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Exclusive report right here. it just came out moments ago. it's hot off the press. tell me what the significance is here. >> these are the annual key spring exercises. they're not going to conduct them in any more. this isn't a direct result of the summit in hanoi. this is something that's been going on for sometime. you'll recall after the first summit in singapore, president trump talked about these exercises, calling them provocative, saying they're too expensive. he's been on the record numerous times saying he's against these large scale exercises. tens of thousands of troops, aircraft sh...

Covering the military for nearly 15 years. and in that time i have heard over and over from the u.s. military about how critical these are to readiness and to what they call inter operability. the u.s. and the south korean and other allied nations being able to work together, you know, know how their equipment works together and to be able to train and whatnot all at once. but these clearly also were and have been a show to north korea and in some ways to china, they act as a deterrent value. in the story -- in our story we talk about how one of the concerns from the u.s. has historically been...

Communications, that's meant to be more of a message. you'll note that this year for the spring exercises, the u.s. military turned off all the media coverage of those exercises. normally hopping aboard a ship or doing some sort of thing out there, you're welcome. they let you do it. they turned everything off. they went dark because they wanted to give the military, u.s. forces, give negotiations a chance to mature. as we've just heard from admiral harris, peace is a real possibility. we've also heard him in his short testimony, he's still contradicting the president. the president's own amba...

Ahead with the annual spring exercises. it's a change that they're now objecting to these exercises. in a way it was last night's statement coming out of north korea, it's more troulg than the first. the first is an objection to the exercise. the second one gets to the core of what every administration official has said publicly and privately, that's the goal is complete and verifiable denuclearization. as you mentioned earlier, sara huckabee sanders was asked about this on the white house lawn, she said this was all part of the plan and they always expected it. have a listen. >> this is somet...

Would continue their spring exercises. every spring they go through a series of exercises broadly called full eagle. the exercise that is taking place right now is called max thunder. it's basically an air force exercise. a lot of hardware is up in the air. the assumption really from the olympics onward is that the u.s. would be able to continue with those exercises in part because it has to do with the strength of the alliance between south crea and the u.s. they would be able to continue and that kim jong-un would not object to that. what we had in the last hour a firm objection saying they ...