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Explain how the president in the span of just a few days went from essentially i really can't do anything about this, it's all on congress to let me go ahead and sign this executive order and and fix this thing. do we expect that there's going to be some sort of explanation or are we to just assume that the president thinks that we'll all forget about that part of the story? >> reporter: no, i think that they're prepared to know they're going to have to provide some type of answer. craig, how much clarity will be in those answers remains to be seen. we do know that president trump is going to ...

Undoubtedly. china was happy when the president spoke about at least temporarily suspending military exercises, what president trump called war games. china doesn't like the war games, the military exees at all, probably not any more than the north koreans do because those exercises are not only focused on north korea, they're designed with an eye on china, as well. en you take those combined, china has a lot to be happy about. it will be interesting, secretary of state mike pompeo set to come through beijing, meet with the foreign minister in china, that's happening on thursday. we are expect...

Least to start. on thursday we know secretary of state mike pompeo will be coming here to beijing to meet with the foreign minister of china. they are likely to give some sort of short press availability. that is something we'll be attending and very close attention to. >> indeed. ian bremmer from the eurasia group said the freeze for a freeze exactly the formation the chineseave asked for. he'll be on "new day" later this morning to explain how they were the big winner. matt rivers live for us in beijing. thank you, my friend. joining us to discuss the summit and political implications, pol...

That can get him tie set of principles because i doesn't know the intel, he doe't know the weapons and he may very well be what you fear. >> one of the things i couldn't help thinking about watching that is i remember the first meeting president obama had with raul castro, for instance. we made very certain that in that press availability they had president obama said we're going to continue to have differences. we had to say something that got at the fact that just because we have a meeting doesn't mean we agree with everything. we obviously had differences with cuba on human rights. i didn't...

>> peter, you've watched this guy for a long time. i am anticipating a joint statement, perhaps a press availability that will be rife with superlatives. but then even as he gets outside of chinese airspace, the pressure foreliverables begins. and people in our business will keep writing the articles about the deal with north korea. what happened with denuclearization? and that's the tough part of this job. >> oh, it so much is. look, president clinton struck a deal with north korea, and obviously it fell apart. president bush got close to a couple deals that also fell apart. and, you know, in...