good morning! you have made it to sunday and we are so grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. dinner and diplomacy is how president trump is finishing out the first day of his high stakes asia trip. >> moments al, as a matter of fact we heard from the president as he arrived for dinner for japanese prime minister shinzo abe. sarah is traveling with the president. i understand you got new sounds from the president from moments

ago. what is he saying? >> reporter: well, that's right. look. the president kicked off his grueling five nation foreign trip in a more informal way he played golf with the japanese prime minister and the president gave the issue of two issues dominating this trip -- trade and north korea. >> we are in the midst of having discussions on many subjects, including north korea and trade, and other things. and we are doing very well. we are doing very well. the relationship is really extraordinary. we like each other. and our countries like each other. and i don't think we have ever been closer to japan than we are right now. so it's a great honor. believe me. it's a great honor. we are going to have dinner tonight where i think we will insult everybody by continuing to talk about trade. but the time is a little bit limited. and then tomorrow is a very busy day.

so thank you all for being here. we appreciate it. >> reporter: now tomorrow, we will see these two world leaders in a more formal setting with a bilateral meeting and a press conference and prime minister abe is one of the world leaders the president is meeting with across this trip. he did confirm today he is also planning on meeting with russian president vladimir putin later this week. top topic for that meeting is also expected to be north korea. obviously, this administration is grappling with how to deal with increasing tensions in that region. administration officials saying they are still debating whether they want to designate fler ano korea as a terrorism and the two will discuss this later on in the trip. the president is heading to south korea after this and meeting with the country's leaders there about the threat from their neighbor. the first top on the asian tour,

the president, listen to this warning. >> reporter: together with our allies, americans warriors are prepared to defend our nation using the full ranged of our unmatched capabilities. no one, no dictator, no regime, and no nation should underestimate ever american resolve. >> cnn international correspondent alexandria field is with us in tokyo right now. good morning to you. he, obviously, didn't call out north korea by name here but we can be pretty clear who that is addressed to, yes? >> reporter: right. he didn't nimes to name north korea and we know the issue that looms largest over this trip. even while the president talks about trade relationships is to cultivate support for the leaders in this region what he sees as his policy tworoward

reigning in north korea toward that threat. he finds his closest ally in a foreign policy lean is prime minister abe. two in lock-step when it comes to take ago tough approach to north korea. white house officials continue to say the trump administration policy is fully use a diplomatic and economic leverage to achieve full -- of the peninsula. we know this is a president who speaks in fiery tones and gets on twitter and levels a lot of threats toward north korea. certainly, he has a strong partner here in japan who believes that the threat for north korea is serious and that it is grave. both of these leaders believe that japan needs to do more to increase its military's capacity to protect and defend japan. that is a big deal given this country's pacifist constitution, of course. from here the president moves to south korea and they feel the threat of north korea most directly, of course, given the proximity to north korea. there is a relationship that is

developing between the south korean president and president trump but he has been more critical of south korean president on twitter saying sometimes they take an apology of appeasement. when it comes to dealing with north korea the most important stuff on this trip is that visit to beijing. we know president trump looks at china as being really the linchpin in his policy here. he is looking to china to enact fully its economic leverage over north korea. of course, china is responsible for some 90% of trade with north korea. we have seen the president, himself, take an alternating tone disparaging china and its leader xi jinping for not reining in north korea and continue to see the sanctions leveled against north korea and less than a month seen the broadest policies under that

regime. really claire clarifying a policy sparked confusion in the region because had he a push from diplomacy to top administration officials and the threats from president trump. >> alexandria field, we appreciate it so much. thank you. errol louis is the cnn political commentator and of spectrum news. and julian zeleny is a professor at princeton university. good morning, gentlemen. president trump's remarks to u.s. troops in japan pretty much void mentioning north korea by name but pretty clear who is talking about here. i should point out so far the president has stayed on message meeting with the troops and looks good and doesn't appear to make any major jabs at anyone. julian, so far, so good? >> well, so far, so good, but the question, itself, indicates the concern everyone has. how long will it last?

it's not the kind of question we often are wondering about the president. this is a very long trip by any standards. and it's also going to be a pretty difficult trip to try to bring some kind of clarity and some kind of buy-in to stopping north korea. so there is many days ahead and as much as what the president says and what he negotiates, it's his demeanor, it's his words. all of that has to remain under control for this to be relatively successful. >> errol, two things struck me. one in that speech, no direct mentioning of north korea and then sort of the white house saying that they are going to hold off on putting north korea on that list of state sponsored terrorists. both of those teams to be sort of, i don't know. i don't want to say an olive branch but he is definitely not out there to get north korea angry, it seems. >> well, that's right. look.

after you yell at the top of your lungs you're trying to destroy north korea it's hard to go any further, which is the problem with that kind of rhetoric. anything else, it looks like you're dialing it back or you're sort of maybe taking a different approach. that is, of course, only appropriate. you know, substantive, it's worth noting when he says no one should question american resolve, the real problem, up until now, has been american resolve, you know, he is offering a version of history that i don't think any of his last four or five predecessors would recognize. the american president has always been resolve to keep nuclear weapons out of the policy. that is since the 1950s. we will seal e if he can take a different approach to this and a welcome start as julian said to see if you can sort of keep things under control, cool things down to a simmer, rather

than heat things up. >> julian, we saw just as the president spoke before he went to dinner there that the talk is going to be about trade. one of the first things, of course, this president did was remove the u.s. from the transpacific partnership trade agreement. i'm wondering. do you expect a trade deal and something to come of this whole trip? >> i don't expect a deal to come from this trip, but i think that is essential to understanding what has been going on. one piece of leverage that the united states did have to get help with north korea was trade. and that was part of the thinking when president obama entered the agreement to get some leverage in the region and president trump ended that. so he at least needs to have more fruitful discussions and show some signs that he is open to trade agreements and negotiations. i don't think he'll get anything concrete but he needs to demonstrate that so people in

the region, including china, are more willing to assist and try to rein in north korea. >> errol, we wondered whether north korea might do something like launch a missile. there was a missile launch but it wasn't north korea. it was launched against one of our allies in the middle east, saudi arabia. president trump commented on it. he seemed to suggest that that shot was taken by iran. that was a quote. we understand that there is a proxy war going on here but that rhetoric, does it help with the u.s. relations in that region and abroad? >> well, no, not at all. in fact, i mean, one of the things that goes on that is really been quite striking in asia and to a lesser extent in the middle east is the president is seeking to up-end decades of regional approaches to these very tough situations with a series of bilateral trade agreement and series of sort of one-on-one personal diplomacy. we are goings for whether or not that yields any fruit, but by trying to exchange the tpp for a series of individual trade groups he is going down that road. he is attempting something of

the same in the middle east to a lesser extent. and so we will see if it yields anything. i think he may have bitten off more than he could chew. he will find that much of the wisdom over the last 50 years was not completely crack pot or crazy or incompetent as he often characterized. >> it is day one so we will see how it goes. thank you both. and good to see you. >> thank you. paul manafort is offering up his trump tower apartment and several other properties and why is he doing that? well, he wants something from a court hearing that is happening tomorrow. we will talk about that. plus, the democratic divide deepens after reports from former dnz donna brazile she wanted to replace hillary clinton as the democratic nominee. how in the world did that happen? details ahead. there is serious security if you're waking up in new york today. millions of people heading to

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whoa, mr. president! i'm embarrassed. i only wore a casual 10 thousand dollar suit. >> in reality, president trump is distancing himself from former campaign chairman paul manafort. >> here is why the president says man a forty was not with the campaign very long. quoted. i think we found out something about he may be involved with certain nations and i don't even know exactly what it was in particular but there was a point at which we just felt paul would be better off because we don't have to have many potential conflicts. that is from an interview with

atkinson that will air later. rick gates pleading not guilty to a number of charges. man a forty is putting up his trump talkower apartment and several other properties to give him to travel. the judge may consider that request in a hearing tomorrow. let's talk to errol louis and julian zeleny who both have stayed with us here. good morning, jgentlemen. in this cheryl atkinson interview, the president was asked about whether he would fire robert mueller. this was his response. well, i hope he is treating everything fairly and if he is, i'm going to be very happy because when you talk about innocent, i am truly not involved in any collusion with russia. believe me, the last thing i can think of to be involved in. and went on to say he is not under investigation. so when she asked him if he

would fire robert moo you willer, he didn't really answer the question but what do you make, errol, of his response? well, listen. when the president says he is not under investigation, that ship sailed a long time appearing. the same issue he talked about with james comey before he fired him. ridiculous at this point. my goodness. his campaign manager is under indictment and under house arrest as is his top assistant. we have a campaign staffer or adviser has pleading guilty to a felony involving exactly that, dealing with the russians. for the president to say that he personally is not under investigation is absolutely meaningless. what this was always about was finding out what level of involvement was going on and all kinds of advisers from his national security adviser to his attorney general to his own son. all involved in all kinds of

ways. this notion of simply denying that there is anything going on has long ago ceased to be credible. >> julian, how safe is mueller, do you believe, the special counsel mueller? >> well, i think if he looks at james comey, he shouldn't feel safe. obviously, there is many reasons that the president should not try to have mueller removed from the inevitable political blowback and constitutional crisis that would clearly set up, to simply the ethics of doing that on an investigation of this magnitude. but as we have seen, we can't really predict what is he going to do. so there is always a chance that he might move in that direction and when president trump doesn't answer a question, he is observe doing that intentionally. so i assume that card is still on the table. >> another nugget this morning that we are learning regarding this trip to asia is the president trump said he likely

will meet with russian president vladimir putin given the tensions with russia over a new round of u.s. sanctions and the ongoing investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. are you surprised that he is trying to get away from all of that domestically, that he will try to talk to putin or is it inevitable? does he need to talk to putin when we talk about north korea, errol? >> this is really startling. unless he can clearly walk out of that meeting with two things, it would be, i think, shocking. those two things are, one, a complete transcript and readout of what goes on in conversation so there is no doubts, no questions about anything else going on. and, secondly, some kind of agreement, some kind of easily understood advancement when it comes to battling isis and containing north korea or some other larger foreign policy objective because, keep in mind this is almost unprecedented and

almost a generation since a president spent 12 days on the road in asia. a lot of different complicated, complex diplomatic goals that were set out and none of which involve russia. change in this way at this time under these circumstances, there had better be a good reason and we will all be watching to see fountain president can provide that. >> julian, what would the reason be, other than what errol pointed out? how likely we will see a transcript of an entire conversation between president putin and president trump? >> i can't imagine that kind of transparency from this administration. i imagine we will get bits and pieces of what was said, snippets of the conversation, but this is not an administration that vows the pressure of that kind of transparency. i think the issue on the table, at least from the president's perspective, will be north korea and trying to obtain assistance from russia to put pressure. this is the way domestic

politics influences international politics. what might be a very legitimate diplomatic move at this moment won't be seen that way. and everything that has happened with russia and everything that is going on with the investigation will color all of that meeting and i think it's impossible for the president to simply wipe that away by denying it's relevant. >> you can't separate, two, at least not in terms of optics. we appreciate it so much, j gentlemen. heavy security in new york as millions of people get ready to attend the new york marathon. cnn has a live preview. >> we are just hours away from the start of the marathon. >> reporter: i can tell you taed to one person who said they went through seven different security measures. ah. we will bring that to you coming up. also coming up, new reports

that former dmz chief donna brazile thought about replacing hillary clinton. no surprise, campaign staffers are outraged and we will let you know what they said.

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♪ unless you're waking up groggy-eyed sunday, i'm centennial olympic pa christi paul. glad to have you here easement you got an extra hour. >> that did help. president trump is wrapping up the first day of his high stakes asian touring and dining with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. and how do deal with the nuclear threat from north korea. >> president trump says he will

talk about trade and after meetings between the two allies tomorrow, president trump heads on to south korea. the new york marathon. they are getting for it right n now. are you a runner? >> i'm a skier, not a runner. i run on skis. 50,000 runners and 2.5 million spectators are expected and among them is cnn's national correspondent brin. i imagine the security there is very tight after the week they have had. >> it really is. you say among them. i talked to a woman who has won 55 marathons the last four years so i don't know if i could be put in the same category of the people here right now. i can tell you this area is filling up with runners. they have to get here this early even though the race doesn't start for another three hours. part of that is because of the security measures that are in place. government officials say, listen to this.

this is the most intense security detail that they have ever had for an event in new york city. put that in perspective. we have had the pope here. we have had diplomats here for the u.n. and this is the most and i can tell you i've talked to people. they said they have had to go through seven layers of security just to get to where we are standing at this point which is not too far from where this race is going to again and that includes along the 26.2 miles all through the five boroughs of new york city and talking about blocker vehicles and canines and snipers, undercover police officers. there is just a ton of measures going into this in the wake of what happened on tuesday. talking to a lot of people here they are not fazed. they were determined to come to new york and many of them outside from this country saying they are ready to run. they feel safe and jazzed up for what is about to happen in a few hours. that major run is an annual event here in new york. >> interesting. i was reading there was a

reporter who talked to some people last week who were running. the people out of the country were less worried about security than the people in new york. are you finding something similar there? >> we are. we have been able to talk to a few people able to put it in perspective. people who have run in races all across the world. and they say this is security that is top-notch. new york police department does have preed a agree they rely on and they trust in and why they feel so safe but the people who live here i can say their spirit is intact. we had that event happened tuesday and we talked about this earlier but the halloween parade which attracted a million people, it's still million people still went to it and the same is true for this new york marathon. people not fazed and feeling secure at this event. >> we wish everyone running a great day. thanks very much. still to come, former

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republican senator rand paul is apparently recovering this morning after he was assaulted. an acquaintance of his has been charged in the attack. the senator suffered minor injuries, we are told, when he was tackled at his home in bowling green, kentucky that happened friday afternoon. according to police, paul's neighbor bouche intentionally attacked him. not clear why he went after paul but police are investigating. new details emerging from former dnc chief donna brazile about the inner workings of the democratic party. according to the post she considered taking hillary clinton off the 2016 ticket and replacing her with vice president joe biden. the move came after clinton fainted while on the campaign trail. they thought clinton lacked

energy and said it felt like someone died. a lot of heavy words there. joining me to discuss this is errol louis and julian zeleny. comes up in time for the holidays. the drip, drip, drip, just seems to build up all of the anticipation. julian, first of all, this idea that you would replace hillary clinton mid campaign, is that even feasible? >> no, it really doesn't. this seems more like a speculative moment for donna brazile than something that was about to happen and she couldn't have done this single-handedly. she would have had a lot of support and the vote of many other democratic officials. you know, this is in the category of bad timing for democrats to be relitigating the election and the tensions during the election. right now, when they are

probably poised to do pretty well in the midterm elections, it's just a problem for democrats that this book is coming out right now. >> certainly we know the clinton staffers are outraged. i was going to use another word. and they have put out a stadium, including huma abedin and john p podesta saying, quote. errol, how damaging is this? julian is already eluding to it here. is it just a fight between clinton staffers and donna brazile? donna brazile was head of the dnc and not a person on the

sideline. >> that's right. those of you who have worked with her and a contributor on cnn have a great deal of respect for her. look. i thought that the particular revelation that she had sort of, at least considered some of the machinery that is in the dnc charter and gives her the power, i imagine, in some kind of health emergency, to replace the nominee, if need be. i thought that was interesting but a little bit routine. you know? if you can go back to a 9/11, i mean, there was a great deal of discussion about what happened. she collapsed, for god's sake and carried into her car and a blackout period when nobody knew what was going on. under the circumstances, donna brazile is saying, if i have to, i have to at least be thinking about what we might do. and she also reveals in the book

in the excerpt she was not the only one thinking we don't know how serious this health thing is. maybe it's nothing, but if it's serious, we are going to have to take some steps. >> what about her reasoning for not doing it in which she sort of says, i'm prayer a phrasing here and something to the effect she thought all of the women who were supporting hillary clinton and couldn't bring herself so disappointment is what it made it sound. kind of a throw-away there. a lot of people supported hillary clinton. >> well, just -- i don't know if it was her call to make. i read it more as her sort of not feeling that we can step beyond what the facts of the situation really allowed for. >> julian, i'm sorry. i interrupted you there. >> the problem with that excerpt, on the one hand, the natural concern, the head of the dnc would have if there is a health issue and, at that

moment, errol is talking about it's reasonable to think that donna brazile is just looking at the options on the table. but then the next line suggests it was more conscious debate about whether she needed to be replaced because the campaign wasn't doing well and brazile couldn't imagine doing it. so that kind of throw-away line will play into the debate, whether not only was there a problem with the clinton campaign but were democrats wrestling with the idea of removing her and removing her for someone who didn't really run, which is the other odd part of the story, meaning vice president biden as opposed to senator sanders, which will also fuel the flames from that primary. >> i got a feeling there is more to come of this book. errol louis and julian zeleny, thank you. >> thank you. >> thanks. still to come, cnn's jake tapper sits down with actor woody harrelson and talking about his role as lyndon b. johnson in that new film.

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so the new movie "lbj" just released in theaters there weekend. a chronicle of the presidency of lyndon b. johnson after the assassination of john f. kennedy. >> cnn's jake tapper sat down with woody harrelson and rob reiner. >> reporter: joining me is the director rob reiner and the star woody harrelson. one of the things you were able to accomplish in this, woody, showing how lbj is really different people, depending on the audience when he is in front of the kennedys. he is aggressive even chuckles

talking with the senator. here is lbj talking to an appoint of the civil rights legislation. >> the best leaders at the time for both of our states folding a session. they were great men who merely destroyed america. i don't ever want a history book to say that about me. >> reporter: it's so fascinating because there are tapes of lbj being racist and yet he also pushed through the great civil rights legislation of that era. >> yeah. he was very fast that way, i guess you could say. he did, a lot of times, what was politically expedient. what is abouting about him pushing through the civil rights act, it was not a time where it would necessarily help him, you know? because there were times earlier when he did some basically where

he voted against civil rights legislation because it was politically expedient. this time after kennedy was assassinated in '63, nothing that said this is going to help you get re-elected in '64. or, you know, get elected in '64. so i think it really was his -- he was passionate about it. he did care about it. >> you really see him working the phones pressing the flash, talking to senators conjoeling and is there a lesson president trump can take from the success of lbj? i know you don't want him to have those successes. >> no. i would love to have any kind of success to see government work. you ask the question are there lessons he can take? unfortunately, i don't think any lessons because he is not willing to learn. he doesn't want to learn. that is really the tragedy of what we see right now.

he doesn't have any understanding of how government works and he doesn't want to learn. lyndon johnson came up from the bottom. he came from poverty. he came into the legislature when fdr was president. he was leader of the senate. he understood how government worked. but he had a strength which was the ability to get things done and, unfortunately, you ask that question. i don't know that that trump would be able to -- i wish he could take some lessons, but i don't think he will. >> woody, this is the third actual person that you've played. you've played larry flynt and steve schmidt in "game change" and now playing lbj. how did you become him? beyond the latex, how did you try to inhabit him? the first one of these characters that you've played that you didn't actually get to meet. >> yeah. well, i tried to focus on how he moved and, you know, there is a lot of for theage of him.

but what really bogged me down was how he talked because we are both from texas and you think that would be a benefit. in some ways, it is. but he is also from the hill country and it's a very different way of speaking. all time freaking out, that wasn't right. we should do that again and just go, relax! chill out! and he wanted me to -- the -- >> the essence of him and really what we wanted. i don't think people will nit-pick exactly the outside of houston accent as opposed to the hill country. he had everything that i wanted to see because johnson was a very complicated shakespearean type character. as much as he had the bravado and arm twisting and bull in the china spot and all that he was incredibly insecure and we

wanted to show pa i was lucky to get woody because of all of that. >> i'm lucky to work with you. one of the best directors of all time. >> i paid him to say that. >> brian cranston helped me quite a bit. he played lbj in "all the way." i really helped me. like i talked to him on the phone. he connected me with people, you know in austin and connected me to go out to the ranch and to the library and really, like, help me out. i was like, i can't believe you're doing this. i'm not sure i'd do this for you. he said, no, it's not competition. it's a big tent. let's fill it. >> that is beautiful. the movie is "lbj." and opens nationwide in theaters on november 3rd. thank you both so much. >> thank you. >> thanks for having us. >> woody is so, so talented in

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president trump trip charges paul man a forty and testimony from jeff sessions. >> a busy politically week, news week, obviously. "saturday night live" all over it. they went down the list of topics point-by-point and in one

scene, all of the main players are in the shower together! why? look at brian stelter's face. cnn senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" one mr. brian stelter. was that your initial reaction to that? >> i don't know if i'm supposed to laugh or cry. let's take a look at the clip. we can judge it for ourselves. president trump said in an interview airing this morning that as far as he knows, he is not under investigation. obviously, robert mueller probe is the biggest overall story of the week and here is how "snl" had some fun with it. >> i want mike to get his hands dirty too because if i'm going down, i'm taking the church lady with me. mike, say cheese. here we go. you say anything about this, mike, i'll text that photo straight to jesus. >> mr. president, can't you just pardon me? >> unfortunately, it's not that

simple. but we have a plan. a great plan. isn't that right, jeff? >> yeah. >> i'm all yours, jeff, i'll all yours. >> i'm in a bathe being costume i got from my favorite place. plus i thought we should all get used to wearing stripes! >> that is part of their take on the manafort news with everybody trying to keep quiet. it's interesting. there has been talk from the white house about this investigation wrapping up soon. we know the manafort trial won't start until may so "snl" has to come up a lot of ways to talk about this. here is how "weekend update" weighed in. one year anniversary on wednesday of the election. here is what they said about that. >> well, it's almost the one-year anniversary of donald

trump getting elected president and to celebrate, robert mueller threw him a surprise party. after the indictment of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort who also played shooter mcgavin in "happy gilmore," it's reported he has three different u.s. passports and traveled to mexico and china and ecuador with a phone he registered using an alias. i don't know what he is guilty of but definitely not nothing. no one has three passports of burner phone and good intentions, except maybe santa claus. >> there we go. we can update recapping the manafort indictment and mueller news this week. i know it was back on monday but when you look back at the last seven days the russian investigation is probably the overarching biggest news story of the week. so like i said "snl" is going to have a lot to say in the weeks, maybe months, maybe years to come. >> they do it so cleverly as well. >> in many ways, the material

almost writes itself. >> it does. >> it makes you wonder if there are people out there who you can push the line of respect because at the end of the day, this is still the presidency. >> you're absolutely right. i think trump fans, his most loyal supporters are probably not watching "snl" in the first place and if they are, they probably aren't watching when they see, you know, alec baldwin in the shower. >> or take it as it is. brian stelter, we appreciate it as always and thank you for waking up early for us here. watch brian later today here on cnn. ♪ good morning! if you are just joining us, 7:00 on a sunday. we are grateful for your company as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. north korea trade national security are all on the table as president trump wraps up the first day of his high stakes asian trip by dining with one of his most important allies in the region. >> we actually heard from the