Trump: Chances of U.S.-North Korea Summit are Currently 50/50.
TRUMP: There's a chance that it will work out. There's a chance, there's a very substantial chance that it won't work out. I don't want to waste a lot of time. And he doesn't want to waste a lot of time. So there's a very substantial chance it won't work out, and that's OK. That doesn't mean it won't work out over a period of time. But it may not work out for June 12.</s>CAMEROTA: OK. That was President Trump suggesting the summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-un may not happen on June 12 as had been planned. The growing doubts surrounding the meeting stem from heated rhetoric coming from the regime. So let's get to CNN political analyst John Avlon and CNN political and national security analyst David Sanger. David, we talked to you yesterday about this. How are you feeling today on whether or not this is going to be happening on June 12?</s>SANGER: Well, about like I've been feeling on it all week, Alisyn. Which is that everything the president said underscores the risk of doing this in the order in which they're doing it, which has been that they are attempting to have the president meet first with Kim Jong-un and then work out the details later. And this is a White House that isn't used to conducting this kind of negotiation. Kim Jong-un isn't used to conducting this kind of negotiation. And this is what happens when you get into the situation where you're walking the president into an unpredictable situation in which it's not clear that he would emerge with the kind of agreement that he's promised. And let's remember what the promise was. First, he said he would solve this problem. Second, he would get complete verifiable, irreversible disarmament. That's a pretty tall order. And he can't walk away with just vague assurances the North Koreans have given before.</s>CUOMO: Well, look, you know, if there's one thing he's gifted at, the president of the United States, it's the sell. Right? And Aaron David Miller, who along with David Sanger, is somebody people should be following along on social media for an understanding of this, John Avlon, he refers to the ratio and diplomacy of show versus go. And here, the administration had opted for heavy show up front. Have the president go, even though we don't have a lot of things negotiated yet, just to show progress. But given that that's the strategy, would you say well-played by the Trump administration? If their message -- if they're saber rattling in the regime? Then back off and say, "Fine. You don't want to do this the right way, we don't do it. We will see what happens in the future." Is that the right posture?</s>AVLON: I think Donald Trump is playing poker in public on this one. He's saying, "Look, you guys are -- you think I want this -- this summit too much? Actually, you know, this may not happen at all. What does that do to your position? He called out Xi in China in the statement yesterday, as well, which is a significant development and interesting. Look, the other thing that's going on is perhaps a lack of confidence behind the scenes that the president is really ready, as David said, to knock this one out of the park. And the key question of whether President Moon of South Korea oversold North Korea's commitment to denuclearize. But I think this was really a brushback pitch by the president, saying, "Look, you thought I'm deeply invested in this happening no matter what? Think again."</s>CAMEROTA: So David, one of -- some of the reporting is that one of the problems for Kim Jong-un is that he worries about leaving the country, worries that there will be a coup in his absence. And President Trump, we think, alluded to that yesterday, though we weren't exactly clear what he was referring to. Here is President Trump guaranteeing safety.</s>TRUMP: We will guarantee his safety. And we've talked about that from the beginning. He will be safe. He will be happy. His country will be rich. His country will be hard-working and very prosperous. They're very great people.</s>CAMEROTA: Maybe he meant guarantee the safety if they were in Singapore. But how can President Trump guarantee there won't be a coup?</s>SANGER: You know, I didn't read that, Alisyn, as focusing on the coup attempt. And so far, we haven't heard much specific objection or potential rising up against Kim after he consolidated his power his first year or so in. What I think the president was referring to was that the North Koreans want a security guarantee from the United States that, if they gave up their nuclear weapons, the U.S. would never attack them. The U.S. wouldn't do what they've done to Gadhafi. That was last week's discussion about Libya and the Libya model. That the U.S. wouldn't threaten them with American nuclear weapons. And I'm not really quite sure how you get to that. Because the difference between the North Korean nuclear weapons, at least the ones they have now, and American nuclear weapons is the U.S. can strike North Korea from Nebraska or South Dakota. So I don't know what an assurance from the president means that the United States would never use its weapons against North Korea. And Kim, of course, is going to be looking for a few things himself. He's going to be looking for pulling American troops out of the Korean Peninsula. Maybe not immediately but over time. He's going to be looking for an end to these military exercises. And he's going to be looking for economic assurances that can't be easily reversed. So he has to look at what happened with Iran this week and think, "Well, what happens if the next president steps in and says this agreement that President Trump reached with the North Koreans wasn't such a great idea."</s>CUOMO: I mean, also, we have to start examining this through the current filter, right? We're used to listening to diplomats talk about this careful language, measured. You really never know. Both of the men involved in this -- well, one is a despot and the other one is a duly-elected president of the United States -- they use extreme language. They exaggerate. There is an unpredictability that makes everything kind of hard to scrutinize. Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., referred to the unpredictability that she sees as an asset. But it was a little bit of a tortured explanation. Here it is.</s>NIKKI HALEY, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: The truth is I would always use the unpredictability of President Trump to help me get the sanctions through. So I would say, "We have to cut off the laborers. You know, we have to do this." And they'd say, "No, no, no, we can't do that." And I would say, "OK, but I can't promise you that President Trump won't use the military."</s>AVLON: Love this. This is the secrets of partisan Captain Chaos by Nikki Haley, her upcoming novel. It's really revealing of how, I think, members of the administration try to deal with the president's unpredictability and to use it to their advantage. So, you know, that can be a negotiated strike. And I think Trump thinks it very much is in these brinksmanship debates with North Korea. There's a down side. But good for Nikki Haley, I think, for showing how she's trying to use it to her and the United States' advantage.</s>CAMEROTA: David Sanger, John Avlon, thank you both very much. OK. Now to this. She is bidding to become the first black female governor in the United States. And Stacey Abrams has already made history last night in Georgia. We have all the details next.