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A win that he will give away too much in the next summit with kim jong-un. >> you are hearing, brian, sensitive issues with kim having come up in the planning for a location for this second summit. >> yes. one administration official told cnn the white house reached out to try to get kim to go to switzerland. the team thought kim would like that because he went to school in switzerland in the 1990s. they could not make that happen, partially because of the distance and the fact that kim jong-un was still very sensitive about the criticism he received for borrowing a chinese plane to travel to ...

An upcoming summit between the united states and north korea between kim jung-un and donald trump. remember last year the leader of north korea, kim jung-un, came here to beijing -- came to china twice to meet with xi jinping before his summit in singapore in june with donald trump. he then went to china a third time right after that summit. so if precedent is any guide for us here, when kim jung-un comes to china, it has something to do with donald trump. at least that is what recent history tells us. so i think given what we know about how the north koreans are preparing, about how the ameri...

Second summit and some issues to only be nailed down by the leaders and that i have a willingness from kim jong-un to let the inspectors into the missile test site, and are we moving ahead in a way that no one u could have predicted when they first started in singapore? >> well, we are certainly moving ahead, andrea, and where we are heading to is not entirely clear, and there is no question that there would be a second summit, and the president wants it on the calendar as quickly as he can, and i would suspectt before the midterm so he can say that he is a great national security president, a...

Denuclearization since their first summit? >> well, jim, you know, the situation -- i mean, you know, compare the situation a year ago. so there has been a lot of differences. if you were to tell us, you know, a year later, say last year, we would have no nuclear tests, no missile tests, three american prisoners returned. i think that's a good deal. you know, we would have grabbed at it. remember, a year ago, we were talking about bloody nose. a year ago at this same forum in the united nations, president trump was saying we will totally destroy you, little rocket man. so it is very different....

What would be the end result? would missiles be firing in both directions? but the fact is this administration has defined success by complete irreversible and verifiable steps on denuclearization. typically, those sessions happen before a summit. you had the first summit, no concessions before or after that are hard, and now you have a second summit. i'm curious, what is the process or the strategy here if you're not getting those concessions and the two leaders are meeting face-to-face? >> jim, you're right. we have reached an impasse. that's because of the fundamental difference in understa...