welcome to a special memorial day edition of "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing this special day with us. president trump has a public break with his good friend, japan's prime minister. shinzo abe says recent north korea missile launches voy lays u.n. resolutions and the president shrugs it off as no big deal and far right parties make gains in european elections testing the power of anti-immigrant and anti-globalization forces. is there a message here as we gear up for 2020? and on this memorial day, ceremonies from coast to coast to remember and to honor america's fallen heroes. the biggest is at arlington national cemetery. >> layer was killed >> layer was killed on mother's day in 2005. >> nicholas in afghanistan on mate 8th, 19935.

>> bet is arlington's mother because we live from afar and when she comes she always gives him a hug for me. >> more on those important ceremonies and this important day throughout hour, but we begin with a big and very public international divide between president trump, his national security team and a key u.s. ally. the president is in tokyo today, and this morning he sided with the north korean dictator kim jong-un on both a matter of substance and a matter of smallness. president trump shares chairman kim's opinion that former are vice president joe biden doesn't have the mental mettle to be president and we will circle back to the petty politics in a bit. far more significant is the substance, the president brushing off concerns of the japanese prime minister and his own national security adviser and the safety of some 70,000 troops stations in the area thinking that at a minimum north

korea needs to be called out at the national security council and standing a key feet from an al he viewed things differently. >> i view it perhaps as a man who wants to get attention and perhaps not. who the knows. it doesn't matter. all i know is that there have been no nuclear tests. there have been no ballistic missiles going out. there have been no long range missiles going out, and i think to some day we'll have a deal. i'm not in a rush. >> let's get straight to tokyo and cnn's kaitlan collins. a remarkable moment both in the words of the president and the image there standing just a few feet away from his friend the prime minister who completely disagrees. >> reporter: and you're seeing the president completely break with one of america's closest

alaniz asia standing right next to each other as soon as the questions started coming. john, another person the president was breaking with was his national security adviser john bolton who was seated just a few feet away and just days ago told reporters here in tokyo that it was clear that north korea had violated those u.n. resolutions by firing off those short-range missiles, a sentiment that the japanese government agrees with but that the president made clear he does not. he not only gave kim jong-un cover there, but also when he was pressed about his tweet where he seemed to be siding with the brutal dictator over a former vice president joe biden, the president stood by his assessment in his tweet abizaid that he and kim jong-un agree on how they view joe biden that. goes to reveal how all the pageantry we've seen here in tokyo over the last couple of days didn't do anything to clear up the deep divide between the two leaders when it comes to north korea. before the press conference they were seated with familiar lives japanese who had been abducted by north korea. the president was sitting there

saying he understands that and wants to make that a top priority because it's as top priority for the japanese minister but when it comes down to the meat of this, to these missiles and whether or not it could put japan within reach of north korea, the president sided with kim jong-un. >> with me in the studio josh dacy, cnn's phil mattingly and cnn's michelle kosinski. it's remarkable as a diplomatic moment. the president has often had dal differences with allies and his own secretary team and national security adviser but to be standing on the stage with asia with the prime minister of japan as far away from him us a listen to me hand listen to prime minister abe who made clear i disagree. >> translator: now the launching of the missiles this time on the 9th of may, north korea launched a short range ballistic missile. this is violating the security

council resolution. so my reaction is, as i said earlier on, it is of great regret. >> so the president of the united states standing right there in the neighborhood next to a key u.s. ally saying violavie violate united nations security council agreement. president trump wants that part when he stoiks what he said. when these missiles were launched nobody knew what they were. were they ballistic missiles? everybody hoped that there were not so there wouldn't have to be more punishment taken at the u.n. because there is it is going have to be some action and at the time the japanese who are always torn about this, because they are at risk for short-range missiles, but they also don't want to provoke north korea anymore, we're also kind of downplaying this, and remember, at the time the u.s. said

virtually nothing about these launches and the japanese thought that's okay for now, but if they are blimgs some action has to be taken and here we are now and the president seems to acknowledge that, a, these violates the regulations and, b, they are a risk to japan. >> and the two summits where he took a risk and good for him for trying, but two summits with kim jong-un have not produced any verifiable denuclearization steps and now you have a recent back towards where you have to have some form of provocation, smeller missiles, and the north koreans trash joe biden and the president. united states hugs that and agrees with that while overseas which is remarkable, they trashed his national security adviser john bolton saying john bolton is saying much more than anything or not. bolton does have a different mental structure from other people. he's a war maniac. why can't the president. united states find a spot where he says i hope this personal

diplomacy works, i won't turn my back and then say you can't do that when you diminish american citizens. >> doing that would be meaning his strategy is not working. he the president thinks he can convince kim jong-un to do this. he's happy to dis his national security adviser, diss japan and he's not having second thoughts about it, but maybe others are. >> pam brown asked him if he had confidence in john bolton and he nodded and said yes. i'm sorry i interrupted you. >> i was going to say past week before senators left for the memorial day recess i spoke to republican senators, republican

senators behind the scenes unsettled about the entire way the president have approached north korea have given him a lot of space to publicly or rhetorically try to figure something out. this was before what we saw in tokyo today and one republican senator said made clear he doesn't see an end game. what is the end game here, and this has been going on here. they understand what the president is trying to do, perhaps has a significant different negotiating style, but what i think you hear right now on capitol hill, including from some of the president's closest allies is quietly tell me how this ends, and no one knows right now and that's a combination of they are frustrated and unsettled as to what the end game is. >> to your point, the president does invest in this personal diplomacy. he believes and said it won't happen with him right away, that he'll get a decision with

president xi on trade issues but others are beginning to doubt it. people listen to a president but they don't actually hear a president. they hear a new york real estate development. >> i think kim jong-un or chairman kim as some people say is looking to create a nation with great strength economically. kim jong-un understands the believable economic ability that country has. it's locates between china and russia on one front and it's all waterfront property and it's a great location as we used to say in the real estate business. >> look, he's different, and something that's so intractable, maybe a different approach was worth trying, but where is the evidence two plus years in now

that chairman kim gets and it willing to do what it takes to get the second enormous -- >> to do this in front of the prime minister. trump will do anything to make a deal land avoid short range ballistic missiles and that's what he's doing right now. the japanese are the only ones that will not talk to kim. they say we'll talk to you when denuclearization is handled. when the abductee issue is handled and when the short range missile issue is there and they are there saying we toiled so. >> it's interesting that the president did attend the event with the families of those who have been abducted. very important to prime minister abe's politics because he's criticized with the people back home for siding with the president even though they haven't seen any result. he believes in the diplomacy and

told the iranian minters to call him, call him, and the president says i don't want a war with iran so maybe we can short out. >> i think iran would really like to make a deal and i think that's very smart of them. that's possible also. i'm not looking to hurt iran at all. i'm looking at iran to say no nuclear weapons. it has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership. we're not looking for regime change. i just want to make somewhat clear. we're looking for no nuclear weapons. >> different ways to parse that, number one, not looking for regime change. the iranians look at national security adviser saying you've been kag for regime change for decades and the point that iran wants a deal, where iran recently said we have no deal.

>> he's moving towards 2020 with the message that helped to get him elected and there's not been much discussion of foreign policy on the democratic side and use iran and north korea and these topics and positioning himself again as the deal-maker i think he sees as as political possible win for him. >> even if the days and weeks go by and there are no deals to talk about. i want to take you live as we go to break. we'll continue to track memorial day events around the country. you're watching the vice president of the united states who just spoke at arlington national cemetery. he's now about to take a walk through section 60 where american fallen heroes from afghanistan and iraq are laid to rest. the vice president in the giroud. we'll watch hick as he towers. we'll be right back.

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mueller. the president of the united states writing in part from overseas as well also smiled when he called swamp man joe biden a low iq individual and worse. perhaps that's sending me a signal. the president was asked about that tweet today and he doubled down. >> well, kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. joe biden was a disaster. his administration with president obama, they were basically a disaster when it came to so many things, whether it was economy, whether it was military defense, no matter what it was, they had a lot of problems, so i'm not a fan. >> lisa lehrer with the "new york times" joins our conversation, i mean, just forgot -- take your norm machine and throw it out window, take your protocol machine and salvage it for the widgets but

to embrace kim jong-un's criticism of joe biden while overseas and hug kim jong-un in a domestic political argument is pretty extraordinary. >> it's a complete throwing out of the norm machine. i thought it broke maybe six months ago so i'm happy it's still in operation somewhere. i mean, typically, of course, politics stops at the water's edge and when presidents go abroad they don't engage in domestic politics battles and often these trips are a way to get them a break and nice press coverage and get them away from domestic politic battles, and the thing about this that's even more confusing is these attacks probably helped joe biden politically. the former vice president is real running on this idea that he's the most fathersome opponent and the president is security guard of him which allows him to make this whole electability critique which democratic voters want to see so

not only is it politically not the best line. >> november. republicans just run and hide and drop their devices and pretend they don't have any communications ability when this happens because they don't want to criticize the president. >> we're seeing criticism now from his rope can colleagues, but i think they have to be said, as lisa said, because it's making joe biden's point for him. he's been positioning himself as one who can beat trumpet out on the campaign trail there, aren't a lot of democrats who bring up trump by name. biden is the only one who talks about the president, and so trump is now engaging so much with biden it's really setting up a biden versus trump, you know, twitter feud that can go

on to the campaign trail as well. >> the president was recently shown polling which biden was beating him in a number of states, internal poll, and since then he's been fixated on biden. if you look at his tweets over and over and over, no matter the topic or no matter the substance or exchange he somehow brings biden into it. >> and help also tweeted this out. great fun meeting with prime minister abe shinzo. numerous japanese officials, remember, that numerous japanese officials said the democrats would rather see the democrats fail than see me and the republican parties succeed. i had some incoming, not supposed to describe it in detail from japanese officials saying we did no such thing, they said there's no secret that abe lights president and that abe is favorable to the president, but they said they are not in the business of trash being the democratic party. >> are you suggesting perhaps that the president made up this exkink in. >> this is the epitome of what

you were just talking about, i haven't seen the tweet or i'm not going to weigh in even though privately they know it's important. this is a president who still liz off his elect call college victory on a pretty regular clip. it's never not going to be about it the 2016 election for him and 2019 one, he always comes back to the same point. the idea that some people in his orbit don't want him to elevate joe biden. you're elevating the vice president when you do this and he'll continue to do it and despite that witt and he once in 2016 and he believes he knows best. >> his success teaches us that some of the rules of this town are outdated. some of the rules in this town have to be changed but some we should keep, in the likes of

supporting a dictator. >> the president before he said you keep investigating me i won't could any business with house democrats overseas he said this. >> they were very disappointed. they can't get over the fact that i never spoke to russia. never dealt with russia, having to do with the subject that we're talking about. i would imagine nancy pelosi would approve them. it's only good for our country. >> he was talking about thein -- that's how many it was read into that. >> seems like he's making an exception with his trade policy and still won't work with them on things like infrastructure or things that might even help democrat. seemed like he was trying to make an exception for trade policy. still unclear how much he'll be willing to work with democrats. >> tuesday trump, and on

thursday he's completely against it and why you don't what's happening. >> trump saying we're not becoming with democratic, i think inside the white house the cheery is let's keep progress because we could use a kuhnup. >> that'sing that trait deal they went on a charm offensive and was at the sumo match and the first american president to meet the emperor. they don't want anythinging to do with china and there maybe there's some influence happening there behind the scenes >> as we go to break, we'll take a look at another memorial day ceremony. this one at the "uss inprepied." right there on the hudson river.

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numbers if you count them up. the party names won't be familiar to you in the united states. over here these are viewed as the more anti-imgrant and anti-globalization. the party is pushing for the european union to have less power as a big organization. they have gained some seats. it a% give or take in the new european parliament. those gains if you go back and look from the elections five years ago, the last time. there were fewer parties, number one and those gains, it was about 20% for those more far right forces. the gains not as great and feared. nic robertson with us live. some gains on the left as well, the greens and the like. what's your biggest takeaway of what's happening in european politics? >> reporter: you know, i think the biggest takeaway has to be the disruptive influences

particularly on the right and the disruptive forces rather. they are stronger, but the center two parties

migration was there among the big debates ahead of the elections, and it was certainly the kind of framing this idea of a referendum on europe's performance on migration, that the nationalists, the nativists are all trying to push and voters were worried more broadly about a number of things. they are worried about the impact of nationalism on the european project and worried about economic uncertainty and worried about climate, so all of these different mobilizers have meant a very volatile electorate was gone in all different elections with these results. people are investigate on issues more than party loyalty, and so

i think that's why we've got this very sort of mixed picture in terms of the election. hard to call it a shift, right, left or to kind of anti-establishment or establishment. if that's what it is, it's kind of a big vote for change, and lots of pressure on the institution after these elections to really deliver on those issues. >> we'll watch how this plays out. before we go to break. back home in the united states, some of the democratic candidates running for president. among those out this memorial day honoring those lost in war. >> lieutenant ken ballard. >> e.j. murphy. >> staff sergeant thomas knowingity. >> army national guard sergeant ryan patrick mccaffrey. >> henry cevella. >> staff sergeant christopher burkewell. >> army sergeant sherwood baker. >> sergeant james aau.

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topping our political radar today, two house committees have to wait to get their hands on president trump's financial records, assuming they get them at all. a source says the president's lawyers have reached an agreement with the house intelligence and financial services committees to hold off on enforcing subpoenas for records from the deutsche bank and capital one in the appeals process plays out in court. the trump team is fighting a new york judge's decision last week refusing their request to block those subpoenas. senator lindsey graham

calling on president trump to send a strong message to cuba and the rest of the world. senator graham says he should be prepared to send u.s. troops to venezuela. graham comparing the situation to 1983 when the reagan administration the united states invaded grenada to topple the nation's revolutionary government. >> i would do exactly what reagan d.would i give cuba an ultimatum to get out of venezuela. if they don't, i would let the venezuelan military know you've got to choose between democracy and maduro, and if you choose maduro and cuba we're coming after you. if we don't act, everyone in the world thinks he's weak. if he does act, it helps us with north korea, iran, russia and everybody else. >> speaking of russia, the foreign ministry last hour offering to mediate talks between the maduro regime and venezuela's opposition. the kremlin saying, quote, we're ready to provide the necessary assistance to such a dialogue if requested by the participants. at the same time we reaffirm the categorical rejesks any possibility of forceful outside intervention in the affairs of

this friendly country, and most americans now have heard the name pete buttigieg and know he's running for president. today at the south bend memorial day parade he's literally running. >> good morning! >> we're counting on you. >> good morning. >> we're underdogs. >> kudos to d.j. judd. he's our cnn cameraman chasing mayor pete this morning. parades are fun. turns out to be like that. >> we'll talk more about that in a minute. >> mayor pete is back home. where are we? >> well, all the polling, of course, shows the vice president with a significant lead. >> so call it off.

>> if history is any guide, bernie was not really even on the scene as all yet. he certainly was not potion the threat to hillary clinton that he ended up potion, and at this point in 2018 which may be a more anti-comparison in some ways even though the field was a quarter of the size that we're dealing with now, it was the same thing. hillary clinton led by double digits and this then senator barack hussein obama, the guy with the funny name, wasn't even on the radar as someone who could pose a challenge. you know, the polling has been relatively stagnant for a couple of weeks now with the exception of elizabeth warren sort of creeping up and bernie sanders creeping down, but i just think, listen, we're a long, long way away from iowa. >> if you're leaving your day job to go run for parade. mayor pete going home to south bend there. as we go to break. senate majority leader mish many

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you'll hear me say often beware of investing too much in the early polls, but for the next month, for the 2020 democrats they do matter. polling is just one of two qualifications to make the first pair of presidential debates. the other is how many donors can you get in the democratic national committee says candidates need to show 65,000 unique contributors to qualify for the debate stage. bernie sanders and joe biden have easily cleared both hurdles but so have other names like andrew young. steve bullock and andrew bennett have the not. 19 candidates have hit the polling threshold, but 6 of the 19 have netted the 65,000 donors. cory booker trying to point out one of the political lessons from 2016, the early polls, and he is right, are often wrong.

>> those who poll ahead don't always end up winning. the thing about joking, it's a bad joe, i'm not looking at the polls right now. i'm looking at the people. >> he's not looking at the polls right now. looking at the people. i think he's qualified so i guess he doesn't have, to right? >> i talked to cory booker this weekend and he said something similar, you know. he's not the tortoise in the race. he's the tortoise in the race, not the hare and his team has certain benchmarks he's put in place internally and he's meeting all of the benchmarks so he claimed he's not worried about national polls because when it comes to organizing and getting those committed to caucus cards he's where he needs to be and seems pretty confident at least in front of report percent that. >> but something about this debate i find somewhat entertaining which is these are supposed to be participation trophy debates, that most, if not everyone in the field would qualify and that was the reaction to 2016 where bernie sanders and people supporting

him felt that the dnc had put their thumbs on the scale for hillary clinton so the committee wants to have no appearance even of that, so everyone was going to get into this debate and now there's 23 people in the race so there's only 20 slots, and it's going to be a two-night event, ten on the first night, ten on the second where it's randomized so it may not be that enlightening for those of us who are trying to see how certain candidates would match up against each other because you may not end up getting the matchups you. >> get the unknowns against the bidens or sanders and it becomes surprisingly enlightening. here's this piece from jonathan martin and the tape of pete buttigieg we've shown you back home. easy for those deeply involved in the proses to get so wrapped up in it that we forget how many people will tune in this very late in the calendar year said mr. buttigieg. referring to mr. sanders he said the more ideological candidates nobody supports other than the more i'd long call candidates, nobody's support is consolidated essentially trying to say that's a big number for joe biden, but

i think a lot of that is fungible. >> a lot of it has been given very little name recognition at all. pete buttigieg has been doing "the hugh hewitt show," nip who will wok him. the mayor bill de blasio that nobody knows outside of new york. they have to be traveling and doing this now because if not no one knows who they are. >> and given how diffuse the field is there's the behind the scenes and the fights for different pieces of the electorate and trying to set themselves up. the debates will be huge for knows who don't have names and the money reasons. what's coming shortly after july the funding deadline for the fec. you can see a lot of people start to drop out in july or a bunch of people decide to muddle through and get through to the next debate. >> there's grumbling of the

timing of the debate because it eats up when you have to prep. the candidates don't find out who they are on stage for until ten days before and at the end of the quarter when they want to be raising money they will be doing debate prep and the thing i think to watch right now is who has the staff in the early states because organizations take time to build an expand and that's why booker is so confident. >> and warren has the biggest staff in iowa. i went to one of her events this weekend she be 200 people there and a bunch organizers getting all the people needed to get out to caucus. one thing i heard from people who will be watching the debates is not only just to find who they are supporting but even to whittle down the field from 23 to top 5 favorite candidates. >> as we go to break this memorial day holiday tribute from one of our own, phil

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