you his comments as soon as he begins speaking on set this morning to help analyze this summit, joel witt, former state department official with 25 years of experience negotiating with north korea joel, you already mentioned it experience and the scars to show it no hair left >> that's exactly it no hair left i'm still standing an exciting day for you we don't know everything yet obviously, but unprecedented and amazing. >> it is amazing to see the two leaders together like that i knows there are a lot of doubts about the result but it's an important step forward. >> joel will be with us to see how things play out over the next hour and then some. we have a lot to catch you up to speed on in terms of what happened overnight president trump and north korean leader kim jong-un shaking hands about five hours ago at the start of this one-day summit they met privately only joined by their interpreters for about 45 minutes trump and kim then were joined by their top advisers including mike pompeo, mike kelly and john bolton the group then held a working lunch. trump and kim emerging from that a

let's get reaction from our guest host, joel witt. you have been sitting here patiently listening to the president. took a shot, by the way, at a number of administrations, folks who tried this before. i don't think he was necessarily thinking of you personally but he might as well have been >> right >> i'm on a historical jihad when he mentions the clinton administration i was part of that negotiation i'm going to tell one story. when i was sitting in the state department in 1993 and '94, intelligence estimates were telling us north korea could have 100 nuclear weapons by the year 2000. as a result of the agreement we reached, when it collapsed at that time, they had less than five- they had material for less than five it's not a black and white picture about the history. president trump, i think, has been very courageous in taking this step forward. the issue nois can he build on the momentum established by the summit one thing that has not been reported extensively is in the summit document it says secretary pompeo is going to star