Hatch. A congresswoman says she kept in close contact with holts family throughout the whole process. We worked really hard for the past two years to bring him home. And today i get to say that all of those efforts have paid off and hes coming home and hes going to come home, you know, healthy and be able to, you know, resume a really good productive life. I cant tell you how excited i am. Ed a joyous home coming indeed. The president saying his cancelled summit with kim jongun could come back while tweeting with new talks with the regime have been quote very productive. The white house says it is still sending a prep team to singapore in case it does happen on june 12th or later date. Amid all the uncertainty, former press Secretary Sean Spicer putting the onus on north korea and declaring today on fox news this is a makeorbreak moment for kim jongun. Kim knows that this meeting is the only shot he has at being seen on the world stage, but the United States and President Trump, Vice P
A people have spoken and we say that we trust women under stacked women to make their own decisions on their own choices. Also coming up a surprise meeting between the leaders of north and south korea is the second time in just a month that theyve held talks top of the agenda of the success of a summit between north korea and the u. S. Despite President Trumps cancellation of that summit just days ago. And grappling with the past in colombia on the eve of president ial elections do w. Has an exclusive report on how one town is trying to heal the wounds of decades of conflict with far. Hello and welcome mat herman it is good to have you with us now people in ireland have voted by a landslide to liberalize the countrys restrictive abortion laws with counting over after yesterdays referendum voters back the change by a margin of two to one here come the exact figures for you. Yes overwhelming no that is a far higher margin than any opinion poll had predicted the results allows the Irish G
Begin his briefing in a few moments time. I may have to sit down rather abruptly but i can tell you, what a difference a week makes. Only a few days ago President Trump canceled the summit. Now he is saying that talks to put it back on track went very well. And all indications that there was considerable progress. The meeting between the two countries lasted today a little more than two hours. A state Department Spokesman says the reason it was relatively short is because there was progress. The secretary of state mike pompeo sent out a tweet a short time ago. It said, quoting him, Good Progress today during our meeting with Kim Young Chol and his team. North korea and the world would benefit greatly from the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. We have not heard from north korea. But a Senior State Department spokesperson did say that a priority for north korea is security. And that the spokesman then said the u. S. Now has to convince north korea that nukes simply do not make se
Nation one day. Kim jongun agrees with me on this. It will happen. Republican senator roy blunt reacted to the up and down negotiations this morning, calling the developments unsurprising. Right out of the north korean play book. Were into three generations of that play book now. Act like you want to negotiate. Then come up with some outlandish view of what that negotiation means. What was probably surprising to them was the president s agreement initially to meet and then his willingness to say hey, if this is not a serious meeting i dont want to have it. I do think some things need to happen here before we meet. Hopefully they will. Mike south korean president says the north is committed to complete denuclearization, but democratic senator cautioning that the regime might see all of this as more of a pr stunt. It is a significant concession to north korea to offer a summit. Never had an opportunity to meet with an american president. Its something they have long wanted to elevate the
We can build the embassy for 150,000. [applause] i said what you are talking about 150 . He said we can build for 150. We have the best piece of land we owe. We have a building on that piece of land. Its set back. Its a big piece. Its many acres in the best location. Heres the deal, land we dont own, well take forever to get it open. In addition to the people that will try to stop you, thats a billion dollars as opposed to a better location for 400,000. I said, spend more, please. Sometimes its ridiculous, i thought. Its totally beautiful. The finest stones, the finest marbles, the best location. Its open. It opened in four months after we started building. Instead of spending a billion dollars and not having it for 20 years, we spent 400,000 buck and it opened in a few years. Is that a good story . [applause] i think it was probably better. I think the big difference, its probably better. In order to ensure, the other big move, the Iranian Regime never obtained nuclear weapons. I with