begin it with president trump with two translators in the room. let s start there. just the two, bill, and their translators and aording to the white house the two leaders will bring in their senior staffs for another round of discussion according to the white house it will include mike pompeo and john kelly and michael bolton and others including the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders and the president spoke with the president of south korea and the prime minister of japan and hopes tomorrow is the beginning of substantive conversations and teams met this morning and this afternoon and officials say it lasted a few hours and lasted a couple hours ago. less than 12 hours is when the main event starts on an exclusive resort off the coast of singapore. bill: i ve been listening carefully to secretary pompeo
bill: it is 9:31 in new york and 9:31 in the evening in singapore as president trump has arrived. he ll start the process of trying to get north korea to give up their nukes and mike pompeo laying out the expectations from this epic meeting. the ultimate object we seek from diplomacy from north korea has not change the complete, irreversible denuclearization is bil jack keaneo talk ccept. about reaction from capitol hill and elsewhere live in paris, france and gregg palkot is in seoul, north korea. now, greg, hello. bill, there is hopeful but cautious watching of the dogs n
recognize that a denuclearize korean peninsula is in everyone s interest. they made very clear that this is an initiative of peace. this is no longer did you just for the united states or an issue just for those who are within a certain range of the korean peninsula. this is a worldwide issue and it takes president trump s leadership to succeed where others haven t. bill: we have fox news coverage is leading our analysis with bill richardson live here in studio, met with kim s father and travel to north korea several times. but we start with chief white house correspondent john roberts on the ground in singapore just past 11:00 in the evening. ten hours from now, that meeting takes place and the president and his team are playing down expectations for what might come out of that meeting for strategic reasons because i am told they may be expecting a surprise and you get a surprise, it seems bigger than it might actually if you had raised expectations.
of those troops out of south korea, some of the military exercises, but it seems the vibrations i m getting from the early news is pretty good. sandra: i want to show these pictures that were liv in theastour of kim jong un. he decided to leave his house h. he strolled down the streets of singapore, fairly dark but the tv cameras right there with him. he was surrounded by people. certainly an opportunity that he took to be photographed. interestingly enough heading into the summit, you have a warning for president trump, oid letting yourself be photographed too much. you don t think it s a good ide idea. two things. i think it s good that the president and kim jong un build some trust. i like the fact that they re going to meet together separately without advisors. sort of a get to know, let s trust each other. i worry about those photo ops where they re hugging because the north koreans use that for
we ll be moving forward, if it is not, i ll be walking away. he has said, this is on kim jong-un. i m here to negotiate in good faith. let s see if he is. his level of expectations and what he has set for expectations is what we need. sandra: it s 10:13 p.m. in singapore right now. the president s made it clear he can have his breakfast and decide to take off. the world is watching and this is the first time the united states has agreed to meet with the leadership of north korea given their bad behavior the dictorial ways and torturous manner they treat their people. we made a statement by the simple fact of the meeting. the world then expects something. president trump can say in terms of negotiations, i ll walk away unless it s a good deal but the world expects something is going to happen. bill: the world was watching