, but he talks about kim jong-un, and he boasts to woodward that kim jong-un, quote, tells me everything including a graphic account of kim having his uncle killed. how could a president of the united states brag about sitting down with a tick day or the, a thug like kim jong-un and boast about his bragging about murder? >> history will judge donald trump harshly as it will judge the republicans who elevated and celebrated him as well. andrea, this is reporting from which donald trump may not recover politically. we've wondered that in the last three and a half years, but it's now 60 days out from an election. mail ballots hit in two or three weeks and given the recordings and the authenticity that backs up this reporting, it may be a story line he cannot recover from. we know now that he knew of the deadly threat of the virus. he played it out. by the end of february he was saying there are 15 cases, it will go to zero. a week later he was confessing to bob woodward that he knew of the gravity of this but his strategy was to play it down. he told woodward he was going to continue to do

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.

from kim jong-il he reaches out for trump. jong-un, heim reaches out for trump. he says we know each other, we trust each other, we will be friends for each other. he says i remember meeting with you, holding your excellency's hand. they pledged fealty to each other. as i said in the book, it is almost like the knights of the round table. 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 you gave your word on this. to make at ready deal. the second meeting, in how annoyed, vietnam -- in hanoi, vietnam, fell apart. we don't know where this is going. it is a dicey situation. jong-unort, kim has several dozens of nuclear weapons. they are probably not big busters, like some of the some of the weapons we have on our ballistic missile submarines, but they are nuclear weapons. they are well concealed and well hidden. it is a very real threat that we face from them. determine,going to -- ase as caller wrote george w. bush's political advisor once told me for one of my bush books -- i went t

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 pa

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

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

kim jong-un on the other hand, is so great. me his excellentsy it's not just the affection for the worst actors on the world stage, it's the disdain for the most pate roriotic americans >> yeah. i mean i got to say it's like the, there's something, there's something so sick about this, nicole and i, you know, i don't -- you know, you talked earlier in the first hour of the show about trump's pathological hatred for obama, right and you were, i heard you, expressing your visceral disgust with the reporting in the book about how trump feel iings about treats, talks about, fantasizes in negative ways about barack obama, the kind of craziness of that you think about that, right, you know, again, we know partisan rivals sometimes don't like each other much, but his obsession with obama, right, then his view of these, of the military, which we heard last week in the jeffrey goldberg piece, something we knew from the moment he trashed john mccain that he doesn't have respect for soldiers doesn't have respect for people who put their l

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 us it is just look at the country functions at the highest level what is the main goal of of of the government of the regime i should say it's to make money is to make cash for kim. what intr

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

, he said i love kim jong-il because of what he's doing to his people. >> and for -- >> and you knowude got him nothing. they haven't done it during me now, you know, you hear reports that they'll start again, but for three years, nothing they say president trump agreed to meet [ bleep ] meeting. >> annua, give us the perspective. is it just the meeting >> it is hurting national interests for him to be so close to kim jong-un, who is a violent -- 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 men

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

at the same time, relations between trump and kim jong-un had broken down now. we don't know where it's going. lots of experts say they don't think trump handled it right. i'm agnostic on that. i 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, at the trump administration, we've not had a new 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. and so he's picked leaders like putin to have a good relationship with him. 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 find

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 when you're agreeing with your negotiations with the u.s. and south korea and i think that the pressure that the union in ministration was coming under

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

i mean, the president seems to have a love affair with kim jong-un and in fact there's a language kim at one point talked about this as a fantasy relationship that the two have. trump even talks and muses about them as sort of quickly knowing the way you know with a woman instantly the chemistry between them. it's not something that you imagine a democratically elected president having with a brutal dictator who brags according to woodward about how he killed his own uncle. >> i feel almost embarrassed talking with you about them that's how cringe worthy they are. so bizarre the contents of the letters. let's talk about something else that woodward reveals and that's dan coats the director of national intelligence secretly believed without any intel, that's important, but that vladimir putin might have something on trump because in coats' mind there was no other way to explain the president's behaviors towards russia's lead. what did you think of that revelati revelation? >> i think it's significant and here's why. coats has access to all of the intelligence from all of the varying di

it is a very dicey situation because, as i report, kim jong-un has dozens, several dozens of nuclear weapons and they are probably not, you know big busters like some of the missiles, some of the weaponse that we have on our ballistics missile submarine but they are nuclear weapons and are well concealed and well hidden and so it is a very real threat that we face from them. now, history will determine because as karl rove, who was george w. bush's political advisor and i remember he once told me from one of my bush books and i went up to see him in the white house and rove said we are talking about the iraq war and the afghan war and other issues and rove said look, everything depends on outcomes in politics. i think that is true. the outcome of the relationship with north korea, we don't know where it will end. >> host: let's go to carl in massachusetts, undecided in this election. >> caller: good morning. thank you for c-span great mr. woodward, i have seen you many times on television and on interviews for it i read one of your books a long time ago and i forget the title of it b

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

this is in the context of talking about going up against kim jong up. kim jong up. he seems to be revealing something that's classified, because woodward talked to sources in the military who said they could not discuss that at all but did confirm there is a nuclear system. >> he continues to reveal classified information. everything from information that we receive from our allies, israel, that he revealed to russian leaders when he brought them into the oval office, while keeping the american press out. he has continued to show that he is not someone who can be safe, who can be trusted to safeguard america's national secrets. and this is the commander in chief of our military. it is dereliction of duty. it is a failed leader. if he were a rank and file officer in the united states military, he would definitely be prosecuted for some things that he's done as commander in chief. and he continues to hold himself up as if he's some sort of hero. in fact he is nothing but a draft-dodging coward, someone who can't even keep the secrets of this nation. >> and senator duc

especially along the peninsula's east coast extending up into north korea the country's leader kim jong un has taken a prominent role in directing the cleanup of earlier typhoon damage and punishing officials for failing to prevent the flooding of the main eastern city of one son that city has been inundated once more by hi sharon. back in south korea attack one inspects the damage to his fish distribution business if more powerful typhoons are now the norm he says maybe the country has to adapt to the new reality. you know government should build sea defenses alone discoursed as a priority to star ways of the size in the future he and his neighbors wait anxious lee to find out what the surrounding seas might throw at them next rob mcbride al-jazeera south korea. well the latest typhoon was that graded by the time it reached north korea but the country has been badly hit by the recent storms let's talk more about this with leeds university korea analyst and then fausta carter who joins us via skype from exeter in england sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we were ju

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

official said korea's military says the north shot the man at sea and then burned his body leader kim jong il in issued a rare repolish g describing the killing as a discrete full event john young says seoul's naval operations in the area threatened to raise tensions between the 2 sides arrest warrants have been issued for mexican military members for the disappearance of dozens of students 6 years ago it's thought the group of 43 were abducted by police and then turned over to a gang who killed them and burned their bodies on saturday the mexican government offered an apology so the families of the missing students for the 1st time money will republic reports no from mexico city. was another year marked by protests in the mexican capital saturday was the anniversary of the disappearance of 43 students from equal in mexico in 2014 now 6 years on the calls for accountability have only grown from god and that we will not rest until we know the truth we know who was involved in taking our children we know it was the police and the military we have remained in the government that we will not r

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

for us, what do we know about how national security officials view their relationship between kim jong-unmp? >> 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 trump engaging in the diplomacy with time, president trump engaging with kju has brought the north korean leader something he has always wanted that is world recognition on a world stage standing next to a world leader. >> courtney, thank you, as always. >>> the new book by bob woodward reveals the deep disconnect between president trump and officials at the pentagon. joining us now to discuss this, richard hosta, president on foreig

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

as the new prime minister of japan i am ready to meet with chairman kim jong il without any conditions stablish in a constructive relationship between japan and north korea will not only serve the interests of both sides but will also greatly contribute to regional peace and stability i will miss no opportunity to take actions we told my dedication. environmentalist's are again targeting a coal mine in western germany protesters say the government's decision to extend the use of coal for another 18 years is too late to effectively tackle climate change rallies have been held at the guys wheel and mine and power stations for years activists say they're among the biggest sources of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions anywhere in europe. at the beijing auto show is attracting big crowds it's the 1st large trade event of any industry since the coronavirus began katrina you has been to see what's new to try. new foreign luxury models are among the almost $800.00 cars on display at the beijing. the 1st major international trade fair during the current virus pandemic. this year there are f

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 not something to worry abo

from kim jong-il he reaches out for trump. jong-un, heim reaches out for trump.ys we know each other, we trust each other, we will be friends for each other. he says i remember meeting with you, holding your excellency's hand. they pledged fealty to each other. as i said in the book, it is almost like the knights of the round table. 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 you gave your word on this. to make at ready deal. the second meeting, in how annoyed, vietnam -- in hanoi, vietnam, fell apart. we don't know where this is going. it is a dicey situation. jong-unort, kim has several dozens of nuclear weapons. they are probably not big busters, like some of the some of the weapons we have on our ballistic missile submarines, but they are nuclear weapons. they are well concealed and well hidden. it is a very real threat that we face from them. determine,going to -- ase as caller wrote george w. bush's political advisor once told me for one of my bush books -- i went to see

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

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

the north korean leader kim jong un has issued a rare apology to the south over the shooting death of a government worker the suspected defector to the north disappeared from a south korean fisheries patrol boat on monday mcbride picks up the story from the south korean capital seoul. 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

, and woodward got access to the letters from kim jong-un to the president, which are extraordinary,s 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

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reporting from bob woodward's book rage, the white house ceremony with a north korean dictator kim jongun might 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 referr

delegation at the lunch with kim jong-un. 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 president. there were a lot of strong wome

>> 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

korean counterpart came as a surprise to german dungeon in tumen 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 results 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 this summer when you're agreeing with your negotiations with the u.s. and south korea and i think that the pressure that the union in ministration was

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

the book also reveals that later on after those two summits that president trump and kim jong-un hadn 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