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Daughter is doing so. that's according to the hospital and that she's no longer in critical condition. the british government says they were poisoned with the nerve agent. now she's doing better, the russian government wants to talk with her, meet with her, perhaps to figure out -- the russian government has been denying this whole time it was a nerve agent and they're responsible for this and they demand evidence as to what the british have on this. this is simply just part of what the retaliation has gone now. it was that attack that prompted the u.k. to kick out russian diplomats. the russi...

Korean newspaper. this comes days after president trump accepted kim's offer to meet. no sitting american president has ever met with a leader of north korean. let's bring in michael o'hanlan. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> shepard: as the story goes, the president of the two presidents are talking about stuff. and saying if we're going to do something, we'll meet. i'll do it. the president said let's have a meeting. this is norm normal, is it? >> it's not normal. as you pointed out, it's never happened with north korea. you also mentioned the peace treaty idea. that's not as cra...

Government, the u.s. is suspending military exercises during the olympics. that's something, a suspension of those exercises that north korea has been pushing for a long time as have china and russia. the u.s. and south korea have agreed to disband them for one time and not gotten anything out of it, shep. >> shepard: thanks, rich. let's turn to michael o'hanlan from the brookings instituted. he specialized in the u.s. strategy and the military forces. good to see you. >> good to see you. happy 2018. >> shepard: same to you. how do you feel about this situation now? >> all of what you just sai...

Regard to russian election meddling has not changed, end quote. that from pompeo. but the president is calling former u.s. intelligence chiefs political hacks. the stunning statements from the president coming just after trump and putin spoke briefly in vietnam. these comments coming from trump while on air force one to reporters. join meg right now, senior fellow in foreign policy at the brookings institution, michael o'hanlan. michael, it was the president who said he asked again to putin and putin denied any kind of meddling in the u.s. election. and then of course you have mike pompeo sayi...

To essentially ignore that issue and not have to come back to it himself. it would have been surprising if the russians wanted to raise that issue. as you point out, we've sort of now seen another contradiction that makes people very wary of this putin/trump relationship which is not nearly as above board as let's say the trump/xi relationship, which is much more diplomatically acceptable because the private conversations seem to match up with the public explanations. not so with putin and trump. >> michael o'hanlan, thank you so much, always good to see you. coming up, the former white hous...