he will take us behind the scenes. we'll talk exactly about what was going on, the progress that they made, what it means for the future. we'll air the full interview tomorrow night 9:00 eastern right here from hanoi. >> laura: imagine if what happened today, the cohen testimony, something like this had happened when bill clinton or barack obama was engaged in a globally significant event such as a summit with one of our great adversaries. the media would be going nuts, going crazy, just the timing of of grace , just that alone is enough to drive people crazy. >> sean: you are right on the money with your analysis.

i believe truly that this is a . >> sean: a president dealing with something so profound as kids, grandkids, and future generations, and these kids in washington couldn't pick any other day to try to bludgeon the president like they have done for three years. that with the green new deal as the american people understand it, this is not going to end well as a result. this is going to be important, we will look back on it. >> laura: i agree with you. a lot of great conservative speakers -- >> sean: i'm going to miss it. >> laura: i'm going to give people a preview, but i'm going to say is these are the good old days right now. there has almost never been, in my lifetime, better time to be an american. if you want to work, if you want to get a job, you want to better your life, take care of your family, i don't see how it is possibly going to get much better than this.

it is pretty darn good. if people want to throw that all the way, that is a pipe dream, mueller, i think they can try that and then they are going to throw that out and we will go back to conservativism. >> sean: you know what you are saying? you are saying something that is so profound and it is missed by so many. at that is, this is about the people in this country. we have 13 million more americans, a million more in poverty, eight years of barack obama failure, millions off food stamps, millions out of poverty, energy independence. >> laura: but it's like not of it ever happened. it's like none of it ever happened because it happened under donald trump. at this hour we are going to examine cohen, korea, the gran peninsula, the china part of all this, which i think a lot of people are overlooking because this is all interwoven in our complex relationship with china. >> sean: before i go, i will

never take any more time, i want to say something. you know, you, me, rush, mark, i won't mention everybody, there have been a few of us who have known for our entire careers, for me, 30 years in radio, 20 years of fox, we have known conservatism, you have been a leader in the forefront of that movement and it is now on display in ways we haven't seen since ronald reagan, which is great for the forgotten men and women of this country, and you are dead on accurate fighting for them. >> laura: thank you very much, good luck tomorrow. we will be watching the interview with president trump. this is "the ingraham angle" from a very busy washington and vietnam tonight. you were looking life at hanoi vietnam with president trump just beginning a long meeting with korean dictator kim jong-un. we are waiting to see the two leaders emerge for a working lunch as this high-stakes summit nears its close and we are going to bring you all of that as it happens and there's hour. you are not going to want to

turn the dial. meanwhile, as trump and kim appear, check this out, just moments ago, to convene this summit, the start of an event that arguably affects the lives of billions of people on the planet. i want you to show what the other networks were doing. they were stuck on a lighting cohen. this went on for at least 5 minutes, no time to cover the global summit, the 261 days since their first historic meeting and just moments ago, trump seemed optimistic about where this one could be headed, while kim offered some extremely rare comments, including what is thought to be the first time he has responded to a journalist question on camera. [speaking foreign language]

>> thank you very much, chairma chairman. >> laura: i just want to remind all of you what i said. first of all, you don't see kim talking very often. as a dictator, we know the evil things he has done. the other nectar , networks were not talking about it. unless i was missing something, they are going to cut away from cohen to cover this, right? they did not.

they had a side box that msnbc, but the host kept talking about michael cohen. i've never seen anything like that moment. plenty of time to cover cohen, not saying you shouldn't cover it. but they refused to break away from the get-trump coverage. absolutely wild. all right, questions, are we going to see america getting closer to some kind of peace treaty with north korea? on the path to denuclearization. these are big questions. will there be a formal end to the korean war? we are joined by an amazing panel to answer these questions. former advisor to barack obama, has been to north korea nearly 90 times. amazing. foreign policy analyst of this entire region, and we are pleased to have former speaker of the house new gingrich, a host of the new podcast, which is fabulous, by the way, available on apple podcast.

it is such an important for so many reasons. i want to talk to you first, mr. speaker, this historic night, which makes it all the more shocking that washington today, and yesterday, and tomorrow, chose this time to be locked on to cohen. it could have done it next week, could have done every time, they had to keep going while the president is at the summit. thoughts on that? >> i think the democrats are becoming a party that gets them where they want to go. i think the news media, 80% of it, hate the idea that trump could succeed. if trump and kim jong-un actually get a major breakthrough, i don't know how "the new york times" and "the washington post" and cnn it will cope with that without having a nervous breakdown. i think in that sense, it's absurd. it's also, frankly, an american problem. we are so focused on devouring ourselves we forget there is a

larger world out there. this is a very, very real problem now that we get dominated by junk. i mean, cohen, and absurdity. yet, it was an excuse for the news media to be terribly excited to learn a whole lot of brand-new things. all of it is just garbage. >> laura: the pavlovian response, the milk bone hanging over the dogs. he opened the drawer, you think there is a milk bone in it, they will do anything. >> remember, the southern district has to matter because mueller has not been reporting anything, mueller had to matter because james, he didn't report anything. they've just been going through this cycle of desperation, which are nothing is going to and as long as donald trump is in office. >> laura: former members of the obama administration, i have to believe in good faith they wanted to make a real

breakthrough in this korean peninsula. macarthur said if we didn't finish in korea, we were going to be dealing with it 50 years later. he was a brilliant strategist and just at that part of the world, which we don't talk about enough. i've done it on radio, and with the new gingrich for decades, but people don't focus on it. given your expertise and all the time you spent here, is this not significant? do the other networks not being to cover the two people next to each other? >> it is gigantic in the last three presidents, a million dollars of damage and a million people like that. of the relationship between the president and president kim is impressive. president trump is really good in her room, he can sell. and that is a really good thing. president kim is no boy scout and what i worry about, are we going to skip that stage.

we can't get rid of our carrots too quickly because we will run out of carrots. we can't do an inventory without a solid inventory of facts. that will be interesting seeing what happens at a vietnam. >> laura: nbc earlier tonight -- we are focusing on the media because this is the lens through which so many americans at sea on the world stage, and of course in relation to president trump peered around 6:00 p.m. tonight, nbc went with a huge story that seemed kind of strange to me about how the u.s. has dropped the desire or the demand to have full accounting from north korea. nuclear material before the summit began, which kind of meant -- or what the heck is osama going to get if you don't have the basic facts questioning the administration came out just moments ago and said, absolutely untrue. we never said that. it's completely wrong.

people watch this going, trump is not accomplishing anything, he is not even holding their feet to the fire. just that one report tells us a lot about the dishonesty in the american media on this important night. that is bret baier, by the way. >> historians in the future, do you think they will be writing books about cohen? or will they be writing articles and books about what has been achieved today. we look at it from a strategic perspective. six to seven decades from a cold war to basically firing missiles recently, suddenly those missiles are not being fired anymore. of course we have a process that is moving forward at this point in time. i think it is a strategic success but i think we have a time coming where north koreans

will be walking into south korea. remember what happened with the two germanys. the minute they could walk into west germany, it was done. >> laura: to reset this conversation. what you have spoken about so many times, what people have said and where we are today. the prognosticators of pain. watch. >> it may be difficult for some of you at home to wrap your minds around a president who makes statements about this about the use of nuclear weapons, who would of course, murder millions of people. >> too late, after 100,000 americans die after a nuclear holocaust. >> and that is where we are. this is not an exaggeration. >> this is precisely what keeps me up at night, literally. literally, i am afraid that --

>> laura: you know what keeps me up and i? that people have advocated their role as impartial arbiters of world events. >> we are in the middle of a cultural civil war, that the anti-trump war is going to be fighting him, but what is amazing -- just give you an example. the people of north korea -- i have been in south korea, not north, but the people and north korea are watching the tv coverage. they are all of a sudden seen parts of the world that didn't they know existed and with prosperity they didn't know was possible. everyone and his team that is going with him, the entire kim jong-un establishment, they go, it is going to be bad, it is going to be okay. wouldn't you rather be really prosperous? i think there is something going on here. i saw kim jong-un the other night -- he gave a speech,

correct me if i got this wrong, the first time i saw him in a western suit. he was giving this speech, he was giving this speech, which is all people are watching, he was not in a military style uniform, he wanted to look like he was normal. the setting was normal. if you're coming out of that kind of dictatorship, these signals, they go through the whole society, and this is what trump is achieving. >> laura: david, think about the pain and suffering and the death and destruction that has been brought about by totalitarianism over the last, just the last 100, 120 years. and what is happened in north korea, the deep suffering, the torture, everything we know takes place there on a daily basis. you see this glimmer of light, we don't know where it is going to go, we think it is going to go in the other direction, but i would think all these other democrats, the need for peace, make love not war, even if it is

trump, that this is something to say gosh, we hope something really good comes out of this. this is interesting. they wanted it more interesting, this is kim jong-un sitting next to trump saying, i wouldn't say i'm pessimistic, but i feel right now is a good feeling that good results are going to come. >> it has been south korea 90 times, not north korea. but i do know north korea -- you are absolutely right and what you're saying. it's the little things, it's west german, east germans watching tv. it gave trump credit, with the democratic party won't necessarily light, he has taken an out-of-the-box approach. i just want to make sure we give an inventory before we get a lot of carrots. i agree, the flaw in the iran treaty, was thinking the treaty itself would change the regime. the process want to change the regime, but these bubbles erupt.

>> laura: what is interesting, trump said tonight we can take our time. on the one hand, they are criticizing trump for doing something too fast, shooting from the hip. he said, we can take our time, we can get through this because this is complicated. if he's too fast, too slow -- oh, we need results now. i think regular folks watching this tonight, i think they are more captivated by real positivity and hope than they are about someone who is going off to jail, chief of staff -- except for that sliver of the activists on the left, they have to put all their chips in the mueller basket, now it is michael cohen, he is going to deliver our nirvana. >> i think the genuine hostility on the left is real, i think for the average american, the president is going to win today. they are going to look at the noise in congress, they are

going to look at the scenes from hanoi vietnam and i would say the one thing where trump has really matured in thinking about this, if he has a process started, it is worth a great deal not to stop it. i think the next step would be talking about a peace treaty, after all, a state of war. we have had a state of war since 1950. my dad father in 1953. 69 years of a state of war appeared at south koreans are desperate to have some kind of census. if in the near future there is a north korean representative agency in washington and in american representative agency there, just of the act of having those people -- >> laura: they are talking. talking is better than fighting. we will get into it when we move on, we will get into the china and of all of the spirit any moment, by the way, they are going to come out and talk, and we have an amazing analysis. i want to go live on the ground

in hanoi vietnam, ed henry is there for us tonight. he has more on the now debunked nbc report. this is wild, this broke and everyone has gone crazy on twitter. i saw it. >> you're right, they said the summit has failed before it has even gotten going, and the story seems to not be true. nbc reported that the president of the united states has given up on the idea of getting what davis talked about a moment ago, which is an important document or accounting, list of all north korea's nuclear sites, their weapons, full accounting. that is nbc's claimant. a senior administration official just told bret baier that that is completely false, the president has not given that up in these negotiations. instead, let me tell you what u.s. officials on the ground to be vietnam are telling us. they are not expecting at the summit to get that list. it's not like chairman kim is

going to say here it all is. at the u.s. will continue to demand of this information, continue to negotiate with kim jong il in, then down the road, when they leave hanoi, there will be groups that they create on any side, this is not a trump creation, this is normal business where you will then do the details and try to get that accounting. the real point is, as david was suggesting a moment ago, the trump administration is insisting to us that right now at the summit in real time they are not planning to relieve the u.s. sanctions that kim jong-un it wants it relieved until they get that full accounting that will help us understand that in fact north korea is at denuclearizing. based on this report, the president has given up on a full accounting. they say that is false and they say that one of the nuclear facilities that may be sort of

given up hereby kim jong-un. let's remember, as i understand it, dave will know the details better than i, there are over 300 facilities as part of that and there is something like four square miles. it is not like over lunch here you were going to get every last detail about that facility or all of the facilities. so they are saying it is a red herring that it is simply not true. >> laura: the press gets it wrong overwhelmingly on this issue. still looks like there is progress. >> but notice how the press get that wrong. if it is anti-trump, the press jumps. if it is a pro-trump, they don't notice it. when you see the press jumping, you have to ask yourself a simple question: is it anti-trump? if it is, say, well, let's wait a while and see if it is true. >> laura: they were saying the cfo of trump was a cooperating witness, totally not true.

it sounded good, that pavlovian response from the press. >> basically, i think the president is moving in the right direction. in general terms, they want to try to change the facts, and the president is achieving all these important steps. it's a multitude of little steps. can i ask about china? >> laura: please. >> i think the president's engagement of has left huge impacts. he engaged them, there were missiles fired into the pacific. president trump deployed forces. kim it went to china, went back and say i'm ready for negotiations. what would that mean? it means the chinese told him, we are in business now, we don't want to have a war because of you. that was the signal. it was our deployment plus engagement. >> laura: we will put it on the screen for people who are unfamiliar with our relationship with china, north korea's

largest provider of food, fuel, industrial machinery. their support dates back to the korean war appeared north korea's largest trading partner is china, roughly 90%, some with russia and iran, also, kim jong-un on his visit to china, four times, most recently last month. china is like the hand, the unseen hand in all of this, is it not? the trade pressure trump has put on china, all of this, this all comes into, i think, a stark reality of perhaps a different korean peninsula because of this engagement. >> nothing gets done without china, people say we overestimate their ability to get a deal done. china is in the middle of this. if we can get the trade issue sorted out, imagine a world where china and the u.s. don't cooperate on north korea, global terrorism, name your issue. it's really encouraging that we are getting closer on a china trade deal appeared at the marks reflected that earlier today. let's get our fingers crossed

that things are going well in hanoi. >> laura: the president is said to come out with came and we believe they will be taking questions from the media. i have to say, after seeing madeleine albright try her deal in '94, john kerry, we have seen a lot of people try and it didn't get all that far. it seems like we are getting farther but i think david is right. it's a little dance here, along dance. >> it is a lot different dance because madeleine albright didn't actually dance with kim jong il, his father. she danced with him when they were there. it didn't move, the market didn't work. look, i think everybody watching tonight, if you see kim jong-un answering questions off-the-cuff to the news media, you are seeing a historic change that every person in north korea is going to pick up on. i mean, it is an enormous moment

because he is coming out of the shell of total control into a world where he is now trying to interact with trump in a way that makes him more normal. there is a real piece of this of trying to become normal, and i think he is a young guy still, he was educated in switzerland, and actually has a much better sense of the larger world of the neither his father or his grandfather, and i also think he understands that they are at the end of the road. i think the most important thing with the chinese was that when he was in amara lago was the night we used missiles against syria. >> laura: passed the chocolate sauce with the desert, the bones just went. >> but kim jong-un, this guy is a very tough man and he will do things that will harm you. speak of the supporting point on that, north korea has an

average per capita the same as . compared to south korea, this dynamo. if there is progress here, the bubbling up of the korean work ethic, even though it is north korea, my gosh, what that would do over decades. that is the optimism, and obviously, kim is looking at that. he's got that in his mind, you can see it. >> he's young enough, he can imagine 30 years from now providing over a very prosperous, very normal country. >> laura: he is a young man, he is a dictator but he has a young man. he gets off that train. on a train for three days, they didn't have a plan. they didn't have a plane that was capable of getting there, that is how bad it is, and agai again, peace versus war. war is awful, and trump, in part, won this election because what we had done in iraq and what we had done still in afghanistan, we are way too overexposed in this part of the world.

we thought we could change it, wonderful servicemen but we have got to do it a different way. it is not 1986, the same economy we had then. that resonated with people. all these democrats, who are we going to get a president who loves peace more than trump? trump it loves peace! >> i think in korea, the south will be the force that will denuclearize the north. or they will find a formula, economic, infrastructural, and the north koreans will commit to doing one thing, stop targeting our cities. boris did in 1981 at the end of the cold war. a number two, making sure the forces along the line will stop deploying further away, and phase three, south korea will be the one to energize and create a renaissance of the north. i don't know, you are the experts. >> laura: friend of mine who is troubled so many times to north korea for tb, he is a missionary. he said, people forget that all

people have pride. even if you're a citizen of north korea and you don't have the food of the technology, they are proud people. it's like the russians, i live in the soviet union, they are proud people. they have a proud history. they are not like us, they are different, you have to give people a graceful way out of a bad situation. even when it is a dictator. don't you all agree on that? >> they will need to save face. economic recovery, and even though we have a long way to go, i think we all need to be a little cautious. the koreans are emotional peopl people. i always imagine when you get these family reunions cooking between north and south korea, you want to talk about emotion, and emotion drives everything. >> laura: east and west berlin berlin. east, west berlin, the whole -- >> the thing you have to remember here, this is the opposite of the way diplomacy would teach at peered at the school of diplomacy, barry's

very careful. what trump intuited, if you treat this guy with dignity, he gained so many psychological points he can afford to relax a little bit and maybe get to a deal. >> laura: did you see him smile? he smiled. >> yeah, he looks a different peered at that is encouraging >> laura: a look, he could be smiling in front everyone, i get that. >> i think he actually likes trump. >> laura: okay, ed henry has an insight now on why this meeting may have been going on as long as it is. perhaps longer than it was initially thought it would last. >> i will give you a little perspective, about 12, 18 hours ago we were dealing with the end of the first day of this summit

and they had a dinner, and president trump said before the dinner that he and chairman kim were going to have a quick meal. he said most of the business will get done on day two. just at the opposite happened, the dinner lasted for two hours or more, just here last night in hanoi vietnam, so that gives you an idea of the warm feeling, the length of which they are spending a lot more time behind closed doors perhaps than they did in singapore in round one. the second point, you are talking about what newt gingrich was just saying, the warmth, you can see in the body language that chairman kim has towards president trump. something else happened about an hour or so ago, an american reporter from "the washington post" asked a question of chairman kim. he ignored questions yesterday. today, he answered it. he was asked about his feelings here and chairman kim said, i don't want to overdo it, but i have a good feeling that there will be positive results, chairman kim said. and not revolutionary in substance, but he is optimistic

and this a dictator, who we believe it's the first time ever he has taken a question from a reporter. he is opening himself -- it's only slightly. he is still a dictator. it let's not give him too much credit, but the point is, as your panel is laying out, this personal relationship that is being developed could be really important. >> laura: thank you so much, panel, stay right there. the president and kim jong-un are going to speak to the media. we are going to bring that to your beard i can't even believe this is happening as soon as this happens, yes, we have dissections on what michael cohen said today peered at the left is going nuts, they finally got their wile e. coyote roadrunner. comes to reducing the sugar in your family's diet, coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. we're working together to do just that. bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. smaller portion sizes, clear calorie labels and reminders to think balance.

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conversation, monica crowley, washington times senior columnist, and lieutenant colonel danny davis live in hanoi. it let's get your on something,e see a lot of foreign policy establishment types speaking out today, and in recent days about this trump summit, second summit with a kim. hillary clinton spoke out, and i want to share it with you. >> i don't see a deal there that is a verifiable, enforceable deal. i don't know what trump will claim. if you can put lipstick on a pig and say okay, this is what we are going to do with north korea and he keeps saying it over and over, and fox news say it over and over again, and the so-called mainstream media does there both sides thing, he wins the news cycle and that is really what he lives for.

>> laura: trump is all the way over there in vietnam to win the news cycle. i heard a number of people saying that today. >> the foreign policy establishment in new york, washington, elsewhere are pulling their hair out because donald trump is actually pulling off something quite extraordinary on the other side of the world. mrs. clinton's remarks there are sore-lose arisen. it donald trump's president and she is now, so of course she is going to down talk anything he does, including this historic summit. i worked for president nixon during the last years of his life, and what we are seeing is, to me, a really interesting historical analogy. richard nixon in 1967 i wrote a famous piece where he articulated his vision of his opening to china. the opening did not take place until 1972. it took five years to lay the groundwork for that historic opening where nixon abroad in china out of isolation, into the community of nations.

it donald trump is doing a similar thing here. i mean, this is really earth shattering. on top of it, now you've got the calculation of nuclear weapons and the possibility of at least moving towards denuclearizing the korean peninsula. this is huge. he will never get any credit from his critics, including first and foremost, mrs. clinton. but that doesn't mean that the reality is lost on the american people. it is not. >> laura: again, in just a few moments we understand they will be coming out to speak to the press, so keep it right here. i want to go to you davis, because you are in hanoi, the rich history of the region. hanoi is a different place, if anyone has had a chance to go there, they are saying it is a wild and completely transformed place in so many ways. but the american historical connection to vietnam, and the whole region, the men we lost in the vietnam and korean war, and

today, we have democrats speaking out about how this is still kind of disastrous, nothing good. chuck schumer spoke out as well about this. i want to play this and get your reaction. let's watch. >> president trump seems headed down the path of capitulation on both north korea and china. prepared to trade away our leverage in exchange for flimsy agreements. president trump seems more interested in touting his foreign relationship with chairman kim as an accomplishment in and of itself, calling a brutal autocrat of friend on twitter is no substitute for actually achieving something for the american people in hanoi. >> laura: a capitulation that the president has demonstrated towards china with the tariffs, and towards north korea with the ongoing sanctions. >> i think it is really unfortunate that he used the language that he did because the

fact is, kind of playing off what monica said a second ago, only nixon could go to china in 1972, i think only trump could go to vietnam right now and have the opportunity for a pretty substantial move towards peace, something that none of the previous 11 presidents have been open come close to peered at the fact that trump is willing to take that risk's really know where they peered into contradict what was just said, if you don't take some risks, if you are not willing to get something that you are not going willing to get something for peace and denuclearization on the peninsula. president trump is willing to do that. >> laura: kim speaks english, right? as he speak well? >> more than he lets on. >> laura: to him it would be a sign of his own capitulation to engage in much english. >> he would rather hold that card close to the best.

>> laura: then he would be doing a knocked down joke, it would be really cool. i want to play for you part of the evolution of trump from rocket man to today. watch. >> he has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement. and as i said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power. the likes of which this world has never seen before. >> we made a lot of progress and i think the biggest progress was our relationship. it's really a good one. >> laura: fire, fury, and power. kind of the superhero lingo. who knows, kim might be a superhero fan. >> this is the nixon crazy man theory. if you think your adversary is crazy you will probably take them seriously. we have a long way to go here, but it looks like the optics, the fact that the report that there was no inventory happening

is really good news, and now it's going to be a long game. this is not a sprinters's game. >> laura: no, it is not like, okay, i will come tomorrow logger and we are going to iron out all the details. it is never going to happen that way. we think about what is happening in washington today, michael cohen, he says he comes clean, he asks for forgiveness, i lied but i am not a liar, one of the greatest lines of all time. they are all going crazy over it, then you have this unbelievable event taking place on the world stage, that the world is watching. they are not watching cohen, they are watching this because it affects, as david said, global markets. global markets are affected. billions of dollars in portfolios are affected by what happened here. >> the world is focusing on hanoi, not on the hearing. that is clear. historians will confirm this. my view is that kim, defining a

strong message to his people, his facial expression peered at trying to calm down his people, his military, we are changing. the only difference is that their speed will be different from our expected to speed. they have been anti-american for seven decades -- slowly but surely in his face, i am changing. >> laura: monica respect. the idea of giving respect to a dictator, it gets her back up as an american. you don't want to respect them, but just like when we were dealing with the soviet union in the 1980s, a great global power. or dealing with china today, north korea is a shell of an economy. but still, the people have prid pride. i think trump in his own way, you have to show him some modicum of response, even with the torture, and everything in order that he doesn't lose faith at home with this military

establishment, and with the people at large. is that a fair way to characterize this? >> yes, absolutely. i think the president does know what he is doing here. the granting of respect to kim on a very professional and geopolitical level actually disarms the dictator and makes him more receptive to the message. the president here is dealing on a number of different levels. geopolitical of course, and economic. he comes from a business background, so the president looks through most things through a transactional lens, and what he is trying to appeal to is the idea that the north korean state could -- if it had the proper economic liberalization with economic reform supported by the united states, if they were to go down the path of actual, verifiable denuclearization that north korea could actually be a

thriving economy and a thriving nation in the community of nations. so, he is appealing not just to kim as a leader, he is also appealing to kim as a person. as somebody who might be able to deliver for his people, if that is in a kim's interest, that is what the president is trying to set this framework. it remains to be seen if an ideologue like chairman kim will respond to that, but based on what we have seen so far, the president has already deescalated tensions with his outlawed trials of asia and that in and of itself is a huge achievement. >> laura: this conversation we have had of the past 45 minutes a significant in many ways. we talked about the china angle, we talked about the cohen deal, we talked about the impact on the rest of the globe, not just the korean peninsula, the entire global marketplace. this has a profound impact on

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>> laura: some breaking news out of the summit, the two leaders are running about an hour behind schedule but we are expecting them to emerge at any moment. we will bring you that as soon as it comes out. it will be a blockbuster, i promise you. if the precursor was anything indicative of what we are going to see and of course the other big news today happened right behind me, michael cohen, trump's longtime attorney and convicted liar, contested a part of the house oversight committee and try to play the victim. joining me now, two of the congressmen who question to cohen today. also with me, the former chair of the house oversight committee, jason shave it. gentlemen, it is great to see all of you. i want to play a back-and-forth between elijah cummings and congressman meadows.

>> the fact that someone would use a prop, a black woman in this chamber, in this committee. it is alone racist in itself. >> mr. chairman, there nothing more personal to me that my relationship, my nieces and nephews are people of color. not many people know that. you know that, mr. chairman. to indicate that i asked someone who is a personal friend of the trump family, who knows this particular individual, that she is coming into be a prop, it is racist to suggest that i asked her to come in here for that reason. >> as you know, of all the people in this committee, i've said it and got in trouble for it, that you are one of my best friends. i know that shocks a lot of people. >> and likewise, mr. chairman.

>> yeah, but you are. and i could see and feel your pain. we need to straighten this out. >> to my colleague, mr. meadows, that was not my intention and i do apologize if that is what it sounded like, but i said someone, in general. >> laura: okay, the back story on this is lynn patton, who worked for president trump, had been brought to the hearing by congressman meadows, and it was called a racist move to allow a young woman to come, and obviously she knows the president really well. we will start with you, congressman gomer. thank you for being here. are you calling me a racist? by congressman meadows. this is what we have gotten to. the president of the united states about to come out with the north korean leader and we have this spectacle on capitol hill because of the jilted lover, michael cohen? >> it was a bad day for the democratic party. a speaker pelosi cannot keep her freshman members in line, she cannot keep them on script.

the purpose of that whole committee was to begin the process of trying to impeach the president to please the most liberal part of the democratic base. >> laura: people watching this across the country, we were at a restaurant for lunch, people walk by, look out for a second, then they move on. i'm not saying it is not important because the democrats think they are finally going to get trump, but what did you take away from all of this? were you concerned? he was talking about the southern district of new york, he brought up other crimes, but i can't talk about them. >> it was a sad day, that he is a pathological liar brought in front of congress. the first witness for this hearing. it just shows you how far democrats have gone. i hope that they realize that they should love this country more than they hate donald trum donald trump. >> laura: i don't -- i mean, that is not even close. congressman, you know the moment i'm talking about. can we play it?

this is where he was asked about whether he knows of any crimes of the president committed. let's watch. >> unfortunately, this topic is actually being investigated right now by the southern district of new york, and i've been asked by them not to discuss it, not to talk about these issues. they are part of the investigation that is currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. i'm currently working with them right now on several other issues. >> laura: you get the sense, congressman, that that was cohen's way of tweaking trump when he is over there in vietnam trying to negotiate, perhaps, the peace deal here. >> i think what the country and congress got to see is what mueller saw, a self-described fool. they didn't save cohen to testify against somebody else, the southern district of new york is not going to use him, he's terribly discredited, he is a liar, he is a cheat, he

deserves to go to prison, he is going to prison, he is a terrible witness. i don't think the democrats actually proved or demonstrated anything other than that he is a liar and a cheat. but the one thing that actually came out where cohen has been consistent is he said, i have not witnessed anything personally in ten years sitting by donald trump that has to do with collusion. he didn't have anything specific about the allegation of racism or any of the other things. at the end of the day, i think the democrats are left empty handed, than parading somebody and choosing a data that is offensive to this country in trying to displace the news, and the paintings of what donald trump is trying to do and accomplish in vietnam. >> laura: congressman, judge napolitano on this network said what he watched it made him think that there could be four felonies committed by the president. did you see any of that? >> i don't see any of that.

they haven't proven anything to me thus far, felony, much less an impeachable offense by the president. they obviously don't have anything with respect to collusion. i agree exactly with what jason just said. they are trying to pivot, they always try to play the race card, they are going to do everything to embarrass the president. when you have a business empire the size of president trump's, if you dig deep enough you will always find where you omitted something or didn't calculate something exactly right. of the president is clearly, clearly in the right on all thi. >> laura: thank you so much. president trump, kim jong-un will speak to the media very soon. at moments away, when it happens, stay right there. oh! oh!

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>> laura: moments away again, they will be coming out, kim and president trump after this historic summit. if vaccination is covering it

live tomorrow, a free trial on fox nation. a new podcast drop today, shannon bream and the "fox news @ night" team, they will have a big presser, good luck with that. >> shannon: thank you so much, you're busy later. we begin with this fox news alert appeared breaking tonight, the president and north korean dictator getting down to brass tacks one-on-one over nuclear weapons. what will they agree to? meaningful reductions, inspections, limitations on material? regardless of what happens, will the president get any credit from his critics? these two are expected to speak any moment as they bring in advisors for an expanded meeting. we will take you live to be in may minutes for the historic second summit is happening right now. and michael: set a lot today but what, if any of it, was new? or really matters for the president? britt whom