if we could just go back to the president s comments discussing china and he was he caused some alarm when he spoke about chi s second meeting with second meeting with kim jong-un and do you know about that meeting and why he s so hesitant to say the chinese were helpful in that meeting. i don t have anything to add to what the president said there. are the chinese helping push forward the u.s. and kim jong-un summit? can you talk about that role? the chinese have offered historic assistance in the pressure campaign. literally history assistance. president trump made clear and i have, too, it is central that the pressure remain in place and that china continue to participate in the pressure campaign and we have ever reason to expect they will continue to do so.
members of congress to make that determination, not something that the white house has weighed into at this point. francesca. reporter: thank you, sarah. we heard from president trump before that meeting with president moon, but after sitting down with him, does president trump feel more like the summit is worth having and that it will happen? and what is the white house s drop dead date so to speak for deciding whether or not to go to the summit? we re going to continue to prepare and see what happens. nothing more to add at this point. ben? in gaza the violence continued today. does the white house have any plans to meet with the palestinian authority? there are no changes at this point but if something changes, we ll let you know. so carl bernstein with me here. let s just run through some of what we heard beginning with this thursday meeting, the white house has a meeting between the justice department officials.
coins commemorating the summit? on the first part of your question, the president has laid out what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. that has not changed. in terms of. coi of the coins, this is not something the white house has anything to do with. we don t have any input on the design, the process, this is a standard procedure by the white house communications agency, made up exclusively of career military officials and these coins are designed and done by that organization. pamela? reporter: thank you, sarah. why would the u.s. guarantee the regime of a dictator who is a serial rights violator and responsible for the recent death of an american college student. why is that the right things to do? the goal would be to have complete and total denuclearization of the peninsula. the president has been up front about that part of the conversation and we re going to continue to move forward.
koreans and how would you describe since you ve left pyongyang what kind of communication the united states has had with the government of north korea. i couldn t characterize that. if anything is giving us pause, kim asked for the meeting and we worked to find the date and location and got those set and since then we re driving on. it is clear, we re working to make sure that there is a common understanding about the contents of what will be discussed. but i m optimistic. but again, it could be something that comes right to the end and doesn t happen, as the president said we ll see and that is the place that we find ourselves. so the president said thank you. the president said that the summit might be delayed. are you discussing now the the possible new date or it being delayed with the north koreans and what are the issues that would prevent it to be on june 12th?
nonbelligerent nations behave. it s simple. there s not a special category of people who are permitted to fire missiles into riyadh. just ask them to behave like a normal nation. i have every reason to think that the iranian people want that for their country as well. this is a rich country with a deep civilization and a wonderful history. i m convinced that the people of ir iran, when they can see a path forward which will lead their country to stop behaving in this way, will choose that path. thank you all. i look forward to seeing you down here. everybody have a good day. you have been watching secretary of state mike pompeo walking through several different hot spots around the globe. but that is it for me on this very busy, as usual, news day. thank you so much for watching. deadline white house with my friend nicole wallace starts right now. hi, everyone.