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Needed. wrong again. use real people, not phony sources. but according to cnn reporting, this official, a real perpendiculperson, a real source, said this in a background briefing on thursday. in the meantime, the white house says its advance team is heading to singapore as previously scheduled. i want to bring in jack kingston, a former georgia congressman and senior advisor to the trump campaign. he is now a cnn political commentator. nina turner is a former state senator from ohio and cnn political commentator. good to see you both. >> good to be here. >> jack, you first. with this summit s...

North korea? >> so i think both president trump and chairman kim jong-un really want this meeting. and i'm not at all surprised that after what looked like a temporary break, when president trump said that he was calling off the meeting, i'm not at all surprised that it now looks like it's back on track. i think for both men this is a historic meeting. i'm not sure the summit is going to resolve the fundamental disagreements between the u.s. and north korea on denuclearization, but i think it will start a negotiation process which may produce some results in months or years ahead. so i don't s...

Mike: i realize you are in washington and not in vegas or atlantic city, but how confident are you that this summit will happen on or around june 12th in singapore? >> i think it will be really difficult to pull off june 12th. that's what senior white house administration officials have said. the president tweeted that they, you know, that person didn't exist, but this was a background briefing organized by the white house, it did happen. there's a little skepticism that they can meet this june 12th deadline, but around then i think that they are still aiming for sometime in that month. mike: ...

The job for me covering the white house. there was a background briefing of chief of staff kelly. after five minutes the door swings open and lo and behold it's president trump. breaking news, president trump speaking to reporters moments ago in a surprise question and answer session. >> he was just freewheeling. fortunately we were already recording on our phones so we were able to capture everything. >> do you want citizenship for our dreamers? >> we're going to morph into it. >> are you going to talk to mueller? >> i'm looking forward to it actually. >> this president is unpredictable. ju...

-- listening in on the call and have you ever had problems getting a background briefing? >> i've prepared many of these calls, brian, you're right, both with president medvedev and president putin. you get a package with the security council and in that package there is a lot of talking points for the sole purpose of advancing american interests, right? these calls are very precious amounts of time for heads of state to interact, so that's what they're all about. in terms of the modalities and the specifics, then there is a time before the call where you do call prep. very valuable time for m...