we have a long way to go. thank you for joining "inside politics." join us tomorrow. don't go anywhere. wolf starts right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. it's 1:00 p.m. thanks so much for joining us. we're following breaking news. we're just five days away from president trump's very high-profile summit with north korea's kim jong-un. a crucial ally in the region is now weighing in. the president is meeting right now with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe at the white house. the prime minister says he wants to make sure he's on the same page with president trump, his words. the two leaders will hold a joint news conference right at the top of the hour. we'll, of course, bring you that live. you're looking at live pictures coming in from the white house right now. just moments ago, the president said he expects the summit with the north korean leader to be

very fruitful. >> and this will not be just a photo op, this will be, at a minimum, we'll start with perhaps a good relationship and that's something that's very important toward the ultimate making of a deal. i would love to say it could happen in one deal, and maybe it can. they have to denuke. if they don't denuclearize, that will not be acceptable. we cannot take sanctions off. the sanctions are extraordinarily powerful. i could add a lot more, but i've chosen not to do that at this time. >> meanwhile, the president apparently is not looking forward to that other summit. we're talking about the g7 meeting with the world's wealthiest nations. that begins tomorrow in canada. it comes as tensions escalate between the united states and several of those tkey allies ovr trade and tariffs and other issues. let's go to senior analyst jeff zeleny. jeff, give us an overview of the president's meeting with the

japanese prime minister happening at this minute. >> the president is meeting with shinzo abe that the president has met with multiple times. he has a very strong relationship with the japanese prime minister. he's played golf with him a number of times. there is no question the japanese prime minister wanted to come to the u.s. to talk about that summit next week with kim jong-un. he also wanted to make it clear that japan has many interests in the region. but the president, after the phot op there, was asked how he isreparing for that summit in singapore. watch what he said. >> i think i'm very well prepared. i don't think i have to prepare very much. it's about attitude, it's about willingness to get things done, but i think i've been preparing for this summit for a long time as has the other side. i think they've been preparing for a long time also.

so this isn't a question of preparation, it's a question of whether or not people want it to happen, and we'll know that very quickly. >> reporter: wolf, that is very interesting. of course the president has been preparing for this behind the scenes. he's been learning some things about kim jong-un, but that is typical of his style saying, i'm essentially just letting the meeting unfold and his charisma and personality can take over any details, perhaps. that is something that some of his advisers are wondering about. because of course he has a lot on his plate. he's going to the g7 in canada. he certainly is going to face the wrath of many of our longstanding allies here, even as the north korea summit is looming with a foe. so certainly an interesting five days of diplomacy, no question. but the president playing it pretty calm there saying he doesn't have to prepare all that much. we'll see what his aides have to say about that, wolf. >> he's obviously got a lot of work to do to try to repair the relationship with those key allies. he'll be meeting with the leaders of not just canada, but

france, the u.k. and germany at this summit in quebec starting tomorrow. >> reporter: no question. and all the u.s. allies and all essentially to a country furious at the president over his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum and other matters here. so certainly he is trying to use that as a hard line stance in other negotiations on a nafta and other matters. but he's largely at odds with his own republican party here as well. red state republicans very concerned about the escalating rhetoric and certainly what that is going to do for farm prices. you know, the price of automobiles, et cetera. the president not eager to go to the g7, we're told, because he doesn't want to be lectured to or confronted. but he is going to the g7. he's leaving tomorrow, and from there in canada, he'll be going to singapore where, of course, that north korea summit is occupying most of his time. wolf, all of this is happening

as he's been tweeting up a storm this morning about the fbi and the justice department. we'll see him answer questions later this hour at a news conference in the rose garden. wolf? >> even as he's focusing in on the g7 summit in canada, focusing in on the north korea summit in singapore, he is tweeting about the mueller investigation, going after the team over there, the prosecutors. jeff zeleny, we'll get back to you. that news conference coming up at the top of the hour. in the meantime, let's get insight from our panel. we have global affairs analyst tony blink an, shannon pettipiece, and michelle kosinski. the president says he's prepared. he doesn't need a lot of preparation in this historic meeting, the first meeting in decades between the u.s. president and this foreign

leader. >> we didn't see the usual course of having meetings starting at the bottom and then moving up at the top. all of a sudden we have this announcement that a meeting is going to happen, taking some off guard, taking the north koreans off guard, taking some in the administration off guard, so you know that even within the administration, there are questions that are not public as to how well is this going to turn out for u.s. interests? how significant is this going to be? you heard the preside say it's not just going to be a photo op, but we saw expectations seemingly downgraded by the administration itself over the course of 48 hours last week. so i think this is, you know, depending on who you talk to, this is something much different and it seems to keep changing. >> cnn's steven collison has an interesting analysis that he posted on cnn.com. kim will join a stable of autocrafts including russia and

china's xi jinping who has earned trump's gushing praise to the consternation of some of america's oldest friends. at times it seems american foreign policy has been turned upside down. what do you think? >> i was in that sort of remarkable moment outside the oval office where the korean and american delegation were there. they came out shaking hands, posing for photos together. it was a remarkable moment to see, this friendly, warm body language between the president and the north koreans. it certainly is like diplomacy is on its head. i'll add a little on this preparation point, to the point michelle was making, to our report we've been told that the president is doing eight to ten preparation hours a week since this meeting was first announced. pompeo has been doing a lot of the briefings. andy kim, who has led the cia's operations in korea for a while, has also been involved in those. how it compares with other presidents, it's hard to tell, because to michelle's point,

usually you would have more diplomacy on the ground level going into this. >> let's ask tony blinkett who used to work for president obama. how does his statement about he's prepared, doesn't need a whole lot of preparation, he knows what he wants. prepared, for example, how president obama might have prepared for a historic meeting like this. >> why did we spend all that time in all these meetings reading all those briefing looks? apparently you don't have to do it. michelle is right. this kind of meeting would be a culmination of months and months and months of preparation and pre-negotiations at a lower level. they kind of put the cart before the horse. i'm very glad predent tru is pursuing diplomacy. he's creatin an opportunity and we have to wish him success in doing that. but the devil really is in the details. this is an incredibly complicated undertaking. the north koreans have perhaps 60 or more nuclear warheads, dozens of ballistic missiles of one kind or another, and a

program that has spread throughout the country. getting a grip on that, figuring out what we're prepared to give as well as what we're prepared to get, what the sequencing is, what the verification looks like, the monitoring, all of that, incredibly complicated stuff. and what we don't want is to get into a situation where kim gets what he wants up front which is a peace agreement with south korea and the united states and he doesn't give anything. >> he has hundreds of thousands of dollars of military weapons and artillery aimed at millions of people. i want to bring in a white house reporter for the "washington post." josh, you've been doing some excellent reporting. first of all, tell our viewers what you've learned about the president's griping about this upcoming -- tomorrow is supposed to begin the g7 summit in canada. the president, you've reported, if he had his way, he wouldn't

even go. >> reporter: he's not looking forward to it, wolf. he has a number of allies who have didiametrically different positions. leaders try to share facts and info that he doesn't want to hear and try to get him to make deals he doesn't want to make. he's also griping a little bit about trudeau and the recent measures that china made against the united states. the president is looking forward, by all accounts, to being in singapore next week. he keeps telling his friends skpal liand allies about what a historic meeting this could be. but the g7 summit in canada is not looking forward to. >> you don't think he would back out, do you? there was a summit that he passed on. >> when we talked about his frustrations, he said there was

no way he was going to back out of the summit. that being said, we don't know if he's going until the plane takes off. you're warned not to take this president too serious in advance, because a lot can happen. >> you have separate story in the "washington post" today. it'samazing. the president and all of his cabinet were at a fema briefing yesterday at the start of the new hurricane season. once the cameras left, you had access to the audio. how the rest of that meeting behind closed doors went. tell our viewers about that. >> it wasn't about hurricanes once the president left. how he's helping the republican party. he has negotiating powers particularly on airplanes and the government can't negotiate. maybe he'll make a deal, maybe he won't.

the president was in a room with hurricane officials, his cabinet, top people in the administration ostensibly to talk about the hurricane season that just began. once the president began talking, hurricanes was not on his mind. as we've learned time and time again, wolf, the president talks about what he's thinking about at the moment, and he didn't seem to be thinking about hurricanes. >> you barely mentioned puerto rico, is that right? >> right. he thanked governor rick scott in florida for helping in the puerto rico recovery, and in another point in the meeting, he was ticking off storms and he mentioned puerto rico as one of the storms the u.s. dealt with in the past year. there was no rethanking folks on the ground, no medication with disney. >> thank you, josh, very much.

when the president says to his commerce secretary, secretary of the treasury, they're going to uminum into the united states from canada and mexico, and they have the authorization to do so for national security concerns. you used to work on the national security council. explain their rationale. >> there isn't a rationale. it's an entirely bogus argument that somehow these imports are damaging our industries and thus damaging with us. shoulder to shoulder. i see why he doesn't want to go to the g7. it used to be u.s.-led. we're totally isolated. it's not just disagreement, wolf, there is real anger on the part of our closest ool lies. the iran deal and now these tariffs. they're not rekreegt, they're retaliating. it's going to damage us.

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a crisis of credibility. sarah sanders has come under fire with some tough questions defending the president's changing stories and chaos in the west wing. but even as the questions swirl

around her future, sanders says she's very comfortable with her credibility. caitlyn, sande is certainly confident in her capability. how does she handle the pressure for her future? >> reporter: she is under pressure, that pressure of maintaining her credibility while also remaining loyal to president trump here. the strategy she takes is often trump first, accuracy second, as we've seen with her refusal to acknowledge her statement on who dictated that meeting with trump and russian officials. trump said he dictated it in the fall, and sarah sanders saying he did not. that's one example how sanders is under pressure to maintain

her credibility and also answer things the way he wants her to when she's in the press briefings. critics say she's willingly taking on a challenging role to be the face of the administration where the president is at the top, a president who often undermines his own spokespeople and sometimes even himself here, wolf. it's really a deep dive as well into how sarah sanders learned to challenge president trump and to persuade him on certain things where she thinks things are better ideas than what he suggested. a lot comes from watching hope hicks and how she did it before she left the administration in march. sarah sanders' pressure of her credibility also raises the question of how long she can last with an intense role like the ones she's in. she told friends skpand allies wants to stay around for at least another year. certainly, wolf, some people could see her leaving at the midterms if it does come to that because it is such a trying

role. really, the bottom line is the president is his own best spokesperson, he believes, so it's going to be a tough job for anyone filling this position here, wolf. >> there's been a big shake-up, as we know, in the past year in the west wing of the white house among the communications team. she certainly does have a very, very tough job. caitlyn collins doing excellent reporting for us, as usual. thank you, caitlyn. straight ahead, cnn has learned new details from the highly anticipated report of a justice department watchdog about the hillary clinton e-mail investigation. it spares no criticism of the former and fired fbi director james comey. and later summit republicans accuse the obama administration of secretly working to allow iran to take advantage of billions of dollars in the u.s. financial system. we'll have details. stick around. ancestrydna is only $69 for father's day.

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criticism for the former fbi director james comey and new rules for future investigations. that's part of what is expected from the department of justice inspector general's investigation. cnn has learned some details from this highly, highly anticipated report. let's go to our justice reporter laura jarrett. she's joining us, doing a lot of excellent reporting on this. comey and the former attorney general, loretta lynch, they're both being criticized. walk us through, laura, first of all what you've learned about this report that's expected to be released in the coming days. >> reporter: well, wolf, sources tell us to expect a thorough and lengthy review of all the crucial events leading up to the 2016 election. in particular, you can expect a frank assessment of a variety of steps taken by the former top officials at the fbi and the justice department. now, former director comey has said on a variety of occasions that he welcomes this re. he says it should be aired out, in the open. and we expect that it will particularly focus in on his

decision to come out without justice department authorization back in july of 2016 to announce that he had found hillary clinton was extremely careless in her handling of classified information, but also recommending no charges. we also expect it will address his decision to come out just days before the 2016 election in november of 2016 and announce that he was essentially reopening the clinton probe after they found some additional e-mails. but we also expect the inspector general will not pull any punches on former attorney general loretta lynch. remember, she came under scrutiny for that infamous tarmac meeting with bill clinton in the midst of the hillary clinton investigation, wolf. >> it's going to be a 500 identify page report. it will be very, very biting. president trump tweeting about that today. this is what he said. quote, when will people start saying, thank you, mr. president, for firing james comey? joining us now from los angeles, cnn law enforcement analyst,

former special assistant to former fbi director jamie campbell is with us. senior legal analyst laura coates. james comey was always expected to be taken to task by this report. you used to work at the justice department. you were a federal prosecutor. this inspector general, michael w horowitz, i think, has worked on this. >> the whole job of the ig is to ensure that there is credibility and that no one is trying to abuse their power or the system, which is in direct countntradicn to the president of the united states. i, too, was critical of james comey. it should not shock anyone to think there was authority of the prosecutors in charge of that case whether or not to charge hillary clinton, then-candidate

in the and the dnc nominee, it was a difficult decision to make. even rosenthal has talked about that issue. loretta lynch also taken into task on the same vein about this, because it comes into question what james comey had to say about his ambivalence which caused him to take that investigation authority. it may be very impactful. >> josh, you once worked as a special assistant to comey, but the biggest criticism of him is in july when he released his report, he should not have released a recommendation on criminal charges of hillary clinton. the prosecutors, whether a u.s. attorney or assistant or deputy attorney general or the attorney general, himself or herself, they make those announcements,

not the director of the fbi. and the other criticism he received only a few days before the election, he goes out and makes the additional charge against hillary clinton. what's your reaction? because comey has come under enormous amount of criticism for those two decisions. >> that's right, and one doesn't assume the job of fbi director, one of the most powerful jobs, that you'll be held into account and you'll be looked at to determine whether you made the right choice. i think what may potentially come from this report, i think one of the best aspects we can look forward to is some additional guidance or something caudified in law or politics on what the fbi can and cannot do. so far they've taken the stance that you do not interrupt policy that may interrupt the election. and we must maintain fairness and nonpartisanship and

neutrality. i think comey said, i can't do both of those things. when notifying congress that someone was under investigation, i think you have to have something at the end of the day that the fbi can hang its hat on. the fbi to this day will look back on 2016 and describe it as the 25-day flood. if you're in the fbi, they're looking down the street and saying, we have both major party candidates, either directly or indirectly, under investigation, and we have a department of justice leadership that may be compromised, even reputationally, by the attorney general meeting on an airplane with the spouse of the subject of a criminal investigation. looking at all these factors, i think the fbi and the fbi director said the only thing we can do is ensure that the public has confidence and trust in us. it will be up to the american people to decide if it was the right decision. >> don't you think, laura, he should have let the announcement come from the attorney general or the deputy attorney general or someone else other than an fbi director? >> yes.

and the idea of transparency motivates all public figures. it's why we actually believe democratic institutions are where they should be. but the idea is to find out whether that transparency motivation is otherwise bucking the system. the ig report is going to let us know whether there was some political motivation that accompanied that decision to say, i would like to enjoy the credibility and transparency. remember, jim comey on book tour has probably shared a lot of pages of the ig report which means he had complicated the fact that if hillary clinton had won the presidency, how it it would be viewed if he held the information. those in tandem are what the ig is looking into. transparency is nice as long as it's not pre-contextual. >> i think the american people can also relax knowing that the ig is someone who is

independent. this will be an opportunity to look at who was right and who was wrong in serving these administrations. at least for the american people looking for a true, honest assessment, think they can rest assured that this is the office that would do that. >> i'm sure the ig will go into the whole issue, the charge against comey that he leaked sensitive information to a law professor in new york in order for that law professor to leak that information to the news media. i'm sure they're going to get into that as well. we're anxious to get the report. laura coates, josh campbell, guys, thanks so much. we have live pictures coming in from the rose garden over at the white house. the president will be meeting with reporters there right at the top of the hour. he's meeting inside the oval office right now with the prime minister of japan, shinzo abe. they'll have a joint news conference. they'll make opening statements and answer reporters' questions. we'll, of course, have live coverage. and did the obama administration go out of its way

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senate republicans have accused the obama administration of secretly working with iran to buy back sanctions as part of the nuclear deal. listen to this. >> in this case we were told that there was going to be noack asse -- no access to the u.s. financial system because as you recall the sanctions stayed in place with iran. while they were saying there was

no access to doj's financial system, they were actually providing a specific license to iran to be able to convert into dollars and eventually euros. i think it's important they have that oversight. >> cnn global affairs analyst tony blinken who once served as deputy secretary of state. they are very angry that while you were in office, the president was in office, you did this secret deal with iran of $6 billion they would have access to and you didn't inform congress of this. >> with great respect, it's simply wrong. first there was no secret deal. iran had money that was blocked in an account, its own money, that under the terms of the deal it had a right to bring back to iran and it needed some help in getting that done. the secretary at the time, jack loop, briefed to congress at a staff level. there was nothing secret about

this, there was no effort to give iran -- >> were you involved? did you know about it? >> at the time, sure. it was, again, under the terms of the deal. and it was briefed to congress repeatedly. so the idea that there was some kind of secret effort to give iran access to the u.s. financial system, based on this report, is simply not true. >> but you didn't want american banks to help facilitate the transfer of the iranian money the iranians had into dollars so they could get euros, and the banks refused to do so because they thought they would be violating the u.s. sanctions against iran. >> you've got it exactly right, and that's why they needed a one-time license to do that. >> even if they got that one-time license, they still refused to do so. >> the license was never used. but the bottom line is there was no effort to giving iran the financial system, no ability to make transactions in dollars. it was a one-time license to try to help overcome a problem that they had, which was getting their own money back. >> the criticism with this money

was being held up but that the u.s., the argument is it was effectively giving it rathe ira a bribe to go ahead and work out this nuclear deal. >> your honor the ter >> under the term of the deal, iran had to give something. >> but they would lift this part of that sanction, a one-time only lift, before the signing of the agreement, which is part of the criticism that you're getting right now. it was a payoff. >> there was the interim agreement and there was a final agreement. but under the terms of the agreement itself, iran had the right in turn for these extraordinary constraints on its nuclear program, dismantling the entire program up front. the bargain it got out of that was to be able to get back it own money that was frozen in bank account around the world. >> i understand they could get back their own money, but weren't they supposed to get back their own money after the deal had been signed is? >> yes, but wolf, there was an interim agreement ahead of the final deal.

we used that period to be able to negotiate the comprehensive deal we got. it was fully briefed to congress, there was nothing secret about it. what was unfortunate here is the republicans made an issue of this report. no democrats were involved in it. they didn't reach out to any veterans of the obama administration to find out their perspective on what happened. and at the time the secretary of the treasury spoke about this in testimony. at the staff level, there were briefings going on. >> they briefed the members of congress or this was secret? >> certainly after the fact, the secretary briefed this in opening testimony but certainly there were staff level briefings. >> the members of congress, the group of eight or whatever, were notified? is that what you're saying? >> yeah. i would have to verify the exact timing, but i do know that this was briefed by congress and it was alluded to by the secretary. >> this was in advance of the nuclear deal. president trump now says he's not going to ease sanctions

against north korea until there is a denuclearization of the korean peninsula, which is very different than the strategy you have. >> it's kind of ironic that we're talking about this today, because on the very day we're talking about this, the trump administration has apparently cut a deal with zte, this chinese telecomm company, to be let off the hook including violating the sanctions against japan. it's a rather strange happening. >> they're going to give the united states a billion dollars and they're going to allow u.s. officials to go and oversee. looking back on the way you did this one-time lifting of the sanction provision with its treasury department to get the iranians access to $5.6 billion, almost $6 billion, should you have done it differently, with hindsight? >> with hindsight, i would say exactly the same thing. which was, again, we were working to deal with maybe the number one security threat of the united states, which was the fact that iran was on the verge of having a breakout capacity to

build a nuclear weapon. we dealt with it effectively. iran had to get something in the process of making this agreement to, in effect, freeze and roll back. >> you say that one hifr time agreement convinced the iranians to go ahead and sign this deal? >> this was an agreement that made us more secure and our partners and allies around the world more secure. >> i know you were involved in that. ben rhodes was involved in that as well, the security adviser. what was jake's role? >> jake's role was to go to iran and deal with it rathe iranians. >> jake sullivan was working for you as well. when they went to iran for these secret negotiations with the iranians, was congress informed? >> i believe at the time that congress -- certain members were probably informed, but i would

have to go back and check on exactly the time. >> i'm told they only learned about these secret negotiations with the iranians letter but not contemporaneously. >> when you're engaged in this kind of diplomacy, you have to try to see if you're going to get anywhere and find out if there's any there there, and you also don't want the risk of something leaking and blowing up what you're trying to achieve. certainly, once we had the makings of a preliminary agreement with iran, congress was fully briefed and fully apprised of what was going on. >> tony blinken, complicated story but very important. the historians will be looking back on that down the road, i'm sure. coming up, rudy giuliani unleashed. doubling down on his attacks against stormy daniels and the congressional counsel. and a new realization about kim jong-un. demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. this week get boise case paper

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. the lightning rod of president's trump legal team has struck again. >> a group of 13 highly partisan democrats that make up the mu mueller team excludeing him are trying hard to frame him. they are can't come to grips that this whole russian collusion didn't happen. >> the latest on the russian probe meddling in the president elections. a comment about what happened about when president trump called off the summit with north korea. >> well, kim jong-un got back on

his hands and knees and begged for. >> it i think if they said it about president trump, it would be problematic. if kim jong-un lawyer -- he probably doesn't have one. i like rudy, but because you can talk about something, doesn't mean you have to. >> our being next guest, political analyst, ryan, what do you think about the comments about the north korea leader? >> america's mayor is talking too much. the meeting with president trump and kim jong-un has not happened as of yet and for him to say those kinds of things can started some rhetoric war on twitter. who knows? that's the dangerous point. you need to be quite until it happens and let it happen. the great thing about the potential meeting is that they are talking. they are talking.

when you don't talk, there's possibilities that can lead to war. when you go out and say something like that against this volatile leader, kim jong-un, you don't know what he will do. right now, the meeting is set. we have a couple of days and you have to be reful. you can't do that. and senator lindsey graham was right. we saw that a couple of weeks ago. that is dangerous. >> giuliani was not necessarily a national security adviser. kim jong-un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it which is the position you want to put him in. >> that's the thing that is surprising. we thought he was hired for this discrete job of negotiating with robber mueller and being his lawyer on this one issue and all of a sudden inserting he must into the most delicate complicated foreign policy issue

that one can imagine. >> right. >> and it is difficult enough for our allies and adversaries to understand the american political system and who speaks on foreign policy for this administration and to have the president's lawyer out there making a statement like this is really really unusual. i mean, i think giuliani doesn't seem to be restrain in anyway. it doesn't seem like the president asked him to shut his mouth on these issues. >> no boundaries. >> he said that he hasn't heard from the white house and no complaints. he is in israel speak being this stuff. >> you know, i would not be surprised if someone would call him and reign him in. i heard about the white house trying to reign him in before and had expletive conversations and hang up the phone. rudy giuliani is unchecked and no filter. that is dangerous for the president and for this nation.

he's got to stop talking. words matter. >> that does not sound loo i can a person who is having production conversations. >> the fact he is accusing the mueller team of quote, trying very very hard to frame the president of the united states. >> does that sound like someone who is about to let the president sit down and negotiating? it seems like weeks ago when they brought giuliani on, they decided that the entire conversation and political debate is about impeachment and the never go going to be an indictment and pave the way for a political argument and making sure that congress never sees this as impeachable. >> what rudy giuliani said about stormy daniels? >> i think it is terrible.

if what we know stormy daniels is a po arporn star. we don't know if she was a prostitute. you never know what someone would have to do to make a living. i think it is terrible and to once again, someone linked to the president who is saying something negative about a woman, no matter what her situation is, she is viewed in some senses as the victim and they are beating her up. she can fight back, she is good at that. but she is a woman who is trying to clear her name and for him to say that, it is wrong. absolutely wrong. rudy giuliani crossed the line. >> avenatti was on with cooper and said rudy giuliani is a pig.

>> reluctant to attend the g-7 summit in canada and venting to staffers about world leaders. and the visiting prime minister shinzo abe and will have a joint news conference and over at the rose garden, filling up. live coverage when we come back.

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washington, wherever you are watching, thank you for joini us. begin with breaking news standing by from a news conference, you are looking at it live from the rose garden. the meeting comes five days before the summit between president trump and the north korean leader kim jong-un. let's go the white house correspondent jeff zel knee there in the rose garden. jeff, the president said he prepared for the summit next tuesday in singapore and doesn't need more preparation, what else can we expect to hear from the president. >> that was an interesting statement that he made sitting down with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. asked how is he preparing for the summit and he said, look, i don't need much preparation, we have been preparing for a long time. both sides.

it is up to attitudes of both sides more than preparation. there is no question, wolf, behind the scenes there's considerable preparation going on here. the stakes are high for this meeting and the first time that an american president sitting down with a north korea leader and going to be a lot more about body language and relationship. and the president said it is not a photo op. he pushed back on that idea. the white house lowering expectations for the outcome of any meeting saying it is a meet and greet. but the president saying it is more than a photo op and the meeting could extend beyond the slotted time of one day. it could be one day, a couple of days, three days if the meetings are going well in singapore. now, it is scheduled for one day. the meeting with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe one of the president's strongest allies in the region.