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>> a dramatic promise from north korea, no more nuclear tests. >> we put unbelievably powerful sanctions on. >> and it is feisty for republicans even in the reddest of red states. >> i don't pay a lot of attention to the primaries. we are waiting to get behind a republican candidate. >> "inside politics" the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your sunday. a busy week to talk about. the president worried about the investigation of his personal lawyer and angry that everywhere he turns he sees this. >> i think he has an emptiness inside of him and a hunger for affirmation i have never seen in an adult. instead of making hard decisions

by calling on logic or tradition or history it's all what will fill this hole. >> another international leader with trouble back home comes calling. will france's macron fare better than japan's abe. >> we put tariffs on and i'm looking forward to being able to take them off. we have a deficit that is a minimum of $69 billion a year. >> and there is plenty of skepticism. north korea promises two big concessions as the white house prepares for what would be a historic trump-kim summit. >> as you know i will be meeting with kim jong-un in the coming weeks to discuss the de-nuclearization of the korean peninsula. hopefully that meeting will be a great success and we are looking forward to it. >> with us to share their reporting and insights -- to

those hopeful new promises for north korea and the understandable skepticism in the white house in a moment. we begin this sunday with a president on edge even as he brings in new legal star power. james comey is everywhere. the president isn't happy the former fbi director is getting so much attention. president's twitter feed makes that clear. his talk of michael cohen perhaps turning state's witness that has the president more riled up in private and in public. friends who have spoken to the president use words like fury and steamed to describe the mood about the long time personal lawyer and fixer. that anger was evident in saturday tweets attacking a detailed "new york times" report that included this.

trump critics say they understand the president's anxiety about cohen. >> we ought to construct the michael cohen flip index. on a scale from 1 to 100 determine not the likelihood that he will flip but the number of years of sentencing he is facing and the point at which he will flip. if he confronts between 10 and 15 years in jail then he is going to sing like a cunanary. >> so much happened this past week related to the investigation it is hard to try to cover it all. why is the president so on edge? if you look at the "new york times" story he lashed out at yesterday very detailed in sourcing and reporting by one of the best reporters who covers the white house and the president attacks it on twitter.

it's the last part about it. he says he is worried about michael cohen perhaps flipping if it means lying or making up stories. this one is under the president's skin. >> that's absolutely true. i think we don't have evidence yet that michael cohen is being investigated by the southern district of new york for any crime related to work he performed for president trump. i think we are speculating right now. i think it would be important to establish that he is being investigated for work performed while working for trump. i think all the evidence suggests otherwise that the crimes he committed were for businesses on the side and his legal work was sort of secondary and had very few clients. >> that is what makes it so interesting is when you talk about the president calling friends and asking the questions and people keep talking about will michael flip.

you only care if there is incriminating evidence. >> what evidence does the judge allow to be used. what exactly they are allowed to bring forward and whether that implicates the president. we know michael cohen's attorneys try to limit the scope of the president and his legal team and limit the scope of what evidence they can use. this will take some time to decide before the end of next month. this is not -- determining how much evidence they are allowed to use and what the evidence shows. >> what has been at the core of the mueller probe and the core interest of all of us around the table the extent of which there is russian interference in the

election. but as we all know the boundies of what a special counsel can do go much further than that. part of what is so frustrating is that it is his feeling or concern that everyone is out to get him and will get him on anything and will have to do with a business deal. what if someone has his tax returns and they come out? it's not knowing where the boundaries end and knowing michael cohen has been through decades. >> the president keeps saying i want this shut down. michael cohen investigation has been handed over to federal prosecutors in new york. now we have two federal investigations that involve people very close to the president. one of the other big headlines was rudy giuliani to the rescue. has a relationship with bob mueller that dates back decades.

they were both federal prosecutors at the same time. mayor giuliani through 9/11 was in new york. he thinks he can sit down with bob mueller and say what are your issues? is he the only one who thinks that sph. >> eventually one of the trump lawyers will be right about this. it will be a couple of weeks. i think this is another example of the president wanting people around him and in this particular case on his legal team that make him feel comfortable and tell him things that they might want to hear and may not reflect the reality. we simply don't know how much longer and i don't think rudy giuliani has inside information. could he start negotiating something other trump lawyers weren't able to do? perhaps. i have a little skepticism that that relationship is going to be very fruitful beyond maybe --

slightly more pleasant to the special counsel. >> one thing that seems different this sunday compared to last sunday and two or three sundays ago is that most people think even though this is a tough business to predict the president he is less likely to make a run at firing mueller. in part because rudy giuliani said so many complimentary things about bob mueller. if you are going to have a special counsel bob mueller is a man of integrity and character. this is one of the questions of the president this week. >> they have been saying i'm going to get rid of them for the last three months, four months, five months. and they are still here. so we want to get the investigation over with, done with, put it behind us. >> and one of the interesting new wrinkles i think rudy giuliani gets a little period of grace here.

the "washington post" reporting that jeff sessions told the white house he might have to leave his job if the president fired his deputy rod j. rosenstein. so again do we know the president is not happy with his attorney general but that would be not only public relations debacle debacle. >> one is that rosenstein is trying to give some assurances and the president has given assurances that he is not the target of all of this. the president's assurances are only true as long as it is true. we heard rex tillerson was around until he was totally not around. at this moment the president's calculations of the white house is there is more upside to acting magnanimous.

>> rosenstein has been shrewd in how handling capitol hill. he has been providing some documents to alleviate some concerns. a few weeks ago there was talk of holding him in content and impeaching him. he is the one who allowed the comey memos to come forward and be sent to capitol hill at the request of the republicans. he is allowing critics to back off for now. >> to the point about the critics, james comey was viewed by most people as a threat to the president. former fbi director took copious notes. we will see where the special counsel investigation goes. in the court of public opinion comey in the eyes of most has hurt himself by getting in a petty battle with the president. allowing trump critics who think all of this is a farce to say this guy has a bias against the president. >> i think he also hurt himself

by the fact that his memos reinforce the impression of trump that i think a wide swath of the american public already has. they don't disclose anything we already know or anything clearly criminal or damming. i think that helps the president even if it confirms the negative things we know about him. >> it's the double paradox we live in. up next, president trump, we know he values personal diplomacy but there are limits. japan's prime minister got a round of golf. first remembering barbara bush. her son sharing lessons from the woman they lovingly sometimes call the enforcer. >> we learned not to take ourselves too seriously. we learn that humor is a joy

that should be shared. we learn to strive to be genyn. her authentic plastic pearls, not coloring her hair. she was beautiful until the day she died. her hugging of an hiv aids patient at a time when her mother wouldn't do it. standing by her man with poetry and a thousand other ways barbara bush was real and that is why people admired her and loved her so.

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we think eventually they would let go. the two presidents have this in common, tough political climates at home. >> here in this office i'm not the one to judge and in certain way to explain your people what should be your president or consider because of this investigation. your president is less credible. >> do you ever wonder whether he will serve his full term? >> i never wonder that. >> remarkable question. chris wallace because this president is under investigation macron steering clear. we saw personal diplomacy works with the president. with prime minister abe of japan they had a round of golf. there are limits. prime minister abe got pretty much nothing of what he wanted

from the president. macron wants the president to stay in the deal. is there reason to believe he has played the trump play book and is there reason to believe the president will give him what he wants? >> there are reasons why the president may consider some version of staying in the iran deal. they probably don't hinge on the personal relationship with macron. if they did the u.s. would be back in the paris deal. feelings are really important to president trump. when we talk to world leaders from any other country they say there are one or two guys who can talk to trump and make an impression. he is important but from all the folks i talked to behind the scenes inside the white house, national security council, state department and so on and so forth, it is not going to hinge on what macron wants. >> we see time and again with

trump meeting not just with foreign leaders and members of congress he suggests that he is willing to do what they want on a wide range of issues even suggesting perhaps getting back into tpp and things that would be shocking to candidate trump who ran against those issues, but we'll see if he follows up with things he may suggest he is open to with macron with actual action. that is the ultimate question after -- >> i think that is a great point. foreign policy analyst pointed out trump sometimes has bad phone calls. we saw transcripts leaked of phone calls with prime minister of australia. his meetings always go well. we saw him do 180 degree pivot on gun control. i think he is likely to tell macron that he is open to a lot of things that he isn't actually open to. i think the meeting is likely to go well but is unlikely to

concede anything to him in the long run. >> is it just because macron is a relatively new president of the france? macron gets dinner and tour of mt. vernon, going to arlington and getting state dinner. angela merkel who is more senior leader in europe, bigger economy, she has been around longer and viewed as senior player with how to deal with putin she gets a meeting. she has been much more public about her disagreements with the president. is that what this is about? >> this is sort of a personal thing. angela merkel sort of represents western liberalism that trump ran against. you can point to her policy on syria or not always syrian refugees coming into europe as sort of something that was animated a lot of what became the trump movement and similar movements across europe. macron is sort of -- he is

somebody who comes independently. he came from one of the parties there but he comes very similarly to trump almost above party or separate from party. i think that is something that the two men have in common in ways that merkel and trump are really completely different -- >> very different sets of issues. both have domestic political concerns they are dealing with that will make it interesting. it comes at a time where you see turmoil and turnover. the new national security adviser is viewed as more hawkish on the issues. and you have the public spat between the woman who we thought was the star of the team, nikki haley sending a message back to the white house, with all due respect i don't get confused. this is over the idea that last sunday she said there were new sanctions coming against russia

and then the president pulled the plug. they said it was a mix up. does this have impact on the meetings that you have a little turmoil and new face snz. >> i think they just take a step back that the foreign policy team will look a bit different assuming mike pompeo gets confirmed you will have similarbly more hawkish team. i think mattis used to have rex tillerson as a strong ally in the meetings. he is going to be a little bit more isolated. he has been a voice for caution in the debate over what to do in syria. he was an advocate for a smaller bombing. he was victorious in that debate. it will be interesting in the debate over the iran deal and north korean negotiations how these things play out. >> we are seeing bolton.

the initial word was he is not going to make media changes. three days later there were media changes and the deputy he named is former pentagon and transition team official who the back story is and had a lot of tensions in terms of mattis. so we'll see whether this is bolton challenging mattis. a lot to watch there. >> going to be tested. >> france coming. north korea says it is ready to stop nuclear and missile tests. is it a bluff or proof the president's hard line is getting results? discover a new take on nude. new matte ink un-nude from maybelline new york. unconventional, unexpected nudes. liquid matte formula. up to 16 hour wear. go un-nude with attitude. maybelline's matte ink un-nude. only from maybelline new york. maybelline's matte ink un-nude. >> vo: they're getting by starting with miracle-gro potting mix and plant food. together, guaranteed to produce three times the harvest.

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fury. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. >> rocketman should have been handled a long time ago. i am going to handle it because we have to handle it. >> president's critics didn't like that tough talk but a stunning announcement on north korean state television kim jong-un is prepared to stop testing nuclear weapons. the rationale is that advances in north korean military capabilities are now verified. it is a dramatic overture as preparations continue for a planned summit in may or june. president trump does see progress and wants to test those promises face-to-face. >> if we don't think it is going to be successful we won't have

it. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we are not going to go. if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful i will respectfully leave the meeting. i like always remaining flexible and will remain flexible here. i have gotten to this point. >> it's hard to describe how widespread the skepticism is. you will find it inside the white house and in democrats and republicans. you will find it at every foreign policy think tank in town. will they cheat? is it a bluff? but the leader of north korea went on state television in his country and said i'm willing to give the united states some of the big concessions that the president wanted. >> still stops short of what the administration wanted initially which is a full denuclearization of this country and the things

the north koreans are saying or similar to the past. to me the question is whether or not they are coming in in a position of strength or weakness. in some ways you can argue they are coming in at strength. they had multiple missile tests and brought the united states to the table. in some ways the president getting this forum and previously now we know with the cia director, secretary of state nominee mike pompeo. what does the united states get in return. >> some may be answered this week when you have the north korea/south korea dialogue. the deals broken in the past by kim jong-un's father. interesting take. want to show you the start of the deal giving president

clinton some credit here. one of the more thoughtful analysts says this is probably because of some of the president's hard line but kim jong-un comes with a big ask. >> president trump has shown he is not going to allow anyone to upstage him. you have a new national security adviser who talked about attacking north korea. you have all sorts of events. by the way, he needs sanctions relief because it is pretty clear that the u.n. sanctions, u.s. sanctions are starting to contradi constrict the flow of money to kim. >> does the president give him something without getting everything? in the sense that the president wants total denuclearization. you have verifiable inspections and take away missile programs. what japan is worried about is

that you get them to stop testing intercontinental ballistic missiles and then you give sanctions relief and keep medium range missiles in place. >> besides what a meeting with the president of the united states and other meetings that kim is having, the legitimacy that that confirms on kim. the only thing kim cares about is his nuclear program and what that means for him and he feels like he needs to have this nuclear program. so i think there is a lot of reason here to be very, very skeptical and i think even within the trump administration there is a lot of skepticism as they are prepare frg this meeting that as reagan said trust but verify, verify first and then see where we go from there. >> talking to keep talking has a purpose in and of itself. for a lot of people in the

foreign policy community just being able to have some kind of resumption of dialogue that staves off tests and acts of aggression. i think you're right that validating kim is the biggest gift the president can give. in exchange there are three americans being held by the north koreans. something that this administration -- >> the question is do cracks come up, do south koreans say they are at the table? that's the question, do the cracks turn up and what does the president of the united states do. one of the dynamics is will the president have a secretary of state? looks like he will. the first democrat to come out and say she will vote for mike po pompeo. you see the other trump state democrats most say they are undecided. is this enough math or are we

waiting on jeff flake. is heidi heitkamp enough? >> she is probably enough. i think there will be some other democrats. i bet joe mansion will vote for him, as well. all you need is one democrat to break ranks if all republicans besides rand paul vote for pompeo to be confirmed. tomorrow will be the first time that we know of where the secretary of state nominee does not get a favorable vote in the senate foreign relations committee. he is going to get unfavorable recommendation. nevertheless they will use procedural maneuvers to move him to the floor and almost certainly get confirmed on the floor. it shows you the part and nature of the senate. >> a lot of regrets about

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republican party now like it or not. and the grass roots antiestablishment anger that trump tapped is alive and well in 2018. the 2012 republican presidential nominee mitt romney was forced into a primary because he failed to win enough support before the votes were counted romney tried to answer complaints of some who view him as closer to the washington, d.c. establishment than to utah conservatives. >> some people i have spoken with today say this is a david versus goliath race but they are wrong. none of this is david. david was a man of god. i'm not goliath. washington, d.c. is goliath. >> nobody running the work in washington, d.c. likes washington, d.c. >> they stay in washington, d.c.

>> romney will have a primary now and most likely the republican nominee because you have much more conservative people at the caucuses and convention. it shows you the tensions in the party that help donald trump ride his way to nomination and presidency. some of it is about trump and some has nothing to do with trump. >> i found it surprising of this being a hard core convention goers support the more conservative candidate. he barely came in second. this was viewed in a lot of part that he was going to walk into office possibly romney could have a fight on his hands. you think more broader electorate he probably should be okay. it shows you are a member in this primary. there is a lot of frustration and resistance on both sides to more establishment type

candidates. >> it's a reminder that the disruptive climate, trump rode the wave. we had that out there. in the democratic primaries and also in the republican electorate. you see the president stoking it every day. he is watching fox news. gop lawmakers asking sessions to investigate comey and hillary clinton. that's one thing that makes republicans worry every day what will he do to stir up the environment. he is so different and disruptive. we see the complaints. the angst from farm state republicans. jonathan martin was out in north dakota. it's a farmer who voted for trump. if he doesn't understand what he is doing to the nation by doing what he is doing he is going to be a one term president, plain and simple. the disruption of trump and the

rebranding of the republicans is another one of these dynamics. >> i would caution as we talk about this against reading too much into what happened to romney at the convention. when it comes to the primary i imagine he is going to win pretty handily. utah is a republican state, not a very conservative state. it's much more of mainstream republican state. so the other side of this is that there is another side to the republican party not necessarily of course willing to pull the lever because the alternative was hillary clinton. i think i will be watching this as we dpgo into 2018. where is the other side? i think it is soft support for trump. where do they go? are they active, as well?

are they disillusioned by the party. >> it's a choice every republican has to make. do you stand next to trump, stand with trump? do you want a lot of separation? are you an anti-trumper? this is the most interesting transformation in american politics. remember 2016 primaries and donald trump saying national enquirer had a story? president trump talked bet that. he tweeted saying heidi cruz was not attractive. here is ted cruz 2016. >> donald is a bully. this man is a pathological liar. the man cannot tell the truth but he combines it with be a narcissist. the man is utterly amoral.

real men don't try to bully women. it's an action of a small and petty man. i don't make a habit out of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my family. >> that was then. this is now. ted cruz in time. president trump, the fact that his first year disoriented and distressed members of the media is not a bug but a feature. wow. >> he is up for reelection in 2018 this year. he needs those trump supporters in his state for what is emerging. >> this is why people don't like and don't trust politicians, case in point. >> our reporters share from their notebooks next including more bad headlines for scott

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one last time ask our great reporters to share something from their notebooks and help get you ahead of the political news around the corner. >> i am keeping my eyes on all signs for what will happen on the iran deal next week. we know that between macron's visit and angela merkel's visit friday a lot of ground will be covered. there are a couple other things i watch for, any phone calls and interactionwise israelis and saudis and perhaps chinese and any paperwork that the european political director have been trying to put together with the u.s., something to actually give the president to say can you stand by the deal if we can do this. >> and john bolton wanting the last word. >> behind the scenes president

trump's pick to be cia director about her role in the 2005 episode of the destruction of the cia video tapes that depict harsh interrogation techniques. she has not alleviated concerns on this committee. she said she was ordered to carry out the destruction of the tapes. she wrote a cable that she said she did not think would be sent to cia field officers to destroy the tapes. her superior moved forward without her knowledge. the cia trying to push back declassifying sections of a report from 2011 to say that she did nothing wrong. members still have a lot of questions. they want more records declassified and a big sticking point to have confirmation hearing next month to determine whether or not she gets the job. >> michael. >> we are in the middle of the public comment period for

tariffs on china that the administration is proposing and the white house is saying these are a tool a means to an end in order to get china to behave properly. fair but free trade is the line. there is a view within the white house that tariffs are actually good as a good, that they can help reduce foreign investment and increase domestic investment. that is not a view held by the vast majority of people in the white house. there is one issue which is that it is a view that one very important person is receptive to. >> i'm back on scott pruitt watch. we reported that contrary to pruitt's public denials that the lobbiest giving him a cut rate deal on rent had business during the time he was living in the home owned by him. the lobbyist firm filed a report

that indicated that that lobbiest was lobbying during that time. pruitt looks like caught in another difficult situation at a time when the leadership of the agency is already under scrutiny. not sure how long this can last. as you mentioned the trump administration already has three nominees before the senate that need confirmation so it would be really difficult to add a fourth. >> not exactly draining the swamp example at the epa. there is a lot of grumbling among senior republicans about mid term elections and this time it is not about president trump at least not directly. the leadership for months has been imploring republican candidates to raise more money because resources for ads and research and staff more important when the political winds are in your face. new fundraising reports show way more republicans on the short end of the money chase. the senate gop challenges in missouri and north dakota well

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