he negotiated with north koreans going back to the '90s, daniel russell, thank you for joining us.rds denuclearization to substantiate the president's claim that the nuclear threat is gone? >> you can't point to anything the north koreans have done to indicate that the threat has diminished, let alone disappeared and that lends to the hu -- you mentioned maximum pressure, the best we can hope for now is minimum pressure, because the implementation of sanctions by china is what matters and china's already shown that they're letting the spigot get turned back on, the sanctions are on the book, but the implementation is gone, on the defense side as well, deterrence has taken a few steps backwards, the president has given away our annual exercises. he announced that he wants to withdraw u.s. forces from korea, that's a dream come true for the north koreans. so this is a tough way to begin what in the best of circumstances is a tough mission, negotiating with the north koreans. >> i hear two competing views, one -- and you saw the defense intelligence agency, we know they have assessed

. >> well, we're going to keep watching it, daniel russell, you know a thing or two about north korea. thank you for joining us. >>> that's it for me, jim sh. the news continues right now. >>> hi, everyone, i'm brook baldwin, here's what's new this afternoon, the trump administration's effort to reunite children with their parents at the mexican border. the troubled process, and answering multiple burning questions with the court deadline looming, questions like how many children have been reunified and how many are still detained and where the heck are they? and dna testing is now being conducted to apparently speed up the process. but for a lot of folks, including now some republicans, the question now remains, why are we even at this point. the president today wants you to blame congress, and also apparently to forget last week or the decisions made by his administration in the past 17 months for that matter. this is part of the president's twitter feed here. congress must pass smart immigration -- when people, with or without children enter our country, they must be told to leave