>> hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 here in washington. wherever you are watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. president trump making a debut at the united nations. telling diplomats to pay up and pledge one of his properties in new york. west wing paranoia. officials fearful their colleagues are wearing wires for robert muller for the special investigation over russian medaling in the presidential election. and then the caribbean on alert as hurricane maria intensifies.

one of three storms raging in the atlantic right now. the big united nations speech as president trump delivered a pointed message to the world ld. get your house in order. here's what the president said as he kicked off a meeting on reform. >> the united nations was told to protect whistle blowers and focus on results. to honor the people of our nations, we must ensure that no one and no member state shoulders a disproportionate share of the burden and that's militarily or financially. >> our senior correspondent is outside in new york. the president once referred to the united nations as the club that likes to talk and now he is

joining. what are you hearing about the message and the tone the president will deliver tomorrow night. momentarily we expect to see president trump and visiting israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they will meet at a nearby hotel and make statements set the scene for this important appearance by the president at the un. >> that is one of the important meetings that president trump will be having. he did arrive here at the united nations making his first visit here as president of course. only the second time he has been this this building. he has been a huge critic of the united nations when he was running for president. >> i will interrupt you for a moment. the president is with the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they are speaking and i want to listen in. >> thank you very much. it's great to have prime

minister netanyahu with us today. a friend of mine for many years. it's a real honor. we are going to be discussing many things and among them peace between the palestinians and israel. it would be a fantastic achievement and people are giving it an absolute go. there is a good chance it could happen. most people would say there is no chance. i think with the capability of the other side, i think we have a chance and israel would like to see it and the palestinians would like to see it and the trump administration would like to see it. we are working hard to see what happens. people say it can't happen and i say it can happen. it's an honor to have you. >> great to see you. thank you. mr. president it's great to see you again.

under your leadership the alliance between america approximate israel has never been stronger and deeper. i can say it in ways that people see and don't see. i want to thank you for that. i look forward to discussing how we can address what you rightly call a terrible nuclear deal with iran and how to roll back iran's growing aggressions in the region, especially in syria. as you said, we will discuss the way we can seize an opportunity for peace between israel and the palestinians and the arab world. we look forward to talking about how to advance both the way we will be speaking at the un. i want to say under president trump, america's position has

been unequivocal and strong. it has both clarity and conviction. and i want to thank you on behalf of the people of israel and they have many friends around the world. thank you, mr. president. as you well know, this is the jewish new year this week. i want to wish you and the jews everywhere and people everywhere happy new year. thank you, mr. president. >> appreciate it. >> do you plan to stay in the nuclear deal? >> you will see very soon. we are talking about it constantly. you will see. >> thank you, everybody. have a great afternoon.

see you soon. >> there is the president of the united states and the prime minister of israel making statements. they shouted questions and president trump said you will see very soon when he was asked about iran and the nuclear program and what the u.s. is going to do. they have to dit whether the iranians are staying in compliance. jeff, you were listening closely. the president is upbeat between peace and the palestinians and thinks it can happen. there are a lot of skeptics out there and the prime minister praised the president saying basically that the u.s.-israeli relations have never been better. >> no question. it's no accident that this is one of the first meetings that president trump is having here this week at the united nations. he wants to show that it is a new day in terms of american and

israeli relations. the and mob strained relations. this is what it is about. there is not much progress or at least obvious progress with the eight months in office in terms of bringing a peace agreement to the front. the had the will be meeting with the other side. we saw from prime minister netanyahu praising president trump. that is something we will hear over and over from other world leaders. they know to get on his good side and they praise him for other things and that is something we will be watching as they take a measure of the president and at the end of that, jeremy diamond did ask

about the agreement and said you will be seeing it soon. this is something that president trump promised to rip up. he said it was brokered by the obama administration. that has not happened and that was something he was promising immediately when taking office. one of the signs that governing on the world stage is tar fore difficult than tam paining. the rising threat will be at the center of that speech. that's the biggest foreign policy threat and challenge facing this new country. >> he said it's the worst deal ever negotiated, but twice they certified iran is in compliance. they have to do it every 90 days by october 15th and we will see what they decide to do.

thanks very much. let's talk about all of the president's appearance at the united nations. the chief political analyst is with us and the white house correspondent. the white house reporter for bloomberg news. people are anticipating a major speech from the president tomorrow morning when he drees addresses the united nations. for years he has been critical and he said under his leadership things are changing. >> we know he has been critical of it in the past and people are looking at this president and scratching their heads. they don't really -- they haven't figured him out. it's not easy. he is a man who says america is first and the mission of the un is about the world. they are trying to figure out how one fits with another.

somebody who is climate change, for example, has pulled out of the deal and maybe there is a little opening there and nobody understands. he hasn't woith drawn from the iran deal and he said he would. they are all on the same page on north korea. they are trying to figure out what fire and fury may have meant. in one on one meetings, they are getting a sense of demand. jeff is right. they have all understood that the key to donald trump's heart is flattery and they will use a lot of that. they are trying to figure out who is the real donald trump. >> you heard him say that the peace has a chance right now. he said i think it can happen and they are saying that the

u.s.-israeli relationship has never been stronger or deeper and behind the scenes as well. this is what we heard them say that this week you will see the president hug the right people and clearly he is one of the people he wants to hug tightly. he will be a big issue where he will show toughness. i think a lot of this has to do with the one on one personal measure of the man and the institutional issue here. it's a lot like we saw with nato and he said negative things about nato. nato is obsolete and has noplace in the world and then he said now nato is okay. i have a feeling that we will hear some of that in the speech tomorrow. what they do and not as much of an embrace with the globalism.

he is there and taking on these meetings. he wants to show he can engage with the america first theme. >> it is remarked earlier that before the first meeting with the prime minister of israel, he was talking about un reform. over many years, he is very, very critical of the un and he noticed early on it was potentially a good institution and he built a hotel not far away. listen to this. >> i saw great potential across the street to be honest with you. it was only for the reason that the united nations was here that that turned out to be a successful project. >> you can't take the real estate developer out of donald trump. he will be a real estate man at heart. >> i picked up on a subtle dee of make the un great and not make it great again. he toned back from candidate to

president trump. he reeled in some of that and to yoria's point, he is trying to figure the world out sell he is something without international experience or political or washington experience other than going to some fund-raisers. to the extent they are trying to figure them out, who can i trust and who is my ally and who do i connect with? we know in washington those are fly in and fly out. only a couple of leaders he theabed a relationship with. >> he has been busy sweeting a bit and yefring to kim jong un as rocket man. retweeting from a controversial figure in which he has seen in a

vak video swinginging had golf club and hitting hillary clinton in the back when he went toppling into the plane. he had a lot of controversy for retweeting that. he's not backing away from twitter at all. >> he often retweets videos like that, but the rocket man nickname was interesting to me. he nicknamed opponents. lying ted cruz and crooked hillary. now calling kim jung un rocket man on twitter. hr mcmaster had trouble defending that saying oh, you know, it's just a nickname he came up with. he said i don't see it as a laughing matter when someone threatens the u.s. on a regular

basis. this is like the super bowl of the diplomacy and they questioned what he would be like on the world taj. i want to say something about the hillary tweet. does he have anything better to do? he was preparing for this united nations meeting and having one on one sessions with the heads of state with netanyahu and other dinners for which i'm sure they are this high. yet he seems to have the time to tweet juvenile, juvenile things about hillary clinton getting hit in the back. i guess she is still an enemy of his? >> he is on the cusp of making big decisions that will define his presidency and he is retweeting images like that.

it falls into question what he is doing with his spare time. >> part of the reason he does things like that. he tweets on the weekend when he is under a lot of pressure. he is going into this week of high stakes diplomacy on the public stage with no experience. hillary clinton has been out there for the past week touting her book in the public eye again. it seems like he is really lashing out in a way. >> i thought he was relatively restrained, but if this is restrained -- >> sean spicer was at the emmys yesterday. a skit at the inning. i will play it. >> this will be the largest audience to witness an emmys,

period! >> there was laughter and awkwardness. >> i do not find it humorous at all and i don't think it's hu r humorous when the spokesman comes out at this a warts show with hollywood celebrities to make fun of the fact that pretty much admit he lied to the american people while he was being paid by the american people to be a spokesman for the white house. when he came out a few days after that statement, he promised not to lie and to tell the truth when he could and if he didn't, to correct it as soon as he could. he didn't do that as tenure of the smokesman ranging from how big the crowd was on inauguration day to things like how long paul manafort was the chairman and whether or not barack obama wire tapped donald trump. i don't think many taxpayers find it humorous to admit he

lied. >> the image consultant and found it fascinating that he is someone who wants a long career for himself whether it's looks or television or commendary, he is very unlikable because of his time as press secretary and these misleading statements or lies and people point it out. this is the grand remaking of him. i don't think it did a lot for hollywood. is it now a big joke and they are all in on the joke that he was doing this from the podium? >> i turned the channel. >> now that he washed his hands of the white house, he can make light of the fact that he gave this information to those who trust him and he represents the

president. him making light of it didn't sit well with me. >> the white house does regard itself as entertainment. we talked about the president tweeting about kim jung un as rocket man, that's a little bit of a promotion from the fat kid, but that's something you hear on a reality television show and in a lot of context the way the president trees his job and the way sean spicer chose to make fun of his service when he was gone. it's one more signal that this white house is not your typical white house. >> i was surprised to see colbert do it. >> i was surprised they went for it at all. >> a lot of people listened to elton john's rocket man just to remind myself about that song. thank you very much. a new paranoia in the west wing.

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gusting to 150 miles per hour. if that wasn't bad enough, we expect to to intensify in the next 24 hours as it pushes off. the track will take it over the leeward islands making its way towards puerto rico and the north eastern edge of the dominical republic and up towards the turks and caicos. where does it go from there? the models are in agreement up to the point. they may shift in terms of the landfall point, but they say it's going to hit puerto rico. it's after that that the models spread apart and shift in terms of where they go. the european model has it to the north much sooner bringing it away from the u.s. the american model has it doing the opposite, continuing on the northwest truck towards the u.s. why the discrepancy between the two. this high pressure system hit sitting over bermuda. this is what is currently steering it.

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this is the lawyer brought in and a high profile washington lawyer hired by the president. let's bring in our analyst who is the director of communications and jessica schneider. they are openly discussing sensitive information outside a fame our d.c. restaurant where anybody could be sitting at the payable and could oversee this observation. >> these are two top white house attorneys. they are doing it out in the open overheard by a "new york times" reporter. does this potentially waive attorney-client privilege? one of the main things is you don't disclose this information. if it is disclosed to a third party, that information or the attorney-client privilege is

waived. the question it, will robert mueller try to use this happen stance? >> they are talking about the possibility that the special counsel may have wired various officials in the white house to hear what they are saying in case they can provide evidence of wrong-doing on the part of the trump officials. >> there is a palpable state of distrust on the colleagues and you can't sustain this idea that the colleagues to your left and right might be distrusted. i worked under the obama administration as chief of staff and he han a strict white house. if you had issues or concerns with your colleagues, he had a policy to sit down and work them out. this environment of distrust

where your colleagues might be working to throw you under the bus, that's something white house can't sustain. >> i don't remember a people where there is paranoia that people are wired. the fact that there is such paranoia that people are worried about that speaks volumes. >> and talking about it in the open environment, it talks to the conflict that the errors might be having as well. ty cobb wants to be open and transparent and hand over the documents readily. don of course has maybe a different tact. he is all for cooperation, but he is not just the president's lawyer. he is counsel for the white house. the executive branch. if he hands this over and does it set a dangerous or bat precedent for administrations?

>> he reportedly said that the white house counsel who was not at this lunge yon had a couple of do you means locked in the safe. presumably they would like to have access to the documents. >> they worked with bob muller and that is the one part of the conversation we are focussed on and when you think of who is at the table, you have ty cobb. these are all lawyers trying to help him get through this. why is it that one lawyer has documents locked in a that he is not sharing with other lawyers on the team. i want to know what's in that safe and what they reveal and if they are relevant. >> great questions. we will see where he goes from here. thanks very much. as president trump considers killing the nuclear deal with iran, the country's president

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correspondent christian am an pour. was his tone defiant against president trump and the united states? >> it wasn't so much defiant as firm. what a difference a couple of years makes. two years ago i spoke to him and he talked about how the tensions were decreasing and the people of iran want a better relationship with the united states. they just signed this deal and now they are watching trump administration decide whether or not to stay in it. this is what he said to me about if the u.s. should pull out. >> such an agreement would carry a high cost for the united states of america and i do not believe that americans would be willing to pay such a high cost for something that will be useless for them.

it will yield no results for the united states, but at the same time it will generally decrease and cut away and chip away at international trust for the united states of america. >> so there you have it. they do not want the u.s. to pull out. they do point out that this is a multilateral deal that is signed by the big powers at the un just behind me. they are also saying and everybody is saying that really this time with the north korean problem, does the world need another nuclear problem? at the least the iran deal which they are in compliance with are signed off on the consistent compliance. it brackets one troubling country on a nuclear program and nobody wants to see an unleashed iran go back to what the president was threatening that if the u.s. pulls out of the

deal, iran can go back to enrichment and the status quo ante before the deal was signed. >> at the top of the hour at the photo op between president trump and visiting prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the president made it clear he is not necessarily ruling out ripping up the agreement. listen to what he said when a reporter said what about the deal. >> do you plan to stay in the iranian nuclear deal? >> you will see very soon. you will be seeing very soon. we are talking about it constantly. constantly. we are talking about plans constantly. we'll see. >> you heard him say you will be seeing very soon. he didn't say what he was going to do. the trump administration so far

twice testified with iran being in compliance. they have to certify again by october 15th, but he is leaving all options on the table. >> yes indeed, but he is also leaving ambiguity in his sentence, see, you'll see. he indicated that nuclear related sanctions should be imposed on iran. he did not. that's important. had he done that, iran could be justified under the terms of the deal to do what it was doing and the world said no, you must not do this to go back to what it was doing before the deal was signed. he didn't do that. and now in october there is going to be another milestone and that is certifying iran's compliance and it's important to know that the prime minister of israel has always been against this deal and others like saudis and others in the region

think there should be a better deal. they will push president trump to do more pressure on iran in areas outside the nuclear area. iran's actionisttivities in the region and the missile program and the like. we have seen so far that actions speak louter than words. this administration is still in the iran nuclear deal. >> rex tillerson twice testified that iran is in compliance. quickly, anything they might have with u.s. officials ask they will not meet with the president. >> he is not going to meet with the president. we understand his foreign minster will not have a separate meeting with the secretary of state. there may be a group meeting between all the countries as you signed the deal and other than that, what a difference a year makes. last year everybody was on a first name basis. there was a real feeling that

the tension were decreasing as the president said, tensions are wrapping up again between the two countries. they said look, you have a problem with north korea. if you come out of this deal, what message does that send north korea if they were to sit around the table and sign the deal. the next administration would pull out of it. this is not just about iran, but everything else. multilateralism and nuclear security as well. >> her interview with the president airs in the next hour on a program on cnn international. thanks very much for that report. christian am an pure. >> pyongyang is now claiming it is in the final stage it is developing a ballistic missile. how will president trump address the growing threat from kim jong un tomorrow morning we will discuss when we come back. this is willie. he's on his way to work in alaska.

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>> south korea's defense minist ministry saying today that north korea seems to be entering the final stage of an intercontinental ballistic missile. the u.s. is issuing this warning to pyongyang. >> i think we all know if north korea keeps on with this reckless behavior, if the united states has to defend itself or defend its allies in any way, north korea will be destroyed and we all know that and none of us want that. none of us want war. >> north korea's expected to dominate many of the discussions that world leaders will be having at the united nations

this week. let's discuss all that's going on. i am joined by balbena wang, visiting professor at georgetown university in washington and retired air force colonel and military analyst cedric laton. thanks to both of you for joining us. i should say balbena wong, not wang. what do you think the president has to say when he addresses the u.n. general assembly as far as north korea is concerned? >> the most important thing is to send reassurances to our allies, south korea and japan and other allies around the world that continue to be extremely insecure by north korea's actions. >> like what kind of assurances do you think he needs. does he need to be specific in his address? >> we have to remember that the alliances are essentially what have been deterring north korea for well over 60 years from actually precipitating some sort of action that has spread into

war. >> the president tweeted about all of this in this tweet. let me read to you, he called kim jong-un, the north korean leader rocket man. his security adviser general h.r. mcmaster was asked about that and he said this. >> that's a new thing maybe for the president, but it reminds me of a cover of "the economist" a few years ago portraying him as rocket man, but that's where the rockets are coming from. rockets that we ought to not laugh too much about because they do represent a grave threat to anyone. >> he said at the outset it is a global problem. >> cedric, what do you think? >> rocket man is obviously an on interesting designation for a lead are of another country and it could be taken a wrong way, and for president trump's base they see this as a perfect descriptor for someone like kim jong-un and it's opening up an

interesting dynamic because it is putting this kind of international diplomacy at the forefront now of domestic politics. >> leaders of north korea, as you know, like to be called dear leader, rocket man, not so much. how will this play in pyongyang? >> well, it basically points out that the tweets are not the best form of communicating official position and it's a great nickname for him. we don't know if kim jong-un will like it or not, but that's actually not the point. i think the more important point is that the north korean threat right now is about far more than just its missiles and in fact, it's also about north korea's human right abuses and also about the fact that north korea threatens south korea with conventional weapons and other chemical and biological and cyber weapons. >> so when you hear general mcmaster and other officials say yes, there still is a military option. they don't want to use a military option.

they want to avoid a military option, but there is a military option. what do you say? >> i agree with that, that is true, wolf. the problem is all military options are an attractive options in terms of either casualties or the types of efforts that we would have to engage in in order to actually make an option like that work effectively. it would require a great deal of preparation. it would require a congruence between the south korean allies and the japanese allies that we have alz well as also working with china and russia and they might not want to be worked with in this particular case and that will be the tough thing for anybody to deal with in this situation. >> cedric, and balbena, thanks to both of you very much for joining us. >> finally this note, 20 years ago today, cnn founder ted turner made an astonishing announcement. he was giving $1 billion to support the united nations and its causes. >> i got my statement and it said january 1st i was worth

$2,200 million. in august 3 st, so all i'm giving away is my nine-month earnings and it's not even a full year's worth. who cares? >> it's going to go to help give inoculations to kids throughout the programs and the united nations and refugees and people with hurricanes that knocked down their houses and the poorest people and the ones who need the help the most. >> ted turner calls his billion dollar gift, and i'm quoting now, the best investment i've ever made as world leaders gathered at the united nations, he issued another statement saying this quote, i made a gift at some time when some question the value of international engagement and the united nations. questions that some are raising again today. the u.n., he continued, is a vital importance and represents everyone everywhere. ted turner, a truly amazing man,

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