policy of aggression towards north korea as a professor hung about it the axis of evil north korea's place along with iran and iraq in the axis of evil and so as much as you want to see interest in progress it will always be constrained and greatly. impacted negatively impacted by u.s. hostility towards north korea so we have to see these two parallel tracks taking place and i think just bring it back to what the south koreans and u.n. has been saying is we want both denuclearization and pursuit of the peace treaty to go side by side and that we are not going to see the denuclearization of north korea and north korea giving up is when deterrence unless they have guaranteed security and that's going to come in the form of concrete steps including the removal of change and normalize relations between the u.s. and north korea one of the things we'd be remiss if we didn't bring up today is human rights because so many of our community members are discussing that disappear one person on twitter says if monday and truly wants to help north korea human rights talk is inevitable another pers

north korea was quite serious. north korea played the game. they know how to get the attention of china. they are playing the game. serve china's interest at this moment and then north korea loses an important card to play. that is why it i think north korea would not use the card. which is the result. depending on the entire activity that you mentioned. impending on the relationship with china and the united states. entering very complex games. we do not know the outcomes. in the past everything is clear. , because of the clear line of ideology and the system. now it is mixed. so everything is on the table , like president trump says. china can say everything is possible. maybe north korea can also say we on the table as well. this is the situation. >> this has been a lively discussion. i am sure everyone has more questions. feel free to stay on and get answers to the questions. please join me in thanking our panelists. [applause] thank you for coming. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the natio

was north korea committed to the summits yes i think north korea was committed to the summit but i think there is in one sense a cultural difference here and also a tactical difference north korea certainly would like and has for a long time wanted to draw the united states into a direct dialogue with the means by which they do that if you like the way in which the goalposts are set and in a way we're in a way in which the protocol if it's followed is quite different on both sides and so there's a game of kind of one upmanship but also demonstrating who is able to call the shots here i think some of the way in which this is broken down is jus to a misunderstanding by which that should proceed but of the way in which that should proceed. mr over do you think that how much of this misunderstanding might come from different voices in the u.s. administration and is does the u.s. administration have a unified diplomatic strategy for dealing with north korea do you think one dull for that the united states has any real coherent strategy when it comes to north korea at all and i think that nati

and north korea. the pipe has many loopholes, and many funds or goods diverted to government programs. there are so many loopholes. because china is constraining the entire flow the amount of , water leaked from the pipe appears to be small, but once the overflow levels return to the previous volume, we will have the same problems. north korea, they are connecting -- their agents are connecting to programs for illegal procurement activities. they are still there. north korean nationals are living in luxurious apartments and are still there. i don't know why. north korean possessing cambodian passports and traveling around the world. no government stops the activity effectively. dialogue, thethe international community has never been good at implementing effective sanctions, so this relates to the future of the regime. it's not only about north korea but how do we take control of risk of the verging many commercial quantities of technology? no country in the world has been good. i see no good examples

-north korea summit. the previous inter-korean summits were limited in their effectiveness because they were a dialogue between the two koreas only, and did not lead to dialogues with other major powers. such limitations were overcome in the third interkorea summit. president moon is not just the driver. he is also a sherpa. perhaps one of the biggest insights from the third inter-korea summit, was our deepened understanding of kim. we learned that kim is rational, analytical, and able to react appropriately to events surrounding him. i do not intend by that statement, to overestimate his abilities. however, we came to realize that he is not a madman, and that it would be wrong to simply assume that he would never give up nukes. kim has been through a difficult period where pressures and sanctions were coming in from all directions. he also faced serious threats to his regime where military options such as limited strikes were talked about. changes in him were not limited to non-provocation. it is apparen

korea agrees to disarm of course that means dennis his willingness to converse with north korea flies in the face of the u.s. as foreign policy no wonder the white house is keen to distance itself from his efforts. our view. about north korea and its very nice obligations have not changed in our view about canada i have not changed i guess kenneth bae an evangelical christian who was arrested in two thousand and twelve while leading into a group through north korea he was later charged with planning to overthrow the government and sentenced to fifteen years hard labor it's yet another cause of friction and dennis finds himself under pressure as a personal friend of kim jong un's to help push for by his release and then as if that wasn't enough for dennis to contend with just one day before he's due to fly out this happens. despicable human scum worse than a dog that's how north korean state media described the once powerful uncle uncle north korean leader kim jong un has been executed for trying to overthrow the government reports from north korea tonight say the second most powerful

north korea summit. there is something good to trump. , andump made good summit we have a great plan to support north korea economically with the international society, this is the plan. .'m not going to be surprised the south korean government sooner or government would launch support for north korea. but greater approaches while keeping pace with the international society. >> they are big tariffs but not immediately. >> we have big tariffs. we are willing to. but you have to do what you need , first, to do. this is there clear message. xi's visit to north korea? >> the announcement of the upcoming visit, he got promoted and became state counselor and foreign minister. the announcement of his visit is another example of the quickening of diplomatic efforts in the region by the different parties. one of his missions is to make preparations for president xi jinping's visit later this year. these indicate china wants to see the opportunity. the momentum to push forward the process of resolving the nuclear

you have south korea, north korea, china plus u.n. nations that signed on to unanimous agreement for the sanctions. everybody in the world has a benefit from the negotiations. let's take it a day at a time and see where it goes with the ultimate goal of de-nuclearization bringing the conflict to an end so they can look at some form of reunification. >> harry in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. republican line. >> caller: let me make a few statements and let me finish. let's start with the -- starring with jimmy carter and shaw of iran. they were walking around with radios and everything else. when he came to the united states to get help for medical conditions carter was thinking about sending him back. bill clinton gave north korea $8 million for farms. let's go to obama making a deal with iran. you mean to tell me people don't think iran is doing something there? and the congressional hearing yesterday they were sticking up for the terrorists who were killing americans and blaming this woman because she didn't have morales for that. >> i t

korea's nuclear program but ensuring north korea's economic growth? this is going to be the challenge spirit very good point. i think if it's okay for everyone on the panel i would like to open the floor for questions. so i would open the first question, goes to chris. [inaudible] >> can you wait until the microphone gets to you? thank you. >> great discussion, really since think which really helps because i'm on fumes and i have to type up something. i love the way frank organized the win-win, lose lose. i find myself wondering at what point and is it the role of the u.s. or is this a known issue to say i can do anything with you -- moon issue -- as long as you say armed unification of the peninsula. how can we give you peace treaty if you will not give us one? is that something mint street frontloaded or is that when those the things you sort of phase and when you build and more trust? the analogy is like, we get really upset without the iran thing is handled but every time you get really upset, israel will die in a sea of fire to war are awful, whi

north korea. as ambassador sugiyama mentioned, we have challenges going forward and one is how do we work together to manage the challenges stemming from north korea's nuclear and missile programs and its recent diplomatic offensive. and it's wonderful to hear the campaigns how japan and the united states leadership are working together to coordinate our position to make sure that we take advantage of the strength of our alliance to deal with these issues. so if i could ask for more one round of applause for the ambassador. >>. [applause] >> i'm sure when we invite him back in one year. and i'm told we'll get the stage set up for our next presentation. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] . [inaudible conversations] . [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

north korea. it's a realistic estimate and you don't take my word for it, to her knows more about denuclearization, he was director of the local recordings and hero report and knows more about the political scene at any other person onthe planet and it's a very carefully gone the study . they're saying 15 years for denuclearization. so the libya model is completely unrealistic. and for north korea the problem is kim jong-un's span in office, he hopes is 40 years. but he knows damn well that trunk has only got, i think no one's counting on three terms unless he amend the constitution but even he will be out of office in 11 more years so trunk isn't going to see this through. he's going to be out of office after his third term. moon jae-in isn't going to see this through so the united states, we have to either embrace a declaratory policy that puts us on the path for denuclearization or reject it because of the timeline which is too long and yet is the only realistic timeline available to us. given

of security to north korea they can provide also economic benefits to to north korea of course they cannot completely sums substitute the u.s. but it could be the the core could be moved to china to having a better sense and this comes on the day when we had the reports of journalists going into north korea and seeing tunnels to the supposedly to the north korean nuclear facilities being destroyed so you've got a picture of at least what north korea wants us to think of them trying to get rid of their nuclear weapons research and then you've got the u.s. president canceling a summit with kim jong un so who looks how in this picture i think both sides are to be blamed it's only one side but obviously the north koreans are very much interested in going into the negotiations was an important gesture even though some people say the facilities have been working anyways and that it was an important gesture of good faith by north korea. as they also released the prisoners the u.s. prisoners and all the other things and not so much has been coming back from the u.s. until now and that's wha

korea, the united states, south korea, japan and north korea, all aimed at preventing north korea from getting nukes. we've given them enormous amounts of money, enormous amounts of resources and they have nukes. what happened? >> i think that the united states had other priorities, and so what we did was we put north korea almost all the time at the bottom of the list, and so, of course, the north koreans were able to just basically lie, cheat and steal, and we weren't paying that much attention. there were only certain moments that we're concerned. for instance, 1994, when we almost went to war. but you know during the administration of george w. bush, you know, they spent a lot of time on north korea, but for them, the most important thing was integrating china into the international system. the bush administration put, for instance, china at the center of the six-party talks, and because of that, you know, we sort of got an arrogant beijing because we fed their notions of self-importance, and we got a nukedup north korea. so you know you get to the obama era, and basically it's in

and north korea. making the case that they are already getting things, and north korea has not done anything yet, but i am not sure how far they want to get ahead of the process. >> another question. >> thank you. so i just have a kind of moral question for the people that are for the proposition. the third time that we are kind of negotiating this. i think that there is a lot of bluster in this administration without tryingt to bias the audience. and what i think is impossible to get a complete denuclearization of north korea. you think that you can -- >> can you -- , so inoral question is the 1990's, you had a lot of people serving, and millions of people died because of sanctions, actions on the part of the international community to get them to the table. i think that happened again. >> no more exposition. get your question, sir. >> my question with this run-on sentence with a lot of comments, use theset moral to things as a bargaining chip when you have somebody who is in a position where he thin

we know north korea depends on china for trade. how big is this announcement about calling off the summit going to affect negotiations? in the last few days they've said no trade war. we're holding off on tariffs. last night trump is going maybe i'm going to terror calves imported here and now the summit is off. >> well, potentially disaster. we know that the president gets his dragon energy from approval, and so far walking away from the table on north korea seems to have gotten some approval from different sides of the aisle, different academics. i agree with my old boss and colleague who said earlier on the program that walking away was a good, strong move. we have a back channel. the danger is that playing tough with north korea might prompt playing tough on trade which would translate into doubling down on tariffs. that feels right. it feels like we're protecting u.s. jobs. if you look at the history of the hundreds of tariffs applied over the past 30 years, tariffs kill u.s. jobs, not saving them. in steel for every one job s

the north korea issue? pres. trump: i have great confidence in your president. i think he has brought a different perspective to the talks with north korea. he wants to be able to make a deal. you have had hard-line administrations and you have president moon and you have had others before president moon who also had more or less decided to -- i think he is a very care of -- a very capable person, an extremely competent man. have what isnts to good for the korean peninsula, not just north or south. i have tremendous confidence in president moon. way, the way he is, really is helping us to potentially make a deal. whether the deal gets made or not, who knows. it is a deal. you never know about deals. you going to deals that are 100% certain, it doesn't happen. you going to deals that have no chance, and it happens easily. there are a lot of deals. i know deals better than anybody knows deals. you never really know. this is a good man and he is very capable. i think south korea is very lucky to have him. do y

we don't want war with north korea. we need cooler heads to prevail and stick to the strategy of amying pressure and getting them to the table sflmpt. >> reporter: some suggested part of the reason why there have been changes in the president's approval ratings has to do with the fact that we were seeing progress here with north korea. do you think this will hurt the president at home in. >> people want peace. it will hurt the president at home if it seems like we are getting back to the posture we were at before where he is insulting kim jong-un and threatening to use our nuclear arsenal. this seems to be a solvable issue. if we can continue to work with the south koreans, japanese and chinese we can solve this crisis. we should seize that opportunity rather than go back to the childish impulsive behavior. >> i know that the congressman can't hear you. is there a question you would like me to ask here? >> we are talking about north korea. i would love to eric on another big headline happening that we haven't talked abo

korea but it is not the real problem with north korea. it is an isolated dictatorship that oppresses people and that is what trump is starting with, paving the way to have talks on a different matter. todd: the art of the deal, thanks for being with us this morning, we will be right back. ion-powered melatonin to deliver up to 7 hours of sleep support. number one sleep doctor recommended remfresh-your nightly sleep companion. available in the natural sleep section at walmart. todd: fox news alert, three americans held captive for more than your north korea making their return to us oil overnight but just moments ago the men arriving at walter reed medical center for a medical evaluation. all three appear to be in good health as they stepped off the plane at joint base andrews giving the peace sign, welcomed by secretary of state mike pompeo and donald trump who says kim jong un is serious about striking a deal with the us. >> he did this because i really think he wants to do something and bring that country into the real world. i really b

my professional military judgment is that south korea would defeat north korea in any war. the problem is the cost in blood and treasure will be immense. we don't want to see that happen. we don't want to see another war north and south, or another war that has the alliance against the north. i believe it is the alliance that gives us the best chance to deter war. if there are no forces on the korean peninsula, i have no doubt that the south korean military is capable and they will prevail. the koreans living in the south and the entire region will suffer immensely if there is war. >> are you talking only in defense of a conventional war? david: even in a nuclear war. think, north, -- i korea will be less inclined to use nuclear weapons if there are no external forces. the use of nuclear weapons by north korea in a war is going to be to deny access to basis for reinforcing forces, weather in south korea or the seven you and bases in japan. those of the most -- whether in south korea or the seven u.s. bases in japan. north korea would believe they would want to ca bite a con

north korea summit. i believe president moon's vision was a major factor entering the summit meeting. kim to complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. former first lady told the president moon that he should receive nobel peace prize. president moon responded the peace prize should go to president trump and we will take the peace instead. that response highlights the good intentions of president moon. last year, president moon gave a speech and since, he has followed through. during the olympic, he made room for participation of the north korea by delaying a korea u.s. joint military exercise in consultation with the u.s. after the olympics, president moon followed through by sending a special envoy and a special meeting and the message was relaed to president trump. that laid the foundation for the upcomi upcomi upcoming u.s. north korea summit. president moon arranged the meeting. what distinguished this that they are connected with u.s. north korea summit. the previous summits are limited in

north korea summit what do you make a of that how does the north korean media sell this to to to north korea to the north korean people after vilifying the u.s. for so long. well they will portray it as the result of the peerless genius of their leader kim jong un you know ears fashion the summit he's brought the u.s. to a summit through is careful diplomacy and of course the military power that he has consolidated for the democratic people's republic of korea so that will be how they how they spin it domestically. really it's interesting to watch how it's being spun on the u.s. side. several hints dribs and drabs coming out the last couple weeks about where it might be and when the summit might be and yet very little confirmation so we're having to do a bit of tea leaf reading with both north korean and u.s. media under a really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us you're looking at live pictures there from the joint base andrews this is ours iraq with live coverage of. the three americans freed from prison in north korea have just landed at the joint base andrews

and north korea. but it's clear, though, that he still wants this to move forward. and his administration is trying to accommodate that. and still trying to make this happen by june 12th. so, you know, we'll have to see, wolf, how this pans out. >> pamela brown thanks for that report. the news of the canceled summit took many north korean officials by surprise. just house before the announcement pyeongchang held a ceremonial dishandlement of only known nuclear site. looking at pictures video of that dishand tellment. for now on that will ripley is joining us in north korea. he has reaction. will? >> wolf, it's been a surreal 24 hours on the ground here in side north korea. of course that trip there yesterday was unprecedented first time journalist has been at the site. we spent all day. tunnel after tunnel. we saw huge explosions that north koreans said. we basically have to take their word for it. no way to know if what the noernorth koreas was showing us was a show or doing that what they thought wa

my hope that all of the people of korea north korea and south can someday live in harmony prosperity and peace. and it looks like it could happen. john what is he really has been. very open. and i think very honorable from everything we're seeing i really think he wants to do something i think he did this because i really think he wants to do something and bring that country into the real world. also coming up tonight europe's view of the u.s. and the iran nuclear agreement from a broken deal to broken trust clearly it's not going to help transatlantic relations between europe and the united states we can't even predict about how much people are going to trust the united states what it's going to do to european and american cooperation and other theaters so it's this hard to see any silver lining to that. oh we begin the day with the planning that is now underway for the nuclear deal that donald trump wants to sign just two days ago the u.s. president drew anger and disappointment from around the world when he withdrew the u.s. from the iran nuclear deal. deal that he equated with in

korea back in the early 2000s and ditching the north korea deal and watching north korea storm ahead to nuclear capabilities and intercontinental ballistic capabilities. there has to be some kind of rational diplomacy, if indeed that's the way you want to go, if it is about diplomacy, it has to be prepared, sat around, seen how you can actually do it, see what the other side needs, see what you need. that's international diplomacy. not what the republican congressman just told you before the break. it is about, you know, total surrender and capitulation and threatening and annihilation and regime change. that is what is coming from the white house, from the national security adviser, and then for whatever reason mike pence said it too, if kim jong-un doesn't agree to a deal with president trump, there will be a libya situation. those were his words, not mine. >> it is more of a fact. >> is it? it is a military choice. >> sounds like mike pompeo's job just got harder. >> and the south korean president, the south korean president too, one person said to me, one expert, u.s. expert, he

president and the north korean leader i don't loggerheads yet again north korea has called trump's decision to cancel the talks unexpected and has expressed willingness to sit down and talk at any time and in any format with donald trump called off the meeting planned for june the twelfth blaming tremendous government open hostility expressed by pyongyang the decision called the south korean president off guard in saying he's perplexed by tom's decision and called it a regrettable development we've got reporters covering the developments in beijing seoul and washington d.c. but first to see how baton scene reports on that statement by donald trump. a few hours after releasing a letter to counseling the plan summit with north korea president donald trump issued a warning spoken to south korea and japan and they are not only ready should fully sure reckless x.p. taken by north korea but they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden and it is a cost associated by the united states in operations if such an unfortunate. situation is forced upon us however the president's

going into north korea. that will be a mistake because president trump is clearly mentioning there will be no ease of sanction until thort yee steps into the right direction and start denuclearization process. so i hope the president trump and president xi and are on the same page talking about the denuclearization process. and i hope the north korean leader gets on this board. on our side. and make sure that they're on the same page. how the denuclearization process should take place. >> thank you so much for being with us. we're almost out of time. >> we are. jeff zeleny. we have less than 30 seconds for you. what comes next? >> what comes next is really the planning of for that historic summit. the time and date will be announced in the coming days. we believe based on reporting from officials that singapore is a likely spot for the. the question now is that the stakes have been raised, so extraordinarily high with this. the hard work begins and the president clearly he'll be meeting with the south koreae

but talks with north korea well tell me what you learned about north korea growing up my parents were very sympathetic to north korea and they thought they were very small national police think then my peers so when i found my peers my friends or. thinking they're going to make it to be about north korea i think myspace is something also pricing to know. would you say that that chasm in terms of attitude still exists today of course when you look at this very very when you contrast between the opinion on the part of north korea and police in twenty's as opposed to those in thirty's and forty's you find that lots of young people are more conservative conservative than. old scene stories and forty's because we had more experience with those korean provocation stan talks in dialogues in north korea and i think it still has speaking impact in the perspective would you say that at times you felt afraid for your loved ones your friends or the country the south koreans were so used to meter strength of north korea that they don't feel insecure about their security situations when north korea

we have many agreements with north korea. we have 1994 agreed framework, bilateral agreement between the united states and north korea. we have 1999 geneva accord. north korea agreed to stop all its long-range testing, missile testing. we have six rounds of six party talks which led to 2005 joint statement, 2007 joint declaration, in which north to declare alled of its nuclear weapons and nuclear facilities. agreementswill time, fell apart over verification. i do not believe negotiations will lead to complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of north korea. what has kim jong-un been doing since? tests, 17 times more powerful than the one that flattened hiroshima. he did 90 ballistic missile tests. 20 last year alone. three intercontinental ballistic tests. though oneovember -- in november showed capability to reach all of the united states. north korea has declared itself with nuclear weapons power. this is what kim jong-un has been doing, speeding towards creating the nuclear program, accelerating towards it. and w

trump met those three americans released by north korea and kristin fisher is on the north lawn of the white house. we watched them leave joint base andrews but what happens when they arrived? >> they did not take questions, donald trump made quite a few remarks while standing on the tarmac at joint base andrews. now the focus is going to shift from releasing or freeing these three americans detained in north korea to this historic summit between donald trump and kim jong un which is poised to take place in a few weeks. we will be learning of the exact location and date of that summit within three days and tonight, before this went down at joint base andrews, donald trump had 6 republican lawmakers over here at the white house for dinner and colorado sen. cory gardner said the focus of that dinner is exactly that, figuring out what the goals are going to be of this summit and the white house said bayview the releasing of these prisoners as a gesture of goodwill but in no way softens the ultimate goal of what they want from those talks and there is a peace treaty, complete denuclearizat

ben tracy from north korea. thank you, ben. the north korean response will surely get reaction from the white house very soon, and major garrett is there with more on what led the president to cancel the summit. >> i believe this is a tremendous setback for north korea and indeed a setback for the world. >> reporter: after canceling the summit, president trump revived tough military rhetoric he believes led north korea to consider giving up its nuclear weapons. >> our military, which is by far the most powerful anywhere in the world and has been greatly enhanced recently, as you all know, is ready if necessary. >> reporter: but mr. trump did not rule out future talks. >> it's possible that the existing summit could take place or a summit at some later date. nobody should be anxious. we have to get it right. >> reporter: the president wrote in a letter to dictator kim jong-un, the north's "tremendous anger and open hostility scuttled the summit, a reference to north korea's statement last night calling vice president pence a pol

get north korea's attention. clearly, we have to work very closely with china to make sure the sanctions are enforced. that question was asked in today's hearing and secretary pompeo said the sanctions are being adhered to by china. so the pressure still remains. >> harris: senator, before i let you go, you know, we have been going back and forth with our country and china about tariffs and trade. do we still have the tough conversations with china now that north korea potentially is not forefront in the conversation? >> this is part of the reality of today's diplomacy. you will have differences with countries but you have to engage them. we need china in regard to north korea. we have a common agenda with china and north korea. china doesn't want a nuclear korean peninsula. and we have made it clear we are not supporting regime change. i think that gives comfort to china. so we will disagree on trade. we will disagree on a lot of other issues. we will disagree on what they are doing with the china seas and we'll

korea he has said that north korea must commit. this armaments has agreed to get rid of its nuclear and chemical weapons in two thousand sri and only seventy years later a regime was overthrown and later gadhafi was killed in a very brutal way so of course that is not a model attempting model for north korea and the regime there is only interested in its survival w.'s washington bureau chief and some of the nomine reporting thank you. well now i want to bring up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world one of malala has opened an embassy in jerusalem guatemalan president jimmy morales and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu attendant the opening which comes just two days after tensions were raised to a boiling point by the opening of the u.s. embassy in the city israeli troops shot dead dozens of palestinian protesters at the gaza border. in indonesia at least one officer has been killed and several others wounded in an attack on police barracks in the town of rio police shot and killed four of the

we have to start with north korea. everybody was focused on what he was saying after the release of that letter to chairman kim jong-un. he seems to have left the door open for potential talks in the future. kevin: that's right. president trump still speaking in an optimistic tone in the potential for north korean leader kim jong and to come back to the negotiating table. specific termin a that the u.s. remain prepared showed the north korea dictator ultimately decide to do something "foolish." president said he has spoken with the leaders of japan and south korea. are also nations striking meetings of their own to discuss the deteriorating talks between the u.s. and north 6rea than the planned june summit in singapore. meanwhile, the president also can lead a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including notably senator heidi heitkamp, a democrat from north dakota who is up for election in 2018, to sign into law a piece of legislation that would provide what they argue is community banking relevant story -- regular tray re

are they rooting for north korea? speak it was interesting, you remember obama's hostage deals when they said that taliban five to get bowe bergdahl, who was a deserter, all those people were saying what a great thing that was. trump has already broughtt in on president at pressure, we got hostages back for giving up nothing. when the conditions aren't right, he got to make a decision. reagan was right when he walked off from gorbachev. this is not over and i think you will see more pressure brought to bear. i think we have a better chance of having success under trump than any president in the last 25 years. >> judge jeanine: jason, they talk about the fact that the president is being measured and he will get us into a nuclear war, as of the reality that he is very measured because if you just go through the timetable today, six things have happened, the end of the day, north korea is saying, we are ready to go. trump said, have to blow you out of the water. >> basically. >> democrats are in a meltdown. they don't kn

korea which is basically a threat if north korea doesn't agree with what america says you have john bolton also putting forward a so-called libya option of course deeply and attractive to the north korean leadership and almost inevitably one might even say designed to result in a conflict between the two sides you know you can tell think that everyone sort of ten steps ahead of what what we know here i mean so many questions about it despite all of north korea's concerns about these military drills but what pencilled say about potential libya and they still went ahead and sealed up the mountain today just a couple of hours after that that we got from so you know and also thinking as well of letting those hostages go it is like a plant of mine and there's another question as well about this nuclear mountain so to speak there is some school of thought that couldn't be used in the future anyway so is it just to show that the entrances were blocked up here you know is there more to it than is meeting the eye is the only way you can kind of explain this. you're right to say both sides ar

korea he has polled died some hours earlier of a summit on june the twelfth with north korea and he said there are a few moments ago the most stringent sanctions will be put on north korea because of the nuclear program of course hours ago the wrapped up their nuclear program that they say there are several one in the country let's not cross to see mira connor washington correspondent who can maybe bring it right up to date why this is important why he was saying those things what's the updates on this samir what's happen today. well the timing of this is certainly significant it comes just hours after north korea destroyed its only nuclear testing site fulfilling just yet another condition north korea agreed to to make sure the meeting happened now our correspondent with at the site and he was among a few journalists who were allowed to witness it firsthand. with just the phone getting a nuclear test site inches from the noble we seriously fools on those very useful nuclear testing one of them the north strong know to be was used for the latest fall even nuclear test the other two

korea destroyed its only nuclear testing site the feeling yet another condition that north korea agreed to to make sure the meeting happens and our correspondent was at the site and he was among the few journalists allowed to witness it firsthand. well just because of the getting nuclear test site inches from being noble we seriously fool some of their use for nuclear testing one of them the north tunnel to be was used for the latest bomb even nuclear test the other two were new and with koreans told us that they had been ready to conduct nuclear tests any movement so for them to build the tubes it's inside more of the real way over sure we are ready to make real concessions now the bugs go itself was quite impressive the explosions looks like small eruptions of rule from under the ground floor so we journalists couldn't really estimates and to how much damage would we today go to compete ongoing with the nuclear program as a whole but north korea insists that they may skip the now world now they will expect something and with tehran know we are right now we're on the way back to once o

an american captives released by north korea are due to arrive shortly in the u.s. they'll be green personally by president trump will be there when they touch down. also coming up prove it is never too late to make a comeback i want to mohammad is set to become the world's oldest elected head of government the ninety two year old has pulled off a surprise election victory in malaysia after coming out of retirement. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us a day after president trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear accord tensions are rising on the front line that separates israel from syria now these images from the. syrian state t.v. purportedly show rockets over damascus the reported to have hit a rainy and targets in syria israel says the strikes were carried out in response to a barrage of rockets fired at its outposts in the golan heights which it blames on elite arraigning forces in syria this is the second day of strikes between the two sides. but the very latest on this let's bring in our correspondent in jerusalem tanya kramer for the latest deve

so this is quite different from the on deep end north korea's nuclear weapons ok north korea has nuclear weapons and if there is not change let's assume then that the denuclearization goal is not met and the summit is a failure i mean for us president trump it could be a really low point in his tenure but you know for him he has a term maybe a second term and then that's it for kim jong il and he's losing face let's say if there if it's not a success for him but then he goes back to north korea and then what yeah that's a very good question because he actually now agreed to come out and to continue the dialogue with the u.s. and with south korea because he's interested to to develop his country further to have the very slight but existing development and in the economy of north korea to push that further to develop the country to become a normal member of the international community and this will be very difficult i mean i mean how do you backtrack on that and he does control the media you know the information they get is one sided so can you can you go back and forth and yoyo with the p

up first, can the north korea summit be salvaged? moments ago, president trump said, we'll have to wait and see. [ overlapping speakers ] >> can the korean summit be salvaged? >> we'll have to see. we haven't seen anything, we haven't heard anything. we will see what happens. we'll see what happens, we'll see. time will tell. >> time will tell, the president says. the fate of the historic face-to-face meeting between president trump and the north korean leader kim jong-un is in jeopardy. north korea's threatening to cancel the summit scheduled for june 12th in singapore. jeff, how is the administration responding to the threat, the threat to cancel this meeting? >> reporter: good afternoon, wolf. you could hear the president there measuring his words very carefully, not saying anything too intentionally to provoke kim jong-un or not saying anything to disrupt the potential disruption of this summit. some of the questions were hard to hear there in the oval office a short time ago, because white house aides were screaming at reporters

it's fairly close to north korea. there is word that kim jong un does not have the fleet of aircraft necessary to travel a long distance. also in asia, which i think is very symbolic. you don't want to have a nation summit that involves north and south korea in someplace like sweden or switzerland when you can actually have it in the region. it also has excellent security, which of course is a progressive way for anywhere the president travels. singapore, june 12? we will be there with bells on. >> john roberts, chief white house correspondent. >> fascinating stuff. more from ari fleischer, press secretary for george w. bush. every day we talk, is this really happening? mike pompeo, he flies the pyongyang on tuesday with no guarantees, obviously a hope to bring back all these hostages. then he had the meeting with kim jong un and is in for the following day wednesday the man had been granted amnesty. do you think he expected that call? >> i think he thought he would get that call. this has been playing out in a certai

folks returned from north korea, these detainees returned by basically giving north korea nothing. in a way, sort of unsurprisingly the white house used this as a win for president trump who they say gave nothing and got something. >> i know you have new reporting on the first daughter shall we say, ivanka trump's security clearance, talk to me about that. >> i reported for axios yesterday that ivanka trump was given full top-secret security clearance before she was acting on interim top secret security clearance at the same time that jared kushner, her husband and the president's son-in-law was given top secret security clearance there was dispute and speculation that she wouldn't ever actually get full security clearance because the fbi is investigating one of her international business deals. now it's been reported on axios that she has full security clearance. >> what are you looking at today, alex sni. >> today i'm looking forward to memorial day weekend which i'm hopefully everyone is excited about and looking for the fallout from the north korea summit collapse. >> any news