. >> let's talk about all of this with national security analyst and cnn political commentator david sangerting beyond what this meeting accomplishes is sort of the forming, as you put it, of a new block. what are the big implications of this? >> reporter: well, poppy, first of all, that's quite a train. >> the green train. >> armored train moving. i did a train trip once in north korea many years ago. and it wasn't anywhere near that luxu luxurious. i could tell you. so what we're seeing here is basically a reformation of an asian block that is an alternative in many ways to the american-led order. and that is china and russia, which of course announced a partnership without limits. there clearly are limits to it. back during the olympics, just prior to the invasion of ukraine. north korea, iran, and of course they're trying to bring in other nations as well. it's also a very big move for kim jong-un, who thought he had something going with president trump a few years ago in their three meetings. president trump promised that that would result in north korea disarming. in fact, he never go

let's talk more about that this and bring in national security analyst david sanger. david great to see you. >> good to see you, fred. >> how important was the trip to china and his most recent comments this morning? >> i think it was an important trip. it's a big effort to try to hem in china in the pacific where china has made great inroads in areas we were paying insufficient attention to from the solomon islands to new guinea, the philippines and vietnam. and what was interesting about this trip, to my mind, fred, was that we have gone from early presidential trips to vietnam. bill clinton did the first. i was on that. george bush did one. and they were still trying to sort out the relationship after the vietnam war. you didn't hear any mention of the vietnam war in the course of this. you only heard discussion of coming together as a strategic partner even though, fred, the president knows as he read it in "the new york times" that the russians recently signed a secret deal to provide arms to vietnam. so the vietnamese are playing both sides. >> mm. and you talk a

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. >>> joining me, david sanger, cnn political and national security analyst, white house and nationalecurity correspondent for "the new york times." such sad news to digest for so many. this man's resume was long, and yet it really doesn't begin to reflect, i think, the profound depth of his career and, more importantly, the character of the man. how and why was bill richardson such a singular politician and such a diplomat? >> i think what was remarkable about bill richardson is two things. first, he held a variety, a remarkable variety of positions in government. of course, he was governor of new mexico. he was ambassador to the united nations. he was energy secretary. he was briefly and somewhat disastrously a candidate for president of the united states and dropped out. but he's really remembered for something that he did outside of all of those appointments, and that was his brilliance at hostage negotiating. and he did it with this real sense of humor, of a willingness to go anywhere and do anything. journalists loved him, not only for his storytelling, but because one group of

and john kirby said today when i asked him, what happens when they are of course criticizing and david sanger is here to join in the conversation, and the reason that the criticism comes from is that you are handing the way it is depicted is that it is $6 billion that you are handing over so they can continue to fund terrorism, et cetera, et cetera around the world. and what john kirby said today, if this money is seen to be, and it is going to be used for not humanitarian purposes, the tran action ends, because of the structure of the constraints around it. but it is not going to stop, the criticism s david. >> right. and what you are going to hear, using taxpayer money, and they haven't. and hearing from the critics, that you should not use money for ransoms whether it is democrats or republicans, we have ended up having to strike a deal, and sometimes it is prisoners for prisoners, and sometimes it is prisoners for releasing money, and the nature of the iranian case is a little bit unusual because after the iranian revolution happened, the iranian government had paid for all kinds of thing

. >>> we're back for some analysis with david sanger of the "new york times" and "washington post" columnistn. god to have you here. >> good to be here. >> i know you've been looking at great power competition. in the last cold war, southeast asia, asia, was an epicenter of this shutdown and once again, we are looking at asia becoming a real focus here for great power competition this time directly with china. i wonder how you think the biden administration is doing so far in countering? >> so far a lot better than most of the predecessors. i would include both president trump and president obama. they have got a strategy to try to win back the allegiance of countries throughout the pacific, and so you've seen agreements that have ranged down through the solomon islands and new guinea, places people hadn't thought about in the united states very much, up through the philippines as you were discussing with vice president harris, and with vietnam. i remember being on the first trip that an american president took to vietnam, bill clinton, and it was pretty much all about reconciliation with th

. >>> i want to bring in david sanger, a cnn political and national security analyst as well as a whiteouse national security correspondent for "the new york times." good morning. >> good morning. >> as you know and as you heard from fred, ukraine is pleating f -- pleading for more. how do you think the u.s. and western powers would respond? >> it's not a new criticism. it's not unwarranted. as the war started, 19 months ago, president biden was quite concerned that certain kinds of weapons would cross a red line for the russians and lead to an expansion of the war, either horizontally, elsewhere beyond ukraine, or vertically, and that is to say that he would begin to reach for tactical nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction. that concern has abated a little bit by 19 months of experience. that's why the administration appears to be edging toward giving the ukrainians something that months ago they said they would never give them, which was the atacms, these longer range artillery that can be go deep behind russian lines. while i understand the ukrainian frustration here,

david sanger, thank you iyou for insights. >>> and kevin mccarthy is moving to open a formal a impeachment inquiry in on president biden and that is rattling washington. it will have widespread repercussions around the country heading in to 2024. this comes less than two weeks after mccarthy said he would not open an official probe without a floor vote. mccarthy has been facing pressure however from hard line conservatives for weeks and this appears to be his attempt to keep members from rebelling ahead of the critical government shutdown deadline . lauren fox is joining us. felt like this was moving in this direction. i think that the big question is do republicans you are talking to feel like they actually have the evidence to move forward here or was this purely kevin mccarthy trying to survive another day? >> well, certainly this moved much more quickly than anyone had thought it would. we expected that by the end of the week house speaker kevin mccarthy would make it clear to his conference that he supported he opening this inquiry but doing so just hours before the house came back in

so let's bring in "the new york times" and white house national security correspondent david sanger with also back with us is former u.s. ambassador william taylor. along with lieutenant colonel alexander vinman joining us. s ambassador, to you first, what did you take away from the comments there? what stood out to you? >> well, brianna, he made the case this is not just about ukraine. this is it an attack by the russians, by vladimir putin, against principles, against other nations, against global security, against the rules-based order, he broadened the discussion to make it clear to people in that room that this is about them. >> and, david, he laid out the stakes. you and i were talking as the speech was going on, noting that he started with the threat of use of nuclear weapons. >> it was interesting how he constructed the speech. i actually thought it was fascinating, very effective delivery. he started off by talking about how we learned over 50 years to control nuclear weapons because we thought that was the third world war. he said along the way, we forgot to control other forms

national security analyst and "new york times" white house and national security correspondent david sangeryour interview with one of the individuals that is apparently on his way according to sources to the airport, it has been a little bit longer than we expected at this point, why do you think that is? >> well, you know, i think it's probably because of the bureaucracy, and you know, the exact timings of getting the wire transfers and all of that detail. i'm sure dave and others will have a lot more details about that, but imagine these people who have been there eight years, nearly, siamak namazi who i interviewed in march, and others who are waiting, another minute delay is torture for them. if they are indeed on the way to the airport, that's fantastic, and they will get on to this qatar plan, leave iran ran airspace, get on the tarmac in doha, be transferred after a medical check to a u.s. government plane, and arrive here at a u.s. military base. we don't know exactly which one. we assume andrews, but we don't know. later, tonight, and their particular ordeal, this phase will be ove

. >>> with me now, cnn political and national security analyst david sanger and nic robertson is with us. what should we read into the timing of this? why now? >> great question. it's not entirely clear, because it's not as if there are other diplomatic breakthroughs about to happen with iran. in fact, we have been told that this is not one of those cases where releasing prisoners is a confidence building measure to something else. but the iranians are in desperate economic shape these days. and so the prospect that they would get this $6 billion which was being held in south korea from funds from south korean purchases of iranian oil years ago. i think it was very attractive to them. it also is the necessary thing to get out of the way if there is to be a bigger relationship. but you know what worries about me as wonderful as the human story is, and boy, what a relief to have them coming out and we all pray that this all works today and all of the choreographed elements have them back in the united states, maybe by tonight. the reality is that the iranian nuclear program since presid

we have analysis, christiane amanpour at the table, david sanger, as well.rred. the plane is out. >> absolutely. and we're going to wait until they land in doha and are officially transferred from irani custody from qatarry and u u.s. custody. i'm sure we won't hear much before that. they're on a plane and won't be free to talk about it until they are officially in u.s. custody, if doha. where they will, you know, land on this qatari plane, they'll have sort of an hour transfer, probably some quick spot health checks, on to an american plane, and then back to the united states. and apparently, there are u.s. officials there in doha, waiting to accompany them. it's a phenomenal conclusion, hopefully, again, fingers crossed, to a very, very, very difficult and fraught situation for ordinary civilians, who got caught up in this terrible, political, strategic situation that iran always takes these people in order to get money, and they've done nothing wrong. nothing wrong, except to be american >> david, the posture of this administration when it comes to wrongf

stakes and what really needs to and could be happening here at this very big summit this week, david sangerork times." talk to me, as you mentioned to me, not just the two leaders not there, but the third that is also not there, president zelenskyy of ukraine. what does this mean? >> it really is pretty remarkable because president biden has tried to turn every one of these big international gatherings toward the issue of building support for ukraine and isolating russia. xi jinping is not coming. he's preoccupied at home with financial problems, economic problems of a scale he's never seen before. putin didn't want to show up because he didn't want to face the condemnation. and they couldn't get the rest of the group to agree on inviting the president zelenskyy, who you'll remember was at the g7 summit early in the summer, has been at these other events. there's going to be a struggle even to get a communique here that condemns russia. because the russians and chinese will veto that. it's not clear whether president biden will be able to take on the biggest issue, and that will leave him w

on this point in particular, i'm trying to understand -- we were talking about this with david sangerimes," this bloc that is forming. what is your read on the dynamics of russia, china, north korea, at the moment? >> i have been talking to officials, american officials, the u.s. ambassador to japan, rahm emmanuel. his first commentary is, if vladimir putin seeks to rebuild the imperialist negotiation of a russian empire by reaching out to russia and iran, that signals weakness by vladimir putin and russia. north korea is a pariah state. it's been under sanctions for years and years and years. at the very most, it has ammunition to give to russia or whatever. nobody believes that what it gives to russia, if it does, will dramatically affect the status quo on the battlefield in ukraine. it also points out how stretched russia is, that it would need to reach out in that kind of way. obviously, north korea is probably the one coming tin in hand for whatever it can get from russia. what you have is a group of countries, iran as well, russia trying to get drone technology and the like, tha

significance of the summit, who is there, who is not, joined by danger sanger, cnn political and national security analyst. david is also the white house and national security correspondent of the "new york times" and author of the book "the perfect weapon." always good to see you, david. putin and xi aren't there. i wanted to ask you, too, are you surprised ukraine's president zelenskyy isn't there. i mean, wasn't invited by mr. moderna. given biden's priority to get support and keep it up in the fight against russia, what did you make of that? >> what's fascinating, michael, is that all three leaders are not there for different reasons. president xi because he doesn't want to give credibility to what is basically a western constructed grouping, this g20. it's a big difference from his immediate predecessor, who used one of these g20 meetings to coordinate with president obama on the 2009 financial crisis. and other chinese leaders. but what we're seeing from xi jinping is a willingness to go off and create his own kind of institutions. putin didn't show up for his own reasons, didn't want to be facing criticis