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>> let's unwind these rhetorical gymnastics with dana bash and jim sciutto and brian carom with us as well. just to be clear, what happened was john bolton, his new national security adviser said we're looking at the libya model, libya hands over its nuclear parts, it's a different situation than what north korea has and sanctions are cgadhafi. and trump is saying no, no, no, no, completely throws john bolton under the bus but says says if these don't work out, maybe that is the model. >> two very contradictory messages from the president. a lot of times it's the president's aides cleaning up ...

Get to a place where it's something slightly less than that but we can verify it's a good deal for the united states, well, then that's fine. but we should be pushing for the maximum possible benefit to the united states right now. >> melissa: what do you think is the maximum possible benefit? he said 20-year freeze was the best we could hope for. >> i don't think that is right. we need to, we need to work with china and our allies in the region, in seoul and in tokyo to come up with a plan that will come to arrangement on the korean peninsula beneficial to everyone. we'll have to make comprom...

Watch the tape. he was killed because we destroyed his army through the air raids so his enemies were there to kill him. putting forth that as the model and saying that is our negotiating position, that is what is going to happen, i can't imagine that we are going to achieve that in negotiations. >> melissa: the libya model was used as a way of saying they will take the product of the nuclear program and bring them back for verification. the fact that he was murdered later wasn't part of that original plan anyway, obviously. but they walked that back afterwards anyway. what you are talking abo...

Xi, but fair trade is going to be fair to both sides. a $500 billion deficit is not fair to the people of america. >> the president said the libya model only kicks in if they don't come to the table and talk. we heard today, he said clearly, that he offered security, safety, to kim jong-un, because he doesn't want to end up like muammar qaddafi years after he gave up his nuclear weapons. in terms of that, if this summit doesn't happen, we're back to aggressive military posture and options ha? >> the president said if it doesn't happen it doesn't happen. we are this close. i believe this presid...

This meeting is going to move forward, it comes as north korea last week threatened to pull the plug on the meeting after the u.s. and south korea launched those preplanned military exercises and in the words of south korea, said that that would be fine, they changed their tune last week, started flexing their muscles and that really caught the white house off guard, it caught the president off guard as well. of course you also had what you reference, john bolton suggesting that north korea would be like the libya model, well, the leader of libya was ultimately after the nukes were taken away,...