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Pressure from national security advisor john bolton who seems to think this whole thing is a trap and keeps using language that suggests bolton is trying to find a way out of it. >> so, sarah, the president just a month ago said there is no longer a nuclear threat when he came back. he said, sleep well tonight. does this hang on the president? does he try to hang it on mike pompeo? where are we right now? >> well, it's interesting, you know. if we have many more episodes like the one this weekend, it will be interesting to see who he hangs it on. it is going to hang on him. he did come back, h...

Acknowledge the host country here, and then on tuesday the big main event. what we really don't know, kasie s. what will the end game look like? the president has been telegraphing this is an initial meeting and he wants to size up kim jong-un and there will need to be other meetings in the president president's estimation, and so what gets accomplished here where we see these two leaders greet each other on tuesday morning local time, and begin the conversation. behind the scenes there have been teams from north korea and the united states that have been working on the nitty gritty of the nuc...

Mattis is basically going to be the floor of what the u.s. administration is going to accept. and anything, i think, coming from the south korean president will sort of be the ceiling, the more optimistic end. the president as hans has said is sort of winging this in many respects. he's not really talking to his advisers. and it's really about stage craft. that's what i'm looking for. >> azi paybarah and julie manchester, stay with us. we have more to discuss on the state of the nation. the report of the newly-released secret memo calls into powers of the presidency. this is something the su...

Program, friend of the show, founder and editor of the weekly standard. i want to start with you since we're doing all these remotes right now. what's your first reaction to what you saw today, the fact that the summit is on, how trump talked about it, just the kind of the state craft and stage craft of what we saw leading up to this announcement this afternoon and what for what it's about to unfold the next couple of weeks? >> i guess a couple of thoughts. i'm struck that president trump having stressed before we need to denuclearize noerk izize no. i think it's a propaganda victory, with no ...

Reaction to what you saw today, the fact that the summit is on, how trump talked about it, just the kind of state craft and stage craft of what we saw leading up to this announcement this afternoon, and what it augers for what's about to unfold the next couple weeks? >> i guess a couple thoughts. president trump having stressed before we have to denuclearize north korea, it's now having to get acquainted summit, i think that's a propaganda victory for the north koreans, having a meeting with no preconditions, no action on the part of the north koreans. if it all works out, no one is going to s...