we have with us david ignatius, former u.s.political analyst claire mccaskill is with us and from the hoover institution, former policy director to mitt romney's 2012 presidential campaign, lanhee chen joins us. >> right now the president is in vietnam, meetings are going to begin today, what should we be looking for? what should we expect out of this summit, the best case scenario,/worse case scenario? >> the worst case scenario is braggadocio, the north koreans will give up their weapons. that's not going to happen. the best that could happen is the north koreans moving out of this primitive, isolated state, becoming more prosperous, having all the disincentives to use the nuclear weapons that modern countries have. we ought to bet on that. although it will be accompanied with a lot of fluff and hot air from trump, it's in our security interest. >> senator mccaskill, you heard yesterday elizabeth warren declare she was going to swear off big money and only take small donations. what impact will that have in the race on the de

let's go to david ignatius on this. ay, i was very surprised, david, and relieved this morning, especially after hearing the news that they were going to relax requirements from north korea, especially after the bad hearing, i woke up this morning relieved that our president had actually held a firm line and actually when we were doing our quick call before the show today, i said actually, i think it's the best of all scenarios that the president went over, spoke to a leader who we thought we were going to be fighting on the korean peninsula a year, year and a half ago. he had talks to continue that relationship and keep the channels open but he didn't give anything away. i do think with john's questions and backdrop, it's more surprising that was donald trump's response to it. it's not certainly we've grown accustomed for but i think this morning it's at least certainly we should be grateful for. >> i think that you're right in that the headline is not in my mind, i don't think it will be in most people's mind "and as w

david ignatius at "the washington post" now reports this. quote.ring a new phase of the trump-russia investigation in which the president's efforts to contain the probe are failing. information he tried to suppress about his business and political dealings is emerging with more to come. quote, a deutsche bank subpoena would be especially sensitive. trump was enraged by a december 2017 report that special counsel robert mueller had subpoenaed the bank's records about its dealings with trump. quote, the red line apparently held then. trump lawyer jay sekulow told reuters no "baywatch" dank subpoena has been issued or received. according to ignatius writing now, quote, one government source speculates that rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, blocked any attempt to compel disclosure of the bank's-trump records to avoid getting himself or robert mueller fired. that's one government source speculating. honestly, we don't know if that subpoena ever was issued or if it did get walked back somehow, and if so, if i did, by whom. but the new phase of

the year that david ignatius was born.cker. >> let me start by saying, as speeches go it was a good speech. i don't know that it was a great state of the union speech. it had a lot of applause lines. there was a lot of people for -- there was a lot for people to like if you were a republican. maybe not for a democrat. i thought the worse part of it was the immigration because of the way he painted immigrants and that -- to me as a conservative -- >> by the way, not because he's being insensitive, which he is and racist which i believe he is, but because he's just flat out lying to the american people. >> wrong. >> they're just wrong about the numbers. the way they characterize and paint immigration -- legal immigration has always been a net positive in the country. it remains in that positive, but the whole crisis is phony because immigration numbers are probably close to a 50 year low and so what crisis are we trying to solve? what is the problem we're having? worse for his political party is when you begin to alienate mi

we wanted to highlight the good news about david ignatius for the award for reporting on khashoggi.gnatius and karen attiah of the "washington post" have not let this story go away and we're trying to get the answers. >> as willie pointed out, julie brown from the "miami herald" won a polk award for her dauntless coverage of the jeffrey epstein story. >> glad that happened. >> with no newspapers, there's no stories. >> no stories still or no answers. there are no answers to why -- no good answers why they gave out that they gave out. >> to jeffrey epstein. >> and that guy got such a sweetheart deal, was walking in and out of jail all the time. it's ridiculous. sorry, the justice department needs -- they need to continue this investigation and let us all know who were they trying to cover up for. they were trying to cover up for some very powerful men. in that's the key to the story. they will continue to look into it because julie brown and her team at the "miami herald" took this on, perversion of justice. this is what we've all seen over the years, a reporter digging in deep going

tuesday, february 26thalong with joe, willie and me, we have commentor for "the washington post" david ignatius "the washington post," eugene scott, director, president and ceo of the woodrow wilson international center for scholars, jane harmon is with us this morning. we'll get to the three days of michael cohen testimony in just a moment, what we can expect what's going to happen. the president's former fixer is going to testify that

. >> david ignatius. can go to any prison and find people and ask them what the crime was that put them in there, they're going to say they didn't do it. it sounds stupid for the president to say he said he didn't do it. >> he keeps asserting mohammed bin salman's innocence. there's a process going on in the kingdom to get to the bottom of this. from the beginning i think the thing that people in the u.s. who want a strong u.s./saudi relationship have said is the saudis have to show us something like this can never happen again. that's what i would like to hear president trump say. we want to be clear that mohammed bin salman has changed systems, is taking responsibility for what he's done, there's accountability and hasn't happened. >> the idea i won't kill anybody again. but let me ask you this. what's the access? we had ami, the notorious "national enquirer," which is basically a sleaze mag. you know what it is. it deals in scum. and you have the saudi arabia government and president trump. what ties t

special award to david ignatius and karen of the washington post for their campaigns demanding that saudi arabia be held accountable for the murder of colleague.ie -- and finally, the career award to bill semery, for her moaning quality news and commentary in -- for promoting quality news and commentary in public radio. we are pleased we will be able to have a news discussion. this award for in the dark season two was the first we have ever given to a podcast and i think it marks the growing influence in radio and podcasts and radio programming in general in our daily news diet. that will be the same of today's talk, the talk is the power of sound and journalistic renaissance. margaret sullivan, the media columnist for the washington post, will talk with bill, our new george polk career laureate who is instrumental in the founding of npr and with madeleine baron, the reporter of the george polk winning podcast and sarah gonzales who is the host and reporter of npr's podcast planet money. would you please come and we have about 45 minutes for discussion, there will be some q&a afterwards.

there, massachusetts senator david ignatius walsh, an irish catholic democrat from pittsburgh and noted friend of labor, extended greetings on behalf of the new yorker who was saving his voice for the evening. on word to worcester, where d to worcester, where another crowd of 30,000 failed washington square before the city, and where he was less concern of his own vocal endurance, yelled himself hoarse. finally, to boston. on boston commons, smith was greeted by 150,000 people. at boston arena, only 15,000 were able to enter out of the nearly 50,000 who sought admittance while avid mobs radiated out for blocks, enthralled by reports of events and proclaimed by an army of radios, all this as two other capacious auditoriums remained packed to the brim with ardent listeners after the nominee's brief greetings to the delirious overflow of events. all told, police estimated that 750,000 people flooded the streets of boston to greet the governor of new york, a gathering 2000 souls greater than the city's population at the time of the previous census. why had they come? what did they hear? and