and then ahmad shah, bbc jojournalist s shot dead in kho. 10 journalists in one day. phil chetwynd editor-in-chief ft , agence france-presse. you have lost your star photographer in kabul. can you talk about -- talk about him, talk about shah marai and what this means to you and who he was. well, thank you for having me, amy. shah marai was an extraordinary man and that really he started working for us as a driver when it was extremely dangerous to do any journalistic work at all. he sort of cut his teeth really with a hidden camera in his hand, trying to smuggle out little bits and pieces of life under the taliban. hardly any other journalists at all in kabul. we had to pull everybody out at one point and marai was building one who held the fort for us until 9/11 happened and we were able to reestablish our bureau properly with everybody in it. he was very, very much the heart bureau. of our kabul he was a huge character. always smiling. always a very engaging character. someone who would come in and lighten the stress and bring a lighter moment to the bureau when yo

. >> schifrin: why hasn't president trump agreed to meet meini lieme leader kho he has kim jong un?he's left the old teal and we're focused on getting a new deal. the president already said he's very happy to negotiate with the d anians. >> schifrin: wo meet with the supreme leader and negotiate with him? >> he has said he will negotiate with the iranians. >> schifrin: you talked about north korea an ireversible steps toward denuclearization. what does that look like and how long does it take? can it b done before the french's four years is up? >> it can be and that depends on the will of the north koreans to make it possible. it is the denuclearization north korea. that's what they will discuss. >> schifrin: north korea makes it clear they're willing to talk about denuclearization. what is the u.s. willing to offer? had one south korean official joke to methey should open trump tower pon pyongyang. wh is the u.s. wanting to offer. >> they have to dismantle the nuclear program. >> schifrin: what do the bright future look like? what will you actually offer? >> i think this is gpung t

house official was asked that today in the briefing and said simply that they have spoken through mike khoe coy poe, secretary of state and his delegations. but leaving open the answer in fact the president and kim jong-un spoke directly over the phone with each other at some point here during this negotiation. we'll have to wait for more reporting to find out if that's what happened here and if that's how this relationship hit the rocks. ultimately, though, the president saying that he has been speaking to his allies, our allies in south korea and japan during the course of the run-up here and received a commitment from them in terms of the financial costs now for any military operations by the united states on the korean peninsula that might be coming in the weeks and months ahead here is what the president said on that. >> they have spoken to south korea and japan, and they are not only ready should foolish or reckless acts be taken by north korea, but they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden, any of the costs associated by the united states in operations if

you have jurisdiction over the al j's, but you also have jurisdiction over the kho, the chief administrative hearing officer who is a reviewing body for those. how do you balance the responsibilities without infringing on the independence of each of the bodies? >> there are a couple of responses and i don't want to make it sound as if it's easy to do, but in effect, it is. our judges are administrative judges, board of appeals members. they exercise independent judgment and discretion. we're not reaching down and talking to judges or telling them how to rule will in this case and that case. the regulations clearly spell out their independence and the same is the independence in the decision making based on evidence and facts that come before them. as a practical matter we have hundreds of thousands of cases pending. there's no way even if it weren't prohibited there's no way that we could practically reach down to every single case. my job at my level is essentially to try to manage the workload. manage the docket. make sure that judges are exercising their full capacity. adjudicating as man