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Picture is a significant sign of respect to kim jong-chul. not bringing him in the back door and hiding him away as we know michael steele is here with me and mark salter. he's going to be ushered in to the oval office. we may see a picture there. he'll hand over a letter and presumably they know the contents. they've been briefed on the contents. he sat for a day and a half with mike pompeo. i just came back from new york. they had long hours of talks. >> and, look, this is a -- a good moment to move forward on the terms of getting something together on the table regarding the peninsula of ko...

Give up all nuclear weapons. i don't know what's left when they give those up. hopefully it represents a form of progress, but i guess i'm among the skeptics. >> to be skeptical is to, i think, be smart in this instance. if john mccain were sitting at the table, who knows more about anything? been there 30 times, seen their tunnels. he's saying it will take 15 years to begin denuclearizing. they haven't accepted inspect n inspectio inspections, cheated in the past. >> surely v. and develop add secret plutonium program. >> after signed agreement framework with the clinton administration have be...

That. we'll see. we're holeful it all turns out good, well, but we'll see how the president himself handled in in the mix of that meeting. hear's something he doesn't like does it change his demeanor? likes something a lot, preempts the protocol? we'll see. >> and mark salter, john mccain is still an active participant from arizona as chairman of the arms services committee. he knows this so well, better than almost anyone else in government. here you've got, by the way, a meeting with our secretary of defense within the last day in singapore with his vietnamese counterpart as vietnam is compl...

Them. know know he fought for them. he's been a champion of that. it's an underappreciated part of his legacy very much like scoot jackson or -- >> i wanted to play from the, "for whom the bell tolls" from that hbo documentary. john mccain's voice about the diagnosis and how he reacted. >> you know, these doctors keep talking to me about people who, if you tell them the truth then they just give up and die. that you really want -- and i keep saying to them, just tell me. just tell me. that's all i want to know. you know? some say, well, it's not good. well, it's just -- [ bleep ] -- really dri...

He's taking a day off from her co-hosting job. yesterday she was defending her dad against president trump's attacks. >> i don't like talking about my dad all the time but he keeps being brought up in rally last weekend. there were boos. obviously i was promised on a apology publicly that i did not receive that. we want to go tit for tat, this is not an administration capable of apologizing on their end. it's really good politics they are doing now because they are trying to change the narrative. >> joining me now is michael steele and mark saulter. it's going to hit new york times