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Turkey are conducting a joint investigation and that turkey is investigating separately from doing its own investigation. and yesterday we noted the public prosecutor did interrogate 20 turkish employees at the consulate. we don't know what those employees shared with the prosecutor. fredricka. >> all right, ben wedeman, thank you so much. all right, let's talk further about all this. cnn national security analyst sam vinigrad and cnn international correspondent sam kylie joining us from saudi arabia. listen to what president trump says when asked if he believes the saudis explanation is cre...

Denuclearization is a very broad term, and what's happening right now is we are seeing a splintering of opinions and what that means, but also a splintering among the coalition. we've had president moon of south korea. he was last at the white house, he moved closer in some ways to kim jong un. we've had the north koreans go to the chinese, host the russians. they seem to be playing a very smart diplomatic game and i don't know that we have our ducks in a row internally in defining what denuclearization means and what we really want. >> let's go to the other side of the white house. sam, stay ...

Tonight on "the point", where does that leave america? and where does it leave america's place in the world? back we many is harold fineman, elie lake from bloomberg and steve clemens who is also with the atlantic and former obama national security official sam vinigrad. welcome to all. sam, i put the question to you first. >> thank you, ari. i think it's pretty clear that administration's policies are not putting america first. they're actually putting america last. that certainly won't make america great. i think it's one of our best assets. but the fact is that united states now has a dimin...

Ad lib, if you will, and that's a risk. we have to remember that presidential time is often used as a carrot. so inviting kim yong chol into the oval office, the president is inviting him into a room that's typically reserved for allies, our closest friends, and giving him such an inordinate chunk of time that sends a message to kim jong un, i think, that north korea, you're just as credible as all of our allies and we're going to be treating you exactly the same, which as we know is something that kim jong un wants. >> sam and jeff, we're going to keep an eye on this meeting. if the president...

Never mind the fact that kim yong chol shouldn't be anywhere near 1600 pennsylvania avenue or even inside the united states for that matter considering he is on a sanctions list that bars him from coming in, but in an attempt to revive this on again/off again summit between president trump and kim jong un, chol is hand delivering this letter to the president on behalf of the north korean dictator. after his own meeting with chol, secretary of state mike pompeo was pretty positive about the progress. >> this is going to be a process that will take days and weeks to work our way through. there w...