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The president sets the date, three weeks from today round two of face to face talks with north korea's kim jong-un. plus, after weeks of facing backlash for his call to withdraw troops from syria without warning, the president touting the fight against isis there. >> when i took office, isis controlled more than 20,000 square miles in iraq and syria, just two years ago. today we have liberated virtually all of the territory from the grip of these bloodthirsty monsters. >> the president notably did not repeat his debunked claim that isis has been defeated. joining me will ripley and ben

Wedeman. ben, you're on t were on the gr syria. the real concern is you pull out and leave u.s. allies on the ground in the lurch and that fight against isis threatened. what are you seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: we're seeing in one tiny enclave in eastern syria with about 2,000 people inside, about 500 isis fighters, 1500 people, some of them relatives of those isis fighters, family members, others simply local inhabitants. that is what is left of the territorial entity, the state which we called islamic. it does appear it is on the brink of extinction. at some point in the coming ...

Of the islamic state off. however, the problem is, as we heard yet frsterday from the u. central commander is that there are anywhere between 20,000 and 30,000 isis fighters in syria alone. what is happening is that, yes, the islamic state is about to go extin extinct, but the idea behind it is still very much alive and well. it's simply morphed into an insurgency, which is what it was before the islamic state was declared in july of 2016. so we were speaking with one commander of the syrian democratic forces here. he says, yes, on the one hand this is the final battle against isis as a fighti...

>> u.s. central commander said on the hill 20 to 30,000 isis fighters still in iraq and syria. to will ripley now. the other national security priority for this administration certainly north korea. we have another summit. you and i were both at the last summit last summer. what are the expectations for this second face to face meeting? there still have been no steps by the administration's own standard of complete, irreversible and verifiable by north korea to curtail its nuclear program. >> reporter: exactly. there's a new report that north korea's nuclear program is not only fully intact, b...