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This statement which is a non-binding feel-good statement that allows these two leaders to conference but do you see anything beyond that that causes you concerns or suggest this is will be a success? >> joe, this is a beginning as we've been saying for the first hour of our convtion. it will take many months and many meetings to see if this process is real in the sense of achieving the complete denuclearization that was announced as the achievement of this opening round or commitment of this opening round. this is enormous triumph for kim jong-un, the north korean leader, he's built a nuclear...

Regime. he has been very threatening beyond a normal statement ands i said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of this which world had never seen before. >> i think without the rhetoric it wouldn't have happened. i think without other things going along, i think the establishment of a new team was very important. we ha great team think he wants to get it done, i feel that very strongly. >> from fire and fury to friends? right now president trump is in the air m 25-hour 10,000 mile journey back to washington, d.c. it has been a whirlwind few hours but the final results ...

Without that we would wobble when trying to d it alone. >> so president trump just gave an interview a few minutes ago. he was asked if north korea would get rid of all nuclear weapons, and he replied "he's denuking, he's denuking the entire place, i think he's going to start now. request tlts's no indication when he will start, certainly that he's not starting immediately. but what in here would compel kim jong-un to denuclearize. the stopping of warm games isn't enough so what would make the united states believe he would give up the one chip he has on the world stage. >> there's nothing in ...

Stateme statement. chalking up this summit to feel good and getting an action plan. mike pompeo will be under the gun to lay out what it is we need to do. for example the statement says nothing at all about the regional powers, south korea, china japan, what's their role going to be? so a lot of questions like this and if i were mike pompeo i'd get moving on an action plan, how to bring this into negotiation because when you start lookit the statement, putting aside the syntax problems, you'll see it has major problems and is an invitation for the north koreans to do nothing in our lifetime. >...

That's no longer the case and why do we think it will return after donald trump departs from the scene? and if this represents a sea change in where the republican party and their voters are, that's discouraging in fundamental ways for the future of the world and this country's ability to play a constructive role. >> gene, stay with us. still ahead, south korea's president released a statement this morning calling the summit between president trump and kim jong-un "a great victory achieved by both the united states and the two koreas." we'll get the latest from nbc's richard engel live in se...