start with jill doherty and the very latest in the situation in north korea, jill. >> on a delicate,matic mission. will the two american-korean journalist comes home. i'll have that at the top of the hour. >>> i'm susan lisovicz at the new york stock exchange where it is a double whammy for your wallet. personal income tumbled. heidi, i'll put more of that in perspective in the next hour. >>> i'm poppy harlow in new york and first chrysler and then general motors and detroit's public schools headed for bankruptcy. we are not kidding. an unprecedented move for a school system. >> all right, guys, thanks so much for that. we are staying very much on top of former bill clinton being in north korea. we'll get you the very latest in just a moment here. )%)%)%)%)%)%% >>> quickly want to gettia the very latest on former president bill clinton in north korea, our elaine quijano is at the white house this morning because we're hearing more information about whether or not there was a president obama -- >> when asked aboutthat report he said, that's not true. >> really. >> did not elaborate. w

i want to turn now to jill doherty. jill, i would like to get some of your first impressions and your perspective. why him on the ground? a lot of people on the scene and why him in significance of president clinton being the one on the ground? >> well, the north koreans wanted somebody who was really, you know, a heavy hitting in diplomacy. somebody who would represent the united states. now, they didn't get a formal official representative of the united states in that sense. but they got a former president of the united states and no matter what they say, this is not, this is a private trip, et cetera. once you have a former president of the united states shaking hands with the head, the dear leader of north korea, that is pretty big. that's what the north wants. it wants a personal, i should say one-on-one relationship with the united states. they are not particularly interested in the six-party talks in other countries. they want that. let's say legit muization by the united states. and they have it here. you know,

let's go now to jill doherty in washington for more on this, jill. it was a little bit surprising by some that mr. bolton would come out and say this, especially after it all ended up it, appears, as a good thing with these two journalists coming home. >> i think what mr. bolton is talking about is the criticism that some others are leveling, as well. that is, do you use this, this president going to rescue or take away those journalists back home for other situations that we have unfolding. now, should, in other words, bill clinton or somebody else high level go to iran and take the three americans who are being held there who happen to walk over the border, we understand. similar situation. and the question is, is that the type of diplomacy that you want. now, the administration would say that's not diplomacy at all. that's humanitarianism, it's strictly personal and bill clinton going as an individual, north koreans wanted him and has nulth nothing to do with all the overall relationship others look at him and say it does rub off on the relationsh