, south vietnam. johnson had escalated the war but now with the death toll soaring, protests and riots tearing the nation apart. president johnson staked his legacy on getting america out of vietn vietnam. >> johnson is talking to nixon, saying i know you are interfering with my diplomacy and i think it is about as low as you can get. and nixon just lies and tells e him he's not doing it. >> and they are going to get any better deal out of the united states government. >> your people, that's how he puts it to nixon. your people are messing things up. in other calls johnson didn't hesitate to give nixon's people a name. >> your friend. keep the miss and all the rest of them from running around. >> mrs. chennault. anna. a woman known as the steel butterfly. >> the number one flying tiger and his chinese brooid. general claire chennault. marries anna chan. second war history and legend has commander of sky battles in china. >> anna chenlt has an salespersonnault has an salesperson -- has a -- >> communis

in hanoi vietnam. we are waiting the official start of the historic consummate between president trump and north korean leader kim jong un. anytime now we're going to see more of the president there. just moments ago he arrived at the presidential palace in. visiting the head of state there. the president of vietnam, president trump greeted by the host leader and that's how this works when you host something as big as this summit, the first meeting with local leaders and then moving onto the summit with north korean leaders. president trump is pointing to vietnam tonight as a possible future for north korea showing them saying vietnam is thriving like no place on earth. said the same can be true for north korea, trying to give them some carrots, hello and welcome to "fox news @ night," i'm shannon bream in washington, we are joined now by kristin fisher in hanoi. as with justine president trump meet up with president trump, kicking off the official part of this trip. >> that's right, shannon. this is t

in its recent history vietnam has had a lot in common with north korea. it's also a one party communist state one that's been ruled with an iron fist. it's regime reinforced by propaganda and personality cults. and in the past and seen open hostility to with some cultural influence it's been isolated and an international pariah. but since ninety nine hundred six vietnam has taken a different path with reforms that have opened it up to foreign business. in a remarkable turnaround it's gone from basket case to one of asia's fastest growing economies could vietnam style change be a good fit for north korea. vietnam starting point before the reform is similar to north korea's now. you know there are many things that had to be changed fundamentally. when you switch from a centralized economy to a market economy the important thing is to have a broad and far vision and really and completely reject any. reforms have seen its pay a capita income saw almost five fold but hanoi hasn't traded prosperity for democracy here the communist party remains firmly in power

coming to vietnam, having the president come to vietnam is a win for kim because he's coming to kim,lose to his domain and kim takes his luxury train instead of having to fly somewhere but you don't enter negotiations with an enemy, you don't try to get an enemy to give up his weapons by threatening him. we already threatened him, brought him to the table, donald trump got what he wanted by stopping the threats against the world. kim is no longer threatening the destruction of los angeles, and the chinese parable, the northwind, to take his coat off. pulling it closer around him. the sunshine warmly and the man says it is hot here. donald trump was the northwind last year. is that i have a bigger button and threatened complete destruction of the country. this year he is going as the smiling son and saying give up your weapons, i am giving you a concession and you could be a luxury beachfront real estate mogul like me if you just follow this plan and give us those weapons. heather: do you think the president is taking the right approach and how he is handling this? >> i do. the way he

we will and in vietnam.6 there were almost half a million american forces in vietnam by 1968 the american troop total reached 537,000. even at those levels the war for many reasons is not being one. >> good evening, my fellow americans. reporter: in november 1959 president nixon would take an office that january announced a new policy. >> it is not the easy way but it is the right way. reporter: nixon just withdraw us troops over time and this plan was intended to leave the south vietnamese to fight to win on their own. the last us combat troops left vietnam in 1973. among the bright moments in this time, the return of american pows. one of them, a young pilot, who would become a senator. the south would fall to the north in 1975. in total, 2.7 million americans served in vietnam and 58220 died. >> today i am announcing the normalization of diplomatic relationships with vietnam. reporter: in 1995 the two nations set a new course. senator john mccain, that young naval aviator held captive and tortured during

vietnam. and. the. right of the history books. it's good to have you with us we begin today with what is known as the walls. of the hindu kush mountains which stole the most ice in the world outside the arctic and the doctor scientists say they are and here's what might happen they could threaten your home and livelihood depending on where you live if you live in any of these areas on this map these are the bluish green which show the hindu kush region and additionally in this area that's the shading in yellow which. covered by ten major river basins you could be at risk of flooding electricity shortages and food insecurity in some of these areas these events could peak in the next thirty years this dial warning is part of a new study released by the international center for integrative mountain development it claims that one third of these. by the end of the century even if efforts to reduce climate change succeed and if they fail they will melt by. at risk is the livelihood and security of two billion people. for more via joined

. >> lester holt joins us next from vietnam. thanks for watching. >> bye. >>> breaking news tonight. president trump and kim jong-un at the second summit here in hanoi. a side of the secretive north korean leader the world rarely sees, his aide falling behind, rushing to keep up. tonight inside the nuclear negotiations and fears before the two men meet alone. >>> and a blockbuster back home. michael cohen testifying on capitol hill, and a source telling nbc news he plans to detail alleged criminal conduct by the president while in office. >>> and late today, a congressman's apparent threat to air cohen's dirty laundry hours before he goes public. >>> controversy erupting over ivanka trump's comments when asked about congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez and her green new deal. what she said and how both women are responding tonight. >>> top executives from the biggest drug companies in america grilled over why we pay so much more here for prescriptions than people in other countries. >> i think that you charge more here because

i wasn't going to vietnam.nd he responded you are in vietnam right now. >> and with the senate intelligence committee for nine hours, he apologized for lying during his 2017 testimony. here's what cohen told reporters as he left that meeting. >> i really appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and to tell the truth. and i look forward to tomorrow to being able to, in my voice, to tell the american people, my story, and i'm going to let the american people decide exactly who is telling the truth. >> the committee's ranking democrat virginia's senator mark warner would not discuss details of cohen's testimony but did suggest the stakes of sky high. >> two years ago, when this investigation started, i said it may be the most important thing i'm involved in my public life in the senate. and nothing i've heard today dissuades me from that view. >> and then there's some apparently threatening michael cohen on the eve of his testimony. matt gaets tweeting hey, michael cohen, do your wife an

famously, that's what vietnam did. it is said to have recovered sooner, quicker, better from the war than america did. even though you suffered by a massive factor more casualties, more dead, more wounded, more destruction than the united states did. talk for a little bit, for those who may not remember, how difficult a time this was and potentially, who would have known that this peace could have led to such prosperity here? >> i'm among those who believe that after decades, since the end of the war, the price that we have paid in terms of material and human losses to me is not as heavy as, you know, internal division. i have said it publically here and there among vietnamese. to be very frank, if i have some grudge towards the u.s. still, it is that it has showed the kind of division. we are recovering from that division among vietnamese. >> what's at the heart that was division? >> what i mean is, this notion that there's a north and a south that are different and antagonistic. it goes beyond ideology. now it's a ki

a year later, vietnam's joined the association of southeast asian nations and in 2007, vietnam becameation. and while kim jong—un has been meeting a lot with chinese president xijinping --xi jinping last year, because of its size, yet narmada beale more releva nt exa m ple size, yet narmada beale more relevant example and china for north korea to learn from. we spoke to the singapore international business school and they said we should look at this summit is another strand in the us — china trade negotiations. with north korea looking at vietnam's as a model and the us encouraging it in offering incentives and saying, we will work with you, you can become like vietnam's, this is a whole new approach to this whole dynamic in the region about denuclearising north korea. but if this happens, we actually see north korea going down this path, taking in investment from the west, this changes the dynamics of china a little bit and it becomes less dependent on china, becomes more integrated in the overall regional and global economy so this plays into this whole west versus china kind of dyn

vietnam. >> all right, let's get a look at what we can expect from the second summit between the u.s. and north korea. i'm joined by my colleague here in hanoi. what are we expecting? >> a couple things. i think the political implications are really clear for everybody but i think the real question is whether or not the president can leverage the weight of history and maybe a view of the future of north korea to somehow compel and convince the young leader to change course and walk away from this nuclear future. this tweet, the president trys to use the setting here, this beautiful vietnam, saying you can do it because they've done it. here is what he said: >> so, obviously, that's why the talks here in has been oh hanoi are so important, to sea nothing of the fact they have a stable relationship dating back to the 1950s. you can clearly seven-day as the two leaders made their way here to -- clearly sense, as the two leaders made their way to hanoi, this city could be the way to pave the pathw

after the vietnam war vietnam was poor the north korea the north korea was helping vietnam in the seventy's look how the tide is turned vietnam in the united states had a very rough relationship but they were great friends now trump was trying to send these tacit messages look north korea look what could happen to you he was saying that every other every other minute as well this is the potential for north korea what happened in vietnam look at that and if we do that and i like you mentioned about it it's train trip it's actually it was so it means a lot to exorcise crim people as well you know south korea unlike for more by the germany into korean border is on is not penetrable whole there was no interactions . and horses as great as the national security role believe really forbidden people prohibit people from south korea to travel to north korea any permission from south korean government for now and then. island if you want to go abroad you have to take a plane so now they found that if you if you feed normalize the relation there's korea. the trainer a razor was quick to be doing. goo

and when you come to a place like vietnam and you see former american vietnam vets coming back, wheneace with your friends. you make peace with your enemies. >> anthony: as a father of a young girl, is it all gonna be okay? it's all gonna work out? my daughter will be able to come here. in five years, ten years, she'll be able to have a bowl of bun cha and the world will be a better place? >> president obama: uh, yeah. i mean, i think progress is not a straight line. you know? there are gonna be moments at any given part of the world where things are terrible. but having said all that, i think things are gonna work out. >> anthony: thank you so much. >> president obama: cheers. >> anthony: cheers. c. dad! hiding when i was supposed to be quitting. i thought, i should try something that works. i should try nicorette. nicorette mini relieves sudden cravings fast. anytime. anywhere. nicorette mini. you know why. we know how. nicorette mini. have you ever worked with dr. francis? oh yeah, he's ok. umm... just ok? guess who just got reinstated! well, not officially. nervous? yeah. yeah me

the civilized political leadership in vietnam vietnam has managed to liberalize its economy while keeping a tight grip on political freedoms. was something my corrie knows all too well. her criticism of the government and her political activism have landed the singer in hot water with the authorities time and time again. yet now i'm not really open for. any idea about political if someone although not an organization about paul that is they will stop it from the beginning since two thousand sit on two now it's nearly two hundred people have been arrested and. rapid economic growth and a strict control of civil liberties it is this development model that north korean leader kim jong un could be looking closely at during his visit to vietnam. so it is against that backdrop that the u.s. in the north korean leaders are meeting with on the table the topic of denuclearization bustin we know the first summit was really long on symbolism but a short on commitments to actually denuclearize the korean peninsula is there more pressure this time around to deliver something substantial. absolutely sa

. >> vietnam thriving. you are an example as to what could happen with good thinking. >> donald trump inherited a mess from republican and democratic predecessors kicking the can down the road and we have run out of road. >> the house voted to block the declaration of a national emergency. >> to believe there is not an emergency on the southern border, either you are not processing right, such a political animal. michael cohen promising plenty of explosives. >> the democrats first announced witness is a guy going to prison for lying to congress. >> lake erie has the same rights as a human being. ohio voting in favor of the lake erie bill of rights. pete: to a fox news alert, just minutes from donald trump and kim jong un coming face-to-face for the second time. >> the president gearing up for high-stakes denuclearization talks with the north korean leader in vietnam. pete: ed henry is live in hanoi with what we can expect and to give, 55 minutes from now with the motorcade. >> reporter: we are in the same h

political leadership in vietnam vietnam has managed to liberalize its economy while keeping a tight grip on political freedoms. was something my koyo knows all too well. her criticism of the government and her political activism have landed the singer in hot water with the authorities time and time again. not. open. to call someone. an all. out. paul that is they were stopping from the beginning since two thousand and six until now nearly two hundred people have been arrested and. protests and many many years in channel. rapid economic growth and a strict control of civil liberties it is this development model that north korean leader kim jong un could be looking closely at during his visit to vietnam. and were still with our correspondent in hanoi bastion the first summit that was held in singapore between trump and own it was long on symbolism but short on any concrete commitments to actually denuclearize the korean peninsula. is a more pressure this time to deliver a deal of substance. absolutely terry so as you said the agreement that the two reached in singapore was extremely vague

outside of it ovah shot doing what the president is trying to achieve in vietnam. certainly the president's trying to how what is happening here on the ground in hanoi is being what is most important but the domestic headlines are going to be difficult for the president the coming hours that's when his long time friend lawyer fixer michael cohen will be testifying before the house oversight committee we've already seen the advance preparations in terms of the opening statement that michael cohen will deliver this is a man who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump it's not pretty in fact the we know michael cohen is set to call donald trump a racist a conman a cheat he's also saying that he will provide documents that essentially proves that trump has participated in a licit x. namely writing a check from his personal bank account to reimburse michael cohen for those hush money payments some one hundred thirty thousand dollars to adult film star stormy daniels the two in the president's alleged have had an affair he's also a point apparently going to be

we're live in vietnam. federal reserve chair jay powell schools alexandria ocasio-cortez on how she plans to fund some of her green new deal. plus, the battle that is brewing between aoc and ivanka trump. and you're out, robots taking over another job. how one of major league baseball's mainstays could soon be ejected. cheryl: here's how your money is moving at 5*uz a.m. eastern time. after small losses yesterday and a brief stop in futures trading last night, a little tech any l call glitch, futures are pointing down again this morning. looks like we're gearing for a lower open. s&p is down 8 and three quarters, nasdaq down 22 and-a-half. investors will watch jerome powell's second day of testimony on the hill today. now to europe. the pound rallying to its highest level in four months against the dollar as a second referendum for britain to leave the e.u. gains traction. all eyes in asia on president trump and kim jong un as they get set to meet in vietnam. the south korean market especially sensitive to

military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as a nation inductee. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer commanding a unit of forty men. and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure of bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets been more problems. all the targets were inhabited fishing and. second they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bombs in china shop to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it is burned finished off i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were a show thick i could walk any further and the found my feet. and i saw a young bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up i was looking at my sister. and i looked into his eyes and it was all m

president donald trump is used to the line vietnam's leaders less so. but trump summit with north korea's leader kim jong il has changed all that before his first meeting with kim on wednesday he met the host of this summit the country's prime minister and president on behalf of the united states i want to thank you very much for hosting and hopefully great things will happen later on with our meeting like north korea vietnam was once an enemy of the united states yet in spite of the history the relationship is now good with vietnam regarded as a strategic partner of the u.s. in asia. but it's trump's relationship with kim that's now the priority the hanoi summit to build on a historic meeting in singapore in june where they made of a commitment to rid the korean peninsula of some of the most powerful weapons created this time they need to agree a framework for how that'll happen vietnam was an acceptable choice to kim for this summit it's one of the few countries with the north korean embassy which came visited on tuesday night. and like china vietnam'

isng han vietnam. not only defense to defense, but also dlomatic, economic, education, cultural, people-to- people. it's really a comprehe relationship we have. >> schifrin: and thatsh relati has helped produce an economic boom.rt garco 10 is rn vietnam's largest garment company. textiles have helped make vietnam asia's third fastest growing economy, behind india and china.ad and since a embargo was lifted in 1994, the u.s. has become v tnam's number one export market. than duc viet is garco 10's deputy general director. >> after embargo lift, the important thing, like, we're not thinking about the past. we're not thinking about the war anymore. >> schifrin: garco 10's employees get to stretch twice a day. they also get to own more than half the company. that's a transformation. like many companies, garco 10 used to be run by the army, and then the government, but now, it's 56% private. vietnam still has a communist government. but the economic opening has transformed the country from one of the world'

we have comprehensive coverage throughout vietnam.f glor is in ho chi minh city, formerly known as saigon. jeff? >> glor: john, good evening. and they are rushing to finish preparations here in vietnam for this summit. keep in mind, vietnam only had about ten days to prepare for this. singapore, in contrast, at the last summit had two months to work on this. so final preparations under way right now. we have noticed flags all over in hanoi at least. the three flags together: the u.s. flag, the vietnamese, and the north korean flags. at the last summit in june, president trump and kim jong-un agreed to work toward denuclearization. the big question now is, for americans and north koreans, exactly what that means and maybe more importantly how long it takes to get there. ben tracy is in hanoi tonight. >> reporter: kim jong-un finally arrived at the vietnamese border. he rode his dark green and very slow armored train for more than 50 hours through china. he apparently wasn't in a hurry, and neither it seems is president trump. >> i thin

the white house says three of vietnam's commercial carriers, vietjet, bamboo airways and vietnam airlinesd aviation deals with two american firms, boeing and sabre, worth at least $15 billion. they did so on the eve of the meeting between president trump and kimjong—un in hanoi. officials said the business deals would help support more than 80,000 american jobs and increase airline safety for vietnamese international travellers. music streaming giant spotify has launched its service in india, hoping to tap into its 140 million music consumers. multilingual music recommendations and playlists featuring music from popular bollywood movies will be available. the music streaming powerhouse will face stiff competition from rivals already in india. a rocket carrying six satellites built by airbus and 0neweb is set to blast off from french guiana later today in what's seen as the first step to give to high—speed internet beamed down from space to millions of people in remote and rural areas. iam sure i am sure you noticed. president trump is overseas right now in vietnam. he has tweeted. 0f trum

is thriving. >> vietnam is thriving.cided to do here, in advance of our conversation, as we continue to take a live look at the pictures, you hear in the back on the sirens, you get a chance to see what is happening here in hanoi. i want to do take a look at what the president, not only had to say about this particular trip, i wanted to talk about how these two countries match up. really, when you think about it, vietnam is where north korea could be, but to tell you the truth, if you look at where north korea is today, they are sort of reminded me a lot of what vietnam was back in 1990, 2000. >> ed: the vietnam war, the economy in shambles, a look at those numbers. >> look at those numbers right there. granted, vietnam is larger, not the size of new mexico, north korea smaller, about the size of virginia, but look at those numbers. i like that second number right there, you look under the gdp. look at what vietnam was in 2000. it kind of compares, doesn't it? >> ed: just about the gdp, up to $220 billion. they have trad

the stunning sight off vietnam. one of the new wonders of the world. >>> and good evening tonight from hanoi. president trump has arrived here in vietnam, and so has the north korean dictator. the stakes are enormous. the president willing to hold now a second summit, but will kim give up his nuclear weapons? and all of this tonight amid unfolding drama back home. president trump walking down the steps of air force one, fully aware that back home, they are watching something else unfold, too. his former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen walking toward the senate hearing room today to start three days of questioning. tomorrow, he'll be before the american people. and tonight, what we've learned here, what cohen is going to say about his former boss. on his finances, his worth and it's believed cohen will accuse the president of criminal conduct. abc's mary bruce leading us off tonight with the dramatic day on the hill. >> reporter: michael cohen, who once said he'd take a bullet for donald trump, arriving on

and about vietnam's success story as he met president truong of vietnam and some of his closest advisors it's obviously normal for a u.s. president to come and visit the host pay their respects to the host it is though worth noting that there's never been any regime change here in vietnam so the president he's meeting now is the direct successor of the men of course was once the most mortal enemy of the united states there is interesting parallels i think between north korea and vietnam because the u.s. has been various points since the second world war on a combat footing in asia and these have been the two flashpoints and they've gone in very different directions after a deadly war in vietnam relations now great president trump when he's meeting with the vietnamese president talking about signing new trade deals talking about how wonderful the economy is doing here they had amazing growth here actually the reality is that growth is beginning to slow as vietnam gets more prosperous and some of the people get more prosperous meaning that they're not quite the cheap labor force they were

to vietnam. >> to vietnam. thank you for being here. >> reporter: the coffee -- it leaves its mark. have it, too. we see the americans wave from afar. so you're from the u.s.? >> yes. >> reporter: where are you from? >> new york.te >> buffalo, new york. upstate new york. syracuse. >> oh! that's right. >> reporter: we survive the winters together. >> we certainly did. >> reporter: you came all this way for egg coffee? >> yes, we did. they call this pho co, the oldest district in hanoi. you can see, you can find just about everything here. street food, really every part of the vietnamese culture. our next find, papaya salad with beef and vegetables. >> this is papaya salad. >> reporter: the papaya, they add the beef, nuts and greens and then the dressing. >> fish sauce. >> reporter: fish sauce. >> vinegar. >> reporter: vinegar. >> sugar. >> reporter: sugar. and that's classic? >> that's classic. >> reporter: the salads arrive. >> this is chili sauce. if you want to have -- >> reporter: yes, please. our first bite. it's very clean. and more of that chili sauce. it is hot. but i love it

and it helps me a lot of times just to talk about vietnam. like i said, it will tear me up, but it gets here. in my chest. it gets it out. and i get rid of some of that stuff. >> reporter: for wayne pierret and thousands of others, time goes by. it doesn't go away. >> my nightmares are not as pronounced as they were when i first got out, but i still get th >> reporter: does this trip here help take some away? >> i sure hope so. i sure hope so. >> we want to thank the old glory honor guard for letting us spend time with these remarkable men here. >>> up next, what a vote on gay clergy and same-sex marriage could mean for one of the nation's biggest churches. >>> and later, towns turn into islands in northern california. ♪ unstopables in-wash scent booster ♪ downy unstopables that we're playing "four on four" with a barbershop quartet? [quartet singing] bum bum bum bum... pass the ball... pass the rock.. ...we're open just pass the ball! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. yea. [quarte

reports from vietnam. perhaps it's still a bit too early to see a trump kim get together in washington or pyongyang so once again the organizers opted for somewhere neutral. just by looking at the flag of communist vietnam it's immediately clear why chairman kim would certainly feel at home here. as we know the americans have their own special connection to this country but the leaders got it installed with the vietnamese authorities before they even arrived or rather their almost famous look alike. anyway with the hot i wrote spinning spruced up for the big event the real cam has already hit the road he chose to get to vietnam and by your brain and his people looked thrilled to see him no wonder kim has given himself a nice long head start crossing all of china takes time when the leaders met for the first time just saying this. was enough to make the summit a real bombshell but no written or signed agreements came out of it how's that for a preemptive social media trick to break the stalemate chairman ki

of diplomatic relationship with vietnam.ions set a new course. [applause] >> senator john mccain, the young naval aviator who was held captive and tortured during war went back to vietnam to mark 25th anniversary of the fall. >> the object of my relationship with vietnam has been to heal wounds and move forward. >> critical country in part of the world. >> a decade later after mccain's trip, peneta traveled during u.s. navy over the war. >> it really is an interesting mark of history that we are a part of right now. we recognize the 50th anniversary of the war in vietnam and now here i am. >> now, four decades later the u.s. relationship with vietnam has vastly improved, the two countries have come together on both trade and defense and now a place to talk peace with north korea. i'm jennifer griffin, fox news. >> vietnam is celebrating the historic u.s. north korea summit with fresh hair styles, ed henry paid attention to barbershop with presidential haircuts. >> so why did you get the kim jong un? >> because i'm fat a litt

almost a half century after the end of the war in vietnam jim garcia has traveled to the vietnam veterans memorial wall to honor those who fought and died in the conflict i think. garcia's father was a marine who served two tours in the vietnam war the conflict cost more than fifty eight thousand american lives most of them mow morial ised here in washington d.c. u.s. president donald trump avoided military service during vietnam citing bone spurs something he's been heavily criticized for. but his truck heads to the vietnamese capital of hanoi to meet north korean leader kim jong un for the second face to face summit the country will serve as an example how old photos can become friends . from the one nine hundred fifty s. through to the early one nine hundred seventy s. the united states sent its men to fight in vietnam a generation later a nine hundred ninety four bill clinton and other u.s. president who avoided military service looked at the trade embargo on the scot in this country completely changing vietnam's relationship with the united states since then the vietnamese economy ha

today vietnam is a global trading partner.ts economy growing and most critical, it's now on friendly terms with the united states. the u.s. hoping kim t jong-un will see something to aspire to. will this be held up as an example of what could be >> of course it should be quite appealing. you just look around. 25 years ago, this was a kind of moldering city, right? and now it's just very dynamic place. >> reporter: vietnam ra nay holds a great deal of symbolism to the united states as well.as reminder of the potential toll of foreign military adventures. in fact, just steps where trump and kim will meet -- >> it was forgotten for a very, very long time. >> reporter: a hotel stairway leads to a rediscovered bomb shelter that shielded staff and guests, including jane fonda from american air raids in the '70s. >> we are approximaty four meters under the ground now. >> reporr: vietnam has for the most part put its own painful past behind it, and it could be the biggest early beneficiary of the trump/kim summit. , > for the vietname

vietnam starting point before the reform is similar to north korea's now. you know there are many things that had to be changed fundamentally. when you switch from a centralized economy to a market economy the important thing is to have a broad and far vision and really and completely a. vietnam's reforms have seen its per capita income saw almost five fold but hanoi hasn't traded prosperity for democracy he had the communist party remains firmly in power keeping a tight lid on free speech and political dissent. but the social transformation is there to see. the size of skate board is in front of linden statue in hanoi would have been unimaginable not long ago you. compare that to today's pyongyang with public life is carefully controlled and north korean leaders a still reveal it is dieties. vietnam has rebuilt with its former foes the united states perhaps a role model for north korea to also normalize a troubled relationship. well in the last hour the first trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for but it's way low arrived in the colombian border city o

much for hosting and hopefully great things will happen later on with our meeting like north korea vietnam was once an enemy of the united states yet in spite of the history the relationship is now good with vietnam regarded as a strategic partner of the u.s. in asia. but it's trump's relationship with kim that's now the priority that hanoi summit aims to build on a historic meeting in singapore in june where they made of a commitment to rid the korean peninsula of some of the most powerful weapons created this time they need to agree a framework for how that'll happen vietnam was an acceptable choice to kim for this summit it's one of the few countries with the north korean embassy which came visited on tuesday night. and like china vietnam's achieve strong economic growth while preserving one party rule thriving like few places on earth according to trump who also tweeted that north korea's potential was also also there is both curiosity and excitement about the two leaders this city is now playing host to and i hope that a city once anonymous with war could perhaps become a symbol of so

train trek here to vietnam. he reportedly stopped along the way chinese industrial cities as well as vietnamese factories, which is something that his father and grandfather used to do and it just highlights again the disparity between his country and this booming economy here in vietnam. >> bill: you mention the train trip. he could have flown here in about an hour and a little more than that flying time a train took 60 hours. that was a symbol in itself to, as you mention, to take a similar route his grandfather took 45 years ago. >> sandra: as i'm watching the president disembark the plane and i'm thinking about there is no question that all that is different between our president and kim jong-un. if there is one area where they might have something in common it's they both break convention. kim jong-un was the first north korean leader to cross the line of demarcation and meet his south korea counterpart. the first to meet a sitting u.s. president. there is no question our president breaks a lot of conventio

president trump in vietnam right now. he has been meeting with the country's president there ahead of tomorrow's meeting with kim jong-un of north korea. the summit event started with some confusion at the hotel where the north korean dictator is staying. it happened to be the same hotel where the white house had designated for all the journalists traveling with the president. what we like to call a press filing center. upon kim's arrival the white house press corp was evicted from its workspace. as our nbc news team reports the forced move was highly unusual because the white house had approved of and supported the use of the space by media who cover the president. "the washington post" summed up the situation this way, and we quote, what happens when the authoritarian ruler of north korea checks into a hotel teaming with american journalists filing around the clock reports, the free press loses. with us from vietnam our own carol lee, nbc news national political reporter who happened to be in the hotel lobby when the no

prepares for his second meeting with north korean leader kim jong un we look at how the host nation vietnam is getting ready for the summit. by broadcasting live direct from our studios moscow this is our team international on sometimes really glad. that we start with the latest pictures from the simon boulevard bridge on the venezuelan colombian border clashes have erupted there between police and protesters after hundreds arrived to support a humanitarian aid convoy that failed to enter from a sweat. protesters also denounced president nicolas maduro you can see people rocks towards the officers there's also some gray smoke which might have been tear gassed as it has previously been used at the border before. then cohen reports. i'm at the t.n.t. just bridge crossing on the colombian side of the border with venezuela behind me you can see ten trucks carrying six hundred tons of what the u.s. government says is humanitarian aid to be delivered to venezuela and the venezuelan government is refusing it saying this is actually not humanitarian aid the red cross and other major international h

in vietnam, a more familiar scene. kim's elite security detail in their dark suits jogged alongside his armored mercedes for summit two, both leaders are hoping to achieve something summit one did not. concrete results. kim is seeking relief from sanc. president trump is saying north korea can become an economic powerhouse if kim agrees to give up his nukes. but u.s. intelligence officials say they see no sign north korea's ready to do that. >> the regime is committed to developing a long-range nuclear-armed missile that would pose a direct threat to the united states. >> reporter: last year, president trump called on the dictator to give up his nuclear weapons and fast. >> mr. president, did he agree to denuclearize? sir? >> we're starting that process very quickly. very, very quickly. absolutely. >> reporter: but this year? >> i'm not in a rush, i don't want to rush anybody. >> jon karl with us live tonight here in hanoi. jon, you and i will be watching as the summit unfolds here in vietnam. and the president knows f

a man who was acting as kim jong un impersonator has been deported from vietnam.d in hanoi last weekend held a fake summit with that trump impersonator. these guys look very much like the real thing. he says vietnamese police caught up with him and told him there was an issue with his visa but he believes they were just trying to get him out of the country. one twitter user says i take it they don't have a sense of humor. michael says deported a witness protection? i take it kim jong un doesn't like to be mocked. may be for the best he was forced to leave the country. >> what about the impersonator for donald trump? is he still there? >> he can no longer impersonate donald trump during the summit. heather: he looks like him. >> nobody to negotiate now. it won't go like that. really interesting. earlier we asked what you hope the us can accomplish with north korea at the summit. your comments are pouring in. matthew writing this on facebook, obama had is on track for nuclear war so pretty much anything. sort of that is a win. earl commenting sign a declaration to e

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we are look at vietnam.ments ago of the president the united states in that vehicle, he just departed his location there moments ago. kim jong-un departed as well. they are in hanoi, vietnam for this bilateral meeting. a lot of attention and focus being placed on this because this is quite historic. there is potential for something that would be truly great. to think that the country that we once had and still have, let's be clear, a lost animosity, too. might be able to denuclearize. it shows you how strategic the administration has been in terms of its effort to influence policy with kim jong-un. i was filling in for my good friend lou dobbs the night the president decided to accept the initial around to sit down and talk with kim jong-un. i think it probably riled some people in the state department and got some people shocked or concerned because he didn't follow protocol. this invitation came out a couple minutes before the show started. by the time we were on the air at 7:00, the president accepted it.

when the vietnam war ended in 1975, the economy was in tatters.of asia's fastest—growing economies. check out how it has grown over the last three decades. since 2000, the economy has expanded atan since 2000, the economy has expanded at an average pace of 6.6%. and what kim jong—un at an average pace of 6.6%. and what kimjong—un might like is at an average pace of 6.6%. and what kim jong—un might like is this. vietnam's communist party achieved this while retaining absolute power. so, how was it done? it opened up its economy in 1986. the reforms mean renovation and it led to a big change in the agriculture sector and the country which used to import rice is now one of the world's biggest rice exporters. it went on to set up a foreign investment rule. normalise its relationship with the world and privatised many of its state—owned corporations. and it paid off. in 1994, us president bill clinton lifted trade embargo against vietnam. a year later, vietnam joined the association of southeast asian nations. in 2007, vietnam became a member of the wo