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Amanpour, chief international correspondent. you were listening to the secretary of state mike pompeo testify in front of the senate foreign relations committee, read this letter in full to them, he's the one who has had these two recent meetings with kim jong-un, laying the ground work for what was going to be this historic summit. >> you know, this all started to come unstuck when kim jong-un started to get angry about the joint military exercises that were going on in the korean peninsula, between south korea and the united states. then kept ratcheting it up because you had a national secur...

Is absolute if it means the site is unusable, but they say -- they told us we're being transparent here, we're showing you our nuclear site for first time, the first time, we're blowing it up, we're willing to denuclearize, willing to talk with the united states, but they don't want to be compared to libya, a country whose government was overthrown after giving up its nuclear weapons and that's why they felt they had to respond with that very strongly worded statement, targeting the vice president mike pence, they also targeted -- they also targeted president trump's national security adviser ...

>> it certainly has. it is the center of a lot of debate here. that's what drove the north koreans to issue the first statement, essentially signaling this summit may not happen after all. john bolton was referencing what happened in 2003 when they got libya to give up their nuclear weapons. of course, several years later the libyan leader moammar gadhafi was overthrown and brutally killed what the north koreans took that to be about. we later had it wasn't just john bolton who made a comment like that. we had the president and the vice president mike pence later say that if they don't -- if n...

United states to pull out of this summit, but the threat of nuclear war there at the end from the north koreans. a lot of people did not see that as something feasible to go and meet with kim jong-un in a matter of weeks here after they made a threat like that. i'm told it was the final straw and the summit could have never worked under these circumstances from a white house official, poppy. >> staying with you for a moment. you heard will ripley say a lot of the anger within north korea that prompted their remarkable statement overnight came because of what john bolton, the national security ...

She was cultivating these four star generals down at centcom. we have just learned that she has had her base pass removed in the last few days because she is seen as a little bit unstable. but, she has been collecting these generals for quite some time. >> bill: okay. all right. now, let's pivot into something that's a lot more important although the petraeus resignation is tragedy for the country. when you are listening to the president at the press conference today, talking about libya, and then basically doing the same rope-a-dope, i can't say anything because of the investigation. what goe...