>> you'll probably spend 20 to 30 seconds per body part. people can do it too much if you're on there for like 20 minutes. you don't want to damage the muscle tissue or connective tissue. >> it's not an activity that feels wonderful on your body. it's kind of intense but i find that after you're done and spend a little time on those sore spots, it's amazing the release that you get. north korea announcing it will stop conducting nuclear tests. >> the first time that the president of the united states and north korean leader are going to sit down face-to-face. >> he needs cash. that means he has to talk to trump. >> all it is is a freeze of something that kim jong-un has already proven he can do. >> michael cohen is going to flip on this president. and he knows where the bodies are buried, or at least many of them. >> i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. >> the fact he arranged for these memos to be leaked and thought they were classified raises serious questions about his judgment and about his

integrity. >> she truly believes that she'll be wonderfully received in the arms of the loving god and, therefore, did not fear death. >> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christie paul. >> top of the hour now. there have been decades of name-calling and threats and defiant launches. this morning there's an unexpected pledge from north korea that 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 but is already being praised by some of the country's toughest critics. it's worth noting what is not in the pledge, however. there's no mention of short-range missile tests. no promises to let weapons inspectors into the country. no plans to get rid of the missiles and nuclear warheads the country already has. but the country does claim it has, quote, completed its nuclear weapons goals.

>> translator: under the proven condition of complete nuclear weapons, we no longer need any nuclear tests. midrange and intercontinental ballistic rocket tests. and the nuclear test site in northern area is also completed its mission. >> kim jong-un's pledge is drawing praise from president trump who says the move is very good news for north korea and the world. >> cnn's abby philip joins us live from florida where the president is now. president trump also says that he's looking forward, of course, to meeting with kim jong-un soon. >> that's right, victor. the president has been striking an optimistic tone about the prospect of this meeting for several weeks now. and last night, he tweeted twice about the developments in north korea saying in his second tweet, this is very good news for north korea and the world. he called it big progress and he said look forward to our summit. now the president is trying to have this meeting on the books

by the end of may or early june. one of the problems is that there needs to be some kind of demonstration that north korea is actually serious about denuclearization. that's a big concern for u.s. allies. japan and south korea who want to see not just words coming out of this regime but also actions toward the ultimate goal of ridding it of nuclear weapons. and while this announcement is welcome as a step forward, there is still, as you just mentioned, a long way to go here. but president trump has already sent one of his most senior national security officials, cia director mike pompeo to meet with kim jong-un over easter weekend in a secret meeting. and the president said that pompeo and kim jong-un developed a kind of warm rapport and they were making preparations for this meeting trying to decide on a possible location. this week also president trump met with shinzo abe, the prime minister of japan, to hash out some of these concerns. in the context of those meetings with the japanese, he actually

delivered a message to north korea which is that if he doesn't feel like there's any progress being made or that the united states is getting what it needs out of north korea, he is willing to walk away, even if he is in the room with kim jong-un. so there are a lot of messages being sent between these two countries ahead of this meeting trying to get the politics in the right place so that both sides can come out of it with manage of a win here, victor and christie. >> abby philip, thank you. now this is just the latest installment in a back and forth that has gone on between the u.s. and north korea for more than 25 years. the two countries had virtually no diplomatic relationship before the 1990s. since then, there have been several eras marked by talks and deals and then eventually breakdowns. >> the first bush administration was marked by limited engagement. trying unsuccessfully to get north korea to comply with an international nuclear agreement. and then under president

clinton, talks stalled when north korea started developing weapons grade plutonium. then they restarted when former president jimmy carter visited, paving the way to north korea, promising to dismantle their nuclear reactors. >> the u.s. and north korea continued talks in 1996 and again in 2000 with a visit from madeleine albright. then the george w. bush era begins. north korea is suspected of violating the 1994 deal by secretly enriching uranium. another deal follows in 2005 when the north agrees to abandon its nuclear program and then they conduct their first nuclear test the very next year. >> and under president obama, north korea conducted a second nuclear test. former president clinton visits pyongyang to free two american journalists. and after kim jong-un came to power in 2011 we've seen only two official negotiations, one of them was a 2011 deal from north korea to freeze its nuclear weapons program in exchange for food. >> that broke down when they tested a rocket the following year. the u.s. then announced a policy

of strategic patience. no more formal talks until the north commits to denuclearization. that continued until last year when the trump administration shifted toward a policy of increased pressure and informal engagement. clearly a lot to talk about this morning. joining us, phil mudd, cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cia counterterrorism official. good morning to both of you. >> good morning. >> phil, let me start with you. in the context of the promises made, promises broken, what's your degree of confidence? what's your reaction to this announcement from the north? >> well, obviously, it's a good step but count me more on the skeptical side than on the confident side. two basic questions -- probably 30 questions but let me give you a couple. number one, it looks to me like kim jong is not saying that he wants to remove his ballistic missile and nuclear capability.

he said we accomplished what we wanted. is this him trying to be accepted by the globe as a nuclear power? or is this him saying, which i didn't read in the statement, that he's going to reverse what the north koreans have accomplished. i think there's too much optimism on this one. second question, if we believe that the north koreans are serious, i don't see anything that gets into things like, what the verification measures are. would they let inspectors on site? what would those inspectors do? the big question is is this is reversing what the north koreans have done or acknowledging they are a global nuclear power for the future? >> he does care about how he is viewed on the international stage but, sam, the other question here is, what does kim jong-un want from this at the end of the day when we know a meeting is coming shortly face-to-face with president trump? >> i look at this from a fact or fiction perspective.

i'm a cynic. i think it's a fact that this is a positive step at least in the short term. we have at least a short-term de-escalation in tensions in the region. look back six, seven months when she w we had threats of missiles flying at the united states. this is a positive step. i do think it is fiction that kim jong-un in a matter of months did a complete 180 and decided to take complete and verifiable steps toward denuclearization for nothing. and that gets to, what would we have to give kim jong-un for him to do what we want? and we have to think about what kim jong-un cares about. first, he cares about himself more than anything. so i would imagine that whether it was during mike pompeo's secret visit to north korea or through some other channel, we've given kim jong-un some kind of guarantee that we're not seeking regime change and that he can stay in power. second, he cares about his international credibility. and phil alluded to this. i think he may be seeking some kind of recognition that north

korea achieved a nuclear capability and is on par with other nuclear countries. i think he wants that positive branding. third, he cares about money. he wants to have the money that he needs to lavish on his military and his other hobbies so i think he may be looking for lifting pressure or some kind of sanctions relief or assistance of some other kind. and finally, he does care about his image on the peninsula. we've heard him talk about trying to reunify north and south korea. he may be looking for some kind of pathway for him to be viewed as a unifier in chief between north and south korea. >> and those possibly decisions or those offers of what will come in exchange might have come from the u.s. might have come from the meeting with president xi a couple of weeks back. phil, the last nuclear test was back in september. based on what we know and what we've seen, the successes and

failures, is it possible that this statement is accurate, that the testing is complete? not that they could really have now this nuclear-tipped icbm? >> i think it's possible, but the big problem you have in this case, the same problem with the iraq situation years ago is confidence in the u.s. intelligence and other western security service capabilities. south korean capabilities to eninsure that we really understand what's happening in north korea. we learned from the iraq example that weship the be overconfident in understanding how far the north koreans have come. even basic questions of where their developmental facilities are. so one of the big questions coming into this is we've seen, as you're talking about, victor, what's happened in tests both on the nuclear and missile side but i'm not sure that we're seeing everything there is. and that puts a premium on a question i think the north koreans are going to be uncomfortable with. can we have inspectors on the

ground from the west or from the u.n. that verifies what the north koreans say. the details here are going to be a lot tougher than people think. >> sam, we have to remember there are three americans still being held prisoner in north korea. what does the president do with that? >> the president spoke briefly about this during his press conference with shinzo abe. but this has to be on the table if president trump meets kim jong-un. and it's entirely possible that kim jong-un does release these prisoners ahead of the talks to increase a positive momentum. and i certainly hope so for the prisoners' sakes and their families. >> phil mudd, samantha, thank you for your insight. let's talk about michael cohen. he said he'd take a bullet for the president but given recent developments in his case, some think he may be reevaluating this promise. what could it mean for president trump if this man flips? plus, president trump again is trying to delegitimize the mueller probe. this time by saying it's illegal

because it was, in his view, based on leaked, classified documents. what could it mean for the future of the russia investigation. and the world is remembering former first lady barbara bush today. we are going to talk about some of the more moving statements and stories about her from people who got to know her. stay close.

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this morning. >> i think it's rich that he's talking about whether or not there's been information leaked, especially after he, of course, met with the russians in the oval office. i don't think there's a great deal of importance on whether or not or how the special counsel at this point came about. there's been an act. it's been authorized. and, remember, this is a follow-up to basically what all of our intelligence agencies said about russia meddling in the election. could have been a special counsel appointed under a number of circumstances. i think this is another example of the president simply getting excited about something and trying to cast doubt on the investigators and the investigation. that's what he's done from the beginning. the way he's tried to come about and boost his own credibility is to attack the people looking at him. >> joining us now, joey jackson, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. joey, good morning to you. >> good morning, victor. >> what do you make of the president's logic there? >> you know, i have to say that we have to know and understand who the president is.

and just to be fair and trying to be objective, we know that he is the deflector, distractor and distorter in chief. i say that with no malice, but when something happens, he sends out a tweet and has everybody running somewhere else. of course you're going to deflect, distort, distract because this imperils your presidency. everyone is talking about the russian probe. everyone is talking about mueller. he is attempting, i gather, to do other things for the american people. but he's mired down in this entire mess. and so whatever he can do in order to get people distracted from the main issue, which is what was the nature of the collusion, if any, with the trump campaign, you're going to do. we're here to talk law but not to understand the gravity of the politics involved. and then the other point is he has enormous following. and as soon as he sends something out on twitter, millions of people get it. you'll have conspiracy theorists

running around with that, oh, it was comey. that's right. he leaked classified information. it shouldn't have been started in the first place and it's pure nonsense. there's been 19 indictments. there's been five guilty pleas. we know there's more to come. there's separate investigations in the southern district we know of. and so i just am not buying the whole conspiracy theorists of it's an illegitimate investigation. it should end now. >> yeah, this is -- there may be the president venting. he won't fire rosenstein. they are still there was his last statement on them. but the president has done this several times before. okay. let's move on to this stormy daniels development here. we know that the attorney, keith davidson, who represented stormy daniels and karen mcdougal in their hush money deals related to the president and these alleged sexual affairs is now cooperating with that federal investigation as you mentioned in the southern district. from the criminal defense

attorney's perspective, what does that mean that he's now supplying limited electronic information? we're talking e-mails here? >> we certainly purpose e-mails, text messages, any communications that may have gone on between him and michael cohen. and from a defense perspective, you're concerned. whenever anyone is cooperate with the government and, of course, it's always good to be on team america. they protect you. they coddle you. you don't have to worry about any criminality as to you, if there were any because we'll clean you up and make your the best witness available and you're going to testify. let's understand this is a significant development. why? we know they have some recordings that michael cohen had. but there are a few things they are focussing on. number one, the investigators want to know and the attorneys want to know how were you really acting? was what the relationship like? were you acting as an attorney for the president? acting in a familial capacity? how was michael cohen acting? that's significant and they'll glean that from their

discussions with the attorney now cooperating. what was his intent in settling and resolving these issues? did it have going to do with the campaign? well, 11 days beforehand, kind of suggests it does. was it an in-kind campaign contribution? and then number three, following the money. where did the money come? do you have any knowledge when you were sent this money? was there a statement about where he was getting it? and the final thing, the final thing is, what was the president's knowledge? if you were representing him, what were the conversations like? was donald trump directing you to do this? were you doing this out on your own? a lot of questions will be answered with this limited type of, i gather, agreement or cooperation that he has. it's all coming out. >> the important element in all of this is how does this affect the president? people don't so much care about michael cohen or his fate but what does this mean for president trump? >> i think it means everything. and the reason i say that is because, understand this. the larger issue.

let's focus on the larger issue, victor. that's the president. to the extent that i can get information which is damaging, illegal, criminal, that your main guy has done, right, has engaged in, the government has a way of saying, right, seen it many times personally in cases. we're not so much concerned about you. we have a mountain of evidence against you. let's invite you into the office to do what's called a reverse proffer. we're going to tell you all of the book of stuff that we have against you but i'll tell you what. we'll forget about all of that if you just tell us about the president and what he was doing, what he wasn't doing, what he was up to, wasn't up to. so the end game is to find damaging information. if you squeeze and squeeze and squeeze cohen, we hear these montages and hear president trump is the best person in the universe. the best negotiator. when it involves you, your family, your children, your wife, your liberty, sometimes you sing to a different tune. last point and that's this. we know and understand that he

could get pardoned. yes, of course, he can. but just because something is a federal crime does not make it a state crime. we also know that new york is seeking legislation that if you are pardoned, we can prosecute you anyone. i believe it's legislation that will pass. remember the political dynamics in new york. i'd be surprised if it doesn't pass that there's some concurrent investigation. >> he said he'll take a bullet for the president. we'll see if he has to take that proverbial one if it comes to charges. always great to have you. president trump's campaign is dismissing a new lawsuit filed by the democratic party along with the trump campaign. the suit targets russia, wikileaks founder julian asaunge and several relatives and associates. they worked with russia to disrupt the election. the president tweeted about the lawsuit saying this can be good news in that we will now counter for the dnc server that they

refused to give to the fbi. former attorney general eric holder tweeted in response to the lawsuit, if the opposition party refuses to protect our democracy, democrats must. other democrats, though, have been more skeptical of the suit. >> i actually think this lawsuit is ill-conceived. and i am not very supportive of it. i think we have a very serious, criminal activity under way in this country by the russians and possibly by those within the trump campaign. and to make this political is actually the wrong thing to be doing. i'm not interested in a political tit-for-tat. i'm interested in getting to the truth and if there's criminal conduct that has been engaged in, holding people accountable. >> president trump's campaign manager calls it a sham lawsuit and a desperate ploy by democrats to raise money, he says. still to come -- cnn's kaley hartung is live in houston for the funeral for former first

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all right. welcome back. just moments ago, we had a conversation about the president's personal attorney michael cohen and the potential he could flip in some investigation involving him and offer information about president trump if there is information to offer, we should say that. there is a story out of "the new york times" late yesterday that a lot of people waking up and reading today. in part by maggie haberman who has been on this network several times. she's a contributor. listen to what she says about the relationship between president trump and michael cohen. this is maggie with anderson cooper. >> michael cohen has, over the years, done all kinds of things at the president's urging because the president wanted them to because he came to sort of intuit what he thought the president would want. it doesn't always work out. sometimes those things were handled in a way that came back to bite the president later.

the stormy daniels case would be one of them. but cohen was basically trying to do right by his boss and was seeking his boss' approval. and trump, time after time, treated him -- trump is very fond of using the phrase like a dog. he treated cohen quite poorly over a period of time. >> well, the president is at mar-a-lago this morning and in the last few minutes, he has now responded to that report and reporter tweeting this. "the new york times" and a third rate reporter named maggie haberman known as a crooked h flunky who i don't speak to and have nothing to do with are going out of their way to destroy michael cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will flip. they use nonexistent sources and a drink, drugged up loser who hates michael, a fine person with a wonderful family. >> he goes on to say, michael is a businessman for his own account/lawyer who i have always liked and respected. most people will flip if the

government lets them out of trouble. even if it means lying or making up stories. sorry, i don't see michael doing that despite the horrible witch hunt and the dishonest media. almost makes it sound even if he does flip it would just be a lie, as he says, the government, if the government gets to them and gets them in enough trouble, this is what they would do and get themselves out of it. this coming from president trump this morning on twitter. >> the president still clearly standing by his man here, michael cohen. we know that the president made a call to michael cohen, of course. it was said just to check in to see if he's okay but a well-timed call, even if it's not about the news of the day or the issue of the moment can be influential. we also know that there was a friend, an attorney who has known the president for some time now who told him that he could not trust that michael cohen would not flip and mentioned specifically in an interview with erin burnet two

nights ago that even if it meant lying or making up stories it was quite possible that cohen would do that to save his own hide. we know the investigation continues. michael cohen is expected to be back in court some time this week but the president putting down a marker. if it was ever ambiguous, up to this point where he stood on michael cohen, he now says that michael is a businessman, someone he has always liked and respected. most people would flip. i don't see michael doing that, despite what he calls the witch hunt and dishonest media. >> this is what president trump, as we said, tweeting this morning. meanwhile, his wife, first lead melania is in houston as they have their final good-byes to former first lady barbara bush. we'll take you live to houston in just a moment. stay close. is not a marathon it's a series of smart choices.

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♪ a private funeral for former first lady barbara bush will begin in just a few hours. several former u.s. presidents and hundreds of others are expected to attend the service. this is at st. martin's episcopal church in houston. >> president trump will not attend in order to avoid disruptions, but first lady melania trump will attend on behalf of the first family. >> kaley hartung is outside of that church. what more can you tell us about what will happen today, the services? >> good morning, victor and christie. it will be a simple service. that's what barbara bush wanted. here at st. martin's episcopal church is where the bush family worshipped more than 50 years. barbara bush taught sunday school here, a member of the

needlepoint club. this could have been planned for any of its congregants. that's what barbara bush wanted. she had a careful hand in planning this. she chose her eulogist. among them her son jeb bush and susan baker, the wife of her husband's secretary of state, and also john meachum, the author and historian who in recent years wrote george h.w. bush's biography. 1500 people have been invited by the bush family to attend today's service. among them, the obamas, clintons, melania trump will be here. president trump saying out of respect for the family and the additional security his presence would require, he wouldn't attend. the carter family won't be attending either. jimmy carter traveling overseas. his wife recovering from a recent surgery. after this 90-minute service concludes, a motorcade will load up in the drive just behind me and process through the city of houston through memorial park and then make its way to barbara

bush's final resting place. it will be about a 90-mile drive to college station. the home of george h.w. bush's presidential library. it is there where barbara bush will find her final resting place alongside her daughter robin who died when she was just 3 years old. victor, christie? >> caylee hartung, thank you. we have more now from washington bureau chief for "usa today" and author of "the matriarch" susan page and a presidential historian, bob naftali. both of you have sat down with this woman, gotten to know her. susan, you're in the process of writing a book coming out in the spring about barbara. and you said you have been able to speak with her every month and that she actually let you read her diaries. there's a lot of trust involved in that allowance. what did you read that really stuck with you? >> you know, actually, i first

met barbara bush in 1980 when george bush was running for president. i was covering my first campaign. for the last six months as i've been working on this biography and speaking with her, i've gotten to know a woman i didn't fully understand. and i think that is one of the things that is interesting about barbara bush. she is more complicated, more interesting and was more influential than i think most americans realized during this extraordinary long career in public service at the side of her husband and then as the mother of yet another president, george w. bush. you mentioned the simplicity of the service. barbara bush wasn't convinced she needed a big funeral. she wasn't convinced a lot of people would want to come to her funeral. on that she was proved to be wrong. >> 1500 people there today. >> so, tim, i think we have a picture of you with barbara bush

and george. apparently taken not too long ago. you have, i understand, a story to tell us about when the cia developed a body double for her husband. something we may not have heard before. is that right? no? >> i don't know about that. >> okay. >> i'm sure someone else might, but my -- i didn't know mrs. bush very well. i had this remarkable opportunity to spend the day with her and the former president and she thanks to my friend john meachum who will be one of her eulogists today. what i was struck by was just as susan said, there is a barbara bush that she didn't fully share with the american people. this is a woman who was in the public eye for 50 years and was a national figure for almost 40

years. and, yet, she managed to hint at this remarkable sense of humor, this remarkable -- this eye for detail that she didn't fully share. and i'm looking forward to seeing what susan writes about her. i will mention that even though she didn't know me at all, she was very quick to make me feel at ease and to have me understand she was going to tease me for as long as i was around her. >> susan, talk to me about, though, because you teased it a little bit about reading her diary. but what did you learn about her that you didn't know before that surprised you? >> well, you know, it was only after several months of interviewing that she agreed to let me look at her diaries. she initially said i couldn't do that and then said it would be all right. she started keeping a diary in 1948 and she kept it until just

before her death. those are a lot of diaries. and the thing that i think has surprised me the most is i thought there would be maybe a different barbara bush in the diaries than the one i was interviewing, and there's not. it's a little more candid. she does a little more of naming names, but the perspective that she had that she presented in the interviews, and actually in her memoirs as well that she wrote after she left the white house, it's all of a piece -- this is someone pretty authentically barbara bush in every one of those ways. that said, the diaries, which i am still reading, have been very interesting and it's a real privilege to see them. >> no doubt about it. was she ready to go as george w. bush had said earlier this week? >> yes, she was not afraid of dying. i think her only concern about passing away was whether she would pass away before her husband. her husband of 73 years. but she was pretty matter of

fact about the reality that we are all mortal. and that was remarkable. that's a reflection in large part of her faith. she didn't talk a lot about her faith in public. she wasn't -- she was very episcopalian in that way, i guess, or presbyterian, which is the church she attended before st. martin's. she didn't seem to proselytize but her faith was a source of deep comfort to her especially as she talked about the death of her daughter robin, when robin was just 3 years old, to leukemia. >> tim, we've been seeing all these pictures. we rarely see a picture of her alone. it's with george h.w. bush. and i think we have a picture we can pull up really quickly from yesterday when he was with her by the casket greeting people coming by to wish him well and to pay their respects. can you imagine him without her? >> no. and you know, they had the

longest marriage of any presidential couple in american history. even if they weren't a presidential couple, after 73 years together, this is a horribly difficult moment, i can imagine, for the former president. i wanted to mention one more thing about mrs. bush. i met her when she was 90. and at 90, she was still not only absorbing the world around her but reacting to it and learning from it. what struck me as amazing is for a woman who had earned the right to turn off, to say, oh, i did my part, she at least at 90 was more than willing to engage, not only with politics but with people and society. my conversation at the end with her had to do with transgender americans, and she wanted to

understand that issue more and those americans better. >> isn't that something. tim naftali and susan page, thank you so much for sharing your memories. we appreciate it. >> thank you. we want to give you a reminder. cnn's live coverage of the funeral for former first lady barbara bush with wolf blitzer today. your company is constantly evolving. and the decisions you make have far reaching implications. the right relationship with a corporate bank who understands your industry and your world can help you make well informed choices and stay ahead of opportunities. pnc brings you the resources of one of the nation's largest banks, and a local approach with a focus on customized insights. so you and your company are ready for today. that i served. of the fact

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