all three of those are at the heart of the recent summit with king john -- kim jong-un. what was your reaction to that? >> i think it was great that they held in hanoi. that was a good illustration for kim jong-un to see what would happen if he embraced a market economy and i think president trump did right by walking away. kim jong-un was not ready to histiate, to fulfill commitment to denuclearization. he was banking on sanctions being released -- relieved like they were under the previous administrations. president trump says we are not going to do that, when you're ready to come to the table you are here -- we are here. host: we are hearing the potential of a north korean rocket launch into space, where we going from here? guest: we just have to be cognizant. if it's a peaceful launch of a satellite that's ok, i think. but if these are missiles being tested, that's a different story. we are going back to where we were. keep in mind that we have not had a nuclear test in over 15 months, this is because of the strong stance of the united states has taken and for kim jo

john kim who is our new senior program administrator. john started on the 25th. he was with the fair political practices commission. he was a political reform consultant and since june 2014 where he was familiar with political reform act and worked on lobbyist program, helped state agency develop conflict interest code. he's jumping in and hit the ground running. we're delighted to have him experience as well. i think you know that jeff zumwalt is our new senior investigative analyst. he's been with the commission for about year and a half i believe. he has been doing lots of work in a number of complex issue areas for investigation and enforce amount program. jeff also assumed responsibility senior investigative analyst on february 25th. he was a detective with the police department at virginia tech. he also had worked on major public embezzlement investigations. amy lee, she couldn't be here. she had a parent teacher concentrate today. you know her as auditor with the commission. she went through the hiring process and is more new principle program manager for

kim over u.s. intelligence? >> johni don't think that's what he's saying and if you take the case of jamaal khashoggi, he and others in the administration have said repeatedly we want from saudi arabia a complete top to bottom explanation of what happened. >> chris: it's been months and you haven't gotten it and the senate has been calling for stricter sanctions and you guys are opposing it. it certainly would happen in the case of putin. he specifically said u.s. intelligence said this but putin says no. >> john: fundamentally in the case of all three of interestsy thel this is nothing new in international relations. >> chris: but forgive me, and you go back to the reagan years, as do i. ronald reagan, when he was dealing with gorbachev over the most sensitive issues continue to call him out on human rights and the abuses in the soviet gulags. he didn't shy away from confronting gorbachev with the tough issues >> john: and i don't think president tomei president trump has either. even in the tapes he played on the prem

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john: it seemed to be another victory for kim jong-un.here was a one-on-one photo op for kim jong-un. two reporters had the temerity to try to ask a question and they were ushered out of the room. we don't know if kim jong-un complained to trump by the. sarah sanders was asked by the and she said i wouldn't say that. but when they went to go in for the pool spray for dinner. mick mulvaney and a couple of folks on the north korean side, there were four reporters. who were not allowed into that pool spray. the reporter for the "wall street journal" was assigned to be the pool reporter for all of the print. we can't make the direct connection they were being punished. howie: the official explanation was sensitivities about shouted questions. does the white house have a point about that taking place with a foreign leader? john: every leaders event we are do around the world we always ask the president questions. sometimes he responds to them, sometimes he doesn't. sometimes we'll even ask the leader -- from the other country a question. it's

the reports in south korean media follow last week's failed summit between donald trump and king john king kim jong un in vietnam a web site specializing in north korea studies called thirty eight north says it has satellite imagery showing efforts to rebuild some structures at the launch site started sometime between february sixteenth and march second al-jazeera is robert bryant has more from seoul. site that's normally used for satellite launches but it has been used for the testing of engines for ballistic missiles so it is potentially significant to north korea's missile development weapons program the. satellite images seem to show that some restoration work has taken place drawers replaced in the section of roofing replaced on one of the buildings at the site. at least sixteen people have been killed in a suicide attack on construction workers in east in eastern afghanistan it happened near the airport in jalalabad and the four attackers were also killed no group has claimed responsibility flights have been canceled from kenya's main airport following a strike by aviation workers riot p

so there you have it after the donald trump kim john summit in her noise this was the first action taken by washington against north korea and anyone who was dealing with it and you know all this saw and all these songs of friendship between donald trump and chairman kim they may end up being absolutely irrelevant when the u.s. sanctions alarm goes off and i'll tell you what officials in north korea have recently said that they aren't feeling that americans were making any steps to loosen their stranglehold when it comes to all this pressure on north korea. if the united states was not interested in improving north korea u.s. relations or implementing the june twelfth joint declaration it was only trying to produce results for political achievement i will make this clear the forceful stance of the us will make the situation more dangerous i was supreme leader ship can clarify its decision soon the us president loves to brag about how great he is making all these moves towards peace on the korean peninsula but as you've said in hanoi there was no peace agreement. is a failure was an essen

kim jong-un knew nothing about otto warmbier. do you agree with them? >> good for them. >> of course the facts matter, and johnon knows more than anyone else that it's nearly impossible for kim jong-un not to have any idea how an american hostage was being treated. what was your reaction to how bolton handled this and basically washing his hands clean of this controversy? >> objectviously john bolton di want to go against the president. in that he succeeded, but to put himself in that kind of position where he's in denial really makes nonsense. i mean, you know, as you know, otto was -- became sick and actually comatose in march 2016, and we brought him out in june 2017, so that's, what, 14, 15 months? and to say that kim jong-un didn't know about it doesn't make sense at all. no credibility there. there are a couple problems with president trump believing kim jong-un. number one, it's morally suspect, you know? it's a terrible problem there. and number two, i mean, if he believes kim jong-un, what kind of faith are we supposed to have in his national security judgment? so it's a problem. >> yeah, and you brin

all three of those are at the heart of the recent summit with king john -- kim jong-un. as your reaction to that? >> i think it was great that they held in hanoi. that was a good illustration for kim jong-un to see what would happen if he embraced a market economy and i think president trump did right by walking away. kim jong-un was not ready to histiate, to fulfill commitment to denuclearization. he was banking on sanctions being released -- relieved like they were under the previous administrations. president trump says we are not going to do that, when you're ready to come to the table you are here -- we are here. host: we are hearing the potential of a north korean rocket launch into space, where we going from here? guest: we just have to be cognizant. if it's a peaceful launch of a satellite that's ok, i think. but if these are missiles being tested, that's a different story. we are going back to where we were. keep in mind that we have not had a nuclear test in over 15 months, this is because of the strong stance of the united states has taken and for kim jong-un t

john, alisyn, back to you. >> joe, thank you very much. we want to bring in sung ming minute kimohn avlon, and joe lockhart, former clinton white house press secretary. great to see all of you. joe, what i heard nadler saying on the show was basically a roadmap for what they're going to do for the next two years. it sounded to me like they're going to continue investigations but slow roll any sort of impeachment talk or proceedings. they're not going to get there before the 2020 election, that's just what i read from what he said. >> i'm not sure i'd today be willing to say not before the 2020 election, but they clearly answered the question i think both of you were posing last week. post michael cohen, what now? what are you going to do? i think nadler was very clear and adam schiff was clear. then i think if nancy pelosi's hand is all over this, which is they're going to do their own independent investigation, they're not going to be rushed. mueller is not a trigger for them to, it's just a piece of their puzzle. and they'll do it at their own pace. i think they understand the

john bolton. but i appreciate the fact that you have somebody in the white house who has a different view and perhaps may be a check on donald trump's desire to reach out to kimlhis new best frien with whom he claims to be in love. so i think john bolton can serve as a reality check upon those impulses. >> if, in fact, he does that. in that fox interview or maybe it was to jake he said, my opinion doesn't matter. he's the national security adviser. actually, his opinion matters greatly or it should matter greatly to the president. the hope is, fine, i understand him not expressing it on television, but you would hope that he would express it face-to-face with the president. >> and i think that's the big question. we don't know what he's saying behind closed doors. i will say, even what he's saying in public is not going to sit well with president trump, because trump wants complete toadyism from his surrogates and officials. so he's not going to appreciate the fact that bolton pointedly refused to endorse his position on north korea. but you bring up the right question, what is he saying behind closed doors? does he actually confront trump and say, hey, mr. p

just before the talks collapsed that's according to a report from the reuters news agency johns had to presented kim jong un with a document calling for the transfer of pyongyang nuclear weapons and well making materials to the united states paki culhane has more from washington. this letter is significant because of what has happened in the past we know the national security advisor john bolton wants to pursue in north korea what he calls the libyan model that is where libya gave up its nuclear weapons or they believe they did give the nuclear weapons chemical biological weapons sent it to the united states in return for sanctions relief that is something that infuriated the north koreans they said that was a nonstarter and they were to cancel negotiations so president donald trump came out and said no we don't want the libyan model obviously north koreans are very aware of what eventually happened to moammar gadhafi the leader of libya who was killed by rebels and overthrown in his country so the letter basically spells out what the u.s. wants and that is sending all of the nuclear weapons and fue

and remember, not so long ago, john bolton didn't think that talks with kim jong-un should even take place, which leaves him with the choice that all top officials have when they clash with the boss. they can always step down or they can do verbal backflips instead, as he did this weekend on fox news. >> when he says i'm going to take him at his word, it just -- it doesn't mean that he accepts it as reality, it means that he accepts that's what kim jong-un said. >> you got that? what you heard the president say about taking kim at his word doesn't really mean you know that he takes him at his word. except on "state of the union" on cnn, bolton says the opposite, that the president really does take kim at his word. >> do you take kim jong-un at his word? >> the president takes him at his word. >> i know he does, but what about you? >> my opinion doesn't matter. >> so now, the president does, but bolton doesn't, or he doesn't want to say, even though you know john bolton has really been shy about voicing his views on foreign affairs. but sometimes he's bucked the boss before, just not

posted in the wake of north korean missile tests, president trump referred to dictator kim jong-un by what elton john>> so i think that's the one howard on "big bang theory" would have wanted his nickname to be. >> yes, yes. >> but instead it went to kim jong, right? >> yes. >> so we would say-- rocket man, right? >> yes. >> okay, just making sure. "a," rocket man. >> final? >> final answer. >> you got it. that's right. called him rocket man. [applause] all right, guys, chance to get to that $5,000 threshold and get that stay in atlantic city. here it is, $5,000 question. following the pattern of a=z, b=y, and c=x,

jake tapper/ reporting:"do you take kim jong un at his word?"john bolton/ national security adviser:"the president takes him at his word."jake tapper/ reporting:"i know he does, what about you?"john bolton/ national security adviser:"my opinion doesn't matter. my opinion is..."jake tapper/ reporting:"you're the national security advisor to the president, your opinion matters quite a bit."john bolton/ national security "i am not the national security decision maker. that's his view.">(justine) in a statement warmbier's parents said quote, "kim and his evil regime are responsible for the death of our son otto... no excuses or lavish praise can change that." (justine) coming up... following the decision to not charge the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of stephon clark, assemly members are stepping forward with plans to change the way police use deadly force in california. (jr) and after the break... presidental candidates joined activists in selma, alabama as the community remembers the 54th anniversay of "bloody sunday." (justine) hund

president, of course, facing which is challenges north korea after the second summit with kim jong-un ended abruptly. john bolton saying there would be more talks. this all comes as theho white e is dealing with yet another hurdle, that new investigation by democratsho requested documents from 81 people and groups close to the idesident. prt trump called it presidential harassment, saying democrats are "desperately in search of a crime" and signaling he may not turn over the documents. >> kristen, thank you. >>> president trump's family business is facing new scrutiny this morning. new york state regulators have issued a subpoena to the trump z orgion's long-time insurance broker. a first step into investigating the firm's insurance practices. >> questio intensified after the president's former lawyer michael cohenti ted last week that president trump inflated the values of hists aso an insurance company. it's the latest probe in a potentialrimeommitted before president trump took office. nbc's tracy pots joined u with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. there's a new poll giving us some sense

attorney's office in chicago investigate kim foxx. >> john: the gloves are off.att finn press in chicago. thanks. federal judge blocking medicaid work requirements into states and a blow to the trump administration's efforts to push the poor toward self-sufficiency. the decisions issued today find that medicaid work requirements for low income people in arkansas and kentucky pose numerous obstacles to getting health care that have not been adequately addressed. another problem, a possible fix for the boeing 737 max 8 which has been grounded following two deadly plane crashes in ethiopia and indonesia. tuesday a southwest airlines boeing being flown passengers experienced engine trouble shortly after takeoff, prompting pilots to return to the airport. the incident appeared unrelated to whatever because the two crashes but the news isn't helping the reputation. even as they promised a fix is on the way. dan springer with the report tonight from boeing's production facility. >> boeing 737 max, grounded for two weeks following the second fatal crash, may be closer to

kim. and i don't think i will be, but we'll see what happens. >> but national security a john bolton is taking a much harder line, warning that if kim does not dismantle his weapons as promised, the u.s. might ramp up sanctions on the regime. lester? >> all right, andrea, thank you. >>> north korea just one of p' president trmajor policy initiatives in trouble tonight. there's also stunning news of the prident's trade war. the u.s. posting the largest trade deficit in history. jumping 10% in one year. that despite how the president has chosen to take on china. nbc's tom costello has details. >> reporter: at the last stainless steel cutlery maker the country, the cutthroat competition is cheap, subsidized foreign imports. the trouble? the dollar is so strong it makes liberty tabletop's forks, spoonm and knive expensive at home and abroad. >> it cut into the business nd model basically destroyed the industry in the united states. we're hanging on, like i say, thanks to a lot loyal people who search for "made in america." >> reporter: the strong dollar means foign-made products are cheaper for am

analysts believe the regime is really a large site days after donald trump's failed summit with kim jong un. johnng of consequences if north korea doesn't denuclearize. >> i think donald trump has been clear they are not going to get relief from the crushing economic sanctions that have been imposed and we will look at ramping those sanctions up. heather: negotiations are expected to continue. rob: house democrats postpone a vote to condemn anti-semitism after pressure from progressives, the resolution seen as a response to the congresswoman omar's anti-israel comments. it will condemn anti-muslim bias as well. mike emanuel has more on the democratic division. >> reporter: lawmakers have heard enough from congresswoman omar so the house is expected to vote on a resolution condemning anti-semitism though it doesn't mention her by name. a draft obtained by fox acknowledge the dangerous consequent to the perpetuating anti-semitic stereotypes and reject anti-semitism as hateful expressions of intolerance are contradictory to the values that define the people of the united states. leading republicans

we're given no credit. >> so john, what do you make of this idea that to negotiate with kim you can'tay anything negative about him even if it means absolving him of responsibility on something like this. so this kind of reminds us of trump's dealings with saudi arabia crown prince where the president refused to say he had anything to do with the murder of jamal khashoggi. do you see a pattern here? >> well gigi, we have to look at the context. hanoi summit doesn't go in the direction that was expected and when you is a the press conference in hanoi, president trump just announced that the summit had not worked out. that they hoped to meet again. and i think in that situation you see president trump responding asef fusively as he can in other instances. so the idea of coming back to washington to getting grounded in reality, i think this is his effort to recalibrate. but this idea of getting carried away in that situation, the press conference, he talked about a range of issues but i think the idea of trying to overcompensate for what took place in hanoi is one aspect that he's trying

president trump then met with north korean leader kim jong-un that's where we lead off a tonight. chief white house correspondent john is roberts reporting from hanoi. >> the president is under pressure from both sides of the political aisle to make progress on kim's promise at last june's first summit that dismantle his nuclear program. it is unclear what the president and kim will sign. and the substance of a deal could shift during today's meetings. ideas that have been kicked around are, opening liaison offices in united states and north korea to facilitate ongoing dialogue. closing down the nuclear facility, and agreement to finally end the korean war and some modification of sanctions. president trump has been tried to sell kim on economic benefit he could reap if he gives up had his weapons of mass destruction ends north korea isolation, and joins the global economy. >> as i've said many times say it to the press and anybody who wants to listen. that i think your country has tremendous economic potential unbelievable. unlimited. and i look forward to watching it happen and helping it -- to happen. north korea

john bolton. ambassador, thanks for joining us. >> glad to be with you. >> it seems as though president trump doesn't have anything new to show for the summit. kim jong-un got a second face-to-face with the american president, building his clout on an international stage. now south korea and the u.s. are scaling back major joint military exercises. did this summit end up helping north korea more than the united states? >> no, i think it was unquestionably a success for the united states because the president protected, defended american interests. the possibility was there for north korea to make a big deal with us, to do complete denuclearization in exchange for the potential for a very bright economic future. the president wanted to make that big deal. he pushed very hard for it. the north koreans were not willing to walk through the door that he opened for them. so now we'll see what happens. but in terms of the outcome, the president has conducted this diplomacy different from prior administrations. all three prior administrations

>> reporter: the president has been frustrated by what he sees about the second summit with kim jong-un. johnummit happening, saying the president is absolutely open to talking to him again. jake? >> kaitlin collins, thank you so much. >>> surprising news today. a familiar face in the nation's capital, who people thought would run for president announced he's not going to. it's not who you think. >>> then will president trump's former campaign chair spend the rest of his life behind bars? we'll bring you paul manafort's sentencing when it happens. >>> and the anti-hate bill. ♪th. ♪...you better get moving. ready or not♪ ♪...it's about to go down here it comes now♪ ♪...get ready (oh oh oh oh), get ready♪ ♪...moving. ready or not ♪...get ready (oh oh oh oh) new galaxy. free buds. music to your ears. get free galaxy buds when you pre-order galaxy s10 or s10+. when it comes to so,type 2 diabetes,.. are you thinking about your heart? well, i'm managing my a1c, so i should be all set. right. actually, you're still at risk for a fatal heart attack or stroke. even if i'm taking heart medicine, like s

national security adviser for the breakdown of last month's summit between donald trump and kim jong un. and john bolton are both accused of creating an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust boeing says a software upgrade for the seven three seven max will be rolled out within weeks in the timeline hasn't changed despite multiple nations grounding boeing max planes worldwide a tail part found in the wreckage of the crash ethiopian airlines boeing seven three seven max last week indicated similarities with a crash five months ago in indonesia the ethiopians airlines flight was carrying one hundred fifty seven passengers and crew now toxic chemicals dumped into a river in southern malaysia of course thousands of villages to seek hospital treatment three arrests have been made as police investigate the pollution linked to rubber tire recycling flarm salumi reports from pasir good dung in the southern state of johor or than one hundred schools have been closed indefinitely. nor. is worried about his younger sister she was admitted to a hospital intensive care unit when she complained of difficulty. is

john hannity. president trump said the summit ended after kim jong-un demanded too much. the president claims north korea wanted all sanctions lifted in exchange for partially dismantling their nuclear weapons program. but north korean officials say they only asked for some of the sanctions to be lifted. meanwhile, another big headline from that sean hannity interview, he asked the president about michael cohen's statement on capitol hill wednesday. when cohen testified that trump directed him to make hush money payments to stormy daniels. hannity claims to have inside knowledge about those payments. take a listen. >> i can tell you personally he said to me at least a dozen times that he made the decision on the payments and didn't tell you. told me personally. >> no, he did and he made the decision and remember this, he is an attorney. >> in the wake of that statement one congressman is now calling for hannity to testify under oath. democrat david cicilline who is on the house judiciary committee tweeted, sean hannity is now volunteering himself as a witness. i look forw

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and we will ask the president's national security advisor, john bolton what went wrong with north korean leader kim jong-un. cbs news foreign correspondent charlie d'agata sat down in syria. she is the american who joined isis and is now barred from returning back home. and senator doug jones talks about what it is like to with be a democrat in the very red state of alabama. that plus analysis on all the news of the week is just ahead on "face the nation". . >> brennan: good morning and welcome to "face the nation". we begin today with president trump's national security advisor am bass do, ambassador john bolton, good to have you here. >> good to be with you. >> brennan: we have different versions of the story as to why this summit failed to produce any results. why was the president unable to negotiate further? >> i don't consider the summit a failure. i consider it a success defined it is a real estate protecting and advancing american national interests. there was extensive preparation or this meeting. extensive discussions between the president and kim jong-un and the issue really was whether

breakdown of last month's summit between president trump and the north korean leader kim jong il on mike pompei you and john bolton were accused of creating an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust. in the school she's making one of the hardest holes. will be the best of the action from the players championship in florida last. it is time for the force used now with joe thank you well as you've been hearing bangladesh's cricket team a safe after narrowly escaping the christchurch most shootings the team had just arrived at the alamo mosque for friday prayers when they heard gunshots the team stayed on the bus and later made their way through the park to the hadley oval cricket ground the third test against new zealand which had been scheduled to start on saturday has now been cancelled well several of the team tweeted following the shootings including batsman to mean well he said entire team safe from active shooters frightening experience and please keep us in your prayers captain mischka said that alice saved us today while shooting in christchurch in the mosque we are extremely lucky never want to see the

security adviser for the breakdown of last month's summit between donald trump and leader kim jong il and why pompei o and john bolton are accused of creating an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust but baez denied this saying the u.s. hopes to continue denuclearization talks with north korea with respect to what was said last night about chairman kim potentially considering ending the moratorium i can say only this in hanoi on multiple occasions he spoke directly to the president and made a commitment that he would not resume nuclear testing nor he resume missile testing so does jimmy kimmel's words we have every expectation that he will live up to their commitment to join his economic slowdown in the trade with the u.s. has topped the gender of a gathering of chinese legislators in beijing they endorsed a foreign investment all aimed at appeasing the concerns of trading partners in washington and elsewhere adrian brown reports from the chinese capital. as ever when china's parliament meets everything was perfectly organized. inside the great hall of the people the mood was celebrated as the almost three thou

adviser for the breakdown of last month's summit between donald trump and leader kim jong il and light pompei o and john bolton are accused of creating an atmosphere of hostility and mistrust but has denied this saying the u.s. hopes to continue denuclearization talks with north korea. with respect to what was said last night about chairman kim potentially considering ending the moratorium i can say only this in hanoi on multiple occasions he spoke directly to the president and made a commitment that he would not resume nuclear testing nor would he resume missile testing so does jimmy kimmel's words we have every expectation that he will live up to that commitment. i want to take you back to the new zealand city of christchurch now where andrew thomas is standing by with some developments relating to a court appearance by the suspect andrew what do we know. well the suspect as you say has just in the last five minutes appeared in court here in christchurch we can now confirm that his name is bronson tarrant a twenty eight year old and he's been charged so far with one count of murder in a sense that's a

kim jong un, who he said he actually likes as opposed to john mccain, who he -- was not his sort of person. kim jong un, according to sarah sanders, the president likes him and therefore he eliminated some sanctions. also about duterte in the philippines, muhammad bin salman and others. >> in the through the looking glass world of trump things are possible that we never would have thought possible before. but trump has criticized at some point every other leader, even president xi of china. he's certainly been vociferous at times in his criticism of kim. but he won't criticize putin. and why does he want sanctions relief? why has he been slow rolling sanctions that passed? why does he seem to just dovetail with putin's view of the world? now, anderson, i may be utterly wrong. i may be influenced by my background as an intelligence officer. but again, i go back to what so far has not been addressed. the steele dossier. and it's been pooh-poohed and mocked. but that is the way the russians do business. given trump's behavioral profile, he was a perfect target. and you know, you want various

satellite images released showed activity at a north korean rocket test site that kim had promised to close. johnolton says the president would be disappointed if kim resumed testing ballistic missiles. >> he feels the absence of nuclear tests, the absence of ballistic missile launches is a positive sign and he's used that really as part of his effort to persuade kim jong-un that he has to go for what the president called the big deal, complete denuclearization. >> now, bolton says the president is open to a third summit after some time has passed. >>> former vice president joe biden leads the 2020 democratic field in a key state though he has yet to announce his run for president. a new poll shows 27% of likely democratic caucusgoers picked biden. he has a two-point lead over bernie sanders. we have more from austin, texas. ed, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, biden is expected to jump into the race in the upcoming weeks and new polls may ease concerns he may still have. for democrats already in the race, they're trying to make sure biden doesn't steal their thunder. 2020 contenders at s

. >>> cnn's jake tapper today pressing national security adviser john bolton on president trump's summit with korean leader kimat summit ended without an agreement. but bolton today calling it a, quote, success. insisting no deal is better than a bad deal. the topic then shifting to american student, otto warmbier, spending 17 months detained in north korea and died days after returning to the u.s. jake asked bolton if he agrees with the president who says he took kim jong-un at his word that he did not have any involvement in or knew about warmbier's mistreatment. >> look, the president made it very clear, he considers what happened to otto warmbier an act of brutality that is completely unacceptable to the american side. i've heard him before the summit itself, before the press conference, talk about how deeply he cared about otto warmbier and his family. the fact is, the best thing north korea could do right now would be to give us a full accounting of what happened and who was responsible for him. >> do you take kim jong-un at his word? >> the president takes him at his word. >> no, he does. but what about

>>> the president siding with kim jung-un on the death of otto warmbier, it is not the first time he has sided with an automataut autocrat over his own advisers. >>> johnolton struggling to explain the president's decision to believe north korea's kim jung-un over the death of american student otto warmbier. friday warmbier's family released a statement saying kim and his evil regime are responsible for our son's death. no excuses or lavish praise can change that. bolton was asked why this president has a pattern of defending auto krats. >> why does the president trust pew toe and mbs and kim over u.s. intelligence. >> i don't think that he what he a saying. if you take the case of khashoggi, he and others have said we want from saudi arabia a complete top to bottom pl explanation of what happened. >> it's been months and you haven't gotten it and the senate has been calling for stricteryo opposing it. >> fundamentally in the case of all three of those countries, we have to pursue american national interests. >> meantime the president now blaming house democrats for his failure to strike a deal at the summit with kim jung-un. he says the scheduling of

. >> and courtney kube, john bolton has said now that if kim jong-un does not begin to denuclearize as promised, they would even consider increasing the sanctions, not lifting the sanctions as the president had been indicating. >> yeah, that's right, we heard from him last night about that. he talked about these crippling sanctions the u.s. has already levied on north korea and said if north korea doesn't start to go forward with this vague agreement that they made in singapore last summer, that there would be potentially even more sanctions that the u.s. could levy on north korea. when we first reached out, as you know, last night, when victor and his group first came to us with their amazing work, their amazing research being done by beyond parallel, we went to the white house and asked them about this and said what is your response to this. sarah sanders, the white house press secretary, declined to comment on it, talking about it being an intelligence matter, saying she doesn't comment on intelligence. then today, when she was asked about it by our kristen welker in the white house

kim is the grandma. donald trump is happy gilmore. a little nacve. and ben stiller is ashley johnbolton in the bathroom like -- [laughter] or! you can see that chairman kim is thompson in global politics. >> elected. politicians on both of the aisles got us where we are today. an president trump is a businessman. he is negotiating skills, he wrote the art of the deal. he understands as a real estate developer that sometimes ifyou have to walk away. we are in a better position today, we are in a better relations with north korea. kennedy: i agree with that. >> no question, bill clinton put us here and donald trump is going to get us out of it. he will make a deal. >> can we ever trust him again? >> no! we should not have trusted him in the first place which is what john bolton said and secretary pompeo and all the foreign-policy hawks on both sides of the aisle. would they invade? >> i'm not for an invasion there. i think their economic sanctions that can be ratcheted up. i think that china is a pivot point here.but it is -- kennedy: stop buying chinese crap. >> i love my chinese c

kim jong-un in hanoi. theave recently heard national security adviior, john bolton, saying that north korea must be completelyling to give up its nuclear weapons -- he said that on tuesday -- and he said if it does not do that, we are looking at ramping up our so given what bolton has just said, this news about the isspresumably grist to b bolton's mill. to what point does he reflect donald trump's opinion are not on sanctions? -- opinion or not on sanctions? p> nicolas maduro has broken s silence ass juan guaido makes his wayy back to the country. maduro has called for demonstrations to take place on sasaturday to coincide witith protests called for by juan guaido. he met with public sectotor unions yesterday, and a calling on them to help topple the government of nicolas maduro. take a listen. >> we are going to have a administration as proposee by of f capacities union. we know it is not from one day to the next. we know that the fence will start, the persecution will start -- the threats will start, that the persecution willlstart. >> we can't respond to provocations. they may continue with their game, wi