now, we see what kim jong-un has sent to president trump. president trump was not willing to share his own letters to kim jong-un. but you see this language about fantasy films and our precious relationship. and many national security officials we've spoken to have said that kim jong-un was trying to play to the president's own ego, that he knew perhaps this kind of language would help ingratiate him with president trump. and when woodward presses president trump about these letters with kim jong-un, president trump keeps telling woodward, what's the big deal? and he uses some curse words in there. "i just met with him, i'm trying to prevent a war, it's all just about meeting." and these letters continue month after month, and they're flowery in language. and president trump says at one point to woodward, whether it's kim jong-un or erdogan in turkey or vladimir putin in russia, he likes these tough guys. and he likes to woodward in kind of an aside, explain that to me, bob, explain that to me, i'm not really sure why that is. he says he like

president bush once told me about kim's father, kim jong-un said i love kim jong-un because of what he'sng to his people and for -- >> you know what? that attitude got him nothing. in the meantime, they built a huge nuclear force during the last two administrations. they haven't done it during me. you hear reports that they will start again but for three years, i get nothing. >> has he given you -- >> they say president trump agreed to meet. what the -- it's a meeting. i agreed to meet. sitting home reading your book. >> i mean, he blows right through your question about the human rights abuses and consenscentration camps in nort korea. i wonder what you made of the response. >> and then he told me actually that kim jong-un, the current leader killed one of his uncles and put the head on the body, and trump makes the point that you thought politics was rough here in the united states, look at this. so -- and there is -- >> what is it about him and dictators? >> well, we have that tape where he says extraordinary tape just out of blue. he said well, i get along with the turkish leader erd

president bush once told me about kim's father, kim jong-un said i love kim jong-un because of what he's doing to his people and for -- >> you know what? that attitude got him nothing. in the meantime, they built a huge nuclear force during the last two administrations. they haven't done it during me. you hear reports that they will start again but for three years, i get nothing. >> has he given you -- >> they say president trump agreed to meet. what the -- it's a meeting. i agreed to meet. sitting home reading your book.

at the same time, relations between trump and kim jong-un own have broken down now and we don't knowwhere it is going and lots of experts say they don't think trump handled it right. i am agnostic on that and say this is what he did and he's very emphatic with me in these interviews that it was a no war strategy and if you look over all the trump administrations, we've not had a new war and a lot of people expected we would have one. at the same time the relations with some countries, trump likes autocratic leaders and he talked to me about that quite openly and so he has picked leaders like vladimir putin and they have a good relationship with him and with the crown prince of saudi arabia and his negotiation with kim jong-un own. anyway, the positive and the negatives are laid out. it's as best as i could. >> host: you right in the book about these letters between the north korean leader and the president which he calls love letters written you say the cia never figure it out conclusively who wrote and crafted letters to lutrump. we were masterpieces and the analysts marveled at the

another compelling portion of the book that focuses on the president and dealings with north korean kim jong-unso interesting to me, in the letters that you read about what kim jong-un said and how he played to the president's weaknesses, which are flattery. the president, you know, the times i interviewed him, especially during the campaign, you know, he's -- i've never met somebody at that level who, you know, that wealth or alleged wealth that he has, who is so needy for some sort of recognition and -- and, you know, flattery. and so susceptible to it. i want to play part of your conversations with him. it hasn't been heard before, when he's showing you photos of the two of them at one of the summits, the idea that he's showing you photos is bizarre to me. the president uses profanity here and it's an important context. >> look at that picture. he's having a good time. you know? nobody's ever seen him smile. look at him smiling. he's happy. he feels happy. but he's very smart. and remember this. when you take over and i really mean this, too, you take over a country and you're 25 years old a

the president talks about his letters to him, but says his letters to kim jong-un are private. that's classified. can't see those. we get this portrait f what kim jong-un says about president trump, calling him your exlensy, really flattering language, and we don't know what president trump wrote back because those aren't disclosed >> to let this sink in, folks, generals are dummies in trump's view kim jong-un is magical i want to get you both on the record on the breaking news this afternoon from "the washington post" that senior department of homeland security official brian murphy says in a new whistleblower complaint, on two occasions, he was told to stand down on the russian threat in the election because in part quote because it made the president look bad elizabeth, here we go about the president and russia >> it's so disheartening it seems the department is being politicized and i know the men and women at our intelligence and analysis shop ina. they're patriots they work hard to try to understand the threat and their unique role is to help explain it to our big local pa

the kim jong silk silk spinning male named after kim jong un's grandmother a model factory $1600.00 workers are employed here most of them women they sought process and boil the cocoons of the silkworms to obtain the precious young. this open arms come from a province south of pyongyang about 200 tons of silk are produced here every year. a luxury product expensive and labor intensive the factories entire production is intended for export abroad but the supervisors are unwilling to disclose who the foreign customers are i'm not sure anymore who suffers the say says. it's a hassle i'm sure for north koreans but i do find ways around that one of the problems is that neither thai the nor russia. is helping in forcing the sanctions romans or underscores that it's and. they don't see that one should not on and on the. ground can one jot it them he so you during the day keep one to you doesn't believe she boy. and the very moment you don't know what evil madonna is going to have a missing mom with him number more you don't know mom will cause you really. gave her head to come who. can tell you th

had not postponed south korean military journalists as kim jong-un had assumed they would do.t this shows us, these letters and this insight into the relationship between the two is really how it appeared to be very close at the beginning and there was a lot put on the relationship between the two individuals, which was really creating the opportunity, as the u.s. president said, for something to happen between the two countries. as we know, that did not happen. robyn. >> thanks so much. paula hancocks live in seoul, south korea. thanks, paula. >>> you're watching "cnn newsroom." still to come. president trump dismisses the idea of white privilege as, quote, drinking the kool aid. a revealing look at his attitude on race. that is just ahead. it. i didn't do it. so when i heard they added ultra oxi to the cleaning power of tide, it was just what we needed. dad? i didn't do it. #1 stain and odor fighter, #1 trusted. it's got to be tide. we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was print

with mbs, the crown prince of saudi arabia and his association with kim jong-un. anyway, the positives and the negatives are laid out in the book the best i could. >> you write about the letters between the leader kim jong-un and the president which will he calls love letters. the cia never figured out conclusively who wrote and crafted kim's letters to trump. they were masterpieces. the analysts marvelled at the skill someone brought to finding the exact mixture of flattery while pelling it to trump's sense of grandiosity and being center stage. >> the letters, reaching out for trump, saying we know each other, we can trust each other, we're going to be friends for each other. at one point, he talks about, i remember, standing, meeting with you, holding your excellency's hand, and they pledged to each other. as i say in the book, it's almost like "the knights of the round table." and at the same time, when kim jong-un would not deliver on his agreement to get rid of his nuclear weapons, trump pushed him and said, now, look, you gave your word on this. you're not r

at the same time, relations between kim jong-un have broken down now. we don't know where it's going. lots of experts say they don't think trump handled it right. i am agnostic on that. i say this is what he did. he is very emphatic with me in these interviews that it was a no war strategy. all of the over trump administration, we have not had any war. a lot of people expected we would have one. at the same time, the relations with some countries trump likes, autocratic leaders -- he talked to me about that quite openly. he has picked leaders like putin to have a good relationship with the crown prince of saudi arabia, and his negotiation with kim jong-un. anyway, the positives and negatives are laid out as best i could. host: you write about these letters between the north korean leader and the president, which he calls love letters. you say the cia never figured out conclusively who wrote and crafted kim's letters to trump. they were masterpieces. finding the exact mixture of flattery while appealing to trump's sense of grandiosity and being center st

it's not often north korea admits a mistake so the personal apology from leader kim jong un to his south korean counterpart came as a surprise to german dungeon and 2 men kim jong un us to deliver his great apologies to south korea's president mungy and to fellow citizens for greatly disappointing them with this unfortunate incident in our waters the message from the north confirm the basic details of what happened on its side of the maritime border on tuesday it said the south korean citizen a government official result had been intercepted and shot at more than 10 times by soldiers who then set fire to the flotation device he'd been on as a precaution against covert 19 the officer who disappeared from a patrol boat on monday in an apparent attempt to defect to the north condemned as an act of brutality the incident has continued to arouse anger here in south korea right wing opposition groups have used it to attack the policy of engagement by liberal president moon saying it has shown the true and cruel nature of the north korean regime isn't when you're agreeing with what you're in yo

official south korea's military says the north shot the man at sea and then burned his body leader kim jong un issued a rare a polar j. describing the killing as a disgraceful events and investigators in mexico have issued arrest warrants for military members it could be linked to see the disappearance of dozens of students and 2014 it comes as another large protest was held in mexico city a group was abducted by local police 6 years ago up to date say with us on al-jazeera people in paris is that. 2 years after the murder of a saudi journalist. the globe with amounts of transparency continues. will german officials ever see justice. system she killed. on a just. how is north korea one of the poorest countries in the world mannish to evade u.n. sanctions and pay for its nuclear weapons program the answer is through a secretive government organization known as bureau $39.00 which obtains foreign exchange by any means possible to fund kim jong un's regime in the 1st of 2 episodes investigating how it's done we reveal how money laundering and slave labor raise cash for kids. north korea the paria

whatever the case, anlo a has come from kim jong-un. as the global pandemic continues to take its become a e vaccination campaign to eradicate polio. it is one of only two countries along with afghanistan yet to eliminate the wild form of the disease. previous campaigns were suspended because of coronavirus, but health officials are hopingo immunize 40 million children this week. conspiracy theories are hampering that effort. we have the report. reporter: drop by drop, house by house, this is t frontline of the war to eliminate polio. there are men with guns to guide us. dozens of polio workersdave been kil in pakistan by militants. attacks have reduced in recent t years, b threat remains. there's a new challenge too. coronavirus. polio campaigns were spended in march. teams redeployed to help in the pandemic. now, they are starting again. >> in august, the first local campaign after coronavirus, we were afraid of getting infected. a lot of people refused. now, it is much better. reporter: this is the city in northern pakistan. t far fr

more than two dozen letters and they're filled with flowery language and high praise, mostly from kim jong-un who referred to trump as your excellency and who called the special friendship a magical force. about their 2019 meeting in vietnam, kim jong-un wrote every minute we shared 103 days ago in hanoi was a moment of glory that remains a precious memory. such a precious memory that i have in my unwavering respect for you when we walk toward each other again some time in the future and trump tweeted out kim jong-un being in good health. i want to bring in susan glasser, cnn global affairs analyst who writes about life in trump's washington. wow, susan, these letters. what did you think when you saw them? >> well, you know, trump has been bragging about these letters for the last few years. in fact, i have it reliably he'd trot them out to visitors in the oval office and show them to them and make a big deal of how unique and exception they were. i'm not entirely surprised that woodward obtained copies of these from the president as part of the cooperation for the book. you know, it's just s

so we have from one letter, this is a letter from kim jong-un to president trump on december 25th, 2018. even now i cannot forget that moment of history when i firmly held your excellency's hand. he calls trump "your excellency" a lot. at the beautiful and sacred location as the whole world watched with great interest and hope to relive the honor of that day. letter number two. oh, this is further down in that same letter. as we enter the new year, the whole world will certainly once again come to see not so far in the future another historic meeting between myself and your excellency. again to trump, reminiscent of a scene from a fantasy film. i don't know exactly what that is. but you don't normally hear that. we also have obtained a letter from june 10th, 2019. i also believe that the deep and special friendship between us will work as a magical force that leads the progress of

but kim jong-un, let's remember that trump's theory of talking to kim jong-un, against the advice ofhim in and out of office, was that he could personally, through chemistry, through, you know, things like calling each other your excellency and talking about beautiful moments and this sort of cringe worthy teen romance language, convert him to the idea of nuclear disarmament. what has happened since trump met kim jong-un in singapore two years ago is that singapore has dramatically accelerated its testing, dramatically accelerated its -- the yield of its nuclear weapons and its program is that much more advanced. so it's achieved the opposite -- much like the bob woodward interview, it achieved the opposite of what trump believed it would achieve. >> and, mika, whether north korea or saudi arabia or bob woodward, donald trump thinks that he can win people over by just getting there and talking to them and schmoozing with them. >> it's like he's giving the goods and hoping bob woodward would do a favor back. >> and kim jong-un. it doesn't work. >> let's get back to the parts from bob

after three meetings you see a frustration from one of the letters from kim jong-un after the militarynd saying i am clearly offended. i do not want to hide this feeling from you. i am really very offended. it is an interesting chronological look at the relationship between the two of them. how positive it was and how it did deteriorate that a denuclearization deal is done. boris? >> you have to see how they read about the magical moments and the letters that the two leaders are experiencing. thanks so much. >>> back here in the u.s. the qanon phenomenon towns gain traction. mike pence is going to attend a fund-raiser hosted by karen and michael boreland who have several social media accounts that have shared memes and qanon accounts. it falsely claims that president trump is secretly saving people from a kabal of people who are trying to take down the president while operating some child sex trafficking ring and this is who the vice president is going to hang out with. this fund-raiser will take place in montana on monday. cnn has reached out to many for comment. >>> wildfire is burni

is it just the meeting >> it is hurting national interests for him to be so close to kim jong-un, who has been horrible to his people he's met with kim three times. i think the first time is forgivable, because frankly nothing else was working, so the idea you would meet with him, do something unusual to jump-start negotiations is okay, but then they met two more times. again where our position actually set foot on north korean territory and got absolutely nothing in return the north korean nuclear programs has progressed substantially to where the north koreans have between 30 and 40 warhead and missiles we believe can reach parts of the continental united states inch there's a bit of irony on the flip sigh that the trump campaign, as i mentioned ironically been trying to link joe biden to dictators in spanish-language ad. here is what joe biden said last night. >> he embraces dictators he is more like castro than he is like churchill, he keeps talking about. the way he talks about insurrection, talking about people taking up arms. have you ever, ever heard a democratic -- not capita

learning new details about the troubling relationship between president trump and north korean leader kim jong-unnt himself has described love letters between the two leaders, according to the book, the president claimed that kim jong-un told him quote, everything, even detailing the murder of his own uncle in graphic detail joining e now is courtney kubie who covers matters relating to the pentagon put this in context for us, what do we know about how national security officials view their relationship between kim jong-un and president trump? >> so, it's sort of doublesided on the one hand, president trump engaging in this discourse with kim jong-un, a loft national security officials thought the u.s. was about to go to war with north korea. this engagement has staved that off, for the time being, anyway. north korea's not been -- they've been in a production phase these past several years while this diplomacy has gone on at the end of the day, it may just be kicking the can down the road, the fact they've been talking, because the underlying problem still exists at the same time, president trum

whatever the differing accounts, certainly an apology has come from kim jong—un. presidential palace has released today a number of letters between the two leaders in recent weeks. warm words where kim jong—un expresses his hope that south korea, his southern brethren as he called them, will overcome the covid—19 pandemic. that's laura bicker. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: britain's royal family finances are hit by the pandemic. the smaller number of visitors to royal palaces and galleries is and galleries is likely to leave a 35—million—pound hole. london has been added to the coronavirus watch list as an area of concern. the mayor has criticised the lack of testing available in the capital, which he said had been diverted to other parts of the country. the growth rate is four to nine percent, and mayor sadiq khan warned the capital was at a "very worrying tipping point". the prime minister seemed to be aware of some of the concerns that we had, and i explained to him are concerns relating to other indicators that showed the virus is rising in our city

kim jong-un, kim jong-un doesn't know about the problems that joe has. we need sharp people. i'm sorry, joe is not qualified for the position. host: president trump, last night at his indoor rally in nevada. talking to first-time voters this morning only. you can call in on phone lines for those first-time voters who support joe biden. (202) 748-8000. first-time voters that support president trump, (202) 748-8001. for those who are undecided or support others, (202) 748-8002 is that number. in the clip you saw the speak several times about ads put up by the biden campaign. about adsfrom npr played during nfl games yesterday. "as millions tuned in for this live event, they are getting a dose of presidential politics on commercial breaks. thursday night when the people turned in -- tuned in to watch the chiefs defeat the texans, ae biden was there with campaign ad and they don't come cheap. there will be a mix of ads all season, the biden campaign confirming they have already reserved a run of at least one ad nationally during each nfl game between now and election and those of

the kim jong-un thing makes no sense in the sort of transactional sense.s running the country. >> i think he likes leaders who it appears are in total control, and that is what he has attempted to do as president. you just saw it in the story that you just ran about jean carroll having the justice department take over a personal attack that trump ostensibly allegedly made against jean carroll, using the u.s. government for his own purposes. so i think he sees that in pursuant. he sees that in mbs, in mohammed bin salman, and he sees that in kim jong-un, and any other leader that appears to have control over their country, that's not the u.s. democracy, that's not what we want. i don't think that's what the american people want. but it appears that that's what donald trump wants. >> yeah, i mean, a majority of them don't seem to want it at the moment, but these things are -- they're delicate, as we have learned. as many generations of american politicians and theorists have learned. ambassador wendy sherman, thank you so much for making some time with us to

a rare apology from north korea's kim jong un, he says the brutal killing by his soldiers of a southic. ben johnson, the fastest man on earth, is flying home to canada in disgrace. all athletes should be clean going into the games. i'm just happy that justice is served. it is a simple fact that this morning, these people were in their homes. tonight, those homes have been burnt down by serbian soldiers and police. all the taliban positions along here have been strengthened, presumably in case the americans invade. it's no use having a secret service which cannot preserve its own secrets against the world. and so, the british government has no option but to continue this action, even after any adverse judgment in australia. concorde had crossed the atlantic faster than any plane ever before, breaking the record by six minutes. this is bbc news, the latest headlines. reports in us media say president trump has decided to nominate federaljudge amy coney barrett, to fill the supreme court seat left vacant by the death of ruth bader ginsburg. and the us has now recorded over seven million

defectors say that bureau 39 is directly controlled by kim jong un and manages the leadership secret accounts the so-called palace economy. but where in pyongyang is bureau 39 locate it. and how many millions flowed into its coffers. when we asked the north korean official he and his translator pretend not to know. the thing with these vans. those years. for. the. bureau 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the kim regime only north koreans who've escaped can talk about it openly. so at a secret location we meet a man who used to work for bureau 39 he was based in china his task smuggling foreign currency. then he escaped. his position was so important that today the north korean regime threatens to kill him this is why he had plastic surgery to alter his face even so he only wants to be filmed from behind zip car journeys hosiery. procedure busy. orders or it is she in your view it is a war or the world war on the ground 0 and here's a. look there's a commie iran or dorian is a poor leader has. grown worse you know we don't want a war. hero just write your own little we have a war

organization known as bureau $39.00 which obtains foreign exchange by any means possible to fund kim jong un's regime in the 1st of 2 episodes investigating how it's done we reveal how money laundering and slave labor raise cash for kids. north korea the pariah state. a dictatorship shrouded in mystery. every day the official news papers praised the heroic deeds of the d.l. leader. time seems to stand still here. i am. north korea has the 4th largest army in the world. for 3 generations the kim family has ruled the country with an iron fist. but how does the regime manage to survive despite severe un sanctions and how come kim jon only has enough money to threaten the world with the most powerful weapon of all time. the new clear. fall from north korea remco broida a history professor is working on answers to these questions. he says our image of north korea is wrong. north korea is and what it tells it is just look at the country functions at the highest level what is the main goal of of the government of the regime i should say it's to make money is to make cash for kim. what intrigues me pe

, and woodward got access to the letters from kim jong-un to the president, which are extraordinary, flattering as you might imagine, and praising the dictators and saying at one point, i don't know why but i like erdogan, i like kim jong-un, i like obviously vladimir putin, i don't know what to make of that, said the president, something like that. there's picture of them all, at the first meeting, if we could show that picture again, that's a white house photo of his press staff and other aides in the oval office, you see bob woodward is sitting at the resolute desk across from the president, and the vice president there, they're all there. they apparently did not know about the 17 other conversations, but they certainly knew about that one. ben? >> andrea, i mean, as someone who dealt with bob woodward, it's important to understand why this matters. if you look at the kim jong-un revelations and the nuclear weapons revelation, what does that add up to? despite what he described as love letters, north korea is building new nuclear weapons and new missiles. the u.s. apparently has n

it's not often north korea admits a mistake so the personal apology from leader kim jong un to his south korean counterpart came as a surprise to german dungeon and 2 men kim jong un us to deliver his great apologies to south korea's president mungy in the end to fellow citizens for greatly disappointing them with this unfortunate incident in our waters the message from the north confirmed the basic details of what happened on its side of the maritime border on tuesday it said the south korean citizen a government official result had been intercepted and shot at more than 10 times by soldiers who then set fire to the flotation device he'd been on as a precaution against covert 19 the officer who disappeared from a patrol boat on monday in an apparent attempt to defect to the north condemned as an act of brutality the incident has continued to arouse anger here in south korea right wing opposition groups have used it to attack the policy of engagement by liberal president moon saying it has shown the true and cruel nature of the north korean regime when you're agreeing with your negotiati

on north korea from the woodward book, trump was taken with kim jong-un.ey exchanged wonderful letters woodward writes telling the author pridefully that kim had addressed him as excellencekim tells me everything including a graphic account of kim having his uncle killed this fascination and fetish for dictators is on full display here it sortd of also goes with it, donald trump respects people who earned power by inheriting it, kim jong-un, who flashes his power around the country violently and never leaves office like he doesn't inherent the people who have earned the glory. it does kind of all go together. >> the most damning parts of this book are what his senior advisers have said about him, and in the case of north korea, you look at what jim mattis said that the president is dangerous and unfit, and i think what story will live on from this is exactly that, that this is a president whose dangerous on matters of national security but joy, if i could, i want to revisit the race issue because there's something that should be deeply concerning about tha

defectors say that bureau 39 is directly controlled by kim jong un and manages the leadership secret accounts the so-called palace economy. but where in pyongyang is bureau 39 like a tit. and how many millions flowed into its coffers. when we asked the north korean official he and his translator pretend not to know muslims. with these vans. those years. by the theme of the. bureau 39 is one of the best kept secrets of the kim regime only north koreans who've escaped can talk about it openly. at a secret location we meet a man who used to work for bureau 39 he was based in china his task smuggling foreign currency. then he escaped. his position was so important that today the north korean regime threatens to kill him this is why he had plastic surgery to alter his face even so he only wants to be filmed from behind zip car journeys hosiery. procedure busy. orders or it is she in your view it is a war or the world war on the ground 0 and here's a. look there's a commie iran or dorian is a poor leader has redock they who are in the room was you know we don't want a war. hero just write

reporting from bob woodward's book rage, the white house ceremony with a north korean dictator kim jong unmight be farther off although in letters kim wrote that he wanted another historic meeting between myself and your excellency reminiscence of a scene from a fantasy film. >> hear the power of that voice, nobody heard that voice before. >> reporter: trump told woodward he has a chance in his predecessors a north korean leader kim jong un thought obama was a, quote, a-hole. >> reporter: important to note that while american troops are coming home from iraq and afghanistan, they are staying at full strength on the north/south korean border tonight. shannon: absolutely, thank you. adam schiff blasting the administration over a whistleblower complaint. former dhs official primer for accusing the white house and homeland security officials of suppressing intelligence reports related to russian election interference and altering intel to match claims made by the president. dhs responding in a statement tonight, quote, the department generally does not comment on the specifics of the referrals

>> what do you want to do repeatedly is get in a room with kim jong-un and negotiate with him. >> theing was a gift to kim jong-un and provided him visibility, legitimacy. >> trump and kim, not only met fl three times, but exchanged letters. >> and they're great letters. we fell in love. >> they got straight into donald trump's brain. and he's convinced kim jong-un is his friend. >> commentators and former officials who not everything else has been tried. let's give this a shot. >> there he is on north korean soil. >> we gave north korea 2.5 more years to achieve progress in the nuclear and ballistic missile program. >> the president yanked the rug out and poured under our south korean ally. but among other things, unilaterally agreeing to the suspension of large u.s. south korean military exercises. >> by some estimates, north korea may have doubled its arsenal during the trump presidency. >> they go not bad at all. >> particularly with the damaged relationship with u.s. allies. >> it upset our ally said in the region. >> i don't think it's much of an exaggeration the president gets

if it can be lighthearted when kim jong-un is involved. i was one of the few representing the u.s. t the lunch with kim jong-un. we made eye contact and he appeared to wink at me, which was terrifying for me. i told the president and general kelly about it on the way back to air force one. they clarified what they thought the wink meant. was him hitting on me and not marking me for something else. we had a big laugh about it and any time it's come up since. if anything the president has done nothing but empower me as a woman. i was the first mom to be the white house press secretary of state. -- secretary. he was one of the first people to affirm me in that role. president trump gave me confidence to stand up at the podium to speak on his behalf. it was a fun exchange. i hope people took it as that. >> the president said take one for the team. the publisher put that out there. but the context was the humor around it. when you talk about women. i remember the first time i was at the white house. i was talking to you. you were behind the roosevelt room getting ready to interview the p

and the president was exchanging this very heated rhetoric with kim jong-un. they're saying now, or the president is saying now that we came very close to war. when you were reading those chapters, as somebody who has dealt with this in the past, give me your reaction. >> well, katy, i think it was an overstatement in terms of we were very close to war, unless donald trump was ready to push the button of war, but i don't think kim jong-un was ready to go to war in any way at that point. he was challenging us, trying to see what he could get, and indeed, he got a meeting with the president on the world stage. what we're seeing with the woodward book is donald trump really does admire those individuals who have many of the same characteristics he has, unethical, unprincipled, and willing to make deals that benefit themselves but not necessarily their country. so his affinity, as you pointed out, for authoritarian leaders, has been no secret. i think he's willing to admit that openly, because before he became president of the united states, he was the head of a p

troubling i guess in terms of world peace would be what he has done with ut sothe saudis am jong-un kiven kim jong-un is a world power. meanwhile, the president's relationship with the pandemic and the way described about the pandemic exposed by bob woodward ahead of that book release. we see first of all how he kept talking about it going away. it's going to disappear. up know, it's not something we have to worry about. it's not as bad as the flu. and what was very clear in savannah's questioning today is that all of the things he said february 7th, he only, woodward tried to explain, that he didn't understand the full impact until he learned about the january 28th briefing, and that's that critical january 28th briefing, joel, where he was told by his national security advisers robert o'brien, this is going to be the worst crisis you face. told by matt pottinger, deputy national security adviser in that briefing, worked in china, a journalist in china, told by sources this is a lot worse than they're letting on, and that that awe preceded january 7th when he told woodward on tape that it's

the book also reveals that later on after those two summits that president trump and kim jong-un had they started exchanging letters, that president trump was flattered that kim jong-un referred to him as "your excellency." norah. >> o'donnell: so many details in that book. ben tracy, thank you. and in his first interview this sunday for "60 minutes," bob woodward talks to scott pelley about his interviews with the president, including what trump knew early on about just how deadly and infectious coronavirus was. >> in that february 7 interview, it's clear that the president knows what the stakes are, but he's not sharing that with the public at that time. >> yes. this is the tragedy. a president of the united states has a duty to warn. the public will understand that, but if they get the feeling that they're not getting the truth, then you're going down the path of deceit and cover-up. >> o'donnell: well, you can see more of scott pelley's interview with bob woodward, that's this sunday only on "60 minutes." campaigning in the battleground state of michigan today, joe biden seized o

the president admires people who are perpetuating their role in government, and she referred to kim jong—un and she referred to kimjong—un in government, and she referred to kim jong—un in north government, and she referred to kimjong—un in north korea and vladimir putin amongst others. she said you are not in north korea, mr president, nor in turkey, nor in russia. so why don't you just try for a moment to honour your oath of office? but all of this cloud and already clouded electoral process. we have of course contentious nominations coming up contentious nominations coming upfor contentious nominations coming up for another supreme court justice, and indeed, such as the potential lack of clarity going into this presidential election, that it might actually be up to the highest court in the land at the end of the day, the supreme court, to determine the outcome of the november election. extraordinary stuff. thanks, david. the french prime minister is warning that it is a race against time to avoid a second coronavirus wave as bad as the first. jean castex said the public must act now to s

but always make it seem like we're on his side, and it seems like kim jong-un has also learned that lessonfruit of this type of engagement with kim? thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> so president trump has repeatedly encouraged his supporters test the system by voting both by mail and in person. well hundred of georgia voters could be prosecuted for doing that this past summer. we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our techno-wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot, and pick up your car. that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way-- at carvana. on day one we'll implement the national strategy i've been laying out since march. we'll develop and deploy rapid test

north korean leader kim jong un has issued a rare apology to the south over the killing of an official shelton burned see the man disappeared from a south korean fisheries patrol boat on monday while wright has more now from salt . quite a surprising development it is not very often that north korea admits to making mistakes like this rarer still that they would then go and issue one appears to be a very sincere apology according to the presidential office here in south korea this apology has come personally from kim jong un saying how sorry he is to have disappointed moving jay in the president of south korea talking about this unsavory case and putting in place measures to prevent a similar occurrence and the north says that it has apparently carried out its own investigation and has pretty much confirmed the details of what we know happened that apparently this was a south korean citizen on a some sort of floating object that came across to the northern side of this maritime border he was intercepted by this patrol boat and that north korean border guards fired a total of 10 rounds

. >> one of the revelations is that he, in the context of kim jong-un, talked to woodward about a secretar weapon that had never been disclosed. when woodward checked with military forces they acknowledged there was such a weapon but wouldn't disclose it because it was secret. >> i'm sure not going to talk about classified information, but the idea that the president of the united states, if, in fact, there were such a program, would reveal it to a journalist knowing that the journalist would reveal it to the world, including to our adversaries, is the height of dereliction of duty. it's extraordinarily reckless and dangerous. and we don't know what the consequences may be. and how our adversaries may react. so this is one more way in which the president of the united states has put the national security of the united states in much greater harm to serve his own ego and his own benefit. >> he also talks about his praise for erdogan and says at one point to woodward, i don't know what that's all about when speaking about liking strong men, putin, erdogan, putin, kim jong-un. the love lett