accepted. vice president pence chimed in saying quote, all options are on the table. keeping track of this is jeff zeleny from the white house. reporter: certainly a very busy couple of days, certainly the last day of domestic shuttling here. the question remains will that meeting happening. the president weighing in a short time ago on twitter. he says the deal with north korea is very much in the making and will be if completed a good one for the world. time and place. he says by early may. not a lot of time here for what is the biggest diplomatic gamble here. there was a sense that the president may have gotten ahead
such a step they would not make so much noise about it. this is more a psychological and propaganda move. many expert would grow with that, a lot of this is psychology, perhaps trying to put the united states into a certain corner to show more support for israel or take a tougher line against iran which is not to downplay the concerns of israel about a neighbor getting a nuclear weapon whose president just said the existence of israel is a insult to all humanity. shepard: we take it to foreign affairs columnist, gordon chang. this meeting happening, it sounds weird, but the head of the u.n., the u.n. secretary-general, almost always attends these things regardless of him sensitivities. guest: but this will be a glorification of antisemetism.
there are reports and iaea are trying to investigate to see if anything happened since then but in the main i think they had a program. they were in violation. i think they stopped it. what they have continued with is an enrichment program which is the focus of the other set of international talks taking place this week. international community whether there is a bomb program or not they don t want iran to continue with enrichment. bring everybody up-to-date on the timeline coming together. we have a meeting happening in vienna with nuclear officials and iranian officials. that is precursor to a bigger meeting next week to the 6-party talks in baghdad. what they will do about the nuclear program. we talked a lot about sanctions, jim. june will be very important time this year about whether or not the sanctions two forward. where are we now with iran? well, i think, deputy s meeting that you referred to happening this week is going to be critical. before iran would have a meeting and
in particular robert gibbs, the press secretary has asked about these issues in press briefs from time to time, that s the standard response, the president really feels like unemployment is a national issue. he s not concentrating on any one segment of society but doing what he can to mitigate the employment problem for the whole nation. if he could do that, it would accrue to the benefit of african-americans as well. these leaders want to point out that the burden of this unemployment problem is among african-americans. some are staggering, jobless rate for african-american men 16 to 24 is at 35.4%. the president meeting with these leaders to talk about their concerns, talk about these issues. of course they are very supportive of the president s agenda. like many people in this country, really want to see some results on jobs of the president probably would put himself in that group. it s incredible to see this meeting happening. we know 230,000 federal employees not working today.
singapore. the president had said in the last several days that a time and date was set. he did not announce where it would be but he did rule out the demilitarized zone between the north and south and singapore is looking like the most likely location someplace in the asia region close enough for kim jong-un to reach by plane, john and poppy. our new polling shows that many americans are very supportive of that meeting happening. abby, thank you very much. with us now gordon chain. good morning to you and david, let me start with you. you were detained in afghanistan for more than seven months. you know better than any of us sitting here and most americans what that is like. talk about what these men may be going through right now and what their family s are feeling. sheer joy. there s nothing better. i m just so grateful for them and the transition s crazy. you don t think you ll ever be