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the avoiding talking about ending his nuclear program. sixth, don t try to be friends with kim jong-un. he killed his uncle, his half-brother and hundreds of others. he is a despot. those people up in canada, by the way, are our friends. and that s hardball for now. thanks for being with us. msnbc s special coverage of the summit with brian williams and rachel maddow starts right now. two volatile leaders. they have tested each other. rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. they ve taunted each other. kim jong-un issued a direct response. i will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u.s. dotard with fire. now, they re moments away from meeting for the first time face-to-face. i hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents a bright new future to the world. with the stability of the region and the world on the line i don t think i have to prepare very much. will their summit bring us closer to peace or peril? this is an msnbc sp ....
states has not received any firm commitments from them on what they would commit to. so that is still largely up for debate. that s the question here. pompeo said he does believe this administration will be deceived by the north koreans, though, as he believes new administrations in the past have been. the united states has been fooled before. there is no doubt about it. many presidents previously have signed off on pieces of paper only to find that the north koreans either didn t promise what we thought they had or actually reneged on their promises. we are going to ensure we set up a system sufficiently robust that we re able to verify these outcomes and it is only once the v happens that we ll proceed a pace. reporter: he didn t answer sku exactly what the security assurances are, including did not answer a question about what would happen to the 25,000 troops on the korean peninsula. back to tomorrow morning, you know, we re hours away from this meeting now and ....
two needs friends? the u.s. does but they re not making it easy accuse our international allies of trying to sabotage the summit. what the white house is saying about canada, it s leader and what did wants and why that war of words is hitting back home, here. plus, a look at a trade war. we wanted to know how president trump s tariffs are affecting americans so we sent a reporter to the blue state where the bourbon is flowing but not without a price. we are going to get to everybody in just a minute with some activity happening right now in singapore buthe let s set the scene for what s happening here in a few short hours. there s this new report this morning, we ve seen the motorcade. kim jong-un taking a stroll not to far from where we are. they say those talks could work out nicely. while you yore sleeping you talked to japan s prime minister and south korea s president. separately teams from the u.s. and north korea met ghen just the last six hours or so. secretar ....
moment because this has all been pomp and circumstance to this point. we first witnessed them meeting face to face three hours ago at a hotel on sentosa island. a warm handshake, smiles, pats on the back from president trump, very cordial. then president trump told reporters he expected the summit toess. take a listen. i feel really great. we had a great discussion. and i think tremendous success. we ll be tremendously successful. it s my honor and you will have a terrific relationship, i have no doubt. you hear the president and the press with all the clicks. they just got a moment to ge a peek in there in the second there was a face-to-face meeting between the two leaders and just their interpreters that went on for 35, 40 minutes. what happened in that room? the question is will we ever know? the bigger question, where do we go from here? let s start with jim sciutto in singapore. we witnessed history together. that is just objectively true, and how it was presen ....
about denuclearization. although, the definition may be different for north korea than it is for the u.s. he left the meeting having just dismissed some of our oldest and closest allies. jeff zeleny joins us with a quick rundown on how this is expected to play out. we have not seen this ever before. a sitting president sitting down, shaking hands with the leader of north korea. it s the one on one meeting that has led them to this point. president trump eager to have this meeting even as his advisers were saying, there s not time to set this up. the president disregarded all of that, he s here in singapore. we re going to see a lot of differences. president trump turns 72 years old this week. kim jong-un some 34 years old, differences in many ways, but the age difference here will certainly be front and center, we do know for all the president s been saying, he s not been preparing. he s been reading up on kim jong-un and his grandfather as well. look for conversation ....