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 president as he arrived for

dinner with the prime minister sin shinzo abe and he emphasized some of the discussions they are having. >> sarah, is traveling with the president. what is the president saying about progress so far on this trip? >> reporter: well, martins, it's been interesting to see the president kick off this five nation foreign trip on more informal footing by playing golf with prime minister shinzo abe and then out to dinner and the president gave a preview of the big issues that are going to mark this trip. >> 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. you can bet north korea is a topic of discussion. not just with abe but also with other world leaders. the president is going to meet with on this trip. he confirmed that he is planning on meeting with russian president vladimir putin later this week. and north korea tops the issues of that meeting. >> did it surprise everyone is

meeting with president putin. is that on the agenda. >> reporter: the white house wasn't confirming it was on the agenda but we had been hearing they were trying to set something up and they were going back and forth whether it be a poolside or bilateral meeting and we don't have a lot of details how this is going to work. but the two men were both expected to be at a summit together later this week. the president is meeting with a number of other foreign leaders. he has met with putin before so in that sense, it's not a surprise but certainly has the potential to be awkward at a time when the president is still being dogged by allegations of potential collusion between his campaign and russian officials in 2016. so that hangs over this relationship even now. >> certainly does. sarah murray, thank you very much. a new warning from president trump as well as he prepares to head to the korean peninsula. the united states is preparing to defend itself with every resource necessary, he says.

alexandria field is joining us now as well as terry is with us as well. terry is going to be talking to us in a moment. alex, i wanted to get to you first. the president, this morning, he didn't mention north korea by name but it was clear who he was talking about, right? >> yes. >> reporter: exactly. he has tough talk for north korea in the past. we have seen this administration push some of the widest ranging sanctions again north korea have ever taken against that rogue regime in the past and administration considering putting north korea on its list of state sponsors of terror. we know that the most pressing issue for this president during his longest overseas trip which will include five countries is how to deal with north korea and how to rally support from his key partners and allies in the region when it comes to countering that mounting threat from north korea. he didn't need to say those two words. it was clear who he was talking to when he addressed the trops from japan and the united states

at a base earlier today. listen to what he had to say. >> 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. > . >> reporter: the warning is clear there. the rhetoric is fiery what we have seen from president trump particularly on twitter when it comes to talking to and about north korea. white house officials are this trip are continuing to same the administration's goal is the total denuclearization of the korean peninsula and plan to achieve that by applying diplomatic pressure but a president continues to remind pyongyang that he has a military option available to him if it is

necessary. so, again, he is out here to work with other key players in the region to try to get them to continue to support what he sees as his policy when it comes to dealing with north korea. he has his closest ally in the region, the japanese prime minister abe here. these two men have been in lock-step when it comes to dealing with north korea and both of them support the idea of broadening the military capacity here in japan when it comes to defense and protection of this country in order to counter the north korean threat. he has a couple of other stops we know north korea is the top topic of conversation. he heads to south korea next and from there beijing and we know china is central to president trump's policy here. he believes they are the ones who have the leverage when it comes to dealing with north korea. he has at times disparaged them for not doing enough and at times the administration has praised president xi jinping efforts to enact some of the sanctions that have lately been

leveled against the regime. >> let's bring in terry here a former north korean analyst and now in asia. we have a senior administration official who told reporters that the president is looking very closely right now as to whether he will designate north korea as a state sponsor of terror and that he actually said on air force one to reporters we will make that decision very soon. do you think the president will make a decision like that when he is there in the region? and if he does, how will north korea respond? >> i do think is there a possibility that he will do that, particularly maybe when he is meeting with japanese families of the abducted families. i think that might be an opportune time. north korea may be upset about it but i think a right step because north korea did think about the treatment of otto who

has been put in torture and i think he has be and killed his half-brother in an airport. i think north koreans will see it as another provocative act coming from the united states but it's all part of us trying to put maximum pressure on the kim regime. >> we know the kim regime watches the president very closely. he watches his tweets and his speeches and he is going to hear a lot from him, and about north korea just in the next 12, 11, 10 days now. with that said what is the plausibility that kim jong-un may practice or employee some provocative move while the president is there firing a missile of some sort? >> there is certainly that possibility but kim jong-un

could also wait until he leaves the region. we can't be sure of the timing. what i am pretty sure is that kim jong-un will continue with the nuclear missile program. he is not going to stop. so certainly i do expect some sort of test coming, another intercontinental missile or potential nuclear test but i'm not sure if he actually will test while trump is in the region. >> alexandria, you talked about the president moving on to china here in the next couple of days. do we have any idea how closely north korea is going to be watching china and really how willing china is to talk about stepping up to the plate when it comes to north korea? >> this is going to be really the key moment of this nearly two week long trip so we know pyongyang will watch what is happening there, as will the

rest of the world and allies like japan and south korea. they serm want to see a diplomatic resolution to this crisis with north korea. they are the ones who have the most to lose here. south korea because of its incredible proximity to north korea and because an incredible threat to japan. talk about the fact we have seen north korea test launching its ballistic missiles sending two of those ballistic missiles right over the northern japanese territory or northern japanese island rather. so they feel the very realness of this threat from north korea and want this diplomatic resolution and understand it's president trump's policy to work closely with china in order to get that resolution. the trump administration has made it very clear that they believe that china has the leverage, given the economic relationship, given the fact that china is responsible for 90% of trade with north korea. they believe the full enforcement of the current sanctions by china and additional steps would force the regime to curb its programs.

the question is whether the administration is successful in getting full cooperation with china and then whether or not that entire cooperation, that full cooperation would really lead to the state of objective which is denuclearization. we know a regime said it will not bargain with its nuclear program and not bargain with its ballistic missiles and believe it's central to their survival and willing to funnel their funds into fueling that program. >> what happens there, where does the relationship with u.s. and china come into play after that? thank you both so much. we appreciate your insights as always. we want to bring in other voices to talk about the president's trip here and the importance of it. kelly jane torrance of "the weekly standard" and julian zeleny is a professor at princeton university. the president spoke on trade in japan. in fact, he was talking about trade right before dinner. let's just take a listen to what was said.

next ten days we travel to china, south korea, philippines and vietnam and seek new opportunities for cooperation in commerce and we will partner with friends and allies to pursue a free and open indo-pacific region. we will seek free, fair, and reciprocal trade. this future is only within our grasp because of you. >> of course we know that north korea is the top of the list, but also trade is hugely important as the president just referred to. and, yet, this is the same president that, of course, the first act he did was pull the u.s. out of transpacific partnership. kelly, i'm wondering, do you expect some sort of trade deal out of this or at least a framework? >> it's interesting to hear donald trump uses the words free trade, isn't it? it's not something he says very

often. actually the last time i can remember was when he first met canadian prime minister justin trudeau. he started speaking a little bit about having a good free trade agreement with canada. it does seem that this is one issue that donald trump might actually be able to be talked into a good policy by the united states' allies. this is interesting, though. he campaigned really against free trade and talked about, you know, china especially. we are going to go after them. they are stealing american jobs and perhaps now he is meeting with these leaders and seeing exactly what it means to have a free trade agreement and what it does for the american economy, he is kind of softening on that. there could be a trade deal coming out of this. i think all depend on what happens behind the scenes. i don't think trump, himself, is the man to make those kind of deals. >> it always does. although he has self-proclamation he is the deal maker. president trump is not visiting

the dmz during his trip and unlike other presidents have gone in the past. what is up with that, julian? >> i think in some ways it reflects how poorly relationships have deteriorated in this region. some of this goes beyond president trump. certainly with north korea, but even tensions with south korea. but a lot of it is about president trump from the tweets, to the threats, to the words he's. again both for north korea but also words about south korea that have left us in this place, and i also think it's just concerns about what the president will say and they are efforts just to remove him from situations on this trip where his words might cause trouble and tension. >> that's an interesting point. president trump says that he is going to likely meet, came out apparently conversations with reporters on his flight.

going to likely meet with vladimir putin. we thought part of the reason of going on this asia trip gave him the opportunity to leave the whole russia investigation behind. this would seem to bring it all up and it's certainly going to make people go, what is he going to talk about? and, of course, meeting with another president of another nation is part of the job. but at this particular time, kelly? >> yeah, it seems odd, doesn't it? i almost think he apologize meeting aleaders. when one was here from turkey in d.c. he seemed to enjoy meeting him. and on this trip he is going to be meeting with the president of china who he recently on twitter congratulated him on his elevation he called it. i mean, this is a dictator who was consolidated his power even further and donald trump is congratulating him and meeting with the president of the philippines dutares and

interesting what is going with the killings of people involved in the drug trade. i feel meeting with vladimir putin? why not? you're meeting with all of these other dictators donald trump has nice words for, why not throw in one more? >> julian, at the beginning of the trip the president stops in hawaii to meet with u.s. troops but he made a specific point visiting the "uss arizona." he does a tour of pearl harbor and gets on a plane and meets immediately with the prime minister of japan. i can't think that is mere coincidence. >> i always try to hesitate to speculate between the logic and timing of the president. >> that is a big deal to the japanese people. >> absolutely. this was, in some ways, an open theme for the president and the administration on this trip. so, you know, this might be a message about the united states, about his priorities of

america's role in the world. and a message to the leaders, including the japanese leaders he is about to meet. >> i think it's also an indication there too of the man who claims to be the deal maker coming in and trying to throw your appoint a bit off balance or in this case, the japanese prime minister who we also look upon as an ally. kelly jane torrance and julian zeleny, i wish we would more time but we don't. talk to you later. >> thanks. paul manafort wants a little more freedom. what he is saying, what he is doing to try to convince a judge that he is not a flight risk. also, security is at high alert. millions of people attending the new york city marathon and new york has vowed to keep them safe. we have a lie live report for you straight ahead. -oh! -very nice. now i'm turning into my dad. i text in full sentences. i refer to every child as chief. this hat was free. what am i supposed to do, not wear it? next thing you know, i'm telling strangers defense wins championships.

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at a hearing tomorrow. the russian investigation continues to make headlines, president trump says he is going to meet with russian president vladimir putin this week and his main goal is discussing north korea. >> all right. so to talk about things that are happening here at home while the president is traveling abroad, we bring back kelly jane torrance of "the weekly standard" and julian zeleny professor at princeton university and jack kingston cnn political commentator and former adviser to the trump campaign. jack, good morning to you. the others, we have already said good morning to and talking to already. let me start, jack, by asking you -- why would the president make an announcement on board air force one as he is flying to asia that he is going to meet with the russian president, given all that we know about this investigation? >> i think it underscores the importance of russia's potential role in flerp fler. as you know, we have tried to work with russia and syria in terms of, you know, getting a temporary peace there.

that actually was started by john kerry as secretary of state. so we need to work with big strategic partners when it comes to global affairs and i think if we can get russia to back our efforts on north korea, it's in the interest of the world. so i'm glad that he is doing it. >> and it is part of the job, i acknowledge that, but it's the time and, of course, we thought he might be leaving this investigation behind him. he is going to bring it all up again because people are going to say what in the world is he talking beyond north korea with the president of russia about? how does he defend that? >> i don't think he can run away from the russian investigation or anything related to russia and i don't think he is trying to other. i think he is focusing on his agenda but, at the same time, knows this is going to happen. it's interesting. somebody said, i was reading an article about somebody who said why would he tweet about such things? there was an argument to say he knows that is what people are going to be focused on, so he

wants to be there and talk about some of the potential opportunities of working with russia. i think in this debate and many people who are just after trump, they are forgetting how important it is to work with russia. not just in terms of potentially world peace and partnership and that regard, but nuclear deterrents is important and certainly food security and disasters and hopefully some trade opportunities. we have many, many businesses that are american businesses that have been in moscow not just for ten years, but for 30 and 40 years. >> right. i got that, jack. it's just this was an asia trip. kelly jane, were you surprised to hear the president saying i think i'm having a side meeting with president putin? >> a little bit. i do think that part of the reason for this trip and its length he did want to sort of avoid his low approval ratings at home and, you know, look at, you know, when a president goes abroad, he tends to look more

presidential. and i think that meeting with all of these world leaders, trump is hoping to have that effect on himself. it was a little surprising. you know, remember the last time he met with putin, we found out, you know, weeks later that there was this extra meeting over dinner. he got up from his table, wen and chatted with him for a while which was really quite extraordinary. we still don't know exactly what they talked about. so it is a little bit odd to meet with him now. you wonder what are they going to talk about? is russia going to do anything on north korea? they have no interest on being on our side with north korea. world peace? jack, i think is being generous. i don't think vladimir putin is interest inside world peace. unstable world works to russia's advantage. >> julian, the president has been also hitting hard on the issue of trade. we know that north korea looms very large in this, but trade is what he has been talking about and he didn't even mention north korea by name in the first speech he made in japan.

so are we perhaps getting the agenda a little mixed up? >> well, i think the two actually are connected and they have been now for over a decade, meaning the stronger our relations are in terms of trade with the entire region, the more leverage we might have to, you know, contain north korea. this was the premise of much of what president obama had been doing with the trade agreement. this was the effort to get us in a better position in asia. the problem is president trump blue that apart and so now, in many ways, he is going back to where president obama's thinking was. it contradicts what he said in the campaign. it contradicts his actions on trade so far. but in some ways, i think that is the place he is now moved to. we will see if he can make any progress, though. >> jack, this has been pointed out. it's a very grueling trip but very important trip. does the president like these kinds of trips? >> i think he does. i think he likes to show off his

leadership to the world. he did it in the middle east on his very first trip. as you know, went to a christian and muslim and jewish audience there and spoke to 50 muslim countries on his first trim and pushed the nato allies to pony up in terms of their military contribution and as a percentage of their gnp. i think he is somebody who likes to go out in the world. he likes to engage. he is proud of what he is doing. he thinks that, you know, i feel the same way that president obama, too many times, was apologizing for america. for him to go out and talk about america' place in the world and talk about capitalism and talk about our ability to have a world economy, i think it's very important. i think it's also good in the -- with the backdrop of the tax cuts -- >> jack, the question is does like the trip? not a list of praise of what did on the trip!

does he like making these trips? >> i think he does. i think he likes his comforts. when he is at home he prefers, as we have known, to be out of washington and golfing at one of his resorts, mar-a-lago. i think he does like these trips. but it's been pointed out that presidents do go up in polls when they are overseas. americans coalesce behind their leader. so i think it is a good time in terms of the political advantage of it as well. >> a great time for him to show that he is president. kelly jane torrance and julian zeleny, and jack kingston, thank you all. >> thank you. there is serious security in new york this morning. hundreds of thousands of people are attending the new york city marathon, including cnn's brynn gingras. how is it so far? >> great. >> reporter: police are literally in the air, on the ground and on the rivers here in new york city. the largest security response

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and even on the weekend. 7:34 is the time. i'm christi paul. glad to have you here. >> that's right. you had to fall back. i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. president trump is wrapping up his asian tour and dining with japanese foreign minister shinzo abe. on the top of the agenda how took deal with the nuclear threat from north korea. >> he plans to talk about trade and one he should not see eye-to-eye with the prime minister we should point out.

after meeting the two allies tomorrow he heads to south korea. at the moment, a lot of eyes on new york. they are getting ready for the stis' big marathon this morning. ramping up security to make sure everybody stays safe. >> 50,000 runners and 2.5 million spectators are expected and brynn gingras is live from staten island, new york, where that marathon begins. tell us more about the security plan today because that has to be on people's minds. >> reporter: comrol. i completely. i'm looking at two helicopters in the air over this area where the runners will start running at least the first wave in an hour and a half. that is just one layer. multiple layers here in new york across five boroughs where the race heads and 2.5 million will being watching this race. a quick perspective. they say, according to officials, this is the largest most intense security detail they have ever had for an event

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41 minutes past the hour. former dnc chief donna brazile book unloads, according to "the washington post," brazile considered taking hillary clinton off the 2016 ticket and replacing her with then vice president joe biden. the move came after clinton fainted at the 9/11 memorial in new york city during the campaign. we are also learning brazile thought clinton's campaign headquarters lacked passion and energy, and she thought it felt, quote, like someone died. cnn political commentator and former president secretary for be bernie sanders is with us and along with maria car doba. clinton's campaign was what brazile calls it anemic and it had taken an -- over a failure.

in the meantime, a group of clinton campaign staffers including huma abedin who are responding to her accounts and what they say. first and foremost, maria, is there, though, any truth to brazile's accounts despite what the campaign said? because at the end of the day, she did faint. there were questions. there were lots of conversations going on. >> none of those conversations as i understood it at the time had anything to do with ever considering removing hillary and tim kaine from the ticket. i think that is ridiculous.

and secondly, donna brazile would not have been able to do it on her own. she would have had to confer with the democratic members of congress and it's a huge process and she would have to confer with the democrat governors association and eventuallily come to the dnc members to make that change. there was no vaticvacancy there could not have started those procedures because according to the rules there has to be a vacancy due to death, due to disability, or due to resignation and there were none of those things. >> were there conversations that had questions about hillary clinton's ability or health or anything that she is alleging? >> not in any of the conversations that i had with campaign people and i was up at the headquarters quite often and had conversations with them on a daily basis. everything that that campaign did and that every campaign staffer did in that building was

full of passion to try to get hillary clinton elected because they felt that -- frankly, like the majority of america felt -- that she would be the best president for this country. >> simone, she is saying she thought about replacing hillary clinton with joe biden, which we know that joe biden struggled very hard as to whether he was going to run. do you get any sort of a feeling that had it been joe biden, we would be sitting in a different position here today? >> i mean, we do not know. so i think we can all speculate in retrospect about what could have happened if somebody else maybe should of, did that, this, that or the other. i think the important thing to note is, look. one, donna brazile's book is not out yet so we don't know what else is in there. and donna brazile is entitled to tell her story. we may not all agree with the account of it. people may not agree with the account of her story. folks may feel differently about what she is particularly saying. but she is absolutely entitled

to tell her story from her vantage point. >> a lot of people are saying, a, why would you do this now? is this just about making money on a book? or is there any intention -- is there another intention she has? >> i know donna brazile personally and i don't think this is about making money. i'll be frank. if i was a publicist or bringing writing about last year's election i would put the book out the one year anniversary that is coming up on tuesday of the election and there is an election on tuesday so encouraging people to vote. had to get that in there very fast. i think donna brazile feels we can't move forward until we have a frank conversation about what is happening and i think this book is her contribution about that and it probably isn't the best litigated in the public for the democratic party. again, she is entitled to tell her story from her vantage

point. i think this should is not deter democrats. so much at stake and a lot happening right now. we talked about elections happening on tuesday. i'm sure maria would agree we hate this tax reform bill and make sure we beat that thing back. >> scott boldin was on the show yesterday saying a fight for the soul of the dnc. who is leading the democrats right now? and is there a residual effect on democrats and from this book and anything might come out of it? >> we sure are focusing on moving forward. right now, as you know, the head of the dnc is chairman tom pettis. he actually put out sort of new rules and regulations and things he is implementing moving forward to make sure that everything that the dnc does has both the reality, as well as the perception of neutrality. i do think that one of the things that donna brings up is -- i don't agree with her that service rigged and even she, herself, says that the processes themselves, the votes, the primaries, the caucuses, you

know, nothing was messed with. every single vote in there was fair and square and hillary clinton won by 4 million. but that the perception, even the perception of the fact that people feel perhaps that it was not fair, that they were not treated fairly, that their voices were not heard, does hurt democrats moving forward. and i think that is the kind of thing that democrats need to focus on. we need to focus on new -- implementing new rules and guidelines to make sure the dnc is a place that people trust. everybody's voices are heard, where the processes are fair and equal and neutral for every single candidate and that is exactly what chairman pettis is focused on doing with the rest of the dnc members moving forward. >> simone sanders and maria cardona, we have run out of time. sorry. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we will be right back. ue of ? what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14.

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