. >> john kelly. >> john kelly. they could interpret zero tolerance however they want. george w. bush started the zero tolerance policy, referring all the illegalen trapbts for prosecution, but they didn't separate the children from adults because they felt that was in humane. the trump administration is interpreting it in this way in order to be a deterrent. is there any sense, margaret, other than sort of the media outcry about this that public sentiment is catching on and turning on and demanding a change to this policy? >> i think this weekend, and the last few days have been pivotal in painting a different narrative than the one the administration initially talked about as they tried to explain this policy. i was going to say justify this policy. the second wave is this is the democrats' policy, which we know it's not. there is a tremendous amount of internal division inside both the administration and republican party on whether this is appropriate. as some of that very important reporting happens on site where there are actual accounts how these children are responding, th

we do see john kelly now. we see the delegation coming out to greet among them, national security advisor john bolton as well. so more than one north korean official arriving at the white house. we understand former top five right-hand man of kim jong un carrying an important letter for the present of the united states. north korea's leadership inside the white house. you are washing history being made right now. and representative wilson, you were putting in the high-stakes picture together. please bring this into focus because they have just walked into the doors of the white house. we expect the president moments from now to meet in the oval office with kim young chol. >> and understand, he is the head of intelligence. he is the right him for some the dictator. you are dealing with the number two person of a dictatorship. he has total authority. >> harris: number two person of a dictatorship that we have not been this close to. what you said, ever. and what does this mean to have these men shake hands. that'

and there is a split between jared kushner and john kelly. jared kushner arranged the meeting with kim kardashian to meet with president trump. but john kelly does not think alice johnson is worthy of a presidential pardon. so that is a debate going on inside the white house. larger what we're looking at is not an unusual pattern of a president pardoning people. all presidents do that. but what's unusual here is that the president has pardoned several people just 17 months in office. i'm told that has caused friends and allies of the president to lobby him on behalf of people they believe deserve forgiveness here, john. >> different, i guess is what way to put it. thank you. with me here in the studio to share their insights, maggie haberman, phil mattingly, and eliana johnson. the president is very different. there are a lot of systems in washington that need to be changed. is this one of them? what is the president's impulse here? is it i have this power, i can't get congress to do anything, is that what it is? >> i think that's a big aspec

at some point we can't rely on secretary mattis or john kelly -- i haven't been relying on john kellytime ago. but we have to hold donald trump accountable and a coequal branch is the only one that could do this and ding, ding, ding, congress. >> and they could have better over sight responsibility. and what do you make of that? and mattis not being part of the big decisions and the announcement from trump after meeting with kim jong-un they would no longer do military exercises and he had to be informed after the fact. >> part of this takes with a grain of salt and we talk about how jeff sessions is one day away being out of the cabinet and scott pruitt is embattled and this is the story the reason why he has to step down at epa straror and and john kelly is on the outs in the white house and before rex tillerson it was a long time, he's been out of the loop and months of that before finally the moment came where he was let go. so it won't surprise me, if this has happening and before mattis does exit the white house. >> and the big picture question is the hope of people that are eve

it's been the case that you know, people have seen john kelly as eyeing the exits. and there have been these cycles of rumors that have sort of ebbed and right now, they a flowing. the date is approaching when he's going to be leaving. whethe by his own choice or by presid deciding he's had en no que he has not seen as long for this world. i did think it was the way the presid these questions t plane. he didn't say oh, stayin long time. that's totally wrong. they s he's a good man. we've had a good relationship it sounded like th past. and i wouldn't be surprised if we see some movement on this soon. but we've been through this so many times it's hard to pinpoint a date. >> it was a eulogy and ewe've notice he's a good man is not a good thing. thank all very much. and next, the breaking news. bob mueller asking for another delay in sentencin flynn. does that mean he get more out? what tuz does this of the information flynn is still providing? >> plus, the presi victor lap on tax cuts. it was do the facts add u we're going check to thepresident's top economic advise

among them secretary mike pompeo, chief of staff john kelly and national security adviser john bolton. north korea analyst gordon chang joined us earlier to tell us what they can expect. >> for us this is going to be a very tricky, very intricate

he will be greeted by chief of staff john kelly. by national security adviser john bolton. you'll see that as it's happening. our tv cameras via the pool set up live. walk across the colonnade and into the over's office, where he will meet president trump we are told. where this letter handoff will happen. remember what is why kim yong-chol, former top spy in north korea, you said, kim jong-un's right-hand man, it's a personal letter from kim jong-un to president trump. he didn't come all the way here to send a letter, go pound sand. it's probably a sign kim jong-un is trying to make the singapore summit happen june 12th. we know overnight according to north korean media committed to the restoration of the peninsula. a story we've heard before. we'll see if the u.s. takes it serious enough to take donald trump overseas.

andrea, you raised the question of john bolton, whether he is in there. kelly o'donnell, you were nodding during this conversation, i hear? >> reporter: we were advised john bolton would be participating. his absence is worth noting and andrea added the appropriate context and an intans chief of staff john kelly, supposed to be head of the structure here felt it appropriate he do this. if we turn the tables a bit and flash forward to say the summit happens, and if it is in local time based on being in singapore. in the united states, we'd be watching that in the middle of the night. today with this incredibly important visit for a north korean official, it's now about 2:00 in the morning in north korea and time zones matter. we know that the world in north korea is not the 24/7 cable environment we live in, but time zone matters for this reason. in just the last month north koreans decided to adjust their time zone to unify it with south korea. it had been a 12.5 hour time zone. they 14ishifted a half hour so north and south would be in the same time zone. in a

once again, walking down the colonade, kim yong chol and john kelly. i'm sure they'll be going into the oval office to meet the president. how significant were the meetings that mike pompeo, the secretary of state, had with kim yong chol in new york city ever the past few days. >> i think that meeting was very significant. it was about putting cards on the table. what does denuclearization mean to the u.s., what does it mean to north korea? you could see secretary pomp eo lay out progress. when he said there was progress, he did not say there was progress on narrowing the gaps. he kind of said everybody understood each other better. my understanding is when you mentioned what's going on in the dnc, they're drafting a communeque for this summit. it's going slow because it doesn't seem like they have that commitment from north korea that they need. this is a hard sell. you have the first step of that in new york. kim yong chol rolling up in a cadillac, having steak for dinner, seeing the new york skyline. you hear mike pompeo about all the good things th

it's been in the works for over a year, going all the way back to when chief of staff john kelly was secretary of homeland security. back in march of 2017, then-secretary john kelly said that, quote, the name of the game is deterrence. unquote. he said that if the administration began separating kids from their parents, they could deter migrants from traveling to our southern border. and we have since heard attorney general jeff sessions double down on the theme of deterrence. he said, quote, if people don't want to be separated from their children, they should not bring them with them. if you bring children, you'll be prosecuted. to those who spout this perverse notion of deterrence, i ask this question. how do you deter a mother trying to protect her child from the brutality of fortitude. how do you deter a father trying to protect his child from being raped and tortured? how do you deter a family so fearful for their safety, that they are willing to embark on a perilous journey and travel thousands of miles, thousands of miles to reach the united states the answer is that you can'

john kelly's advice may have been right. she looked like the press rattled her a little bit.he was at times che s cheerfult times defensive. i don't think it helped explain or sell the policy. >> and the results speak for themselves. put up all the conservative papers today, which panned and trashed the policy. let me ask you about just the dynamic. general kelly making jokes about -- this is also your reporting. kelly himself once believed he stood between trump and the chaos. he's told one person he may as well let the president do what he wants even if it leads to impeachment. at least this chapter in american history will come to a close. we've seen a window into his gallows humor. >> it's an incredibly fatalistic thing for the white house chief of staff to say. a lot of people thought that john kelly was going to be the person that would prevent donald trump from doing stupid things and he hasn't been able to do that. he's now throwing up his hand and saying i'm not even going to try anymore. think about what that means. it seems to me that if you're in that position whe

so what is up with john kelly, dana? where is he?ike groundhog day, i keep hearing he's leaving, but he's still there. >> he's still there. look, the senior administration official said to me this morning, anybody who tells you that they know exactly what is going to happen with john kelly is lying. and the reason is because it is groundhog day, we have heard this about john kelly, that he's out the door before. and we had heard similar things about other administration officials, some left, some didn't. so the answer is we really don't know for sure. having said that, he has very publicly said he's not loving the job. he's been more quiet, hasn't been as out front publicly as he was several months ago. and he is almost wrapping up the first year in his tenure and in trump years, those aren't even dog years, i don't know what you would call them. each day is like a year, i would imagine, being the chief of staff in this white house. so it is -- would not be a surprise if john kelly left. i did speak with somebody this morning, i text

who should replace him is designed to make john kelly quit. so far that's just the "wall street journal's" reporting. so that remains a watch this space story. >>> you should know there was a rip-roaring showdown on capitol hill today over republican members of congress attacking the justice department and the fbi and specifically the mueller investigation. >> we need to see the evidence. if you have evidence of wrongdoing by any member of the trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury. if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the american people. there is an old saying that justice delayed is justice denied. i think right now all of us are being denied. whatever you've got, finish it the hell up. >> this from the man who kept the select committee on benghazi going for two and a half years. kept it going until right after the 2016 presidential election whereupon he lost interest and quietly wrapped it up. two and a half years trey goudy's investigation. he's now demanding that the 1-year-old robert m

lit's talk about the possible departure of john kelly.ts saying it could be as soon as this coming week. we have heard this before. we have also heard the fact that the president would consider not even having a chief of staff. how would that go down? >> this is something that lendon johnson did. we reported previously that he was tickled by not having a chief of staff. the chief of staff job is important, even more so in this day and age. so i don't see that happening but it is something that he's thought about previously. >> and what about possible replacements here? >> so we've heard the same thing that politico has. mulvaney seems to be the kind of mr. fix it guy in trump's mind. he was brought in when there was a va ccancy. it's not surprising that his name would pop up here and nick is somebody who was brought on to pence's staff. >> let's talk about that meeting yesterday getting contentious with rod rosenstein and christopher wray. they want to see the evidence that's been gathered on the russia probe within the next seven days. w

truths and there's no evidence so far that trump has wanted someone like that around how long will john kelly be around will he be here through the midterms that's a great question larry i don't have a crystal ball i think this is kind of like a bad marriage where the two where the partners have agreed to kind of muddle through for a while hard to know how long it would last i think donald trump would benefit from having new blood in that position and so i think he could use a new chief of staff. but so far i think trump is willing to muddle through i'm not sure that he has anybody else in mind and not easy to find another jim baker or leon panetta to step into that role someone you direct command i can't give you a name larry because it's as i say those guys are few and far between so it's hard to imagine but i think that he needs to find somebody.

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look, john kelly has done a number of controversial things and things for which he deserves criticismn that being chief of staff to this president is a near impossible job for anyone. >> and you also write that the president is taking advice from like cory lewandowski and dave bo bosse. >> and it is interesting that if you look back at around this time two years ago was when cory lewandowski was fired from the campaign as the first campaign manager and donald trump didn't walely want to fire him. he was pushed -- >> jared made him do it. >> he wasn't the only one. >> ivanka. >> and he has regretted it basically ever since and continued to seek cory lewandowski's council. he talks to him multiple times a week and i don't expect that to change. >> shed light on this explosion from president trump on air force one. the communique was agreed to and there is no disagreement with the communique from the g-7 and the white house agrees with it all. justin trudeau said what i think -- you heard steven hadley say that he went too far but it could have been ignored and yet this explosion, callin

this is not great news when you're john kelly. you don't want to hear your boss say, when asked if he's going to stay around, i don't know. it seems here that john kelly's publicly state intention to stay for a year, that will time out in july, will be the end if not sooner. >> all right. let's listen to what he said about that former white house communications director hope hicks when asked if she was coming back. >> will she return to the white house in some capacity, hope hicks? i've seen a report about that. >> i don't know. i love hope. she's great. i hope -- i've been hearing little things like that. i bet you hope misses it. >> who did you hear them from? >> i think everybody misses it. i think when they leave for a little while, you know, you exhaust a lot of people. you bunderstand that. you people exhaust a lot of people. they come in full of life and vim and vigor, then they're exhausted. they get their breath. frankly, hope is great, and so are many of the other people. many people would like to come back. >> paeappare

john kelly, four star, wonderful man. and don't forget, this is a big change for him. say that we've had a very good relationship and we've achieved a lot together. i like john a lot. i like him and i respect him. >> reporter: and we should point out that sources have told cnn that now for months president trump has been talking to advisers and allies polling them on possible replacements for john kelly. so we know that this actually has been something that has been on his radar. >> boris, thank you very much. >>> this week's cnn hero went from businessman to bed maker. and what started as a single good deed helping one family in idaho, soon spread to helping 3,000 children across america. meet luke nicholson. >> mattresses, sheets -- i'm just a farm kid from idaho. i grew up near. what i didn't know was there is kids next door who are struggling, they have kids sleeping on the floor. i was making a six figure salary, but i fell into this need that i discovered wasn't being fulfilled by anybody. i quit my job because i wanted to do this full-time. the need i have isn't

things we do not necessarily know at the moment is what might happen with the current chief of staff john kellyyou just kind of went through some of the wall street journal reporting which is that the president, according to the journal, has been pinging some folks about possible replacements for mr. kelly. palace in treeing liz is nothing new around this building as we know. it is if not a weekly occurrence a semi-weekly occurrence with john kelly, the chief of staff, has had to sort of back these things back in the past though. the journal is citing a one year mark which would be a natural jumping off point not just for mr. kelly but also for many white house officials keep in mind rumors are also following the white house press secretary sarah sanders the deputy press secretary raj shah, marc short the white house legislative affairs director is expected to leave in the near future here. there are a lot of top officials that work for this president. there is a lot of in treeing with the palace in treeing and the latest coming to be john kelly who the wall street journey is saying could be go

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very different backgroun backgrounds. >> remind me, reince priebus -- >> reince priebus and then john kelly have different backgrounds, priebus came from the rnc, political guy and things have stayed the same. some things did change when kelly went in there but still trump will do what he wants to do. >> maybe the chief of staff's job is to tell the president to set on a summit meet with with the dictator of naerk orth kore check with the defense secretary. trump does what he feels like doing it. >> trump refuses to be managed. kelly tried to do that the first few months in the job, he found a lot of resistance and now kelly is in an operational role. he's helping run the government but trump is calling the shots, making the decisions, deciding where he goes, who he talks to, what he does and deciding to have that summit with kim jong-un. >> trump is his own chief of staff, senior adviser and communications director all rolled into one. >> chief cheerleader for himself. >> as time goes on in the white house, he listens to people less and less. you can have a chief of staff that tries to set

does anybody in the white house listen to john kelly? john kelly is like that sticker on your med that says, "do not take with alcohol." no. i don't know. ( cheers and applause ) inll, now you've piqued my test.re now, kelly wasn't supposed to be an impotent towedy. in fact, kelly himself once believed he stood between trump and chaos. but recently, he has told at least one person close to him that he may as well let the president do what he wants, even if it leads to impeachment-- at least this chapter of american history would come to a close." ( cheers and applause ) okay, yeah. but that is the weakest thing i've ever heard. "pack up your stuff, kids. the house belongs to the raccoons now." and-- can i see that last line again. at least this last chapter of american history would come to a close." that's pretty optimistic that there will be history books. i believe this, the before times will be remembered by shaman around the campfire. and then the darkness came on the land and the great orange rising was not the sun! no! but the dar

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the new -- i think there has been a lot of proxy war going on and a lot of it is basically john kelly's frustrations with the president and things the president will not submit to or get other people to submit to in terms of kelly's authority. so the latest target of that is andrew giuliani, the son of the president's lawyer, who had his west wing pass revoked because he was seen as not following protocol. he also had the president say he wanted him elevated to a certain position and john kelly just didn't do that. you have seen now marc short, the white house legislative affairs director, make clear to people inside the building that he will leave sometime this summer, i think likely next month. i think the job has become sort of impossible generally but certainly in a midterms year, i don't think they're going to get much done legislatively. then the question is who takes it over. john kelly's -- my understanding is she has told people she's not interested. >> how about sarah sanders. >> i think that sarah sanders is increasingly having a more and more difficult time in that role. i t

john kelly also reportedly said he doesn't care if trump gets impeached.w, being donald trump's chief of staff, it's kind of like being his wife. you'll never see him, you have no control over what he does, and it's only a matter of time until he trades you in for a new one. [ laughter ] i am personally still recovering both physically and maybe even more emotionally from my loss to the human blobfish, ted cruz, on saturday it was. last night on the show, we shared an edited-down version what was we called the blobfish basketball classic, me versus ted cruz one on one. it wasn't pretty. we added all the statistics up? i missed my first 36 shots. [ laughter ] for real. i went 9 for 103. i played so poorly the clippers offered me a 10-day contract. [ laughter ] that's right. and it was a very physical game. ted cruz fouled me, by our count, 37 times. the game was to 11. and of course the best part of an event is reading all the nice things people have to say online. i was feeling bad about myself getting old and out of shape but after this i have new appreci

her ex-boss john kelly, now the chief of staff, told cnn that was precisely the plan. >> if you get some young kids coming in and sneak into the united states with their parents, our department of homeland security personnel will separate children from moms and dad. >> yes, i am considering in order to deter more movement along the dangerous network. i am considering exactly that. >> now despite secretary nielsen's denial, jeff sessions says deterrent is a central component of the practice. >> are you trying to deter people from bringing children or minors across the dangerous journey? >> yes. i hopefully believe people will get the message and come through the border at the point of entry. >> and the zero tolerance border policy is not trying to deter from entering illegally, but homeland security officials says it was confident it would. >> the president is determined to stand his ground. he and his allies spent monday defending the zero tolerance policy. >> the united states will not be a migrant camp and it will not be a refugee holding facility. won't be. >> we have a crisis at the

house. >> it's no surprise that chief of staff general john kelly is likely going to be leaving this there's been rumblings and rumors about that for quite some time. with regard to hope, this is something with a deep institutional knowledge. the second point i would make is she's been in close contact with the administration officials as well as the entire trump administration even since she has departed. and the third and final point that i would make is that these rumors of her returning or leaving are going to be circulating for quite some time because she has, without question, perhaps one of the most close relationships with the inner workings of the president's inner circle than, really, anyone else within the administration. >> julia, real quick, "the wall street journal" says nick mulvaney, he could be on the short list for chief of staff. are the president's options that slim? >> yeah. it's possible that he could be looking into that. i think mick mulvaney has already balanced two of these positions. he's proven to be popular with the president's base coming from that deepl

the latest on chief of staff john kelly's future and who could be in line to replace him. >>> the cave rescue drama takes a new turn. the boys soccer team trapped for days in this flooded cave, this morning the plan that rescue teams are now following in hopes of reaching the boys before it's too late. >>> those stories, plus the battle over a bud light giveaway offer for millions of americans and the question, should more than one state be eligible? ♪ at the copa >> an unexpected new role for barry manilow. his dulcet tones being put to a different use. >>> and we say good morning on this busy friday. we're going to start with the new details overnight about the suspect and victims in this mass shooting in maryland. >> we now know the man accused of opening fire on the "capital gazette" newsroom annapolis lost a lawsuit against them and apparently was holding a grudge for years. police say he was armed with a shotgun and smoke grenades sending reporters and other employees scrambling for cover. >> overnight police released the names of the five people who were killed including four ve

thehief of staff john kelly not supportive of a pardon for al joh and don mcgahn not supportive of this you have red kushner on the other side of this. the fact that they're not all on the same page with this. >> that's right. jared kushner and john kelly aren't often on the same page of some of these things and we're seeing jared kushner making a comeback in the west wing. he got his security clearance reinstated after so much drama with that. we are seeing him really make a stand here. he was given a lot of things in his portfolio when he joined the adtion involving peace in the middle east and several others and the office of innovation technology. prison reform has been one of jared kushner's main things and we are seeing him stick by that by inviting kim kardashian, and we are seeing it does say something about jared kushner's role in the white house and it also raisuestiof the president is trying to send a signal to his allies with this pardoning power. we know the paul manafort and michael cohen, those situations there as well. i also told one more thing. since the president has

rumors about john kelly stepping down. >> rumors have been circulating.ome believe that john kelly will step down after his 1 year anniversary at the end of july or before that. we are told the president is considering his director or the vice-president's chief of staff to replace him. friends of john kelly said he has no intention of going anywhere and hasn't spoken about it. and talking about it quoting the president on air force one, the president says the story is not true. fake news. >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn. today the house approved a 675-billion dollars miltary spending bill. it will go to the senate where a committee approved a similar measure this week. on the markets the dow finished the day up 98. the s&p 500 rose 17. nasdaq jumped 59. first lady melania trump visited a pair of immigrant housing facilities today in arizona. first arrived in tucson. later went to phoenix where she met with 2 dozen protestors as well who propped up a large inflatable of president trump cloaked in a kkk robe. vice-president pence is in central

here goes john kelly again out the door.: when john kelly and the president decide it's going to happen, it will happen. kelly is not here for the long run. my sense is he's tired. that will be the decision of the president. this president is now very comfortable in how he runs his white house. lou: and how he runs the country. ed: it's not like some staff guy can come in and be the magical. he'll get what he needs out of the people who are there, and those who aren't there, he'll reach out. it's about him, not about anybody else. lou: i thought it was about the little daffodils, the rinos, and the snowflakes. people are having a fit because this great constitutional republic produced a president who does things. ed: he works 20 hours a day. i get worn out and i'm sitting in my living room watching it. he's a tireless guy and he's going to do what he wants to do. he has to get someone if he's going to change the chief of staff job get someone he's comfortable with. lou: he's going to do what he wants to do. he hasn't built a

let's talk about john kelly here. do you think the possibilities are that he is on his way out of the white house? >> reporter: we have been hearing rumors about chief of staff kelly leaving the white house for several weeks. i think what's interesting is his departure would be one of a string of senior level officials to leave the white house within the first year and a half of the trump administration. i believe it is something like more than 60% of senior level officials within the white house have departed in the first year of the administration. those are people that started at the outset of the administration as well. of course, with potentially impending kelly departure, we are also hearing rumors, cbs report that press secretary sarah sanders could leave. they tried to bat down the reports, but if kelly leaves, he could be one of potentially many that decide to leave the administration as we get closer to the mid terms, and of course closer to the end of the second year of the administration. >> melissa, let me

he also seemed to blame john kelly. you imagine there is a lingering tension there between him and john kelly. he semz ems in some way that if people go on cable news to get a message to him he seems to be giving the president an out saying this is a policy the president can say john kelly floated that he never really agreed with. we will see what happens. i think we have to wait for what the president does. there is a big tuesday meeting with the house gop. you had so many folks come out, obviously more moderate republicans. the president isn't necessarily listening to them. this i think was a fascinating step forward in terms of observing whether or not the president is going to listen to folks and change his mind. >> if this was a bargaining chip that the trump administration was using somehow to bring democrats to the table, is it time to stop it? what do you think will happen? >> it was a bad baepolicy to be with. the president probably could use this as an opportunity to start talking to democrats about what troub

john kelly, four star, wonderful man. and don't forget, this is a big change for him.hat easy a change for him. a very good. >> how long do you think he'll stick around? >> i can't say that. we have a very good relationship and achieved a lot together. i like john a lot. i like him and respect him. >> now the "washington post" is reporting that the pentagon's looking into how much it would cost to scale back or transfer u.s. troops in germany. a pentagon spokesman tells cnn, quote, the pentagon regularly reviews forced posture and performs a cost benefit analysis, this is nothing new. germany has hosted the largest u.s. force presence in europe. we should point out, we remain deeply rooted in the common values and strong relationships between our countries. we remain fully committed to our nato allies and alliance. this ahead of growing tensions before the summit. general mark hurtling has a lot of thoughts on this. thank you very much for being with us. how plausible do you think it is that the president could reposition u.s. forces? and if he does, what's the consequ

john kelly representing the americans of. the north koreans and the foreign minister of north korea. our understanding of what is happening at the moment is that the leaders are now involved very much in the official summit meeting after initially having an informal conversation, which according to my calculations, probably took around 25- 30 calculations, probably took around 25— 30 minute. from the moment they step into the one on sentosa island, about five kilometres from where we are here. a photo opportunity in the library, to then have a chat before we get to this point now where that bilateral conversation is under way. let's bring you a reminder of these unprecedented moment is that we have seen unprecedented moment is that we have seen a unprecedented moment is that we have seen a short time ago. we can have a little listening to what they had to stage in this photo opportunity. i feel really great. we're going to have a great discussion. and i think tremendous success. it will be tremendously successful. we'll have

a detailed readout from the white house i would imagine about who it was interesting that it's john kellythe chief of staff here, escorting kim yong chol into the meeting and not other officials. john bolton the national security adviser might be a more provocative choice to do that escort john kelly arc former marine general what might be widely respected in north korea you have got to look at the lengths of these talks there is an old saying in diplomacy, talking is better than shooting. diplomats don't mind extended talks, extended periods of talking. it beats the alternative, an allout shooting war. in this case, you don't want that with nuclear weapons in the countries. does the president want to fish or cut bait here is he willing to let these talks extend for some period of time beyond june 12th in order to get to a summit that has the historic outcome that he wants or is he impatient and starting to think if the north koreans aren't willing to do this right now, are they ever going to want to do it. >>> in the meantime we had a good rally today if you are just joining us, the stro

and then john kelly, who is now the chief of staff of. so the three of them kind of worked in tandem together and would push the president to go in directions that they wanted his policies to go, particularly on iran, for instance, on the nuclear deal. and the president, over time, got frustrated with that. we saw rex tillerson eventually be fired. we've seen john kelly lose some of his clout and power. the president meanwhile towards the end of last year became more emboldened and more inclined to listen to his own instincts and want to take big strides on the world stage. so he was less incline the to listen to somebody like james mattis and more inclined to listen to his national security adviser john bolton, or when mike pompeo moved over to become secretary of state. so all of those factors kind of played a role in what's now, according to our reporting, a dynamic where the president doesn't really take mattis' advice. they don't really agree on many policy issues. even more so, he doesn't notify him in some instances that he's going

there has been a sense in this building for quite some time that john kelly has been maybe on his way out. he's been viewed as a little bit more detached from what's been going on in the west wing, that he is not as engaged as he once was, but we're also coming up on this one-year anniversary of his time here at the white house, and the rumblings are getting louder. our sources are telling us that there are a couple of people who the president has been talking to his friends and advisers about, including the vice president's chief of staff, nick ayers, and also his current office of management and budget director mick mulvaney. these are the two people who seem to be at the top of the list. the rumblings that john kelly is leaving, of course, are something that we've been hearing for a while. the white house yesterday denied it. but again, poppy, they've denied these kinds of departures before, and a lot of times, the folks end up leaving shortly thereafter, so we're keeping a close eye on that, poppy. >> abby philip at the white house, thank you. have a good weekend. rachel blade is

>> he talked about john kelly, the white house chief of staff. there's been renewed conversation this week john kelly may be out soon. he's coming up on one year of joining the white house. here's what the president had to say. he was not very conclusive on this question when he was asked about it earlier today. here's what he said to say. >> are you looking for a new chief of staff, mr. president? >> no, we're getting along very well. at some point, things happen. but i will tell you we have a very good -- you see that, we have a very good relationship. he's a wonderful man. john kelly, four star, wonderful man. and don't forget this is big change for him. we have a very good relationship. >> how long do you think he'll stick around? >> that i don't know. i can't tell you that, but i can say we've had a good relationship and we've achieved a lot together. i like him and i respect him. >> he was also asked about hope hicks. remember the staffer for president trump for the campaign and here at the white house who left a few months ago during the r

he is joined by top aides and including secretary of state mike pompeo and chief of staff john kelly and adviser john bolton. >> president trump says this is a one-time shot to achieve peace and prosperity for his people. >> i think within the first minute i'll know. >> how? >> my touch. my feel. that's what i do. i think i'll know pretty quickly whether or not in my opinion something positive will happen. >> north korean state media reporting kim is open to discussing denuclearization and durable peacekeeping on the korean peninsula. for the latest, let's go live to paula hancocks in singapore. the location for the talks as she sets the table for us. hi, paula. >> reporter: dave. it is a day away and we see a flurry of diplomatic activity and last-minute necessity gosh p yagss -- last-minute negotiations. the ambassador has been meeting with the counterpart. they have been meeting for weeks at the demilitarized zone talking about what exactly they want to get out of this summit. we heard from the north koreans. they said through kcna, the main anchor woman who comes out for important

there has been talk, wolf, about the future of chief of staff john kelly. i don't believe he got a shout-out at the beginning of that event, and from what we could tell, our colleague sara westwood was in the room, it appeared john kelly was only in the room for a few moments and dipped back out. he could have had other things to attend to, but john kelly, the chief of staff who has been the subject of a lot of conversation in the last few days about his future and how long he's going to stay in the white house, appeared to be only at that event for a few minutes from what we can tell from our vantage point. but wolf, getting back to the talk of all this and the president's rhetoric aimed at the media and the fact he's called us fake news and enemy of the people over and over again, i did think it was striking that he tried to tone down his rhetoric, at least for the moment, in the newsroom, wolf. >> let's see if he stops berating the news media in the united states in the coming days, weeks and months. jim acosta over at the white house, thank you very muc

chief of staff john kelly is expected to depart in the coming weeks.t is coming from the wall street journal which is reporting that president trump is talking with his advisers are replacement. we are joined on the phone by kevin. this is not been a new rumor. what are we hearing about this? >> it is definitely not a new rumor but the timing is interesting. this is the same day that we reported about the president trump and president trump -- president who meeting. normally the president would work in chief -- in close conjunction with the chief of staff about this. i can tell you that the rumor mill about his replacement has been running rampant. i can also tell you that some sources suggest within the past couple weeks that the president would again try to do something unorthodox in terms of naming a successor. we don't know how that process will play out. interesting timing in a very interesting newsweek. let's get some more context here. we are joined by ben cardin. heard theou just prospect perhaps that john kelly is going to be departing the whi

the latest fiasco on the border is another example of john kelly being tone-deaf politically.ld trump if he wants to succeed, if he wants to govern as opposed to simply running a perpetual campaign, has to find his own version of a james a. baker iii or a leon panetta, somebody with political instincts who can tell him what he does not want to hear. >> chris whipple, author of "the gatekeepers." thank you, chris, so much. >>> coming up, separating fact from fiction, following the president's impromptu briefing with reporters on the white house lawn. south l.a. is very medically underserved. when the old hospital closed people in the community lived with untreated health problems for years. so, with the county's help we built a new hospital from the ground up and having citi as an early investor worked as a signal to others to invest. with citi's help we built a wonderful maternity ward and we were able to purchase an mri machine. we've made it possible for the people who live here to lead healthier lives and that's invaluable. ♪ it's not theirs, it's mine. the new rx 350l with

chief of staff john kelly and john bolton,lso part of the team that briefs the president.cretary sarah sanders, u.s. ambassador to the philippines and the deputy assistant to the president for foreign affairs, matthew pottinger. on the north korean side, vice chairman kim jong-chul and riso. and the vice minister of foreign affairs. also accompanied by two directors of the workers party of korea. now we are inching toward a press conference with president trump. after many meetings the president will hold the press conference and then fly back to washinon. joining us now is the chief executive officer of bp international advisory. first, let's check in with chris wallace, who has been there, very busy in singapore as we watch every twist and turn. now we'll wait to see what framework they have laid and what comes next. chris, what are you watching for? >> reporter: i will go back to the reagan gorbachev era of the 80s. it's easy to look back on that say don't like say, it's very easy. the fact was that reagan and gorbachev helped in the two summits and 85 and 86. at that p

that are there in the room a little just selling for position going on right now i'm told that john kelly the white house chief of staff is there or has been seen there as has the national security adviser john bolton the pool is waiting we're actually seeing the pictures that some of them are taking of the room waiting for this which could happen at any moment remember that and some of the timings have already slipped but if you go by the original timings released by the north korean side then they were there delegation that was supposed to leave for the airport and be flying in thirty five minutes time so i do think you may well see an important moment is signing in the next few moments these are historic moments of course james and several north korean leaders wanted this moment to be able to sit with the u.s. president how important what does this mean for kim jong un to be able to go back to north korea having sat down with the u.s. president and presumably signed a statement which will see him in a few moments we think. yeah i think his grandfather wanted to do this i think his fath