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Him about complete denuclearization and peace and i think president trump sees himself on the cusp of a great historical accomplishment. >> reporter: tonight, as kim moves toward vietnam in his heavily armored train, there's enormous pressure on both leaders to come up with a more substantive deal than the vague agreement they struck in singapore more than eight months ago. >> it's a test of kim jong-un's sincerity and something that's the most important indicator to watch for in the summit. >> reporter: mark lippert knows sting about how difficult it is to reach a deal. lippert put his life o...

Hand to the south korean ally that is now the focus of tremendous amount of chinese economic pressure over the thaad, the ballistic missile system being deployed to south korea that china so adam antly objects to. >> reporter: south korea taking the brunt of that now exactly and without a government elections here now scheduled for may 9th, so thanks to both of you, john park and ambassador mark lippert. thanks so you and back to chris. chris? >> thanks, andrea. coming up, the nypd warning that the president's proposed budget cuts could hurt the city's counterterrorism efforts. we'll talk to...

They seem to routinely do that sort of thing and not think much of it. i think they're asking for trouble, not legal trouble but certainly political trouble. this is my general sense for the president on down haven't internalized what it means to be in the white house, what the ethics rules are, the norms of propriety are. you're allowed to devise policy, when you should work through cabinet secretaries. they're freelancing as i said i'm not sure anything will come of that. >> quickly on the press, and enemies of the american people, we heard from john mccain speaking up very strongly and some...

Language when in fact these immigration memos come out and executive orders come out. >> thanks to you, kristen and kelly o'donnell at mar-a-lago. join me is richard baucher, retired from the title of career ambassador, senior at brown university and mark lippert, former chief of staff at the obama national security council. welcome. i can't think of a better time to be with two professional foreign policy experts when we have a lack of foreign policy experts. we have not had a state department briefing since this administration took over. secretary tillerson wants to get comfortable with hi...