ground in five hours. is that enough time, do you think? does that show a seriousness on the part of the north koreans commitment to these summit talks, or are they actually there with the photo-op, the meeting with the president and back to north korea as usual? they are there for photo-op, something they will play over and over again and make a big deal out of. again, this is to get things started. you look at every nuclear arms agreement historically. it takes years to negotiate, so it s not something that s done in five hours or a day or two. it s certainly enough time to start a process on a positive note, but not really much more than that. all right. jean lee, balbina and greg, thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. thank you. still ahead, president trump s aides doubling down on his twitter tirade aimed at prime minister justin trudeau. how the spat with our neighbor
is a shiny object. this is not the summit talks. it is football al they have been accused aflacing patriotism and anti-military. yeah. well, first of all, we ought to note this is a lie that in fact, none of the players did take a knee. but this has two advantages for donald trump. it is a distraction and a target to focus the grievance of his base on. this has been his playbook all along. he thinks about how this works in red america. he believes if he pits the flag, the military, if he talks about these things against these pampered players, he s going to win.
kim jong-un has expressed his fixed will on the historic north korea/u.s. summit talks. it also refers to those talks, ed, as this is another quote, scheduled for june 12th. so at least on one side, it seems to be full steam ahead for that meeting between president trump and kim jong-un. this of course follows a meeting that you mentioned with south korean president moon jae in along the dmz on saturday. the second time in a month that they have met. it was just about a month ago that they were there. we are told as a part of that conversation, yes, there were frank and candid exchanges of views about how to achieve a successful summit involving president trump and north korean leader kim. that summit was basically cancelled if you remember on thursday by the white house. then revived on friday. saturday s meeting according to some of the experts that we t k talked to here is seen as the clearest signal yet that that june 12th singapore meeting could in fact happen. this amid reports t
fixed will on the historic north korea/u.s. summit talks. it also refers to those talks, ed, as this is another quote, scheduled for june 12th. so at least on one side, it seems to be full steam ahead for that meeting between president trump and kim jong-un. this of course follows a meeting that you mentioned with south korean president moon jae in along the dmz on saturday. the second time in a month that they have met. it was just about a month ago that they were there. we are told as a part of that conversation, yes, there were frank and candid exchanges of views about how to achieve a successful summit involving president trump and north korean leader kim. that summit was basically cancelled if you remember on thursday by the white house. then revived on friday. saturday s meeting according to some of the experts that we t k talked to here is seen as the clearest signal yet that that june 12th singapore meeting could in fact happen. this amid reports that advanced teams are already
about denuclearization. without international inspectors on the scene subject matter experts and able to verify what s actually taking place there, it is likely we may not get a clearance there anyway. melissa: a lot of folks have pointed out the fact that north korea is very cognizant of the idea our presidents have four years. in the past it may in some cases is the accusation that it was about the president kind of running out the clock and feeling like they can t really do anything about north korea and hope knowing blows up on their watch. with president trump it s the opposite. he wants to get it done on his watch. do you think that s an accurate assessment and how do you think north korea plays that fact? i think that will manifest itself very clearly at the summit talks. by that i mean north korea is very sensitive to the fact that president trump has 2 1/2 years left in his administration. they would likely put on the table a very phased program to