talked about some of that and he's reporting on that as well. the president was leaning in that direction. it is clear from the president that he wants to have the illusion of process. that's where we get a lot of these numbe...

One. there's been these diplomatic talks and, number three, the president has been working with china on the trade deal all his critics said he could never get done. so he's great success in round one in the talks with north korea with some help from china, and number two, or he's also developing success -- it's not done yet -- on trade with china, working out that tariff ballot. so if you see all this coming together, he's meeting face to face, one-on-one with kim jong un this week and teeing up the possibility of meeting one-on-one with president xi of china in the next couple of weeks as we...

I'll do, that's no concession at all. the three generations of kims have been playing the united states for decades now and this business about ending the korean war, signing a peace agreement, peace has a hypnotic, alluring ring to it, sure. but there are peace agreements in history that have brought on war, rather than peace. with a peace agreement, kim seeks to dislodge the united states, u.s. troops and its influence from the region from korea and from japan and to be better positioned to isolate, sensor bully south korea, the richer, legitimate korean state that is a threat to the north k...