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I hope to have a very successful meeting. if we don't think it's going to be successful, mark, we won't have it. we won't have it. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go. if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. and we'll continue what we're doing. >> of course welcome back to "hardball." that is what president trump expects with his upcoming meeting with kim jong un. the "new york times" reports the north korean regime has removed one major obstacle and this is for real. they're not going to demand we...

Of course, there's concern in the white house about cohen because of his penchant for audio recordings, for having meetings he doesn't always disclose with people beyond president trump. and so they say with michael cohen, he's not just a risk, he's a question mark. they don't know what they don't know inside of the west wing. >> it was a taping system that will brought down nixon. here we have a lawyer with a taping system. anyway, it's a frankenstein's monster. robert costa, robert jolly, jill, thanks for coming back. pompeo made a secret to meet with kim jong-un. what will the north koreans...

Confessore. coming up, sean hannity's ties to president trump run much deeper than we thought. they talk early in the morning and late at night what the trump should tweet and trump's frustration with the mueller investigation. they're so close some white house aides call han at this time trump's unofficial chief of staff. that's ahead. plus trump confirms his director met with kim jong-un and says he'll meet with the north korean dictatener the coming weeks. what will they demand in exchange for cutting back on their nuclear program? to leave the 38th parallel? i'm waiting for that baby. an...

Once you agree to meet, it's just a question of weather. it could be in kra, south korea, on the border at 38th parallel. i don't think it will be in mar-a-lago. maybe trump will want to get hawaii. >> this is a big deal. this is something that president trump, he has had very harsh words for north korea and for kim jong-un. he said called him rockman and all those things and threatening fire and fury. since they've kind of had this cooling off period with the olympics he has expressed that he is willing to kind of work with the north koreans and he said earlier this week he thought they were ...

Very positive development. >> it's potentially very significant. the senator has been holding hearings on worldwide threats threatening the united states. i want you to listen to what the director of the diplomacy committee says. listen to this. >> the biggest change we've seen in kim jong-un from his father is the rig or in training. prior with his father, you did not have the level of discipline, he did not have the level of rigor to be ready to go to war. kim jong-un has taken that seriously. they do not have the capability that could reunite the peninsula, but there is a sneaking capabilit...