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Italian prime minister at the white house today. he was asked about sitting down with the president of iran to talk about easing tensions. let s listen to that. i do believe that they will probably end up wanting to meet, and i m ready to meet anytime they want to. and i don t that from strength or from weakness. i think it s an appropriate thing to do. if we could work something out that s meaningful, not the waste of paper that the other deal was, i would certainly be willing to meet. do you have preconditions for that meeting? no preconditions. no. they want to meet i ll meet. anytime. no preconditions. but remember the heat that then candidate barack obama took after saying he d meet with leaders of enemy nations with no preconditions? that was back in 2008. well, today all we re hearing from the right a now familiar deafening silence. whatever trump does is fine with them. as long as they get their tax cuts and their regulations removed on the environment. we ll be right b ....
This process. i think secretary pompeo probably has had lower expectations than president trump. i think he s probably right to have those lower expectations. i think it was a mistake by the administration to tout singapore as a success in terms of what came out of it. it was a success in terms of easing tensions, laying the ground work for diplomacy and that s all a good thing, but nothing concrete was agreed to. president trump is talking about promises that were made in a handshake. in the world of international relations, promises in a draft statement and a handshake in front of a camera is not a concrete agreement and there were little details to that. neil: not yet. tara, thank you. good seeing you. good seeing you. neil: here s something that in which the world can agree. optimism that all of those boys and their coach will be out hopefully by tomorrow in thailand. eight of the 12 are and their ....
Our soldiers from the korean r war, getting those remains back. finding ways that we can help the japanese with the abductees that the north koreans took. finding ways that we can do something with the north korean people. in other words, normalizing the relationship. easing tensions on the korean peninsula. in other words, shift away from a bad summit in europe to a potentially good summit where the president might achieve some significant national security gain gains. we just got word that the president will be out in a few minutes. we were told it would happen at 10:00, then 10:05, and it s now 10:10. we have been told that the president will take questions. we ll carry those as well. while we have you, mr. ambassador, let me ask you about north korea. when will we know if the north korean summit was a success, insofar that agreements are not unprecedented for the north ....
We are also talking about the possibility of the dmz. peace house, freedom house and there is something that i thought was intriguing. if things work out, there is a great celebration to be had on the site. not in a third-party country. president trump discussing the possibility of holding the upcoming landmark summit with north korea dictator in the dmz, the military border, as the president of south korea suggested that president trump might deserve the nobel peace prize for his role in easing tensions. will ripley is in seoul, south korea. what are you being told about the possibility of the summit being held at the dmz. reporter: i spoke with an official with deep knowledge of north korea thinking on this and tells me that the south korea president has convinced kim jong-un that panjumjom is the best place to hold that upcoming summit with president tru ....
United states and acknowledging also that in order for relations between south korea and north korea to improve they need to improve their relationship with the united states and this is a dramatic shift for north korea s tone and within the state media. they put out an article fletening tfle threatening the united states. calling those sanctions tantamount to an act of war. apparently the north koreans who are on the ground here are now acknowledging that talks with the united states will be crucial if they are going to actually move forward with their goal of easing tensions on the korean peninsula. the biggest one of all is north korea s nuclear program saying they will not give up their nuclear weapons by pressure. they are saying for the time being now, they are willing to have discussions. we also saw the first images ....