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Been return is a very good thing. is it kind or is it just righting a wrong that she should righted a long time ago? >> we need to clear a couple things up. that's not the extent of the remains in north korea. there is an estimated 7500 remains unaccounted for. 5800 or so above the 38th parallel in north korea and that mission was stopped in 2005 because of the threatening actions of the kim regime so these 55 boxes are a good start. it will take months if not years to determine who these remains are and how they connect the dna samples and what is in the boxes so while it's a good start, it i...

That said, it takes years to identify what we are getting. they have fooled us before by putting animal bones and cad avers, and it takes years to identify the dna of the service men members for these poor families. >> that's right, andrea. you know very well, you accompanied me for that visit in 2007. you have to have verification of the remains. the north koreans are tricky. they're slow rolling these remains. they've said there's going to be 200 that they will give us. they're giving us 55, which means they're going to do this in phases. i think as you pointed out, it's only 1% of the 5,300...

Only about one thing, how am i translating these words are that are spoken. they're not trained. it's not their position, their job to thinking howm i going to read out the national security adviser and the secretary of state over what was discussed. so the concern here is that donald trump and kim jong-un probably not the two most trustworthy people in the world are the only people who are going to know what is discussed in this, besides the interpreters. and that is -- that's a t whole reason why you always have somebody. >> i have been assuming that the interpreters had a dual role. i had b...

The first time. >> you said you don't think it will happen. would you, if you were negotiating for us in this situation down the road, would you give up our troops on the border, our 30 some thousand at the 38th parallel, would you give a nuclear umbrella over south korea and japanfhey agreed to get rid of their nuclear weapons leaving them with this tremendous fire power at the border, would you do that as a deal? >> as a negotiator, no. >> nuclear for nuclear. >> no, you mentioned the conventional troops as well. that's a game changer in terms of the balance of power on the peninsula. and he...

Possibility approximatet space for president trump to negotiate with kim jong-un potentially meaning that you could have a withdrawal of u.s. troops creeping into the negotiations. that seems what mattis was hinting at. he didn't say it entirely affirmatively saying it will absolutely be on the agenda but he left open the possibility, ali, and that is significant. >> that is, yeah. >> one other quick note. we asked if we would see any change in military posture among the north koreans. he gave an affirmative no. he said several times all is quiet. they are not seeing military activity north of...