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In his answer and he said, well, it does appear that going forward, if there are negotiations, my counterpart is going to be somebody different, but he didn't elaborate on why he thought that or if he had any reason to believe these reports of executions were true. so what we know, according to this report in a south korean newspaper, is that the man who would be the equivalent of the u.s. envoy to north korea, steve bei beacon, was executed along with four other working level diplomats, accused of being recuted by american imperialists, and others including kim jung chul is the counterpart of...

High-ranking north korean officials, this is as if in the united states the u.s. special representative for north korea, steve beagen was executed along with a lot of other state department people, and mike pompeo was sent to a forced labor camp. these are people that we felt like we almost knew having seen them so many times in these high-level meetings, leading up to the summit. we have kim yough chul, the steven began counterpart. according to this report, and this newspaper has had issues in the past, so you have to take it with a grain of salt, but he has been executed along with four oth...

>> sue, i want to get your sense of where things go from here going back to the comments of mike paempt ompeo. is there a path forward as you see it walking away from this summit? >> i think it's going to be difficult because now they're at the highest level and we don't have any kind of agreement on anything. eight months after singapore. they're talking about south korea, u.s. extended nuclear umbrella. our troop brens and when we are talking denuclearization we're talking about north korea program. we don't have a time loourn. we don't even have a base here to even go forward so they're goi...

Now third summit is very unlukely unless working level. and i it don't see that happening any time soon. >> the michael cohen news the last two days, the north korea summit now there is this being reported tonight from the "new york times." thaw are reporting that president's son in law was granted top secret security clearance because president trump over ruled top intelligence officials. oo according to the times that was so troubling to senior seniorficials he he had been ordered to give kushner clearance. and mcgahn also dock ynlted his concerned. earlier this month >> there were anonymous...

Where -- and many people have said it was great that it started top-down, but now it needs to be bottom-up so to speak. the working groups need to get down to see what's the art of the possible. >> that's the real trick, christiane, because it's about empowerment. our team will be empowered. they will have the imprimatur of pompeo and trump. biegun knows that he can speak for the united states. but on the north korean side, it's not the same. >> it will not be authorized to make any big promise until it gets approved straight from the top. that's why the working level talks essentially fell ap...