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March this year. and then he hello an inter-korean -- he held an inter-korean summit in june, received vladimir putin in pyongyang, the first-ever visit it was by a soviet eor russian leader and turned to softening up the u.s. and received secretary of state madeleine albright. and then he came across as a reasonable global statesman, and engaged the region and reaped billions of dollars with which he further advanced his nation's nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities. history is repeating itself. >> you were just in singapore not more than a handful of days ago. what was it like? what wa...

Should rejoin the g7. it used to be the g8 with russia part of the group. russia's membership was suspended in 2014 after it annexed crimea. you had a very angry backlash essentially to the president's proposal. you had them saying russia continues to act illegally because it hasn't withdrawn from crimea. that is an illegal act. that was met with sharp resistance. italy really the only country indicating it would be open to allowing russia to come back in. so president trump not afraid to mix it up and dig in on thorny issues. the president saying we have to deal with russia in order to resolv...

Meeting this spy master? >> this is a reciprocal visit. remember, so far the u.s. has sent high level envoys to pyongyang or to the dmz on the north korean side. it is possible that the white house has said it is your turn to send someone to show how committed you are. you need to send someone. he has greeted the secretary of state so they do have a relationship, i do think it is quite possible that they will sit down and speak. but you never know. every day has brought surprises. maybe it will go higher up the command. >> maybe just -- sam, is it an achievement if nothing comes of the summit?...

And namely one more thing, the national security adviser john bolton has been having calls with his south korean and japanese counterparts nearly every day. sarah sanders notes this morning with south korean counterpart discussing the talks, discussing what is going on. a flurry of diplomatic activity and one more thing i would like to note, from the e-mail from sarah sanders, she says at the top of it, since the president's may 24th letter to the north korean leader, that is the letter we got five days ago where the president said he did not think it was appropriate at this time to hold that ...

What do you make of the seriousness in light of what we're seeing here? the meetings taking place. the inter-korean summit over the weekend, as well. >> south korea is very serious. talk about an air of desperation, they badly want this summit. for understandable reasons, they very badly want to de-escalate the tension there. quite concerned, i think, about president trump's demeanor. i have no doubt that south korea is very, very serious. what we need to be careful about, however, is how realistically they are relating the intentions of north korea. this has been a problem in the past. this i...