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Ed, it lasted an hour or so with an agreement to restart nuclear talks that broke down after of the summit in hanoi back in february. >> it was a great success because we maintained our relationship. so we're going to have teams, they're going to meet over the next few weeks, and they're going to start a process, and we'll see what happens. >> reporter: the one thing that president trump believes he has is time, time is on his side. he says he's in no rush to do anything and in order to get it right, unlike so many of the other previous administrations, you have to take the time to make sure t...

So nopefully, he leaned in -- hopefully, he leaned in hard to kim at that meeting afterwards if said this is it, we need a deal, but we have to get a process to get us there. jedediah: joel, i'm obviously skeptical, but what about the political implications here for president trump if there is no follow through from north korea e? we're heading into 2020, we're heading into fierce campaign season. what does this look like for him if this doesn't play out like planned? >> well, you have reason to be skeptical. there have been deals with north korea in the past, and they've been broken by north ...

Put a team forward, the united states has been engaging but not really successful in that way, and it can't just be leader to leader, it has to be a process where we can document, we get agreements, where we get certainty that denuclearization is going to happen. pete: joel, why hasn't the process taken off before, and could this be an important igniter? >> this could be a real igniter, because this seems to, like, the last kind of meeting that president trump wants to have. the process didn't take off before in many ways because it looked like a photo op, and it looked like there were soft ag...

Sanctions remain, yes. but at some point during the negotiation, things can happen. that's what we'll be talking about. ed: the president said they agreed to restart negotiations over the next several weeks, so let's go to joel rubin, leader at the washington strategy group. good morning, joel. >> good morning, thank you. ed: obviously, an historic moment. we want to take that in and also, though, we need to be skeptical about the days i head. i was in singapore for the first summit, hanoi for the second, there was progress, but then kim never really followed through on denuclearization. >> ye...

Sort of a favorite target of folks on the right. but the fact is, she has had missteps in recent elections, and yet still has that position here. and appears to have missed some deadlines, et cetera. why hasn't the process been corrected to remove people like that and get people into those key positions who can do the job, do the job as required? >> well, number one, she's followed the process as florida law prescribes. and there has been nothing amiss that has been found by rick scott's only department of state election monitors who have been in her office since the spring and through florida...