president lincoln, meet kim jong-un. >> anybody said we'd be sitting here today talking about kim jong-un sitting down with president donald trump. >> he's like a maniac. >> you would have thought we were insane. >> in just months, we have gone from schoolyard taunts. >> he's a sick puppy. >> to the hair raising rhetoric of war. >> they will be met with fire and fury. >> to a history-making moment. >> trump's groundbreaking summit with kim jong-un. >> i think it's going to be a very big success. >> the stakes could not be higher. >> read the twitter feed. follow it increasingly closely. >> kim jong-un knows and has read "the art of the deal." >> but donald trump wrote the book. >> this is the ultimate deal. >> great danger on the downside. but if he could pull it off there's tremendous reward on the upside. >> danger. from a violent dictator. >> his own uncle killed by a firing squad. >> they're not crazy. they're brutal. >> but now, a new face of kim jong-un. >> all of a sudden he is literally toasting with the most powerful leaders in the world. >> this is north korea? >> kim jong-un at

kim jong un like a business colleague. selling denuclearize a fantastic business opportunity for a brighter future. heather: the summit is being held there in vietnam, an example to kim jong un and what could happen with north korea. >> hanoi is a symbolic location, kim jong un appreciates that. there is a better and brighter future than north korea. kim jong un's choices simple, trade nuclear weapons for economic prosperity. a good deal and he should take it. heather: should we agree to sanctions relief before we have proof that they are taking steps needed to denuclearize? >> these are not us sanctions entirely, they are un sanctions. we keep the pressure on. it will depend on what kim jong un brings to the table. it is in his hand. heather: we will see what happens. it is something donald trump, the first sitting us president to meet with a north korean leader, his second sit down with him happening a few hours from now. we appreciate it. time is 18 after the top of the hour, donald trump's border emergency facing a wall

restaurant loving it. >> they are profiting on the fact the two world leaders, donald trump and kim jong unre in vietnam, there is a restaurant that created hamburgers based on the summit was one of them called that early donald, the other called the kim jong young bird there. a rocket man cocktail a restaurant created and heard about the barber giving haircuts to make people look like either donald trump or kim jong un. and there was interesting hair color to the donald trump haircut as well. rob: i could eat one of those burgers right now. jillian: more coming right back. i can't believe it. that we just hit the motherlode of soft-serve ice cream? i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ed! ed! we struck sprinkles! [cheers] believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. but to be a pro at travel just takes tripadvisor. we offer up-to-date reviews and 360 hotel photos to help you find the right hotel and search over 200 booking sites to get you the righ

good to see you here. >> good to be here, ed. >> how does the president get kim jong un, this whiley dictator, to follow-up on what they both seeds their names to in singapore. >> two things, i am at know sure how whiley kim jong un is, he is a 30-something who has been abroad to the west only once in high school, and then south korea and singapore. the trick to understanding this is the constraints on kim jong un's behavior by internal north korea. their economy is exclusively military for three generations. there is in sayssant propaganda to the idea that the west is their arch enemy to the exclusion of all else. for him all of a sudden to say oh, we're denuclearizing in the state media, because it would get in and all the sudden the west is our friend and we will trust them instantly work almost mean his overthrow and defector testimony tells us. that is beared out by the fact that north korean dictators never leave the country. they're so dismeated by this, they can't even produce an airplane for him to fly in asia yam we have to relay on with a kim jong un can deliver safe re. >>

i like kim jong un. on top of the letters they exchanged, the president sang a political rally, basically fell in love, all of that stuff raising eyebrows whether he's being too nice to a dictator, when you see the dictator saying i didn't know you knew this much about what i am secretly doing, if you are right it raises real questions about whether we can trust this man but that makes the president's point more important which is i am not signing onto a bad deal with a guy i may not be able to trust. if i can trust him, i can back him into a corner in 6 months from now get a better deal, who cares if i can trust him. if i can verify it and get in writing that he's going to denuclearize and sending independent inspectors, that is better. you can't trust him today. jillian: great coverage overnight. let's continue on, joining us on the ground is cia station chief dan hoffman who was tapped to join the intelligence advisory board. not sure you were listening, i want to bounce off of this idea of trust. we

that is where donald trump will meet with kim jong un. e, they are talking about such issues as finally ending the korean war. there was an arm assist but never a formal end. that is something kim jong un might like to have happen to show they are turning the page, donald trump wanting to have denuclearization of the korean peninsula and kim jong un wants relief from us sanctions the crippled this economy. you mentioned vietnam and the example set on the ground where i am. it is important, donald trump got some big business done a short time ago, he met with officials to make trade agreements. it could serve as a model to north korea. you have a communist nation in vietnam like north korea, wracked by war but turned the corner in large part because it is multiple. >> as soon as we see the motorcade take off we will take off. 25 minutes before the top of the hour. at 10:00 am, longtime attorney for the president of the united states who thought he would get a prominent position in the white house, that did not pan out. he got millions of do

they changed the plan because they realize foa kim jong-un to -- for kim jong-un to walk away from 20f investment in nuclear weapons and missiles, there has to be trust to do that. he has hardliners in his country where he would be at risk if he was being reckless with their security. trish: you pointed out there is a timeline that's pretty aggressive. and you understand the culture there. how should we think about this? is this a six-year plan? if he gets another term, this is one sort of step along the way? >> this is a step in the process that will take years. the thing that he has to truly get inside of kim jong-un's head is that the reason why he's got 40 or 50 nuclear weapons and what like is missiles is for security. we are talk about economic prosperity. but that's the second step. if he's going to give these things protecting him. he has to believe the united states is not ever going to take his regime down. that's only going to come about through time. it will take time for that to happen. trish: how is it we can -- you and i, i think very much believe in this. and that's th

only when she checked around did kim jong un emerge. she is kim jong un's sister.s increasingly and quietly at the forefront of her older brother's charm offensive. >> she's there giving in best in terms of how he can handle big meetings, the press, what to do. so she is all of the above, pncp.r. person, substance person and making sure her brother is complete l completely protected. >> reporter: from handing her brother an ashtray and meeting with president trump and meeting with mike pompeo, she seems to be everywhere for her brother. one diplomat said she sees it as a positive move he is being drawn closer. >> she comes from the same mother and it's somebody that he has grown up with that he feels very comfortable with and trusts implicitly. >> she sled north korea's delegation to the winter olympics last year where the regime unveiled its diplomatic offensive to the world. >> she acquitted herself quite well at the opening ceremonies as opposed to vice president pence who basically tried to avoid having any eye contact with the north koreans whatsoever. >> repo

between the president and kim jong un in singapore and here is that we really can object to kim jong un on and his advisors. at the forefront of kim jong un's mind are the lessons learned from other dictators like muammar qaddafi, who gave up his nuclear weapons capability and was overthrown. and i think you get back to something your previous guests said, and enter the war would give kim jong un some level of confidence that we recognize his regime, that might be something that we tell mike might him to pursue at least some initial steps towards denuclearization. >> shannon: down half their life on the ground in vietnam, thank you very much for your insight, it's always great to have you. >> thanks. >> shannon: what can president trump actually get accomplished this week? is there anything he can do that his critics will actually give him any credit for? who will bring back our power panel who will tell us what they hope is accomplished, some goals they think the president should shoot for. they join us again, next. ♪ chicken?! chicken. chicken! that's right, candace-- new chicken cr

that, of course, with kim jong un's father. what do you think is the difference here in the style and the goals of kim jong un versus kim jong il, his father? >> well, you know, history is one of my favorite topics, and i'm not going to bore you with the ins and outs, but everyone thinks the 1994 deal was a failure, and it wasn't because we expected north korea to have almost 100 nuclear weapons by the year 2000, and they ended up with enough material for less than ive the difference here between kim jo jongil and kim jong un is very clear. kim jong un is 34 years old. he has many years ahead of him he has a different time horizon. he is not as cautious as his father i bet you his father would not have put himself in this kind of situation, but kim jong un is used to taking shortcuts that's one of his favorite phrases. a shortcut to what he wants is meeting with donald trump. >> and he got it and he gets the press back in his home country lisa, do you believe that there is any gamesmanship here going on trump and president xi of

i think a key feature of kim jong un, what makes them different from his father is that he is seriousc development. that is the strategic driver here. there's something more important to kim jong un than his nukes, and that's his economy. >> president trump heads home after thursday's meeting. kim jong un will stick around for another two days have a further look at what vietnam has become and maybe take some notes. shannon. >> shannon: greg palkot and soul, thank you very much. let's take a little bit deeper into that side of the story. tonight's panel sticks around, they're back. steve hilton, rebecca and brian brumberg staying up late with life on double, i think it's triple duty now. steve, i will start with you because we left off with this discussion of getting the two sides to even define how they see denuclearization, it seems like that's got to be a first step to measuring whether you're getting any closer to it. >> yeah, i think that's right. it's a very technical process and that's not going to be solved right now in the kind of meetings they are having here but the confide

goes to meet kim jong un, he will be probing kim jong un, asking key questions and ascertaining whethere is serious about denuclearization. >> ed: we play the sound with kristin, the president seeming to be cautiously optimistic about a deal. we are to be clear that the north koreans have made promises before, even before kim jong un, have lied to come have, haven't followed through. how does this president, who promised in singapore that denuclearization was going to happen very, very quickly, the cia doesn't believe that has happened. so how do we get there? >> one of the things about this president i don't think he gets enough credit for as we have seen him swivel on issues. we have seen them do it in afghanistan and on syria most recently. what he said in singapore is entirely different from today. but i think he is setting the right tone by saying and he is not in a rush. for me, i recall in president reagan walked away from the reykjavik summit with secretary gorbachev, didn't make a deal because it was the wrong deal. i think that is the right tone for the president to set to req

and don't forget he's waiting for kim jong-un to come to seoul. hat was supposed to be the next step. they were waiting to see how well this went, and then they were hoping in the springtime kim jong-un was come to seoul. >> he was supposed to come at the end of last year, and that didn't happen. the thought was this summit would waipave the way. >> it's reminiscent of the prior summit because the south koreans then were surprised, it seems were not given a heads-up by president trump at the time that the president was going to stop joint u.s./south korea military exercises. he did. there was some surprise then. it struck me. the president there acknowledging that he still had to call the south koreans to update them on the results of the talks. would that be something of a surprise not to give them the call the moment you walk out in light of the closeness of the relationship? >> he said it would be his first call on ars force one headed back. >> well, he did. but he did have some time between the collapse of those talks and coming to give the pre

president xi is the biggest offender of kim jong-un. mr. needs to listen to his experts inside of the intelligence community inside of the department of defense and others who understand and recognize that kim jong-un is masterful how he has manipulated donald trump's engagement. >> hearing that the president has been masterfully manipulated on the -- while he's on his way to the second part of the summit. john brennan, can you stick with us for one more segment? >> sure. >> i have a few more things i want to does you aboask you abo. we'll be right back. ask you abou. we'll be right back. simmered to perfection. with big flavors, not artificial ones. enjoy 100% clean soup today. panera. food as it should be. enjoy 100% clean soup today. the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a few years old or dinosaur old, we want to buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our techno-wizardry calculat

richard, what does victory look for for you for president and kim jong-un. >> for kim jong-un, victoryt meeting. north korea flag next to american flag, he shook hands with leader the free world, that was a win for kim jong-un. this will be -- any type of agreement not a denuclearization of north korea is a loss to u.s. hard power and soft power. the president is our top diplomat, if he can't get north korea to denuclear that means diplomacy does not work -- >> so weird, you sound like john bolton right now. you do. >> this is the point of this regime. the point of why they existed, agree with your guest brien, they are not walking away without a strong compelling reason to do so. >> ned, president is our number one diplomat. you sense him -- >> richard. >> rich. >> kennedy: all right, we -- we don't know. we don't know -- there could be something substantial in the joint agreement, we don't know yet. like saying we know what is in the mueller report, we don't know. >> the devils in details. kennedy: until we hear more details we can't claim victory or -- >> clinton tried this in 1993,

for him to realize that kim jong un is not on the level. he was a big winner. kim jong un is getting to sit face-to-face with the most powerful person in the world, the president of the united states, and really it's good that the president did not give him anything for the little he was proposing. as you probably know he said he would shut down one of his -- he he would going to, shut that down but what we want is denuclearization. they didn't agree to it in the first meeting, didn't agree to it in the second meeting and as you know they wanted lifting sanctions without the denuclearization. i'm glad the president walk aid way from that diplomacy is important, we always support it. but the prospect for success, god bless you, the prospect for success seemed dim in light of the insincerity of kim jong un. i have been to north korea, pyongyang, beyond the d.m.z., very serious concerns about north korea, always hopeful that diplomacy can take us to a place, ever suspicious on the motivations of the person like kim jong un. earlier, i was last

kim jong un can't move too quickly. if he goes too quickly he's going to lose the support of his hard-liners. it puts them at risk. >> harris: yes, because they off the people they don't agree with. it's the hard-liners i want to ask you about. they want all the sanctions lifted for the closure of north korea's main nuclear complex. we are never going to agree to that. but who is his audience for that kind of a demand? is a people inside his country? can they really think he can do kind of a deal? >> gen. keane: this is a deal he made in the past and it's already been successful. they've offered to take down facilities in the past in exchange for relief on sanctions, and the promise that we can denuclearize our weapons. and then never fill the promise. why wouldn't he plane the same deal? it always works. it always worked. i'm certain the hard-liners around him said, "put it on the table." it seems like president trump really wants the deal. he's got some issues at home. and it blew up in their faces. there will be anot

as we've mentioned president trump and north korea's kim jong-un have ended talks in vietnam early andithout any agreement. >> president trump indicated that the talks broke down over kim's demand that all sanctions on north korea be lifted before denuclearization takes place. we've got more on that straight ahead. first let's turn to our other big story of the day. president trump is reacting to the seven and a half hours of testimony from his former attorney, business associate and legal fixer michael cohen, and and "the washington post" headline really just says it all. cohen paints trump as crooked. cohen made forceful accusations against the president's character and conduct, alleging widespread misconduct in business alluding to other potential crimes under investigation and providing documentation of trump and his business associates secretly funding his payoff to a porn star during the 2016 campaign. cohen also suggested trump had advanced knowledge of clinton e-mail releases and the 2016 trump tower meeting with russians but responding in hanoi this morning, the president seiz

he went through china to have the whole world watching kim jong-un. rump's airplane? everybody's eyes were on kim he took atrain, when car to the melia hotel, people were outside waiting north .orean flags, clapping kim jong-un wanted this. he wanted to be the center of attention. kevin: we talk about the politics, and we have to, right? president trump is facing the mueller investigation, michael cohen will be testifying. the democrat-controlled house, but that is politics. dire situation in north korea, if you can even call it an economy, and you look at how they are grappling. the u.s. is saying, essentially, look at vietnam. look at the foreign investments that have flooded into the country. this could be you, kim jong-un, if you wanted. shery: the north korean economy, 40 times smaller than south korea. they are excited about the potential of getting back into north korea in those joined into korean projects. -- inter-korean projects. >> they need the summit as a buffer to get the u.s. administrations approval because the united states is one of t

eastern time back home in the states, he was supposed to be having a signing ceremony with kim jong unnorth korean dictator. instead, the new schedule has him having -- and you can see, on the left, the other motorcade that is going to take kim jung un as well. they are both staged out there as if they are ready to go but they appear to both be behind closed doors, still talking at least. so where all this is headed is something we are still trying to get a handle on. as we mentioned a moment ago, back in washington, all eyes were on michael cohen and has explosive day of testimony on capitol hill. the president's former personal attorney went before the house oversight panel on wednesday. cohen was growth for more than six hours, answering questions about his time spent working with president trump. with cohen taking center stage on capitol hill, the focus shifted from hanoi. the president responding on twitter, "michael cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me unfortunately. he had other clients also. he was just as barred by the supreme court were lying and fraud. he did bad

president xi is the biggest offender of kim jong-un. mr. p needs to listen to his experts inside of the intelligence community inside of the department of defense and others who understand and recognize that kim jong-un is masterful in terms of how he has manipulated donald trump's engagement. >> hearing that the president has been masterfully manipulated while he's on his way to the second part of summit. john brennan, can you stick with us for one more segment? i have more things i want to ask you about. we'll be right back. er, and you're gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it's not much, but it's home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn't tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it's good to be surrounded by what matters most -- a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn't. -please. -okay. [ singing in spanish ] -please. -okay. ahh potluck. these dishes will soon be yours to scrub. and

donald trump basically thinks kim jong-un is like him in the sense that kim jong-un will respond to flattery. so there he is, basically, saying all sorts of nice things about this north korea dictator and thinking he's going to change his mind, thinking he's going to relinquish something his country has worked decades to achieve these nuclear weapons which obviously keep the regime in place, keep him on the world stage. and if you're donald trump, you think somehow these love letters that they sent back and forth will change the calculus, but he's learning that's not the case. >> that's the power you've seen from the president several times, not just with the north korean dictator but also with putin himself, the russian president, mohamed saham. he also called it a brutal regime, and i'm wondering why he would take kim jong-un at his word. this is something that republicans will have to address when we speak to them later today. >> it's a slap in the face to an american family who lost their son. that's what it is to the president of the united states. the president said he watched some, as

but kim jong-un said, yes, he does trust him. ite some quick wit, kim jong-un turned to national security adviser john bolton who is known for not being fully in support of this diplomatic approach to denuclearization of north korea. he asked him the same question, saying, do you trust me? john bolton told the north korean later, if trump trusts you, then i do as well. we're also hearing some more details about the compliments that trump offered to kim jong-un during that singapore summit. trump told kim jong-un, listen, i know people that have been raised with wealth, have been raised with power and they've turned out a little bit messed up. but he told kim he did not think he was one of those people, essentially saying he is a powerful and successful leader, a really interesting element there given that kim jong-un is known to have been someone who demanded the killing of his half-brother. north korea is also egregious when it comes to human rights. they have hundreds of thousands of prisoners in labor camps. so it's going to be

i don't know why he would just take kim jong-un's word. it's possible that kim didn't know at the moment warmbier was arrested and put into detention. when he appeared on tv -- international tv when he was charged you've got to assume kim jong-un knew what was going on. they don't make many decisions in north korea without kim jong-un's awareness and tacit approval. it's a strange moment for the press conference today. >> remarkable one. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> poppy, it was quite a night of news here. we're going to be dealing with the repercussions for some time. >> i was surprised when i woke up and saw the headlines that this had fallen apart so quickly. then the press conference moved up by two hours, et cetera. that was certainly surprising and has really significant consequences. thank you. of course you'll be with me throughout the two hours. they are live in hanoi. also one day after the explosive public testimony, michael cohen is back on the hill for a third day of questions. he just arrived. day three, moments ago.

but with kim jong-un. th him. he said kim jong-un was always asking him questions, how do americans view our country and was very interested in that. so, that, you know, those indicators to me suggest that he does want a relationship with the outside world. ainsley: what is your reaction to the media, if you watched all the other networks, you have our president over there trying to denuclearization a country that would make all of us safe, the whole world safe, if you watch the other networks, there is much more coverage on michael cohen, this convicted liar going to prison for lying, speaking out how much he now hates his former client, the president? >> well you know, if you speak to people, i speak to people everywhere i go. i go to go small towns. i go to big cities. i go east coast, west coast, that fly over country bill maher doesn't like. i spend a lot of time there. in fact i live there. what people say to me consistently, that is all they hear from most of the media is about trump and russia and w

he was calling kim jong-un little rocket man. kim jong-un was calling trump a dotard. here they are, these two leaders flattering each other with love letters back and forth, and they hope it will be the foundation of a real relationship that bears fruit. >> one of the things nick is writing about is the idea of a nobel peace prize hanging in front of both the leaders. you write in your opinion it's unlikely either one of them will ever see this. >> i think it's delusional for either president trump or kim jong-un to look in the mirror and see a nobel peace prize winner. but i think each of them seems to have this on his mind. president trump bragged about having been nominated for the nobel peace prize by the japanese prime minister. and then it became a little awkward when it leaked that prime minister abe, in fact, made that nomination only at the request of the white house. meanwhile in north korea, there's been a certain amount of discussion and press about the nobel peace prize going to kim jong-un. i think a reflection of what happened in 1973 when henry kissing

kim jong un. and no third meeting is set even though we do anticipate talks between the two nations will continue. it is just a question of where do they go from here. >> dana: because at least everybody knows who to call. at least we have a relationship in some way. thank you very much from the white house. president trump also saying that he did not believe kim jong un knew about the tragic case of otto warmbier, the american student who died shortly after being released from a jail in north korea. >> in those prisons and camps, you have a lot of people and some really bad things happen to auto. to some really bad things. he tells me that he did not know about it. and i will take him at his word. >> dana: bringing in colorado senator, a governor of the foreign administration committee. maybe your thoughts about the meaning ending in the way that it did. >> i think that you have a president who is trying to move beyond press release diplomacy and try and have a conversation with north korea. you

that was really the first time we had heard genuinely kim jong-un's voice. now, a year later, we have a second summit between the president of the united states and kim jong-un. we made a lot of progress. >> there was a question that was shouted to kim jong-un by a u.s. reporter asking how confident he was in these talks. one response was, he's not pessimistic. the fact that the president is saying he is in no rush, does he come out as a winner? >> winners and losers, there's always a winner and a loser. it depends on who's protective you are asking. again, they are talking. that's a good thing. they are at least cordial. there was some ill blood in the beginning part of this whole process. when the north koreans and the south koreans met before that historic handshake. when the south koreans almost immediately brought up the issues of human rights. the issues of human rights in the north are extremely important. that set the thing off on the wrong foot. the north koreans bristled and returned to their side of the border and said, we are not going to have tal

that will be a real test, andrea. >> and phil rucker there in hanoi, what we've already seen of kim jong-un, he gets off the train and at one point during that trip -- let's play the tape of a north korean aid who apparently missed the cue. and you'll see kim jong-un gets off the train and is being greeted by chinese officials and is having this red carpet reception. i think we have the tape of the poor guy who, lord knows what happens to him, but there's also kim jong-un and his smoking habit. he's got this powerful adviser who is his sister who we saw at the summit -- rather, the olympics in south korea, and we see him going out for a smoking break. and at some point also his adviser, his sister, is holding the crystal ashtray so that he has an ashtray for him to use. we don't know a whole lot about kim jong-un but what we do know is he's going to be well-prepared and a whole lot better prepared for the strategy of these meetings than potentially the president of the united states. >> yeah, well, andrea, kim jong-un came into the singapore summit incredibly well-prepared for that face-off

the bars so knows where that kim jong-un will end up in hanoi. spec this is the split screen of the president trump arrival on air force one, the most spectacular piece of machinery in the world. it is kim jong-un almost unable to fly to hanoi says they don't have their own fleet of planes. he took the chinese airplane last year and a 60+ hour train ride on the green train this year. i know you have traveled to north korea many times but describe the details of him bringing his own utensils, plates and forks and explain how worried they are about security. spec we were told by the bellman at the hotel that they have brought all the food, forks, knives and all the cooking supplies, and they want to control everything. part of taking the train ride is to control the journey, and part of this is the symbolism and you mentioned where he showed up in singapore and they had to borrow a plane from china, not something that north korea wants to continue to broadcast to the world that they rely on their main friend, which is trying to find this. certainly

big day for president trump and kim jong-un. talk us through it. t is 5:30 in the morning he in hanoi. donaldt 12 hoursime, trump and kim jong-un are going to meet each other and initially have a tete-a-tete, just the two of them, and with their closest advisers, mike pompeo on the u.s. side and a couple of others , s they wi down for dinner. double be the start of the summit process command and the heavy lifting starts the following day -- that will be the start of the summi process, and then the heavy lifting starts the following day. i was on a call on ariefing for white house officials last week and they couldn't even define what menuclearization s. yes, a lot of progress has been made in the last 8 months since the singapore summit, but there is an awful long way to go. laura: jon sopel in hanoi for us, thank you. for analysis on what we can wpect from the summit i spoke earlierh jean lee, director of the center for korean history sod public policy at the w center. the first summit with kim jong-un led to a commitment to nuclearization. does th

hospitality. >> reporter: the president thanking vietnam's prime minister for hosting his summit with kim jong-un. president trump's first interaction with kim jong-un, a brief one-on-one meeting, followed by a small private dinner. >> it's an honor to be with chairman kim. it's an honor to be together in really a country, vietnam, where they reallyolled out the red carpet and they've -- they're very honored to have us. it's great to be with you. we had a very successful first summit. i felt it was very successful. >> reporter: the threats of fire and fury have been put on hold as president trump continues to emphasize north korea's economic potential, a way to entice kim jong-un to commit to denuclearization. >> vietnam is thriving. >> reporter: the president pointing to vietnam, another communist country and one of the fastest growing economies in the world, writing on twitter, quote, north korea would be the same and very quickly if it would denuclearize. the potential is awesome. but it's not clear in kim jong-un is even interested in moving toward any type of liberal economic reform, allowin

the north korean vice foreign minister just referred to kim jong-un negotiating with trump, here's thete. i have felt that he may have lost the will to negotiate. he being president trump. i felt that he may have lost the will -- kim jong-un lost the will to negotiate. >> right. they're playing to trump's investment in this process. for president trump there's a political benefit to this. he wants to run on being a peacemaker. he's invested in this. he's in a love affair with kim jong-un and what they're doing is they're threatening to walk away because that's good leverage, right, and what's president trump's doing, he's not threatening to walk away. he's promising to stay at the table. it's just another example of the north koreans playing us for fools, okay, and us just going along with it and, you know, that's smart of them but bad for us and our security for us and the region. >> josh rogan, you were excellent on this. good to have you on. >>> coming up next, an apology for virginia's governor's office but this time it's from the first lady for handing out cotton to at least one a

he told us that what kim jong-un put on the table was not enough. we knew that this one reactor, yongbyon, which is well known, was offered up by kim jong-un and said, you can have access to this site. the president said, that's not enough, there's a second uranium processing plant we know about, there are other sites u.s. intelligence has detected, because north korea's nuclear program continues. he said that offer was not good enough to lifting sanctions. that's as specific as we've heard the president be in terms of the asks and the sites the u.s. has recognized. that was extraordinary to have him say. i think it's overstating things to say he's walking away from the table. because he is continuing to keep those diplomatic channels open at the working level. he is leaving, though, with a bare minimum that he set, which is a halt to testing. >> the language here is important in the white house statements. >> it is. that parsing. because he's trying to have it both ways to say, i'm walking away as a tough guy saying, what you offer is not good enoug

he called kim jong-un his friend tonight. andrea, just that will put cold-water in the veins of all the foreign policy professionals that you know in this city. >> and just think of the one issue that's never discussed in the trump administration, which is human rights. human rights, the gulogs, the prisonners. we're no longer hearing about otto warmbier and the millions who have been slaughtered. and he's accepting the status quo of a nuclear powered state, we've not seen an inventory or even a definition of denuclearization. which going in the argument there was not going to be a phased out ordinary arm negotiation, you do this and you dee this and eventually we get here with inspections and verification. but initially is we're getting everything up front, which they claimed to get to the shock of then defense chief mattis, he even then eagrees or suggests to give up the joint military exercises which are critical and still have not taken place in singapore. >> and jeremy, what part of north korea do you think is going to a

donald trump and kim jong—un have both arrived here in the vietnamese capital. ey'll meet for dinner this evening — ahead of the full summit on thursday. but the big question remains — will ‘trump—meets—kim take ii' produce any more tangible results than the leaders' first meeting in singapore? i'm kasia madera in london. also in the programme: donald trump's disgraced former fixer michael cohen is testifying in washington. he says he welcomes the chance to tell the truth. anger in pakistan over indian airstrikes on an alleged militant training camp. they're the first raid to have crossed the line of control between the two states in nearly 50 years. good morning. it's 1am in london, 9am in singapore and 8 am here in hanoi, where the traffic is building and where later this evening president donald trump and the north korean leader, kim jong—un, will meet again face to face. the meeting is another attempt to secure the actual denuclearisation of north korea and the us is hoping that the setting of vietnam, a communist state with a successful market economy, will

you mentioned how important this is and the power position that kim jong-un is in. i want to bring in bill neely also in hanoi. what has kim jong-un been up to today? it's 9:00 p.m. he's had a full schedule. >> reporter: yeah. kim jong-un is here. he's been out on the streets. he went to visit the north korean embassy, north korea, interestingly, just like the u.s., has an ambassador here. that's one of the many reasons hanoi was chosen for this summit. he was accompanied by the 12, jogging bodyguards that we saw for the first time in singapore. he arrived here after, argue mri, the longest journey of any leader to any cement, in half a century. it took him 2 1/2 days, 2,500 miles by bullet-proof train. he is here. is it going to be history in hanoi? it's not as historic a summit as the first meeting in singapore. but arguably, it may be more consequential because the first summit was as much about symbol as the summit itself. the meaning, if you like, was in the meeting in singapore. it ended with a vague declaration, that they should work towards denuclearization.

kim jong un's response was equally belligerent. you would get a quote america will never be able to start a war against us today our nuclear weapons can reach any part of the united states the button is right there on my desk this is not blackmail but reality and america should know that. most go military attack us north korea has the possibility of escalating into a nuclear option that's the difference between today and ninety ninety four we were prepared to take more drastic actions in ninety four though we are prepared today and short nuclear weapons to do work as a deterrent they were for the united states is a deterrent they also work for north korea that in turn and that's exactly what the north korean leadership knows that's exactly why they built their nuclear arsenal to deter the united states from taking military action against there is in my judgment no military option against north korea today. despite his rhetoric president trump seemed to realize that a nuclear conflict with north korea was not an option. so he tried

now you have kim jong un at the peace table. the significance is if there is a military official there at the dinner table, they may be taking a hard line to make sure kim jong un doesn't give too much to the president. if one of these officials is the one who has delivered those more positive optimistic letters to president trump, to say let's try to work out a deal, that suggests a new tone from the north koreans over recent months. and, you know, frankly, who would have thunk that we would be saying it's donald j. trump saying folks, give peace a chance. brian: well, yeah. that's his attitude. he was handed a live grenade from president obama. and it's his job to put the pin back in. stick around, because as the motorcade moves, we want you to give us a sense of what is happening on the ground. ed: absolutely. brian: former chairman of oversight committee jason chaffetz on the couch. congressman, your thoughts right now as we head into this. so many times this stuff is scripted ahead of time. i get the sense nothing is scripte

now president trump's summit with kim jong-un has ended early. p have left the hotel in hanoi. stephen engle is there. in the past 20 minutes or so, i know when we spoke to you a little while ago, it was not clear the reasoning behind this delay. >> we still don't know the reasoning for it ending early. we know both of the motorcades have left from different sides of the hotel behind me. the trump motorcade, quite long i should say, left in a hurry. i can't read into exactly what happened, but it doesn't look like there will be a joint signing ceremony from this vantage point right now. the president is heading across town to his hotel, where there will be a press conference. maybe this is a trump negotiating tactic. maybe things went swimmingly well. ab they did not. it is a guessing game, but it is significant it ended early. they have moved the press conference up two full hours. kim jong-un earlier today in the hotel behind me had complained time with trump was short and precious and he did not want a lot of foreign journalists asking him ques

he told him that he thinks kim jong-un is sneaky, but not too sneaky. kim jong-un followed up and said the underlying question, but do you trust me? trump said that he did trust him. kim jong-un displaying quick grit turned to national security adviser known for being skeptical. he asked bolten does he trust him. he then replied that if trump does then he does. we are also learning more details between the two leaders as those conversations unfolded, some kind of peculiar compliments that trump offered to kim jong-un. he said that trump knows people who come from power and from money. sometimes they turn up a little bit messed up. they aren't very successful in their lives. he described kim jong-un to not be one of those folks, clearly offering more praise on the leader at a moment when he could have questioned his integrity or his commitment to de-nuclearization. he is not doing that. he has used that last summit to sure up praise and the relationship between the two leaders. we expect that he will be much of the same here in hanoi. >> saying he didn't

arthel: kim jong-un in the kim regime has been disingenuous for decades. deceptive. if kim jong-un wants to continue to operate on this platform president trump has given him, how long can he continue the game of deceit before he's dismissed and written off. >> that's up to trump. i think the united states has the means without use of force to get the north koreans to give up their weapons. kim gets a lot of his money from russia, china and south korea and other places and we have the means to stop that. every dollar in the world clears in this city in new york. we have the means to stop those dollars going to kim jong-un. arthel: you have china double dipping, meaning the president is dealing with them in terms of this trade war or trade deficit. how do you juggle both of those at the same time? you want china to come to the table on trade, what do you do? >> i think what you do is put a cost on the chinese. for two decades beijing has dangled this all ideas of cooperation on north korea. if we give them something else. and they never really help husband on north kor

president donald trump cunt short his summit in vietnam with north korean leader kim jong un today he says kim wanted all sanctions lifted kim's people say they only wanted partial relief on trump is headed back to the u.s. capitol where a political firestorm rages his former attorney has accused him of crimes committed before and after truong became u.s. president tonight from hawaii to washington the question following the president who's telling the truth i'm brink off in berlin this is the day. basically to be one of the sanctions lifted. in there today and i couldn't do that i don't think donald trump president trump could afford to do up close unquote bad deal internationally if they were willing to do the english portion of the areas that we want to build if you're just going to and i'm not. here think. that would be the best as we couldn't get with the same issues for that so we continue to work and you see that we had to. walk away from that particular situation i wonder whether you would ever reach three with the u.s. to do before. it was a very to do that probably it is ver

how much access is the western press being given to kim jong un if at all? >> well, we haven't been able to see much of kim jong un directly some of the western white house reporters were actually scheduled to stay right in the same hotel the malea hotel where kim jong un is staying. unceremoniously, the white house press pool was woted out of that hotel. some of the reporters who are staying there are allowed to continue to stay at the hotel, but the press filed a working place where the press gathers to do its reporting, that's been kicked out, and reporters had to scramble across the city after weeks and weeks of planning for this summit. they're scrambling to find new places to work. >> what would it take for president trump to claim a victory from this sum snit. >> i think you're already seeing the recasting of expectations, and you have begun to hear it over the last few weeks. i mean, let's be clear there's been nine rounds of u.n. sanctions on north korea dating back to 2006 there's still evidence of sanctions evasion, and there's still sanction that

kim that kim jong-un is playing a game with the outside world. today he feels vindicated. , moon, and the whole world is being deceived by kim jong-un," he says. "the south korean government must knowhat kim is not going to give up nuclear weapons, but it went to the united states and said kim is ready to give up nuclear weapons. president trump accepted that and believed it until today." sathey may not b that the latest trump-kim summit has come to nothing, but many others feel massively disappointed. kothis is the road to norta and to industrial zone that used to employ tens of thousands of north korean workers. three years ago in he face of no korean missile tests, it was completely shut down. hopes were high that the hanoi summit could lead to it reopening. now those hopes have been dashed . a factory outside seoul, he is explaining hothese machines make terminals that go inside mobile phones. until three years agoe, also-ran- another also ran another, much bigger factor across the border in kaeson. "we are devastated," he tells me. "we thought it was going to work out.

up to his meeting with kim jong-un.lans are. he arrived yesterday on that epic train journey, eventually arriving by motorcade here. one of the things that the us side out there wants the north koreans to see is how well be at arm has done while remaining under the control of the communist party. —— vietnam. its economic growth is one of the fastest in the region. it is possible they may be some of that included in the north korean leader's programme, while some of his officials are looking at businesses that have done very well here. don't dismiss this bilateral relationship between the us and vietnam, it is very important, a key strategic partner, a very close relationship which many people would think is remarkable when you consider how bitter their history has been, which is another lesson the americans are hoping the north korean state weight. i have no doubt that in president trump's conversations with his the enemy ‘s counterparts, he will be hoping they pass on in their own meetings with the north korean leader

to dive right into that stuff, staying away from it, just finishing his one-on-one meeting with kim jong un and the big take away, he says their relationship is very good and where the most improvement has been between his relationship and kim jong un. he also said that this country has tremendous economic potential, and he looks forward to helping that happen for them. kelly o'donnell covering this joins us now. what can we expect next? >> reporter: well, there will be an ongoing one-on-one meeting without the cameras there from the white house pool so the conversation will continue with the interprets in -- interpreters in the room but not the wider delegation. you heard him describe the relationship and social dinner, emphasis on social, seems to be a big part what president trump is focused on here, that his relationship with kim jong un and how he has sort of worked on that and what they've each done is an achievement on its own, not necessarily what the wider world would be looking to give high marks. certainly, relationship is a part of politics and very much a part of diplomacy. wil