same,jective is still the to make lives better. >> the five-star movement rose to prominence by railing against the system. now the challenge is to deal with it. mike pompeo said progress is being made preparations to hold talks with north korea. he had it two days of meetings in new york. deliver al will message from the north korean leader. president trump moved to down play hopes of making a rapid deal. received a high-level police talks. they are building trust between the nations. we can speak now with our correspondent. north and sosouth korea, they reached a deal on military operations today. they are promoting peace of the peninsula. >> exactly. are doing a follow-up to the summit they held last month at the border. decoration --a declaration to bring peace. military talks and beyond. what they agreed to do is sometime next month, presumably after a summit, they will have sit-downf the military to discuss operations on each side. that way they are not surprised by any activity. it releases tensnsions. it's s a step toward keeping things peaceful. we heard from this meeting today

itave me my jective. and that was to write a book that was not about the oil spill.t reclaim the identity of the gulf of mexico because i believe 87 day in 2010 which it was headline news, each and every one of those days, it had robbed the goal for this identity and -- it robbed the gulf of its identity. americans know primarily as this oil sump or a vacation spot and i wanted my readers to know that the gulf of mexico was much more than that. had this rich and wonderful history that is part of the larger american historical narrative but it is not written in what we call survey textbooks assigned in colleges and high schools, you can check the index and are lucky to find the gulf even mentioned. if it is, is only mentioned in passing within the book itself. and so i wanted to integrate the gulf of mexico with american history. >> why is that? you make a very forceful argument that it is america's sea. why is it was so reluctant? >> i think in part, after blame my colleagues, fellow historians for this. but historically, there has been, within academia, this focus o