i think not. >> he's got a lot of other -- i mean, look, his past is his past. and i think that's part of the reason why he is so uncomfortable talking about all this stuff. >> great to see you, chris. my guess is it's not going to stop, though. thanks so much for joining us. "insid politics" with john king starts right now. welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing this busy day with us. president trump and kim jong-un make history. the president says he trusts the north korean leader to keep his word. one giant concession from the u.s. side, the president promises an end to joint military exercises with south korea. that catches seoul off guard. china calls for interim sanctions on pyongyang, raising fears that kim will get what he want without giving up his nukes. the president believes he made a

significant pitch. >> they have great beaches. you see that whenever they're explodingheir cannons into the ocean. i say, loot that beach. wouldn't that make a great condo? i told him, you could have the best hotels in the world right there. think of it from a real estate perspective. you have south korea, you have china and they own the land in the middle. how bad is that, right? it's great. >> a packed hour ahead, much of it about those high stakes negotiations. president trump on air force i right now on his way home from singapore. that's where we start with pictures that never seemed possible and a deal that's long on promise but short on specifics. hours ago president donald trump, look there, shaking the hand of the north korean dictator kim jong-un. the handshake marked the start of high stakes diplomatic talks. hours later the two emerged and the president pitched the world on a fresh start. >> a really fantastic meeting. a lot of progress.

really very positive. i think better than anybody could have expected. top of the line. we're much further along than i would have thought. >> now, both leaders hailed the singapore document as historic. this piece of paper contains little real commitment. by signing president trump dit, to start the road down to denuclearization. trump said he agreed to a lot more than what's int document. president trump gave up a lot more than he got. just the pictures of equal footing, a propaganda bonanza for a brutal dictatorship. then he caught an allyff guard by agreeing to halt military drills with south korea. >> i'm doing something that i've wanted to do from the beginning. we stop playing those war games that cost us a fortune. we're spending a fortune every

number of months we're doing war games with south korea. and i said, what's this costing? we're flying planes in from guam and we're bombing empty mountains for practice, and i said, i want to stop that, and i will stop that, i think it's very provocative. >> cnn's kaitlan collins at the summit site in e.kaitlan, has t said anything about when we will see tangible deliverance on the north korean promises? >> reporter: they haven't, john. no timetable here at all. right now the plan seems to be to just take their word for it and trust, according to the president, what kim jong-un promised him to do. they're certainly promises that aren't in writing in this agreement that the president ndk kim jong-un signed today after they met for hours and then alone with separate advisers. it has no line about forcing denuclearization to the korean

peninsula, the president said it was just something they agreed to. it doesn't include anything new. there is nothing in this document about timetables, about inspections, about verifications, about icbms. there is none of that in this document. what there is in this document also is anance the president seemingly made to north koreans, and tha that he is going to stop those joint military exercises between the united states and south korea. that is something that caught not only the south koreans off guard but also the u.s. forces who were involved in those drills. so certainly that is something that is causing reverberations. it's unclear what exactly the president got out of this, but what we do know is it's not what the secretary of state mike here, flew all the way from washington to get. that is what is the cvid, complete verifiable denuclearization. that's not what they got, john.

kirby, dan with the "washington post" and margaret talia with bloomberg. kim got and gave nothing, because everything in that document north korea has promised in previous agreements, in some of the previous agreements with a lot more specificity. but in defense of the president, he has a process now, and the leaders met and he says he has a face-to-face promise from kim which in his view makes it better than the pres agreements they walked away from. >> there is an argument here that now he's got him on the record of being committed. it is a new leader, so it's not his father. there is a little bit of a blank page here. he's got him on the record and they can move going forward, increasing sanctions, pulling back on sanctions if they need to. but it wasn't as low as what i think actually happened. there is no substance and nothing of what pompeo predicted

as possible outcomes came to fruition. so it leaves everybody scratching their heads. >> and it leaves pompeo now with the hard task. all the details. >> he's always been the president's point person on this. he is going to be the nexus for the next meeting. it's not going to be trump and kim again next week, at least we don't think it is right now. but it will be pompeo who now has to pick up the ball and run with it. the president sought to make a case for all the things that the u.s. had gotten out of it, but they involve things like the release of those three hostages that north korea had taken as leverage to try to get into these talks. so now there really is a question about concretely how do you move forward? in the short term, the president has the optics of today. obviously, this is theater. he's trying to signal to kim, this is what the relationship colike. tor the rest of the world, for south korea, for u.s. allies in the region, there are a lot of questions right now. >> it's as delicate a dance as

you can possibly do on the international stage for the president of the united states to take the leap to go meet with someone like kim, given his history, given what he's doing currently to the people in his country, never mind his military aspirations. but he is -- he, the president, hasec aion to try to kill him with kindness and bring him along by telling reporters both in the press conference and on his plane before he departed that he very much trusts kim and so forth. it doesn't mean that there aren't people who are apoplectic hearing language from the president of the united states that you traditionally only hear from north koreans. for example, that these military exercises which the president apparently said he was going to stop, or at least postpone, that they are seen as too aggressive, basically, in north korea. >> provocative. >> provocative, thank you. that is straight from the mouth of the north korean dictator.

and it is something that -- you d spe to this better than i, but that the military, they're pulling their hair out, because this is something they absolutely feel is essential for real readiness. it's not just a show of force, it's real readin>> it's an in. healkedboutt as cost. yes, there is a cost tng exercises, but these are investments not just in the security of the peninsula, but in our alliance. think about as we watch this process unfold is what happens to the alliance between the states and south korea? that's going to be a real bellweather about how healthy the process has actually been. >> indulge the patience of our viewers. president bush said he looked into his soul and said he was a good man. president bush would admit that was aig mistake. is president trump right or is he making the same mistake when he says this? >> he is very talented. anyone who takes over a

situation like he did at 26 years of age and is able to run it and run it tough. >> really, he's got a great personality. he's a f y. he's a very smart guy. he's a greatnegotiator. >> he's smart and loves his people. he loves his country. he wants a lot of good things, and that's why he's doing this. >> but he's starved them, he's been brutal to them. he still loves his people? >> look, he's doing what he's seen done, if you look at it. >> in my lifetime i've done a lot of deals with a lot of people, and sometimes the people you most distrust turn out to be the most honorable ones, and the people you do trust, they are not the honorable ones. >> we know this president trusts this guy and trusts his instincts, but to say those things, he loves his people? he loves his peoplbout k jong-un, the most brutal dictatorship, probably, on the planet? it's a risk. >> it's a huge risk, and the

question is, are these words of a president who is incredibly naive about what he has put himself into,r is it part of the way trump operates? we've seen him with a l of different leaders. he can be both charming and he can be offensive as we saw over the weekend with justin trudeau, the prime minister of canada. he had a love affair with emmanuel macron until they got into a nasty conversation on th. so what we don't know is how the president will treat kim jong-un as these negotiations continue. will there be a lot of touches? we know that he makes calls all the time to different foreign leaders. will that now include kim? will he be pushing him? will he be flattering him? will he be warning him? we don't know. but the things he said at singapore are obviously, in his mind, the way to get this moving in a direction that might lead to something. as he says, we don't know

whether it's going to produce. >> listen here to this smart analysis. this is general michael hayden, former director of the cia, talking about if you look back three months, six months ago, people thought war was a distinct possibility. so general hayden says, we're in a better place today. the question is when might we see something actually tangible from the north korean side? >> the north koreans notme with. the new element is that we agreed to stop our annual exercise cycle with our south korean allies. that's actually a pretty significant concession. if you stop the clock right now, though, john, and look at the scoreboard, the north koreans are way ahead on points because that image yesterday of equivalence and the president's language, it's an honor to meet you, he's tough, he's talented, that's a gift that will keep on giving for the north koreans, and frankly, achieves a lotf

their objectives for this process. >> so to continue the score analogy, which is sometimes dangerous, what does the president need? what does secretary pompeo need to cha that? if kim leaves with a healthy lead in deliverables, which he has -- there is no question about that -- there is n wrong with that if you get what you want later in the protscess. what is that? >> in the short term, it's the v word, which is verification. that was as basic as it got going back to ronald reagan, obviously with the sovunion, and even before that. that is something that you can bet is going to be required if there ends up being an actual deal, because -- i was up with senator risch of idaho who is eventually going to be republican head of the foreign relations committee, and he says that he and diane feinstein have got an agreement from the white house that there will be senate observers in any negotiation so

that they get in on the front end to make sure things like verification aren there for if and when there is a deal that the senate is go be asked to approve. i think that -- that's a basic ental. >> you heard the conversations in the state department. what are the final conversations in the final few minutes that president trump is about to sign something that doesn't advance the ball. you could argue that it actually takes it back because it's not as specific as the previous document. what are the conversations about that? >> they'll have to come up with a sequencing plan for verification that is reversibleh the human rights issues. they have to come up with a plan, a framework, a piece of paper that both sides agree to that this is the way we're going to march toward the sequencing forward. up next, the trump administration goes, as we've just been discussing, from trust

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north korea best not make any more threats to the united they will b met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> that wasdent trump in august, a very different tone from the presiden was mad becau jong-un, look at the rate of missile launches from kim jong-un. way up from his father and grandfather, much more belligerent and provocative. 23 of them in the short time the president had been president of the united states. that's why the president was so mad, upset about an arsenal in north korea that was growing. this ist interests the united states most, intercontinental ballistic missiles, but they were thought to have 30 to 60 nuclear

warheads. it has advanced quite dramatically. if they can't now, they are close to being able to miniaturize a warhead and launch it on the united states. remember last year he said it wasn't worth negotiating with north korea? listen to the president saying he believes he wil be able to get them to give up the nukes. >> kim jong-un is on his way back to north korea, and i know for a fact as soon as he arrives, he's going to start a process that's going to make a lot of people happy and a lot of people safe. i have one of the great memories of all time. he was very firm in the facttha. i think he might want to do this as much o even more than me. i may stand before you in six months and say, he i was wrong. i don't know that i'll ever admit that, but i'll find some kind of an excuse. >>hould the preside feel so confident? joining me now to discuss, gordon chang.

he's the author of "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world." let me start with you. did you see anything from kim jong-un that this time north korea is actually g to keep its promises and deliver? >> no. i can't say that from the summit meeting there was any sign of that. we just haveo hope as mr. trump is hoping upon hope that kim will, quote,o something different, and wish for his people the best. the meeting was aspirational. the joint statement by the two leaders, aspirational with absolutely no substance, no clarity of direction. and it's also important to keep in mind that that statement has no legal binding on either party, no accountability. so either side, both sides could just dump it any time. >> just dump it any time. so gordon, let's listen to a

little bit. to see kim jong-un sit next to the president of the united states was remarkable and historic in it own rigs own rig. the question is do you get anything from it. listen to k here saying how hard it was just to get to this. >> overcome past practices and prejudices to get there. the question is, what was your take on what comes next or what needs to come next to see if he's real? >> we need to have intensive negotiations with the north koreans to get what we believe we absolutely need, which is for the north koreans to give up their nuclear weapons, to give up their ballistic missiles, even the short-range ones, to dismantle their weapons infrastructure, also to get verification, and finally, for

the japanese, to get an accounting of the abductees. these are things i believe are absolutely essential. the president has said they're absolutely essential. he's reached a very high standard. he needs to meet it. >> but katharine says it wasn't thatspecific. sometimes that's not a bad thing if you raise it in private remarks. if you can do business behind closed doors, not necessarily a bad thing. i want to come back to kim here. listen to him saying the world should trust him. things are going to change. >> translator: today we had a historic meeting and are about to leave the past behind. we are about to sign a historic document. the world will see a major change. >> we have had similar promises in previous administrations with other nor korean leaders. i should say his father and grandfather have told the world things before and broken their promises. number one, he gets the meeting. number two, he gets the president of the united states

to say we're going to cancel joint military exercises with south korea. two big wins for the north. now china is saying ease up on . the u.s. could veto that but the chinese could do that and reopen the border. what is the incentive for kim to keep going? >> if that's a question for me, i'll take it. kim has won in the sense that it is up to him now to be in the driver's seat, and mr. trump sadly has given him that position. mr. trump seems to think he can trust kim. kim, now, it's all up to him to determine whether he has the political desire and will to turn the crusty ship of state called north korea into what he wants to believe is a new era. he has been prepping his public and the military in particular for this for some kind of a big change. basic change for a fundamental

new line, he calls it. whether or not he would be able to do it domestically is a big question, and whether or not he would have the incentive, if he does not get goods delivered from the u.s. and other countries, that's another question. right now we have no idea where the actual bilateral relationship between the dprk, north korea and the u.s. is supposed to go. so i don't know how kim would know. one thing i want to mention which is very important, the fact that there were no official notetakers, the fact that we, the public, internation pueft to just take the two leaders at their word when this summit was just a tremendous, tremendous opportunity, that i find very disconcerting. they can say whatever they want and we have no way to verify it. >> to that point, gordon, the initial response in the south korean government, they were caught off guard by the military exercises announcement. president moon has said he hopes, he hopes the negotiations get going quickly and show some

progress. what is your sense of seoul's role in this now as we go into the next chapter? >> moon jae-in want to have a consolidation of the two koreas. the one thing that's a concern is what trump called the war games and which everyone else calls the joint military exercises. we need to have a high state of readiness to deter north korea or, god forbid, to defend south korea. at this particular time, when you don't have those exercises, readiness erodes very quickly. i think if you're an ordinary south korean, you've got to be extremely concerned about what the future holds if you don't have the two militaries working together, getting that interoperability correct. this is a concern for everyone in the region, including the united states. we need to have it strong and we

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to restore the policy of maximum pressure. >> some democrats see the summit a bit differently, saying in their view, a double standard at play here. >> imagine if a democratic president had placed the flag of the united states next to the flag of north korea and met a dictator on equal terms. the entire republi party would be shouting grave warnings about the end of american leadership and the belittling of our country, about selling out an appeasement. >> phil mattingly live up on the hill. phil, give us more of what people are saying and what you're hearing. >> reporter: john, it's been really interesting tryg to watch republicans walk the line here. senator mike rounds told me compared to a few months ago, we are further away from nuclear war than we were then, and that is a small improvement. but you're also hearing a lot of skepticism, most notably on the lack of clarity on what exactly happened and very forcibly of cancelling or postponing military exercises.

i asked senator cory gardner about both of those issues. take a listen to what he said. >> it's unclear what he meant by that. i think we've heard different opinions. u.s. forces in korea have not heard orders of a specific command. i think it's important we keep doing those exercises. the president has talked about good faith efforts and progress being made toward denuclearization. it's clear our sanctions remain in place. that's why i strongly support maximum pressure. we will continue to engage with our partners in south korea as appropriate, but we need a little more detail exactly what was meant by that statement. >> reporter: andt's the biggest issue right now, john, the detail. what i've been told from several sources, administrative officials have been making calls to capitol hill to key senators. there is an expectation there will be briefing in the days ahead. at this point, though, there is simply not enough information fonyone to make a concrete

conclusion as to where things stand, so as you see, senators kind of like everybody else right now, just trying to figure out what's actually going on. >> appreciate it, phil. what it what's the right way to characterize that? obviously the supporters want to have faith in their president. why would he kill the exercises and not get anything in return? and can we really trust kim jong-un here? >> there is optimism from mitch mcconnell. they want to support the goals. they treated the president differently when he engaged in negotiations with a hostile power. probably the most critical came from marco rubio. he said contrary to president trump's remarks, kim jong-un is not an intelligent guy. called him a total weirdo, said he inherited the business from his father and grandfather. things that were not mentioned in this summit must be ended in

north korea as part of any negotiation. i would say senator bob corker summed it up saying he's happy that those two met but it's difficult to know what concre concretely occurred. democrats, on the other hand, i will say they are relieved that president trump is at least engaging in diplomacy as opposed to nuclear sabre rattling and mean tweets. there is a lot of criticism, though. chuck schumer said it is worrisome in the statement the fact that the united states has obtained vague promises where north korea has gained a kodak moment. >> this is tom coughlin saying, i get it. we shouldn't sit down with dictators, but he's trying to say it's different when that country gets to the point, as north korea has, when they have

nuclear weapons that could get to our soil. >> once they have nuclear weapons that could get to us, i would liken it toast presidents sitting down with soviet dictators. it's not something we should celebrate, it's not a pretty sight, but it's a necessary part of the job to try to prote eran threat. >> look, and the fact he's basically admitting what chuck colorful language, which is that democrats -- there would be a call for impeachment, and it would be the worst thing in the world if a democratic president not just sat down but gave all the pomp and circumstance that this sort of diplomatic bells and whistles that president trump gave to kim. not just rhetorically, but the flag placed on equal footing to the american flag, things like that. conservative talk radio, conservatives in general, would be going ballistic on a democratic president. having said that, the argument is and should be, rightly so, that we've had two-term

democratic presidents over the past 20 years who have tried and failed to deal with the very real threat we're seeing now, that tom cotton was just putting out there. so as well try it, but i think it's smart for democ to try to remind people that while, for the most part they support these diplomatic negotiations, just remember that there should beome healthy skcism and a reminder that mes to politics.otqual when it >> they seem to be drawing a distinction between north korea and iran that i think is also important. what he's saying is north korea isn't a place that iran is yet, so you have to treat them differently, right? and within there is sort of an embedded acknowledgment that trump is operating from a relative position of weakness. you can blame it on past administrations from both parties for letting it get to this point. but what he's saying is we have to deal with north korea in a way that we don't have to deal with other rogue regimes,

because they've got stuff that the others don't. and that highlights or kind of underscores what the president is trying to do here, and in fact, while he's trying to show the public he's operating from a position of strength, the u.s. actually is not operating from a position of strength as they would like to be. when we come back, the president takes another shot at canada, but the white house adviser who said the canadian prime minister has a special place in hell waiting for him, backtracks. another way we have your back. the powerful backing of american express. don't live life without it.

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canada's prime minister justin trudeau. at an event this morning, peter na navarro, the president's trade adviser said, my job was to send a signal of strength. the problem was that in conveying that message i used language that was inappropriate. peter navarro said, i'm sorry, but president trump praising kim ju jong-un and then criticizing justin trudeau. >> that's going to cost him a lot of money. >> why won't he let this one go? he keeps saying how justin trudeau and his team somehow backstabbed the president. >> he has a very thin skin. he doesn't like to be criticized. he obviously doesn't have great respect for justin trudeau, and he won't let it go until trudeau does something in his direction

to kind of ease it. but he's going to stay on for a while. >> when you use such highly personal language, what can trudeau do now except stand up to the president after you've been called meek, weak and dishonest. you eventually have to face an election with your own people. you can't just kowtow to trump now, can you? >> you shouldn't, because that's something the president doesn't either think about or doesn't really care about. just like he is trying to play to his base, every one of those leaders have their own constituencies that they have to appeal to, and this is a no-brainer. even the mild-mannered canadians understand that you got to stand up to what they consider a bully. i mean, the president has used bullying tactics against their prime minister. so he has to, there is no question, kind of make that clear. also, i just -- it bears sort of noting that the juxtaposition between what he said about

canada, about how horrible justin trudeau is, the next day praising kim jong-un in, you know, sugar-coated language whereas traditionally those descriptions should be flipped is pretty amazing. >> this is something the european leaders have now begun talking about with one another certainly openly, but certainly behind the scenes, that this is the instinct for diplomacy or trying to find compromised language that can bring trump into the fold has not worked, so far as backfired so far, and yet it is distinctly not a european method to kind of fight fire with fire or escalate their own language to match styles with trump. so what do you do if the president only respects people and pushes back and hurls bombs, but if that backfires with your own audience, all these leaders, trudeau, angela merkel, are in a

strategic position. the president likes that because he thinks it puts them on their heels, and for his base, for a large portion of the american voting public, he believes for the mids where he wants to maintain his own base, he believes things like this help. >> leaders have a fair amount of availability to go after trump. the question is, the united states is still the united states. they have to figure out how to deal constructively with the united states. they don't want to completely rupture the alliance. that's the difficult balancing act they have right now with him. >> very interesting. the president is fighting justin trudeau, he's waiting for a trade agreement with the eu. at the same time he's inviting russia back into the g-7 without punishment for its annexation of crimea. he's eased up with china over

gte. he called trudeau a funny guy, great negotiator, loves his people, unquote. we talked about the double standard here. it's very easy to imagine the democratics up in arms and not going there with trump. >> justin trudeau has a great peace in the atlantic about the trump doctrine. he asked people, what is the trump doctrine on the world stage? no friends, no enemies, is what one senior administration official said. permanent destabilization creates american advantage, said another one. the trump doctrine is we're america -- and you see the rest. really? >> i was shocked that someone talking to jeff goldberg would say something like that. >> it wasn't john bolton, though, we're pretty sure, right? >> i don't know who it was, but

even in a casual conversation, even as a throwaway line, to say that to a reporter suggests -- >> and a reporter with those credentials. no friends, no enemies. permanent destabilization create american advae. the trump doctrine is we're america -- okay, then. up next, george conway says, yes, he's married to kellyanne. what he says the president calls unconstitutional witch hunt isn't.

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way. >> her husband, though, offers a spirited defense of mueller in a column over the mueller investigation. the column is in direct respons. george conway writes, the constitutional arguments made against the special counsel do not meet that standard and had little more rigor than the tweet promoted them. such a lack of rigor, sadly, has been a disturbing trend in much of the politically charged public discourse above the law lately. why? he know where his wife works. i'll leave it at that. why? >> i can't explain it but it's not new. he has tweeted things for months that have been contrary to the interests of his wife and the administration. whatever is going on there is something we don't quite understand. >> to your point, twice today retweeted people attacking the president's deal inth korea, saying two retweets of people

essentially saying the president didn't get enough, didn't get anything. what is this about? >> we're talking about it now and i imagine george conway thought he would add to the conversation and people would take note. this is an attack on delegitimizing the investigation. we saw this in the so-called spygate claim where the president was accused of planting a spy in his campaign. no evidence of this. even his allies in congress have not adopted this theory. they say they're skeptical of it, they've heard the intelligence and they're not going there. this is part of the president trying to muddy the waters. >> but there are a lot of people out there who counter the argument that mueller is unconstitutional, that mueller o a witch hunt. a lot of people do that. e it's an empty space and george conway feels like he has to step into it. >> not at all, and he's been kind of passive-aggressive on twitter, just kind of retweeting

everybody. this is out there. giving citutional leg nned arguments for why he thinks the president and his team, which includes his wife, as you just pointed out, are wrong. he wanted to express himself, he wanted to express his feelings. he can't make his wife's job easier, but you know what, as dan, you said, this is not the first time it's been out there publicly thahey disagree. >> and he's had a full and robust career before being known best as kellyanne conway's husband. he's obviously decided to stake out a little corner where he will continue to speak his own mind, but it's fascinating for the rest of us to read. in social media, politico asked him about this, asked him to explain this public feud with his wife's boss. conway declined to elaborate or comment on his tweets. if i wanted to say anything publicly, he said in a direct message on twitter, i would just say it. if you are saying it on twitter, you are saying it publicly.

>> one thing i want to point out, it's kind of nice to be asked about a spouse, if they agree or disagree about a principle of a woman because it has historically been reversed. >> wolf is next. have a great day. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 1:00 a.m. wednesday in singapore. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. we start with a historic summit in singapore, both kim jong-un and president trump on their way home right now with an agreement in hand. it's a deal touted by the he said the united states got rd what it came for, a commitment from north korea to abandon its nuclear ogram. gh the deal they signed is lacking in specific concrete details about how that will happen.