three americans. would you describe it as victory to president trump? it is a victory to the american people whenever we can get our people back home and we want diplomacy to work in regards to illuminating nuclear threat. that is all very positive and under donald trump. absolutely. we give him credit but the bottom line is let s make sure we use diplomacy to end this conflict in north korea. and as with the conflict in north korea as the president looks ahead to talks do you believe expectations are getting too high for these talks? you heard the president say it was nice that kim jong-un released it and he is taking steps towards discussions coming up in a matter of weeks. does he need to ratchet down the expectation setting game? let s be realistic as to what we can achieve. in the short term it would be a major victory that we get a phrase on the north korean nuclear program and get inspectors on the ground knowing
we are back. within the last couple of minutes we learned the when and where of the potentially historic talks between president trump and kim jong-un. they will happen june 12th in singapore. the president tweeted it after teasing for 48 hours or so the news would come at any moment. he says we ll both try to make a special moment for world peace. he calls it a highly anticipated meetings. i would say fact check, zero pinocchios. phil, you are writing about the president s foreign policy moves as he s dealing with other issues at home. let me start with the breaking news, singapore. why singapore? it s an interesting pick. it s been rumors for some time. it s a country that trump has been looking at. it s a place where both the u.s. and north korea have diplomatic presence. it s sort of a natural neutral ground, if it were. and then the locations were limited in part because north
korea doesn t have jets that can fly long distances. kim very rarely leaves his country, and so this is a place that s close enough to north korea but with enough distance to be seen as a more neutral ground for this sort of a summit. this had been a question of whether the fleet for north korea could actually make it anywhere far. exactly. it seems singapore is the pick. based on our reports, the president wanted the dmz. he likes the idea of going to the dmz, but his national security team ruled that out pretty early on. yeah. it would have been a dramatic setting for this meeting. i think trump might have been intrigued by the idea of being able to step foot across the dmz and being the first american president to stand on north korean graund ground, but it s worth pointing out vice president pence on his first trip to south korea visited the dmz and had the photo op there. so trump, i don t think made it there. i think there was a weather