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>> reporter: you mentioned the woman whiplash in your headline and it is really head spinning. there seems to be a new swift every few hours. the latest is the momentum of a summit between kim jong un and tru trump, coming hours after a summit nobody expected between president moon and kim jong un, their second in a month. they met for about two hours, president moon driving from here from seoul just over the boarder to the north side of the demilitarized zone, and they talked apparently according to the south koreans very candidly about the cancellation of the summit and indeed about their ow...

Isn't say anything about the specific surprise meeting between the two leaders, though the president is alluding to meetings like this saying productive talks are continuing. the biggest sign that things are back on track is something that bill mentioned, that white house press secretary sarah sanders announced the white house pre-advance team is on its way. we reported that donald trump wasn't to beat kim to the punch, thinking he wanted to pull out of the summit first. from there the president did a 108. ta -- 180. listen to what he said. >> reporter: mr. president, is the summit still off? ...

We'll see what happens. it could even be the 12th. they very much want to do it. we'd like to do it. we're going to see what happens. >> reporter: so we're going to see what happens is what the president says. white house officials privately say there is some relief this meeting was cancelled for this reason -- it in many ways lowers the expectation for a summit should it ever happen, david. >> this morning the president tweeted about the return of an american hostage from venezuela. he said should be landing in d.c. evening and be in the white house with his family about 7 p.m. eastern time, ...

Around the president who say if you come up with a plan for denuclearizing the peninsula, which the president wants to do, coming up with a plan takes time and judging the success of it takes time. but the way the president talks about a summit suggests he wants a quick win and it's one reason the president entered into the summit in a way that was i think we can say was probably ill prepared and probably more optimistic than they should have been. and i think there are white house officials who are happy to have this reset period, even though the president says the summit could still happen o...

Don't know, it doesn't work the other way around. donald trump seems to be very keen to reinstate this summit. he's been talking about perhaps singapore, perhaps june 12th, but you wouldn't bet on it. it does, however, seem that the summit is back from the dead. and one other point, david, kim jong un has now had two summits with president moon, two summits with china's president xi, he at least preparing very thoroughly should that summit with president trump take place. >> always good to speak to you, bill neeley, joining me from seoul. let's go to jeff bennett who covers the white house for...