>> bill, former u.s. ambassador to russia wrote that this summit is a tremendous achievement for north korea. the point he makes is that -- this was a tweet -- tomorrow, the entire world will be treating kim jong-un as a global leader on stage with the leader of the most powerful country in the world. human rights, assassinations, et cetera, will unlikely be mentioned. this is a tremendous achievement for north korean plodiplomacy. do you share that view? has kim jong-un been elevated to a status of world leader, as opposed to world pariah, as a result of this meeting? >> reporter: i think, ali, he's not only out of his hotel, he is out of international isolation. in that sense, it is already a win for him. he's met president xi of china, president moon, now singapore's prime minister. tomorrow, it'll be president trump. then he'll probably go to moscow and meet president putin. he is no longer an international