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President trump and vladimir putin will meet in helsinki one-on-one for 45 minutes. critics have called on the president to cancel that meeting over concerns about the outcome but what would summit success look like? here is a man who talks to the worst people in the world through his career and has been asked to put a happy face on it and make sure america's messages sent, governor bill richardson. what would that 45 minutes look like if you were president trump? how would you go into that? >> i think it's important the summit take place. i got worried with the indictments. the president shou...

Allies on the peninsula just because he was so wildly unprepared for this meeting that he needed to cancel and so no clear this has been left to the diplomats because we know that they are often left to deal with the details do we know what sort of wrangling might be going on in the background. well the state department has said that top american and south korean diplomats have spoken by phone and that they're committed to finding a way to go ahead with the talks with pyongyang we also heard earlier today that defense secretary james mattis said there could be some good news in terms of the ju...

Department? >> reporter: david, that's right. ethics officials want to make sure the department of justice has all these documents. it's unclear, though, whether they're going to pursue an investigation, but there are questions tonight about whether the president was required to disclose this payment last year. david? >> kyra phillips leading us off tonight. kyra, thank you. meantime tonight, the president dealing with something else, north korea. will the summit take place after all? tonight here, the first standoff before the summit, north korea now threatening to cancel the talks, today s...

Tonight. he made the announcement on twitter, writing in part, good news about the release of the american hostage from venezuela. the president also said on twitter that he was looking forward to seeing joshua holt and that the great people of utah are celebrating. all of this as the white house confirms the u.s. team is headed to singapore this weekend to prepare for a potential summit with north korea. press secretary sarah sanders says the white house pre-advance team for singapore will leave as scheduled in order to prepare, should the summit take place. before the president canceled the ...

Planning to send top white house aides over to singapore to work on logistics of the meeting. we are being still told today that the trip is going to happen as planned. in a statement provided to fox news sarah sanders said, quote, the white house preadvanced team for singapore will leave as individualed in order to prepare should the summit take place. the u.s. was once again talking to north korea. some people are hoping that the meeting happen but would rather see it take place town the road rather than in coming weeks. >> this is good news, it means the summit is on track, maybe not for ju...