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Korea is not interested in giving up their weapons. president trump was tweeting they have agreed to denuclearization, did he know something that we didn't know? and clearly he didn't. he was making it up. he hyped it up and now it came crashing down a few weeks ago. so it has the appearance of a summit. and why are we giving the leader of north korea opportunity to legitimize himself. and the sanctions are basically collapsing because of the concessions that we already are basically making in order to bring kim jong-un to the table. >> it seems like north korea has already, i don't know if wo...

I haven't opened it in front of the director. >> you can decide for yourself what that means. jim acosta is there for us tonight. do you know anything about what was in the letter? >> reporter: we don't know exactly what was in the letter, but the white house press secretary sarah sanders said the president did read the letter before he left for the weekend. one of the steps on the path to the summit in singapore. it is not what is in that giant letter, as what is in the deal in what you heard the president say earlier today, it is no longer a summit about denuclearization, it is about a getti...

Korean peninsula. which of course has alliance implications. our true presence in south korea and extended nuclear umbrella. it is very unclear from this meeting that kim jong-un had with pompeo. it is different what they are going to put denuclearization on the table as we define it. >> and max, even if that is on the table for the summit, there is no way, i mean, it is realistic for the president to say it is getting to know you meeting, unrealistic to portray it was anything other than that until now. working out specific details. >> and we just saw the leak of the c oochlt achia assessment...

Concessions before sitting down at the table. that is why you heard mitch mcconnell saying today, and i think it is an can kpoextraordi comment. for reality tv moment and nothing much more. >> we are joined by jim sciutto. it is striking to see what appears to be a shift and certainly tone from the president in terms of what this meeting is about and any kind of a time line for denucle denuclearization. >> what you had in the last 24 hours is really a complete re-defining of expectations that were set by this president himself. one, on what this meeting would

Be about today for the first time he said it is really just a get-to-know-you meeting. that is not abnormal. keep in mind the iranian nuclearizations cook two years. so that is typical. but this president given the strong impression that there would be more, more crucially is a re-defining of the white house's own expectations prior to the meeting. white house officials said that the u.s. wanted some grand gesture to demonstrate how serious north korea is about this. we don't know what that gesture is. and on the issue of denuclearization, he said today he thinks they want to denu denucleariza...