Transcript for Trump meets with American prisoners freed by North Korea

And you can see the president and First Lady there are emerging from that plane with those three prisoners. Right there are now free men all three are said to be. In good health this morning so Kim Jung dual. Is the one of the prisoners who was there the longest he was arrested and just looked when he fifteen. Look at that moment there watching these guys with the peace sign that is relief on their faces and on the faces of the president and First Lady right there. That indeed you're looking at a very big moment not only for these three men but potentially for these two countries to regime seem to be at odds bird decades now. And this could be a very big moment that priest. Specifically with this upcoming summit between the president and the North Korean leader. OK so we watch this plane as it arrived within the last half hour and we're gonna wants right now is these three men stepped foot here. And joint base Andrews they've already been on American soil their plane landed there about six hours ago in Anchorage Alaska. But let's watch this moment here as they land and Terry is monitoring this Terry Moran is monitoring this moment from London Terry. What a moment it is you guys have to read it's joyful. It is the end to suspense and agony for the families and it is an important milestone. In the in that journey towards this remarkable summit that president trump. And Kim Jong-un are determined to have a team sometime in June in Singapore. But it is worth remembering a couple of things you amid the joy and relief a couple of things first North Korea has done this before thirteen Americans. Since the 1990s have been detained. And out poll released at some point a to prod a warm there was released and then died. That college student from Virginia. And then the other remembers that there aren't Japanese detainees their South Korean detainees let's not forget the nature of this regime that said. This is a moment. Of joy and for president trump no question about it a moment of triumph. As he pursues this remarkable diplomatic opening toward one of the most closed countries in the world North Korea.

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