you know, natalie, he has these brief exchanges with us from the white house from time to time. he briefs in the oval office, takes questions and so on. we have the makings for a press conference we haven t seen since the end of the hanoi summit. i m just putting a rough guesstimate here, but it felt like dunz of questions because it went on that long. took a number of questions from u.s. reporters, from foreign reporters. i remember because i was in the room that day, he was sort of randomly selecting foreign reporters who i don t think he recognized or knew from covering him. so you could have that sort of same press conference unfolding here in just a few moments. the president may be eager to head off to south korea and move onto the next part of this trip to ags, and he may come in and take a few questions. we ll have to see kplaekt what s on his mind, but after that hanoi summit that wept on for a
me. i m joe johns in for fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with conflicting reports on the denuclearization talks out of north korea. the north now slamming what it calls the united states gangster-like mindset but secretary of state mike pompeo describing the meetings as productive. he briefs his japanese and south korean counterparts. is the u.s. deal falling apart? north korea released a statement that reads in part, we expected the u.s. to bring constructive measures to build confidence and according with the spirit of the u.s.-nk summit. however the attitudes of the u.s. in the first high-level talks held on the 6th and 7th were indeed regrettable. cnn s ryan browne is in washington here. so, ryan, you have pompeo saying progress has been made. north korea is essentially criticizing the u.s. how do we balance that out? we re hearing very different tones from the north korean and u.s. sides with regards to how
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