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The works for the weeks. the white house wouldn't officially confirm it, but we knew that was coming. the kim invitation does appear to be relatively spontaneous. taking both governments, u.s. and south korea, by surprise. when the president offered it over twitter while we were still in japan on saturday. with, you know -- by the end of that day there was a sense that chairman kim would show up. the white house of course did not confirm that. until just a few hours before we went to the dmz. it was an extraordinary scene. questions need to be raised about what this really means. as we time an...

Contributor. how is the tour with tim degraw going? >> i got off the bus -- >> rock star. >> so let's speed it up. >> a rock star in loose fit khakis. jon meacham. >> these go to 11. >> let's take about the trip overseas, he's just returning on friday. he tweeted this, if chairman kim of north korea sees this, i would meet him at the border, dmz, just to shake his hand and say hello. followed an question mark or exclamation point. he led president trump over the border at the heavily mortified demilitarized zone and they walked several steps, holding a brief photo-op for north korean photograp...

This idea of a trump/kim jong-un meeting at the dmz has been floated for many, many months and it was seen eternally as just a hail mary pass. too high risk for the president. in the end, the president overcame that skepticism, i'm going to do it. and it's clear that bolton wasn't really on board with that. and didn't go to the dmz. but the issue going forward, what happens in these real negotiations? is it real, does it make denuclearization real? >> so john bolton was not there yesterday at the dmz. he was in mongolia. but ivanka trump was there. the white house adviser of course the preside...

Has let on? was it really just a tweet that kim jong-un and he people heard about and they agreed to step into the dmz zone? >> let's flash back when the president tried to make the first visit to the dmz. mind you this is the height of the rhetoric like fire and fury when the two nations seemed to be on a collision course perhaps even for conflict. at that time, the president, you know, i was on that trip as well. we were five minutes away from the border when they had to turn the helicopters around because the fog was too dense to land. but that trip was shrouded in such secrecy that when sa...

John bolton is a legendary bureaucratic infielder and he can manipulate it to the certain extent because president trump might issue an edict or command but it's not followed up but at the end of the day, president trump is the president. bolton is not getting the heavy hand that he wanted to shake power and the strategy when you have a leader who is fully unencumbered by any confines and will get on twitter and cross into north korea. >> jonathan lemire, not only were you watching this play out, but you cover the white house every day. talk a little if you can about the internal dynamic betwe...