north korea s statement after president trump canceled the summit but she also said that they were not interested in having what she called a cheap political stunt. liz? elizabeth: allison, thank you so much. leland? leland: in addition to the developments here in the united states, there s been a surprise meeting on the korean peninsula. the leaders of north and south korea came together last night. this, after president trump seemingly warmed back up to the idea of the june 12th summit with kim jong un and with that we go to greg palkott in sowl, , south he korea. hi, greg. reporter: yeah, taking place this weekend, a possible important development in efforts to bring peace to this region. north korea s leader, kim jong un and south korea s president meeting along the dmz as they did just one month ago. this time, on the north korean
meeting between the north and south. there was handshakes. there were smiles. there were hugs. perhaps that warm feeling can translate into a more important summit and maybe a little peace here. back to you. leland: we ve seen so quickly how the peace and warm feelings can fall apart. greg palkott, watching things as they develop by the hour. later this hour, we re going to talk to the colonel in charge of training the next generation of marines here at quantico to stand watch on the dmz. we re going to talk to former new mexico governor and u.s. ambassador to the united nations, bill richardson, as we dive into the conversation surrounding north korea, something he knows a lot about. we ll also talk to him about the release of american joshua holt from venezuela. elizabeth: let s bring in steven nelson, white house correspondent for the washington examiner, to talk all the headlines coming out of the white house saturday. certainly not a boring saturday. i want to start with north
response should be. we have the capacity to believe in our destiny and nothing will deter us. let s gather together and long live the republic and france. we ve been listening to the french president hollande as he said that the freedom message should be the response from france as a nation. it will be a day of national mourning. the whole republic has been attacked for freedom of expression. he is encouraging unity of all citizens. nothing can divide us. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkott live for us now with the very latest. here in paris listening to their president and also paying their respects right here we re looking at a makeshift memorial that s been set up by the people here in honor of the people who were killed in this brutal attack just a couple hours ago. we were just on one side of the police cordon. it happened about a block away.
soin that has it has to be p on the record that there was no proof that he ordered that. okay?at. that s number one. because if he had he would haveh committed a war crime, there s no question about that. now let s continue. they have now offered up their their list of chemical weapons to the oversight. right. hff nower we have to see if theyo willing to move to the next step, which is open inspections, verifiability, and movement towards destruction of those weapons. that s what we should be on track for.n, i also want to say that with that interview greg palkott did a tremendous job in pushing president assad, we both did onh some of these issues. your reaction? it s another case where he sits down and does this interview. it s a catalog of falsehoods ur that he stated. it may be true that re no offi body has identified him as the one who made the call but his regime has suggested he s responsible for this and i don t see how he escapes ug
at the situation in syria being an extremely complex situation where people who are in power and people vying for power each have different goals. what i ve learned in the interview that i did with greg palkott is that pred assad is someone who is fighting not a civil war but protecting his country against a sectarian war that is being visited through the money of saudi arabia and qatar. sunni versus shia. fundamentalists versus secularists. who s his primary backer? iran. no, actually you have to look at the war. wait wait wait. iran is his primary backer and people keeping him alive are iranian revolutionary guards who are actually in syria fighting on his behalf. and then putin is arming him. so these are bad guys. let me take my fox contributor hat off for a second, okay? sure. go ahead. i m about american interests.