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Replacement, among them national security adviser robert o'brien. >> that's right. secretary pompeo insists that he is not running for senate, and he keeps doing things that make it seem like he's going to run, and nobody really knows. and those close to him say he hasn't actually made his final decision yet. mitch mcconnell is pushing him to run out of fear that kris kobach might win the primary and lose the general. and president trump is agnostic about it. meanwhile, the president has been sounding out lawmakers and officials and tossing around names and seeing who might be interested. and ...

>> so the question now becomes who is going to replace bolton. i believe stephanie grisham said there's no one at the top of that list but we're seeing names floating around. one of them is steve begin who has been leading the north korean negotiations. who else are they talking about? >> i think you have to mention charlie cupperman. this is a longtime bolton aide who really just came in around january, but he's been with him for a long time and is the acting national security adviser. but being, if you will, a loyalist to bolton, the question is whether that would cause problems for him. the...

Bruised result of all that it appears that the pet whose helicopter is -- is on the ground there. we are going to be hearing from him shortly i wanted to make that point that -- this thing took place so quickly and with so little planning and preparation that that is the kind of thing that happened. he stephanie grisham press secretary for white house bruised in inturnt with north korean security guard, where do we go from here? >> well what we have to see now is we have to see teams meet, and that means the president look back representatives to north korean negotiations, steve said steve is ...

To be led by steve begin, the president's envoy to north korea. obviously, mike pompeo, the secretary of state, will be involved too. kim jong un has proven reluctant to give up his entire nuclear program. back in february in hanoi he offered to decommission and dismantle the yongbyon plant, but president trump told him in no uncertain terms he's got to get rid of the entire nuclear program, the ballistic missile program as well as his chemical and biological weapons program. i think it's safe to say we are a long way from that even though there seems to be significant progress. pete: absolute...

President trump on restarting these talks with north korea and then get your reactionful. >> we just had a very, very good meeting with chairman kim, and we've agreed that we're each going to designate a team, and the team will try and work out some details. and, again, speed is not the object. we want to see if we can do a really comprehensive, good deal. over the next two or three weeks, the teams are going to start working to see whether or not they can do something. very big stop, pretty complicated but not as complicated as people think. jedediah: what do you think, optimistic or skeptica...