welcome. thanks for sharing your day with us. happy monday. the deal is done and there will be no government shutdown. no money for the border wall and other conservative goals like defunding planned parenthood also left for later debate yet the white house still call its a win. >> we couldn't be more pleased that thanks to president trump's leadership and direct engagement last night at the white house and leaders in the house and senate in both parties signed

off on a budget deal that will avert a government shutdown. this is a bipartisan win for the american people. >> a lot of conservatives disagree with that. we'll get to that. on now to the second 100 days. you know that old saying april setbacks bring may campaign ads. >> america is winning and president trump is making america great again. >> i'm donald trump and i approve this message. >> some thing it might be a little early for that. how about 100 day lessons learned. the president wants a do over obamacare repeal. he says the republican congress needs to get its act together. >> we have some votes that have never -- now we're the governing party. they could vote no and it wouldn't matter because president obama was going to veto everything.

these are great people. i think you're going to see the republican party really come together. >> that's the big question. with us to share the reporting, laura meckler, cnn manu raju, peter baker and jackie . you might think if you watch cable news if you visit a website that deals with politics. president trump's campaign committee is on the air. >> donald trump sworn in as president 100 days ago. america has rarely seen such success. >> back to that remarkable twist in just a moment. but first the agenda for the second 100 days beginning with today's breaking news. a deal to keep the government open through the end of september. it is the first big spending negotiation of the trump presidency. the first time to set government priorities across the board in the all republican washington. and it is democrats who are most happy today. there is more money for the pentagon, more money for border

security and more money for health research and for minors health care. even with a republican president, a republican house and a republican senate the spending bill has no funding cuts for planned parenthood, no money for deportation, no spending cuts for sanctuary cities and no money for border cll construction. not exactly the big change conservatives thought was coming with the white house and the congress in gop hands. >> look, money goes to planned parenthood as you said, but no money for the border wall. i think you're going to see a lot of conservatives be against this plan this week. >> how did it happen? >> why did we last faldo a short term spending bill if we weren't going to actually fight for the things we toll the voters we were going to fight for? >> the gentleman raises an interesting point. jim jordan of ohio, a member of the freedom caucus. one of those who is frequently criticized by his own leadership for saying no. conservatives thought once they

got the white house you would have conservative spending bills. manu, you spend your time on capitol hill, this is the spending fights. it's about the role of government. did the democrats win the first spending fight of all republican washington? >> on a lot of key issues they did in this deal particularly on some of the things that divide the party. planned parenthood not going to be impacted. there's been a furious push among conservatives. democrats threatened to block any legislation in the senate if there was any sort of defund language. of course what's going to happen to trump's border wall. this was going to be a vehicle that the white house had hoped would be a down payment to begin construction of the border wall. democrats said no way. i objection it showed a couple things. one, the republicans have bad memories from the 2013 government shutdown. they're worried that they're going to get the blame. the republican leadership made a calculation very early on that they were going to cut a deal with democrats and not worry about the jim jordans of the

world. take the hits from the right because they wanted to get this deal through and they did not want to risk a possible shutdown. but the impact of that is it looks like you're caving on a lot of your key priorities, things that donald trump campaigned on. >> i get the republicans remember the bad pr of the 2013 shutdown, but they won the next election. they did not suffer in the next election. >> jim jordan and conservatives of that ilk haven't shown their leadership that they'll be there. even if they cave to them on this and moderates take a bad vote and then end up in trouble, that goes to the senate, gets stripped out. it comes back and you can't count on team jim jordan or team freedom caucus to go with them. they're not going to be part of the team. they're from the freedom caucus team. you understand why leadership is doing exactly what manu is saying. >> you have this dysfunction. this is again donald trump's the great negotiator. he was the man that was going to come to washington, make the stupid politicians, what he called them, sit down and do

business. this first spending bill raises nondefense discretionary spending. it cuts the epa by 1%. his defense secretary gets more money, but only half of what he says is necessary to do the job to rebuild the military. how? >> this is strikingly similar to? barack obama's first short term spending bill. his first 100 days in office he had a spending bill with gobs of earmarks, all of the things he said he would veto as a candidate. he sign today because his adviser said it was more important to keep things going. he regretted it. it will be interesting to see whether donald trump basically regrets making the same calculation that it's better to keep the party together than take a stand on principle. >> i do think one thing being missed is even though he did not get money for the border wall which has been the big shiny object, but the truth is there's little support for the border wall and the beginning of the end for that entire project.

he did get half a billion dollars for more detention beds. in a way there is the building blocks towards a deportation force. during the entire obama presidency he said we can't deport more people because we don't have the resources. there will be another 5,000 people that can be kept in jail. i think there was progress and that may be something the right seizes. but it's hard to compete with the big headlines. but i do think that there is all along in in administration that's where the biggest difference is happening in immigration. >> it will be interesting if -- you're right. if there's one issue in which there has been no border wall, but increased enforcement, increased illegal activity -- here's my question. if you push fights further down the road which is what the president is doing here. we'll fide for border spending another day. the question is when is the political climate when you get

to those fights? the longer you wait the closer you are to 2018. that's closer to an election. i raise the point because in our most recent poll, again, we are taking on may 1st, long way to go, but democrats have a nine point advantage at the moment. when whee asked if you were voting tomorrow do you want to vote for democrat or republican. if that number holds up and we get closer to the actual calendar year 2018, republicans are going to panic. >> that's a huge number. if it's two points, that's significant. nine points is a wave. the chielimate will change many times until november. we do know in a president's first term in office typically that first midterm is very bad for that party . barack obama lost five dozen seats during the tea party wave. democrats only need to grab a couple dozen in order to take back the house.

so there is a chance for that to happen and that makes it harder for trump to keep his party in line. it could lead to more political infighting. it will be more difficult to get his agenda through. >> the traditional lesson of a presidency is get as much as you can early. as the clock ticks t gets harder. >> usually you're at your highest influence. that's not where he's is. his poll numbers are as bad as they've ever been. unlike ronald reagan, barack obama, and so forth. they came in the early days and tried to push through spending priorities. >> when you get to the 100 day mark, he didn't have a great first 100 days. he can recover. he learned during the campaign, we saw him recalibrate. the question is who's winning inside the white house. john dickerson did a face the nation. here's who was on the air. sean spicer, ivanka trump. that is a picture of

establishment washington and establishment new york if you will, a trump family, a moderator democrat even. she couldn't vote for her dad in the primary back in the new york primary days. that is not a picture of staff bannon, steven miller, nationalist america first, tea party pitch fork, change washington. what does that tell us? >> you're right. i'm believing my eyes. when you listen to donald trump on the campaign, on saturday, that was vintage bannon. that was steven miller. there's a clip of him talking about andrew jackson today. bannon is the one who told trump to start reading about andrew jackson and has been the big influence there about drawing those comparisons. so i wouldn't count them out. maybe they don't want to roll them out in front of the cameras. >> but you key up other fascinating dynamic. we are told sometimes don't pay attention to these people. who are we supposed to pay attention to? is it that image? >> probably depends on who you

are. even though poll numbers are extremely low historically where his base is still with him. who does his base like? who do they want to hear from? they want those messages. if bannon were completely sidelined f he were fired as has been speculated, then what kind of message does that send to the people who are still with him? >> but you run a risk if you're out in the country talking to your base saying one thing and back in washington doing something else. this president is a great salesman. but eventually that would catch up to you. to this point about the dynamics, michael flynn is gone. he was fired. he was more of an insurgent if you will. stephen bannon is still there. gorker we are told is leaving. here he is a little bit of his time on television defending the white house in controversial moments. >> there, it's a signal there's a new sheriff in down. his name is donald j. trump and we are not going to follow the

policies of the prior administration. it's a slam dunk. he's completely within his mandate. there is a problem with these seven nations and i expect the courts to decide in favor of the white house. >> why is he leaving? >> there's all kind of talk about this. one is the broader picture which you talked about which is the diminishment of that wing of the white house. he is one of the leading ideologyists inside that team on the anti-muslim, you know, breitbart type program. he's on the way out. there's also a question about his security clearance, can he get a security clearance in which case are you able to do national security polticies. there's talk about putting him in some other place. >> keep an eye on that. up next, persistent or foolish. the white house says it's ready to press for another obamacare repeal vote. the president gives an answer on pre-existing conditions that leaves some with a headache. ood, we believe in food that's naturally beautiful, fresh and nutritious.

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the problem is the recess next week in the house. the members are -- leadership is nervous about sending their members home to get screamed at in those town hall meetings. >> didn't they just have a recess? >> they. they want to see if they can go towards -- one member of the tuesday group and the support now from that very conservative house freedom caucus. now, they may be able this week, but it's still going to be very close. we don't know where a number of the members are. paul ryan was on the phone this weekend trying to lockdown support. the question is, though, even if it does pass the house, what its future is, because in the senate there are a lot of issues, including procedural issues because of budget mechanism and some of these measures that are in the bill will run afoul of the rules in the senate. this is a long way to go from becoming law even if they were successful this week. >> it also doesn't help when you hear what the president is saying, that pre-existing conditions are in this bill. they're not. >> let's play it.

the president did a long interview on cbs "face the nation" part of it is hard to follow. listen to what he's saying. if you have a presifting condition f they change it, will you keep it. >> pre-existing conditions are in the bill. and i machinndated. >> one of the pre-existing was optional for the states. >> sure. in one of the fixes and they're changing it. >> so it's going to be permanent? >> of course. crucial question t.. it's not going to be left up to the states? >> no. but the states will have a lot to do with it. the state is going to be in a much better position to take care because it's smaller. >> so i'm not hearing you say there's a guarantee of pre-existing -- >> we actually have a clause that guarantees. >> okay. he saidys we have a clause that

guarantees. charley dent is a moderate member. he can't support the deal. he can't support it because? >> all i can tell you is the amendment that has been offered does weaken protections for people with pre-existing conditions because states will be able to opt out or waive out of it. i think that is a very big concern for many of the senate right members with who i'm a fill rat fillated with. >> the question becomes does the president not know what's in the legislation or is he selling us snake oil. >> he's right. one of the things that are being discussed are the waivers for pre-existing conditions. unfortunately that's what they're talking about passing as the bill to send to the senate. >> that's how they got the freedom caucus on board. >> the issue here just so people understand is if you already have -- if you're already sick in this country, the question is not just can you get experience but at what price. under this amendment that is being considered, what got the conservatives on board is states would have the option of saying

insurance companies, you charge people whatever they want. that goes much closer to where we were before the affordable care act where essentiallily if you had a hang nail or acne or anything minor things, you could be denied or be charged very, very high rates. i think it's disturbing either way. either not to know or to lie about it. either way is a problem. >> when he did that interview, the proposal on the table allows states to opt out. they can tell insurance companies, yes, if you have a pre-existing condition, they have to offer you coverage, but they can charge you whatever they want. that's essentially where we stand. part of is does the president understand the details because this is one of the complaints the first time around that the president didn't understand all the details. the other was when the speaker told him to stop negotiates because he had to get the votes he kept negotiating. now the question is does the president at a 44% approval rating when you've had chaos on an issue that republicans should have figured out during the transition. >> or somewhere over the last

eight years. >> but once they had a republican president, they had the whole transition to figure this out and they didn't. will republicans listen to the president as he hits the road like he did saturday night? >> we will repeal and replace obamacare. you watch. and i'll be so angry at congressman kelly and congressman marino and all of our congressmen in this room if we don't get that damn thing passed quickly. >> it's fascinating, a republican president on the road name calling republican members of congress. >> i mean, the problem here -- the problem that stems, when he ran as a candidate for president, he didn't put forward a plan, a coherent health care plan. nobody had a health care plan. >> except he put forward things that box in the republicans. because he put forward democratic ideas. he put forward i like this in obamacare, i like that obamacare. that's one of the problems for republican. they're trying to pass their old bill which doesn't fit. >> exactly.

so he's blaming them but in fact he never had a coherent -- he didn't seem to understand the policy. he didn't have a coherent policy he ran on. he doesn't have a coherent policy now. so i'm not sure who's fault all of this is. >> what does it say to all republican washington, republican president, republican senate, republican house, they've been campaigning against obamacare while it was being passed, but since it was signed into law, if we get -- can they try and fail again? can they go through that after just -- maybe they fix it all the next time they get around to spending? are they going to fail on obamacare? >> they can't say they did. they say they're going to keep trying. i don't think they can completely pull the plug because the real concern, the base will just revolt and they will want come out in 2018. so at least now they have something to point to that they're trying. they're trying to revive this failed effort but it's going to be hard to make that case if they fail it which make this is week so critical. >> is there anyone who can map

out legislation getting to the president's desk or is this let's get the house to -- >> there's no democrats part of this conversation. in 2009 when obama at least tried to negotiate with republicans, they started off with a larger core of people to talk with. here they're only negotiating among themselves. the fact is at this point it's only about getting at least something to check on a box and say they've gotten it someplace. >> fascinating week ahead. we'll watch that. up next, why is the president's campaign committee running tv ads three years before the next campaign? and this question. is donald trump changing the presidency or is the presidency changing donald trump? ready or . ♪ anyone can dream.

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welcome back. saturday night on day 100, a campaign style rally. >> if the media's job is to be honest and tell the truth, then i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. >> okay. we don't get votes on obamacare repeal, but i digress.

then this today. in the in box at 5:00 a.m., trump campaign released his new tv ad, first 100 days. >> a respected supreme court justice confirmed. companies investing in american jobs again. america becoming more energy independent. regulations that kill american jobs eliminated. the biggest tax cut plan in history. >> the reelect campaign out with its first ad in may of 2017. just what's the strategy? what's the strategy? >> he's getting whacked in the media for not fulfilling his campaign promises. so he wants to turn it into good paid media. the problem is that there's some fact kw factual inaccuracies in there. saying that he has the biggest tax cut plan in history or however they characterize it, that is a -- >> that's his tax cut plan. >> getting that passed is going to be very difficult if not

impossible in this political environment. so it's -- >> did you see on the screen when they were saying biggest tax cut plan in history? on the screen it says biggest tax cut in history which is a little bit different. >> claiming credit for 500,000 jobs which nothing he's done at this point is affecting the job market. fair to say he did cut regulations. he can confirm a supreme court justice, but the economy takes a lot long tore move. >> at the end of the ad they have him shaking hands with a picture of his national security adviser with a uniform which violates the -- that's general mcmaster fault. what is the strategy? i was talking to a friend of the president over the weekend who said he's really frustrated. he thinks he is getting a bad ride. i said i don't get a vote on obamacare appeal. we don't get to vote on border wall funding. he said he's not getting enough credit for the temp mental changes in washington and he's mad about it and his staff is frantic to try to find things to

prop him up. >> what is so fascinate suggest he said this whole 100 thing is phoney. if it's phoney, why are you putting out an ad? why are you having multiple briefing receptions if you're buying into it. of course we're going to evaluate you after 100 days. look, we always talk about the permanent campaign. this is literally the permanent campaign. we are in fact four years away from the next president taking the office and we're going to continue to have a campaign and that's what he's most successful at. >> you can discount the importance of an approval rating in trying to get your agenda through congress. weakened president who is unpopular, particularly in key districts, makes it much hard tore sell things to members who are skittish already. >> to that point, some people tell the president slow down. slow down. go one at a time. get more involved in the details. don't go off the rails like you did about the obamacare repeal. they want to push for both this week. we'll see if they have the

votes. they put out a tax reform outline. that's a defensible way to do it. you send up your outline to say hey, massage yours towards ours. and the president says within two or three weeks we're going to get infrastructure. listen. >> we are going to do infrastructure very quickly. we've got the plan largely completed and we'll be filing it over the next two or three weeks, maybe sooner. >> now, there's 535. i have long been of the opinion why they can't they do more one one big thing at a time but they have consistently they can't. >> he always seems to be looking to turn the corner to the next big thing whch. when health care went down, he said we're going to do taxes next. he's done with taxes now that he's put on the outline of the plan. i think that for trump, he's mused allowed how hard this job is, how things are more

complicated than he thought they would be. it's simpler to be in campaign mode. he's had several rallies which presidents have never done this before. that's a mode much more comfortable for him and it's easier to come up with an idea than it is to do this sort of hard work of building consensus. >> he gives himself an "a." when asked why aren't these things being done, he blames the rules. >> i think the rules in congress and in particular the rules in the senate are unbelievably archaic and slow moving and in many cases unfair. in many cases you're forced to make deals that are not the deal you'd make. >> well, this is the job. this is the job. the job -- he asked for this job. no one asked him to run. this is the job that he took. the fact that he doesn't know how to work with the senate and

doesn't know how to work with the house yet to get things done, that's on him. that's on the administration. but he controls -- his party controls the house and the senate. in theory, there should be a way to work with him. >> a very revealing moment because this is a guy who's used to getting his way, running his own company for so many years. you can't get your way in this town even in one party rule, especially in the united states senate when you don't have a super majority and you do have to work with the other side and you have competing factions within your own party. l legislating is really, really hard and he's learning that. >> the first president is no experience, not one day in mi military. surrounded by people with no experience in government. not surprising. learning curve. you that may get there, but it's not surprising. >> mike pence was in congress. there are people around him that do know how these things work, including his budget director who is one of the freedom caucus members. >> and his vice president who

were deeply involved in the obamacare negotiations the first time around. the three guys with experience. >> but his chief of staff, his counselor, senior adviser. >> and i don't know that those guys were known as people who were bringing together big bipartisan groups. >> they were part of the no group. >> the people who did have experience governing were not doing the kind of governing that needs to be done right now. >> another trademark of the first 100 days that will apparently carryover, maybe not, i'm going to call it affinity for strong men. heads invited the president of the philippines to come to the white house. he's called smart cookie jim kim jong-un. president obama did pbusiness with all the people you're seeing on screen, but sisi was invited into the oval office. he called erdogan and

complimented him. even since that referendum has passed, we've seen more steps. and again, i want to be fair to the president, united states presidents for years have done business with bad actors. it's part of the job. you have to do it. but what is it about the public praise of them? >> it is interesting because -- you're right, they always -- they put the line someplace. president obama put the line no oval office visit for bad guys who are that far over. we obviously don't have that ln anymore. as you mentioned erdogan got the call about a referendum taking away power. you don't normally a fellow leader to say hey, congratulations on seizing more power. you call and say i need your help on syria. what is it about him? he does seem to like strong leaders. he's praised putin to the skies. he's gotten along well with xi jinping. >> called him a good man. >> widely respected man. he has not in fact seemed to

have the same kind of relationship with theresa may, angela merkel who actually lead democracies that are allied to us us. it goes back to your theory about business where i don't have to worry about congress or parliament who gets in my way. that's what these guys can do. >> we shall see. we've got more to go. the president's pressed to back up his wire tapping claims against president obama. all finished. umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house?

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welcome back. in just a moment the president's case that his side has been proven very strongly and that everybody's talking about how president obama wire tapped candidate trump. first, though, a little context from republicans who have access to the most sensitive u.s. intelligence. >> no wire tapping exists. >> do you believe the president when he says -- do you believe the president when he says that

he was wire tapped -- when he says that president obama ordered wire tapping? >> no. that's what i said. w we've cleared that up. we have not seen any evidence of the like that you just described. >> dow believe that obama wire tapped trump tower? >> there's no evidence of that. >> we know there was not a physical wire tap of trump tower. >> yet this weekend john dickerson of cbs tried to clear this up until he got waived away. >> well, he was very nice to me but after that we've had some difficulties. so it doesn't matter. words are less important to me than deeds. you saw what happened with surveillance and everybody saw what happened with surveillance. >> difficulties how? >> i thought that -- well, you saw what happened with surveillance. and i think that was inappropriate. >> what does that mean? >> you can figure that out yourself. >> well, the reason i ask is you said -- you called him sick and bad. >> you can figure it out

yourself. he was very nice to me with words and when i was with him, but after that there has been no relationship. >> but you stand by that claim? >> i don't stand by anything. you can take it the way you want. i think our side's been proven very strongly and everybody's been talking about it. i think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens. i think that's a very big topic. and it's a topic that should be number one and we should find out what the hell is going on. >> i just wanted to find out, you're the president of the united states. you said he was sick and bad because he tapped -- >> can you take it any way you want. >> but i'm asking you. you don't want it to be fake news. >> you don't have to ask me. >> why isn't. >> because i have my own opinions. >> i want to know your opinions. you're the president of the united states. >> that's enough. thank you. >> that's enough. thank you. props out of the gate to john dickerson. that's hard to do, keep your tone steady, keep asking questions, you're the president of the united states, explain your views, please.

it was a nice try. what was that? >> it was what it was was he wants to continue to have the idea out there that president obama wire tapped him. he obviously believes that. but he doesn't want to actually say it again because nobody's backed him up. i mean, i think that's probably what's going on. he doesn't want to let it go. he doesn't want to admit that he's wrong. the odd part about that whole interview is he's the one who brought it up in the first place. he said that they were talking about their relationship with president obama. he said there's a difference between words and deeds. what are the deeds? obviously what he was talking about was him wire tapping him. so you know, he seems to be trying to have it both ways here. >> and this was -- we talk about the past -- the first 100 day it is, this was one of the worst moments about the white house. he made a statement that there was no backing whatsoever. his white house was on the defensive for weeks and weeks. they tried to come up with all sorts of reasons why the president may have been right. they tried to muddy the waters.

it leecheventually led to the rl of devin nunes. it was a huge problem. so when he -- he brought it up himself. he knows how problematic this is, which is why he tried to cut off the interview when he was pressed on this. >> this gets back to something we discussed earlier. we knows how problematic it is in washington. but does he understand how cat nip it is for his base out in the country? and is he playing inside/outside? >> he can't let go. that's the thing you learn from this again. there's no controversy. no slight that he's ever been subjected to. no offense he's ever taken and he never lets go. he's going to keep going on and on. >> even in an offense that's unproven. >> it doesn't matter. because he'll find ways of saying it was true. and we've so rarely heard him admit he's wrong. >> this is part of another conversation. part of the russia election meddling investigation that

continue with the fbi, that continue in four or five committees up in capitol hill. the president has been told and every senior member of his national security team has publicly said yes, russia meddled in our election. they leave no doubt that they trust the intelligence that russia did this. there's a big debate of collusion, that's the subject of the investigation. but on the threshold question, did russia do this, his own national security team very respected people all say yes. listen to the president. >> if you don't catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i'll go along with russia. it could have been china. it could have been a lot of different groups. >> president donald trump is ambivalent about -- >> no i'm not. we have to find out what happened. >> but you don't think it's the russians. >> i can tell you one thing had had nothing to do with this and everyone knows it. >> this is about his

credibility. this is about his standing as the president of the united states. he's never really been able to get past that, that this is an afro affront. it seems like he's still, after all these months -- >> could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. >> he's telling himself back in january, we got briefed. he said i believe it was russia. he's now retracting his own previous statement saying it's not the guy? the basement or china. >> there's no debate. there are a variety of views within the intelligence committee. the assessment that they put out early th earlier this year, there was consensus within the

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breaking news for you on one of the most important political challenges facing the new president. he said just moments ago he is willing to sit down under the right circumstances with kim jong-un. the president said this. if it would be appropriate for me to meet with him i would absolutely. i would be honored to do it if it's under, again, the right circumstances but i would do that. the president going on, n that interview saying most political people would never say that. but i'm telling you under the right circumstances i would meet with him and then the president himself adding to the interview

we have breaking news. this would be breaking news. i want to clarify the president says under the right circumstances. his secretary of state has said that the united states is willing to negotiate with north korea but only if it is very crystal clear that those negotiations are not about food aide, not about stalling, not about delaying. pr the president of the united states who was causing a lot of buzz who said we absolutely might be in a major military conflict to now say this, what does it tell us? >> it's another similarity obama.n donald trump and barack- saying he woulding willing to meet with rogue leaders. president obama didn't do it very often. he did meet with castro. he did have a phone conversation with the iranian leader. there were moments when he did pick up on this. but no american president has met with a north korean lead ner -- leader in a long time. >> pence was even a couple weeks ago i believe he told dana bash

they were not going to be engaging in these direct negotiations. and you saw tillerson's comments over the weekend suggesting that they would. but also interesting language that the president would use saying he'd be honored to meet with kim. >> called him a smart cookie. part of this is the china play. the president has asked president xi to lean on kim jong-un. president xi has said i don't have a lot of leverage. yes, i can do things economically. he's going to say what do i get out of the deal. he said you can tell him we're willing to talk, we're willing to negotiate, but he has to say he's willing to give up the nuclear program. there was a north korea an commercial saying they're going to accelerate their north korean program. >> his conversations with other dictators, other strong men around the world that he has a lot of confidence in his ability to develop a one-on-one relationship with somebody and make it better and that he doesn't seem to put his comments into the broader context of sort

of global relations about the history that the u.s. has with them, what the consequences might be, what these leaders are doing to their own people. but he believes that and maybe perhaps it comes from business, the idea that you develop a relationship with someone, you make a deal, you find a way to get to yes. sure, he'll sit down with him. >> that could be remarkable in history. go to reagan and gorbachev, that could work. is there a price to that? as we continue the conversation, i want to put it back up on the screen. if it would be appropriate for me to meet with him i would absolutely. i would be honored to do it. if it's under, again, the right circumstances, but i would do. that president trump saying he would meet with kim jong-un under the right circumstances. >> i wonder if he's trying to do what you see other leaders do with donald trump. they say nice things about him. he is more -- he's more generous toward them. and i wonder if he's trying to do that perhaps with kim jong-un -- >> i think you're rational, smart cookie, tough

circumstances, you inherited this job. >> maybe that will improve the relationship. >> it's interesting. that's it for "inside politics." we'll see you back here tomorrow. white house briefing expected to start in a few minutes. wolf blitzer will pick that up. president trump saying he's willing to meet with north korea under the right circumstances. wolf will be with you after a quick break. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote moisture sensors use a reliable network to tell them when and where to water. so that farmers like ray can compete in big ways. china. oh ... he got there. that's the power of and.

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hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world thanks very much for joining us. up first, breaking news. president trump now tells bloom berg news he would meet with the north korean leader kim jong-un under the right circumstances. that's likely to be a major topic in today's white house press briefing set to begin later this hour. looking at live pictures from inside the briefing room. sean spicer the press secretary will be taking reporters questions shortly. we'll of course have live coverage of that coming up. in a major break with the u.s. policy, president trump now says he'd be, quote,