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classified raises serious questions about his jackpo-- ab judgment and integrity. she truly believes that she'll be wonderfully received in the arms of a loving god and, therefore, did not fear death. good saturday to you. after decades of name-calling, threats of destruction, and defiant rocket launches, this morning, an unexpected pledge from north korea could finally bring a diplomatic breakthrough. >> kim jong-un says his regime is stopping nuclear and missile tests. this is an announcement that shocked world leaders. it's already being praised by some of the country's toughest critics, as well. it's worth noting what is not in the pledge. no mention of short-range missile tests, no promise to let weapons inspectors into the country, and no plans to get rid of the missiles and nuclear war heads the country already has. abby phillip is traveling with

the president in florida and has reaction. we want to start with ivan watson, live in seoul. i know this is a dramatic turnaround from where we were months ago from north korea saying it could target guam to an attempt at peace. how did they get here? >> reporter: that's the question everybody has, why are they making the decision. the timing is important. we're six days away from the first meeting between kim jong-un and south korea's president moon jae-in which is being described as a precursor to the eventual summit between kim jong-un and president trump. after a workers party in pyongyang, the ruling workers party, kim jong-un announced that north korea had mastered nuclear weaponization, miniaturized its nuclear bombs, and it no longer needs to carry out nuclear weapons tests or

intercontinental ballistic missile tests and is going to, in its words, discard the nuclear weapons testing facility in the north of the country. that's the facility where in september of last year north korea conducted its most recent and powerful nuclear weapons test. now the government is announcing that it's going to focus on economic development and improving relations with its neighbors. this is a message that has been welcomed not only by president trump but by the south korean government. the japanese, notably, being more skeptical, saying, hey, we need complete denuclearization, something that north korea is not quite saying yet. if you think about the years and just the untold riches and treasure that have gone into develop i developing this nuclear weapons program, it will be important to watch what would it take to get

north korea to say let's dismantle the weapons and bombs that we spent so much trying to produce. >> there's a long way between this assertion and denuclearization of the entire peninsula. let's go to abby phillip traveling with the president. and president trump was quick to praise the announcement. >> reporter: that's right. you can say how optimistic it is about it based on the fact that he sent two tweets last night lauding the announcement from north korea. in one tweet he says, this is very good news for north korea and the woshlgrld, saying he's looking forward to the summit. in a second tweet he reiterated north korea's message about shutting down the test site and stopping missile tests and said progress is being made for all. all of this is pushing toward a meeting that president trump is eager to have with the north korean leader. by the end of may or early june, he's tasked his highest level

national security officials to try to get this done, including sending the cia director, mike pompeo, to meet with kim jong-un over easter weekend in a secret meeting. part of the problem for the president from a political perspective, before he can get to the meeting, there has to be some kind of evidence that north korea is moving in a direction that the united states and its allies in the region want it to move in. and perhaps this announcement from the regime this week is a first step that direction. the president had meetings with the prime minister in west palm beach this week. one of the main points the japanese want to make is to say it's not enough that we'll stop testing. as ivan pointed out, the japanese want the entire peninsula to be denuclearized and want the return of prisoners that have been captured and abducted by the north korean regime over the years. so there is still a lot undone here. prumps also hinted this week --

president trump also hinted this week to perhaps send a message to kim jong-un that if he sits down for the meeting, he's willing to walk away if he feels it's not fruitful even if he is sitting in the room. there's a lot of back and forth happening now in an effort to try to get the political dynamics in the right place before the meeting happens. a lot of folks are worried that what's happening is that pyongyang is making a lot of noise, saying a lot of things, but not really willing to do what it takes to make real progress toward denuclearization. and in exchange, president trump is going to give kim jong-un the optics of a very high-level meeting between the president of the united states and the leader of north korea. before then, i think the united states is hoping that north korea gives them much more than they have given the united states over the last several years. meanwhile, the president told his aides he wants this meeting to happen. we are looking at a couple of weeks now, and he's eager, as you see, to make it happen.

>> a lot on the table to discuss. thank you both. and joining us, cnn military analyst major general james spider marks. thank you very much for being here. first and foremost. >> sure. >> does this development attach new expectations to the upcoming meeting between the president and kim jong-un? >> i don't think it increases the expectations. we should feel good about it, but there's a huge amount -- there's a huge amount of green on the pool table between this statement and reality. so we should be very, very skeptic skeptical. let's be frank, over the course of this regime's of over seven years, they have never spoken the truth, never. we need to say, great, we appreciate this effort. a lot of inspections have to take place. preconditions need to be in place. the expectations need to be measured as we move into this. >> you make a good point here. again, we need to mention there's no mention of short-range missile testings in

this concession that they seem to be giving. they don't promise that weapons inspectors will be able to get into the country, they don't promise to destroy the stockpiles they have already have. with all of that said, what do you think prompted this alleged new mindset of kim jong-un? >> in my mind, i think it's clear, look, kim had this visit with xi jinping a few weeks ago. he comes back to north korea and has found a bunch of wisdom. i think he got some clear guidance and assurances from beijing in of terms what his right and left limits need to be in terms of how he deals with the summit going forward and long term what's going to take place with the united states. again, let's be skeptical about all of this. we had the framework in 1994, and then we had the nuclear bre breakout in north korea in 2006. you can chalk the agreement up to failure. nuclear's a nuclear power, it has developed nukes.

it has a strong inventory of missile capabilities, and the japanese and the south koreans are spot on to be concerned because the united states might want to address the icbm capability. the short-range capability is what it strike tokyo and seoul very easily. there are a lot of elements to this discussion, ton mention, of course, the -- not to mention, of course, the presence of u.s. troops on the south korean portion of the peninsula. although north korea said we're okay with that. again, we've got to verify all of this. >> and the three americans that are still being held prisoner now in north korea, do we know if there's any active engagement to release them or how this could affect that going forward? >> again, great questions all. this is a bunch of happy talk. i'm skeptical about all of this, having spent a good deal of my adult life looking at this problem. this is a lot of work for diplomats, great military leaders, a lot of great economists. you know, north korea wants

these sanctions lifted. i think kim's starting to feel the heat. he's starting to personally feel that his elites around him are coming in and looking at him saying, hey, man, we've got to adjust this. it's starting to affect me and how i live. frankly, they don't care about their people but care about themselves. kim's getting a clear message. >> quickly, major general, are you confident that north korea can hide the stockpiles they have? >> yes -- >> is there a good sense of what they have? >> no. i'm trying to be helpful here. i know you're quick for time. it's difficult. yes, they can hide this stuff, but we don't know the baseline. we don't have a solid number of what's in their inventory. you have to start with that. that's the first. >> all right. major general, always appreciate your insight. thank you for being here, sir. >> short on time. it's tough to have the conversations about north korea in a short period of time --

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last night casting doubt again on the legitimacy of the mueller investigation. here's what's different. this time he writes that james comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a special counsel. again, the president's spelling of council, not ours. the council was based on an illegal act. really? does everybody know what this means? joining me is daniel lipman, reporter and co-author of "playbook," politico. good morning to you. >> thank you for having me. >> what do you think the president believes this means? >> i think he's trying to lay the groundwork that if he wants to fire rod rosenstein who helped put the special conversation into motion, then he feels like he has the basis to do so. although we have to take every trump tweet at face value which means he wants to vent. if he does a lot of tweets, it makes him feel good, instead of actually firing people which he sometimes is reluctant to do.

>> the attorney general jeff sessions, according to the "washington post," has suggested that if the president does more than just vent, if he goes to the step of actually firing rod rosenstein, then sessions would be put in a position where he would have to consider resigning. does the president have a true appreciation of what that would mean, or, you know, the president's not been a fan of sessions for a while. if he has to take the heat over the rosenstein firing, don't threaten me with a good time, both of you can go, and i'll take you at the same time. >> yeah. i don't think president trump wants jeff sessions out in the cold. imagine the book that sessions would write. he would go on his own comey-style book tour. and i think -- i don't know if sessions would resign. he could be just leaking this to try to stop trump from firing rosenstein. a lot of republicans in the party have said, oh, we're not going to support trump, and then they all come around. some of this is just p.r. for

sessions. >> all right. let's talk about the development in the stormy daniels saga. i think appropriate to call that. stormy daniels and karen mcdougal's former lawyer is believed to be cooperating with federal probe into michael cohen's activities. his name is keith davidson. he brokered both of their hush money deals with the president. and -- which always seemed peculiar to a lot of people. this puts co-en into a position where he can either, you know, flip and work with the federal investigators or also have the option of now holding off and facing jail time. what's the significance from your understanding of keith davidson now playing a role in this investigation? >> i think it underlines that anybody who gets wrapped one trump and michael cohen and various settlements and hush money, they all get pressure and

eventually cooperate. we're still waiting on paul manafort, as well. so with michael cohen, it's a real question, i think we'll have to wait a few weeks or months until robert mueller has some actual charges to bring against cohen because they'll alert cohen's lawyers and say that we'll charge you unless you flip. so that will maybe speed up the process for cohen actually singing to the furthers. >> this of course -- being in new york, this may accelerate the charges. to your point, there's a lot to discuss, the justice department watchdog is looking into comey's handling of his memos. let's watch. we'll go to jim sciutto and discuss on the other side. >> reporter: president trump attempting to discredit the just-released comey memos tweeting that they showed "clearly" that there was no collusion and obstruction. also, he leaked classified information. wow. will the witch hunt continue?

former fbi director james comey says he drafted the memos which are not classified, documenting seven meetings and phone calls with the president because he feared that mr. trump would lie about them, telling cnn -- >> i've tried to be transparent throughout this. i think what folks will see if they get to see the memos is i've been consistent since the very beginning, right after my encounters with president trump. >> reporter: comey's memos refeeled that as -- revealed that as fbi director he informed then-chief of staff reince priebus that parts of the so-called steel dossier had been corroborated by u.s. intelligence. comey wrote, "i explained that the analysts from all three agencies agreed it was relevant, and that portions of the material were corroborated by other intelligence." the memos highlight the president's apparent obsession with the steel dossier which mr. trump brought up with comey unprompted several times, including during one meeting at the white house. comey wrote, "the president brought up the golden showers thing and said it really

bothered him if his wife had any doubt about it. he then explained, as he did at our dinner, that he hadn't stayed overnight in russia during the miss universe trip. president said, the hookers thing is nonsense, but that putin had told him we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. he did not say when putin told him this. >> did you believe him or think he was speaking hydrobolically? >> didn't seem to be speaking hyperbolically. >> reporter: a spokesman for the president said putin could never have said that to trump saying they had never communicated before trump became president. in another encounter, trump expressed anger at then national security adviser michael flynn for delaying a phone to call to from russian president vladimir putin. flynn said the return call was scheduled for saturday, comey wrote, which prompted a heated reply from the president that six days was not an appropriate period of time to return a call. in telling the story, the president pointed his fingers at his head and said, "the guy has

serious judgment issues." yet, trump defended flynn tweeting, so general michael flynn's life can be totally destroyed while shady james comey can leak and lie and make lots of money from a third-rate book. the word shady, misspelled in the tweet. trump was not the only official interested in flynn's legal fee. comey wrote of an exchange with priebus saying, "he wanted to ask me a question, and i could decide whether it was appropriate to answer. he then asked, do you have a fisa order on mike flynn? i paused for a few seconds and said that i would answer here, but that this illustrated the kind of question that had to be asked and answered through established channels." >> i was confident that if the president's chief of staff and white house counsel asked the justice department they would get the answer, and so i could give the answer in a moment and use it to illustrate the way it should work going forward. >> we'll find the leakers. they're going to pay a big price for leaking. >> reporter: some of the president's greatest ire was directed at the media and

stopping leaks from the white house. i said something about it being difficult, comey wrote, and he replied that we need to go after the reporters and referred to the fact that 10 or 15 years ago we put them in jail to out what they know, and it worked. they spent a couple of days in jail, make a new friend, and they are ready to talk. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. >> so republicans in congress, name low house republicans, demanded the memos. they wanted them, and they were leaked to the public, to the media. has this paid off for them? >> it almost paid off for more jim cocoa. -- jim comey. it happened the week that he released his book. i don't think that republicans look good from this. i think because once you read the memos, you realize that comey is a credible witness. he was there, he's not writing lies in the memos. and for trump to go after him

for leaking those -- some of the memos to his friend who was a columbia law professor who shared it with the media, it's ironic because trump is the biggest liar of them all. he will call up -- bigger leaker of them all. he will call up and leak. >> the president being one saying that james comey lied in the memos. especially on the request for loyalty and asking for him to let the flynn matter go. as it relates to the classified nature of these, the president in his tweet suggested that that is a fact. there is an ongoing investigation to determine whether or not these memos, especially one leaked to a friend that wont, i believe, to "the new york times" to try to bring about the special counsel, if those were leaked illegally. >> i would note that as fbi director, you have the statutory

authority to delass few some stuff or -- declassify some stuff or to share things that are classified and redact them. so the inspector general of doj may clear comey after all. but it seems that this is an effort to try to silence comey and say he did all of this illegal stuff when i think comey is careful in how he shares information. >> yeah, they're focused on two memos specifically. one that was sent to a friend that -- in which comey redacted the classified information. then another in which there was information that was retroactively determined to be secret or classified. that's part of the investigation there. but could this have now backfired on comey? he proved to be a capable tactician in writing these memos and passing to a friend, but

could this backfire for the former fbi director? >> i don't see how it backfires. i think we are both journalist, it's good that we know what happened during the one-on-one meetings with the president. and it's not like they were sharing plans about how they were going to go after al qaeda moles in america. it was more about discussing matters of public policy and whether, you know, trump's attempts to get loyal -- get comey to be loyal to him. so that doesn't seem very classified to me. >> all right. we'll stand by for the inspector general's report on the classification of those -- the information in those memos. david, thank you very much. >> thank you. final good-byes being said at a private funeral today for former first lady barbara bush. our next guests have really moving stories about her. one saying that she had a deep national yearning for a civility

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welcome back. 31 mens past t-- 31 minutes pas hour. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the funeral for former first lady barbara bush will begin in a few hours. several delegates the attend. president trump will not attend to avoid disruptions, but first lady melania trump will be there. >> thousands of people visited the church yesterday for a public viewing while lady bush lies in repose. former president george h.w. bush along with his daughter dorothy greeted mourners as they paid their respects. let's look at this picture with cnn contributor and author of "first women," kate anderson bower, with us. and opinion columnist for "the hill," brent bedowsky. i want to put the picture back up of george h.w. bush and his daughter, dorothy, by the casket there. it is hard, is it not, kate, to

imagine george h.w. without barbara by i had si-- by his si. >> it is. they were married for 73 years, the longest marriage in presidential history. i believe that he is now the only former president to be a widow since herbert hoover. so this is something that's unusual that he's going through. they were together so long. she was 16 and he was 17 when they met at a country club dance many years ago. this is certainly very difficult for the family. >> bret, your memories of the first lady. >> oh, she always brought a dignity and grace and a good humor and integrity to public life. there will be many words of praise given to barbara bush today and all will be real, all of them will be true, and all of them will be sincerely believed. i are been seeing her from my role with senator benson when the bensons and bushes became close and friendly when they ran

against each other during the senate and during the clinton presidency. and when george herbert walker bush and bill clinton ultimately became friends and respectful partners and did a lot of good works for america together. she represents a great generation and example of public life such as jefferson and adams that has lived on today and hopefully will live on for many years. she was a wonderful, wonderful human being, a spectacular lady. a great grandma, a wonderful mom. and a terrific first lady. everyone that says their admiration today for her today knows, it believes, it and know she was special. >> brent mentioned the special relationship the bush -- all of the bushes have with the clinches and how they bridged the gap of politics. and real opposing view of politics and still have this

close relationship. i want to show a picture here of president george bush with michelle obama. i believe we have it. there is an affinity for each of them for each other's families. how much do you think barbara bush contributed to the closeness that the bush family in general can feel, that the obamas can feel for each other despite the political turmoil that seems to always be swirling? >> george w. bush famously said that bill clinton is a brother from another mother. they are a very close -- very close friends. bill clinton would go to kennebunkport in the summers. and it is about civility and decorum and respect. and barbara bush said i may not agree with your politics, but she could see beyond that. and i think it's -- it's sad that we don't see that as much today. it's sorely missing in our

national discourse. i would say i got a couple a couple of days ago from a butler who worked for the bushes. he excitedly told me that he was invited to go down to the funeral. and this is the kind of people they were. the butlers and maids who worked for them loved them. they were their favorite family to serve. it's because the bushes treated everyone with respect and care good them and knew their names. when someone passed away in the butler's family, the bushes would get on a palestinilane an them. they care good people and treated -- cared about people and treated them well. it's wonderful that they've invited so many of the staff to attend the funeral today. >> yeah. there was even a photograph that's floating around of many of the houston public transportation workers who were wearing those iconic strings of pearls in honor of barbara bush this weekend. and former secretary of state, then head of the joint chiefs,

told a story about when president george h.w. bush was making transition into office, and barbara bush was asked who will be dressing you in the white house. she says, i have my own clothes, and i'm be bringing them with you, thank you very much. talk about the transition from nancy reagan to barbara bush and what she brought to the position in the white house. >> what's amazing about nancy reagan, which i had written about before, is the extraordinary role she played by ending the cold war by encouraging ronald reagan to be a great president and achieve nuclear arms control. and barbara bush and george h herbert walker bush, were part of that, they were in the middle of that. they were helping with his expertise and her goodwill. when she became first lady she continued that. she worked, as he did, with a lot of other people from both parties. they believed in peace, they believed in diplomacy.

george herbert walker bush was very skillful after reagan left in helping to end the cold war and steering the world community. they do represent a great generation. when barbara bush was a i don't think woman, the man she loved was a war hero in the second world war. when george herbert walker bush was a young man, the woman he loved for so many years was rosie the riveter supporting the world and doing what's right for america. they were special people. he is an amazing man, holding hands with her for 70-plus years, is moving and wonderful and special. and they deserved each other in the noblest sense of the word. they both did much for america, and god bless them. >> thank you very much for sharing your memories and the history that you know. we appreciate it so much. >> thank you. >> we'll be having special coverage with wolf blitzer starting at 10:00 a.m. here on

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keith davidson was on the other side of a deal with michael cohen when the two arranged a six-figure settlement payout to stormy daniels in exchange for her silence on her alleged affair with the president. >> now the former employer for the adult film actress is cooperating in the investigation against cohen in new york. and that could affect what

happens to daniels' case in california. here's the latest on the legal drama from miguel marquez. >> reporter: the bicoastal legal drama pitting the porn star against the president has its first hearing in a california federal court. >> the court recognized, to quote the court, that there are gaping holes in the application by mr. cohen and mr. trump to delay the matter. >> reporter: stormy daniels' aggressive button-pushing lawyer michael avenatti wants his case to move forward as quickly as possible. >> it's always been our intention to make sure this case proceeded expeditiously. >> reporter: the stakes enormous if the case moves forward, the president himself could be depose good a $1 -- deposed about a $130,000 payment to adult film actress stephanie clifford, aka stormy daniels, which he denies knowing about. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> reporter: the question but

did he buy her silence about an alleged affair through his trusted and loyal fixer, michael cohen. >> will you file to protect the fifth amendment? >> we're not answering. >> reporter: many question whether michael cohen will assert his right to refuse to answer questions in the civil case while cohen is also the target of a federal criminal investigation in new york. >> i believe the indictment will be issued within the next 90 days. regime in court, avenatti's claims were used against him in an argument that his claims are imperative until they can sort through what the client is charged as avenatti says, then the civil case would have to wait. avenatti says not true, there may be a middleground. >> they can very easily co-exist. and i think the court indicated that the court may ultimately find that when his honor discussed less intrusive means

relating to allowing this case to proceed on a parallel track. >> reporter: citing security tornadoes, stormy daniels did not appear in court after a chaotic appearance earlier in the week in new york for a hearing regarding the fbi raid of michael cohen's new york office, home, and hotel room. lawyers on both sides admitting in court they don't know exactly what was seized and what the focus was in new york last week as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into cohen's business dealings. according to a source, investigators were seeking information about a range of issues including cohen's 2016 hush agreement with daniels. investigators are reportedly also seeking records related to a deal between former playmate karen mcdougal and american media, inc., which prevented her from publicly discussing her alleged ten-month affair with trump. he denies the affair. miguel marquez, cnn, los angeles. all right. other news here. the faa is changing the rules for how airlines inspect their

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victims of the devastating flood we've been watching in hawaii say one of their rescuers threatened to leave them unless they paid him. >> police in kauai arrested a boat operator on extortion and terroristic threats. the man has not been officially charged. people say he'd pick them up and when he got about 200 yards offshore he'd demand money so they felt they had no choice but to pay. >> the man's brother says it was all just a misunderstanding. we'll see how this pans out. look what the people are deal with there. this island of kauai got more than two feet of rain in 24

hours. there were landslides that were just burying a lot of the roads there. what is it going to be like today because we know more of this is on the way. cnn meteorologist. this is one of my favorite islands. the beach where we got married. this is so sad to see. >> these are wet places. they get rain in hawaii frequently. just not this much rain in a short period of time. this is the water vapor satellite. all the bright unicorn colors you see there. that's where all the really heavy rain was. and it kept trailing over the same spots over and over again to the point where you had so much rain. look at some of this. areas of kauai, over 30 inches of rain. 28. even the princeville airport on kauai picked up over 14 inches of rain. and just about 48 hours. you have to keep in mind the highest total in the 48 hours was the 3 2.35 inches. for example, seattle, that's more than they would -- that's

almost what they'd see in an entire year. and miami, they got about half of what miami would see in a year in just two short days. so this is a lot of rain. even for a place that is used to having rain. here's the thing. those original totals were from several days ago. take a look at these. these are from the last 24 hours. areas of kauai picking up an additional 4 to 6 inches of rain. that's going to be the problem. not only are some of the low-lying areas already flooded but the rivers, the creeks, the streams that are there that are already swollen and now you're adding even more rain on top of it to a lot of these locations. now widespread totals likely to only get one to two inches. but it's those heavier pockets where you see the yellows, oranges and reds where you can see as much as four inches of additional rain. and rain is in the forecast for princeville for at least the next several days. >> my goodness. >> not getting any better soon. >> allison chinchar, thanks.

the faa is changing the rules for how airlines inspect their engines. this issued new inspection requirements yesterday for engines like the one that failed, of course, last week on that southwest flight. it killed one person. >> airlines will have to use an ultrasound to inspect the engine not just the naked eye. 20 minutes into that flight, the fan blade broke off. the engine and shrapnel shattered the window. a person was pulled out and later died. the breaking news that north korea says it will no longer need to test missiles. we're following that. >> president trump is welcoming that news but a lot of people are saying is this really a step towards denuclearization? we are live in south korea at the to p of the hour. do stay close. so you're looking for male customers, ages 25-54,

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