he has spoken from the oval office about his desire to restart a relationship with kim jong-un.ee that? >> i think japan, like many countries, are quite worried donald trump could get taken to the cleaners so to speak, could reignite his romance with kim jong-un and accept woefully inadequate promises kim jong-un offered before in the record shows trump's advisors at the time talk to him out of accepting. there is great trepidation in tokyo on the risk of donald trump deciding he was going to give kim jong-un a pass on his development of nuclear weapons and missiles as long as kim did not directly threaten the united states. that would leave japan and south korea in a very dangerous, very lonely spot. many experts think it would be a trigger for first korea and then japan and possibly other countries to reconsider their nonnuclear status. >> just a final thought. obviously, china is the other major talking point in washington. i suppose they would find it quite comfortable to talk to the trump administration when it comes to china? >> the trump administration is filled with chin

we will have relations with north korea and with kim jong un. i got along with him very well, as you know. i think i stopped a war. i wouldn't have won that particular election you would have ended up in a very bad situation. but i did. we had a food relationship. and i think it's a very big asset for everybody that i do get along with him. i like -- i mean, i get along with him. he gets along with me. that's a good thing, not a bad thing. i can tell you that japan likes the idea. because their relationship is not very good with him. and if i can have a relationship with not only him but other people throughout the world where there seem to be difficulties, i think that's a tremendous asset for the world, not just the united states. go ahead. reporter: i have a question for you and for the prime minister as well. mr. president, i wonder what you make of criticism from democrats that staff cuts are an unlawful power grab? is there anything you've told elon musk he cannot touch? pres. trump: we haven't discussed that much. i'll tell him to go here

would you like him to resume in-person meeting he had with north korean leader kim jong un?esident ishiba: that is something the united states needs to determine on its own. but is not something that we issued a request. having said that, but for example, in vietnam or singapore, the president of the united states -- president trump was able to meet with kim jong un. i think that is a very positive development. so, now that president trump is in power again, if we are able to move towards resolving issues with north korea, i think it would be great. and of course, for us, that includes not only denuclearization but resulting issues. and so, not only the victims of the abductees go to but also their families, too, are aging o our time is limited. so if the president of the united states if president trump is able to resolve this issue, we do understand it is a japan issue. first and foremost, having said that, we want to continue to cooperate with them. >> president trump: it is actually a good question and we will have relations with kim jong un. i got along well with him an

president trump can show up with kim jong-un, i've done negotiations my whole life i did serbia coastaliations i can tell you that if you are in the middle of trying to bring peace, trying to make sure were not spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the war and saving lives need at least a person in the middle who can say i'm going to talk to these guys and i'm going to talk to these guys and i don't care what kind of criticism i get, i've got to figure out a way for peace is not the purpose i will give you that but i go back to the fact that we had it perfect in terms of peace we were handed a war and now we are being criticized how do you dig us out of the war you're not going fast enough and fair enough so we are a little frustrated. >> so the social media stuff president trump called zelenskyy a dictator do you think is a dictator? >> i think when you reject having elections about moving toward that way people get angry about it. >> is putin a dictator? >> course. >> the stuff we are seeing on social media. >> i want to say one thing that's really important in this conversation

kim jong un? >> throughout?the united states needs to determine on its own, and it's not something that we should request. having said that, but for example, in vietnam or singapore, the president of the united states. president trump, was able to meet with kim jong un. i think that's a very positive development. so now that president trump is in power again, if we are able to move towards resolving issues with the north korea, i think it would be great. and of course, for us that's that includes not only denuclearization but also resolving the abductee issue. and so the not only the victims of the abductees, but also their families too, are aging. and so our time is limited. so if the president of the united states, if president trump is able to resolve this issue, we do understand that it's a japan issue. first and foremost. having said that, we would love to continue to cooperate with them. >> it's actually a good question, and we will have relations with north korea and with kim jong un. i got along with him

president trump, was able to meet with kim jong un. i think that's a very positive development. so now that president trump is in power again, if we are able to move towards resolving issues with the north korea, i think it would be great. and of course, for us that's that includes not only denuclearization but also resolving the abductee issue. and so the not only the victims of the abductees, but also their families too, are aging. and so our time is limited. so if the president of the united states, if president trump is able to resolve this issue, we do understand that it's a japan issue. first and foremost. having said that, we would love to continue to cooperate with them. >> it's actually a good question, and we will have relations with north korea and with kim jong un. i got along with him very well. as you know, i think i stopped the war. i think if i wouldn't have won that particular election, you would have ended up in a very bad a very bad situation. but i did, and we had a good relationship. and i think it's a very big asset for everybody that i do get along with hi

president trump of course had a few rounds of diplomacy with kim jong un in his first term. that may happen again dpvment japan as an ally of the u.s. wanted to make sure its equities were addressed and reflected. there is probably a little uncertainty about the prospects for president trump engaging kim jong un or xi jinping or vladimir putin. to get a foot in the door and have channels of communication. i think japan is pretty can you believe it could address its perspectiveicest on those issues going forward. >> charlie, i'll turn to you next. thanks again for joining us. such an early hour. given the topic at hand, probably an ideal location to join us from. the australia-u.s. alliance has risen to new heights over the last several years. we have elevation of the quad. partnership across the pacific. yet australia is now facing potential tariffs, simultaneously dealing with the withdrawal of much of u.s. aid and programming across the pacific. how is canberra viewing this? >> to address your question, i start with an e-mail i got last week. this is from a government offi

how are we to expect that she would label xi jinping or kim jong-un, who knows what ms. gabbard would do, i think there's a stark difference between our adversaries who want to undermine the united states and those who are our allies. and it doesn't appear that tulsi gabbard understands the difference. so, how can the men and women of the intelligence community trust that ms. gabbard will protect their secrets? that she'll protect our secrets, the secrets of the united states? how many russians are going to risk their lives to pass along information to our intelligence officers if they're worried that ms. gabbard will sell them out? how much will our allies in n.a.t.o. and the indo-pacific share with ms. gabbard in charge. the work of american covert operations and intelligence gathering is based on one central principle and that is trust. i wouldn't trust tulsi gabbard any further than i can throw her. i think this chamber faces a choice, we can choose to defend america's national security and keep our promise to our constituents to protect their lives and safety and th

with kim jong un how he could turn north korea into the same economic powerhouse if the hermit kingdom were opened up to the rest of the world. that's just kind of the way president trump things. the biggest obstacle right now are the thousands of hamas fighters in gaza. if the united states were to send our troops into gaza we'd be involved in an armed conflict there. there's no chance at the moment for post-conflict reconstruction but it's worth talking about it. i think the president was trying to kind of shape the narrative for how we are going to discuss the post-conflict reconstruction. he's talking about what we would like it to see. we know we need to engage our allies in the region, specifically egypt, jordan and our golf partners as well as israel. it's a complicated kaleidoscope but it's a discussion point and that's what this president does. >> will: you laid out the phases of this. phase one is to eradicate hamas. phase two is to figure out what to do with the palestinians in the short-term. phase three is what donald trump is talking about now. so on the palestinians, i d

that can go toe to toe with putin, that can go toe to toe with xi, that can go toe to toe with kim jong-undown the list, it is donald j. trump. he is the dealmaker in chief, there is no question he is the commander in chief. annita: on wednesday president zelenskyy said donald trump was living in a disinformation space greeted by russia, while mr. trump called zelenskyy a dictator. today in ukraine president trump's special envoy to the country met with president zelenskyy in kyiv. the pair said it was a productive meeting, with ukrainian leader stressing that strong u.s.-ukrainian relations were a benefit to the whole world. slight change of tone to what we heard yesterday. let's speak to the first foreign minister of russia after the breakup of the ussr. russia's current foreign minister, sergey lavrov, was's deputy at the time. thank you very much for joining us on bbc news today. i want to begin by asking you if you think that america understands what russia's strategic objectives are at this time, not just towards ukraine. you think america understands what those objectives are? in yo

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put it, at the end the day, trump sees putin like he sees president xi of china, like he sees kim jong unnorth korea, somebody who's a strong authoritarian type leader, somebody he wants to work with one on one. he's not concerned about post world war ii foreign policy the usual perception of world order, he wants to do it his way and have his fingerprints all over it. >> maurice: okay, robert costa in washington tonight. thank you. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. an unlikely site in virginia beach, virginia. snow on palm trees. a winter storm brought a foot of snow and is blamed for more than 500 highway crashes in the state. >> maurice: the longtime republican senate power broker mitch mcconnell chose his 83rd birthday to announce he will not run for reelection next year. the former majority leader has spent nearly half his life in the senate. >> john: mcconnell joined all but two republicans today in voting to confirm kash patel as fbi director. patel is a trump loyalist and a fierce critic of the bureau. before he was nom

why doesn't he share the same rhetoric around xi jinping or kim jong-un, who he gets along with very well, i might add. all of the republicans who think that joe biden was too cognitively impaired to be president, i think trump and his team should be taken out of office. host: plenty of criticism about this decision in the major national print papers this morning on the op-ed pages, including from the editorial board of the wall street journal. donald trump tilts towards a ukraine sellout, putting pressure on for a deal than he does on the kremlin. the u.s. government's biggest cut is in global credibility right now. writing about ukraine. cal thomas writing in the mostly conservative pages of the washington times op-ed pages, no substitute for victory. putin must be defeated, is what cal thomas writes. this is from nicholas kristof in the new york times, there op-ed pages, humiliating month to be an american. it goes on. if you're looking for support for donald trump criticism of ukraine, conservative media online has a few articles on it, including alex marlowe writing for breitbar

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. >> if there's anybody in this world that can go toe to toe with putin, xi, kim jong-un, we could keep going down the list, it is donald j. trump. he is the dealmaker in chief. i for one and i think all americans around the world should have no doubt about his ability to not only handle putin but the complexity of driving this war to an end. on the first piece there is a lot of handwringing. they literally threw blankets. i will remind everyone putin, who had some issue with their neighbor with bush, obama, not under president trump. the war should have been deterred. it should've never happened. our european allies not being consulted in this process. the immediate phone call president trump made to president zelenskyy. he has talked to president mccrone repeatedly. president macron is coming here on monday. the prime minister is coming next thursday. i have talked to everyone of my national security advisers counterparts across the spectrum in europe. the leader of nato, the secretary-general of nato. we have repeatedly -- we had half of our cabinet including the vice president at th

i know kim jong un from north korea. most people never even will ever get to talk to him. >> bret: i was on that trip. i remember it well. >> you can attest to it. i to hit on a couple other things. had you republican senators here at mar-a-lago. >> i did. >> bret: they are in kind of a back and forth with the house. about one big beautiful bills, two bills. >> not much. >> bret: has anybody figured it out? have you decided? >> the relationship is incredible. we had about 50 of them here last night for dinner at mar-a-lago. i think john thune is doing a fantastic job. and i think that the speaker, mike johnson is doing a fantastic job. i think mike has even harder job because he has got literally actually it's probably five if you think about it. right now it's about two or three. that's pretty tight. unity in both the house and there is great unity in the house and the senate. last night i made a speech actually i think on television, if the press wants to stay, i couldn't care less. i think it was probably on to a larg

chinese will respect that, the russians will respect that, the iranas are going to respect that and kim jong ung to respect it as well. i think you're going to see that. i think what's going to happen in the middle east, that's what's so great about netanyahu coming to the united states is the fact that you're going to see a greater bargain happening and you're probably going to see expansion of the abraham accords which would be perfect for the united states and middle east as well. joey: general, thank you so much for bringing your expertise, as always thank you for your service. >> thanks, joe see. joey.joey: yes, sir. rfk junior advocating for his make america healthier again. many are supporting him, including the creator of the podcast real foodology. she's withre s us next. stay with us. members save up to 40% on hundreds of items in store and online, because you're a big deal. so join for free today and save now before rewards week ends. when migraine strikes... do you question the tradeoffs of treating? ubrelvy is another option. it works fast, and most have migraine pain relief within

with xi, with kim jong un or anyone else. but, president trump also prefer diplomacy. he prefers -- i mean, this is just like the democrats turn completely upside down. when did they become the party of continuing a war that by all accounts was endless, had settled into a brutal, destructive stalemate with no end in sight, costing the entire world. blood and treasure to -- again, no theory of victory. president trump does. and that's the plan we're putting in place. >> laura: mr. waltz, another concern is that the president has said all hell would basically rain down on hamas if all the hostages weren't released. releasing some dead hostages, hamas, those hideous videos circulating on the internet of the hamas parading through the streets with the coffins of children and the mother. it's just the most depraved, evil thing you can imagine. but what can we expect more from the administration given the fact that these hostages still all of them, somehow, but many have still not been released in. >> >> well, laura, i will just let everyone know that sadly and tragically we

trump will go toe-to-toe with him, with president xi, kim jong un or anyone else. but president trump if her gimmick from hers diplomacy. this is just like the democrats can t turned completely upside down. when did they become the party continuing a war by all accounts was in the list, had settled into a brittle destructive, stalemate with a note and insight costing the entire world blood and treasure? again, biden had no theory and victory. president trump has and that is the plan we are putting in pl place. >> laura: mr. waltz, another concern, the president has said all hell lid rain down a postage is not released. they are releasing dead hostages, hamas parading through the streets with the coffins of children and a mother. it is the most depraved, evil thing you could imagine. but what can we expect more from this administration, given the fact these hostages still all of them that many have not been released? >> laura, i will just let everyone know that sadly and tragically, we thought that family, perhaps, had been killed by air by errand vomiting. in fact,

including communist leaders and kim jong-un and xi jinping and end of the day, they'll work this out.s because he gets to show how to communicate and work out these deals. the deal maker, guy knows how to get it done and we have to for the american people, larry. probably a million people that lost their lives and injured in ukraine and russia. that's a terrible shame of fighting this thing. ukraine never had any chance of winning this. putin knew that and we knew that. but the geocons pushing this war and it's un-fort. larry: the truth social posting and lengthy and highly productive phone call with putin and discussed middle east and ukraine war and so forth. we both agreed and putin wants to stop. that's breaking to me. that's brand new stuff. then he says including that, we begin and call zelensky and then they're going to meet with putin and his people that are going to be secretary of state rubio, cia director and john ratcliffe and nsa security mike walt and am bass -- mike waltz and ambassador witkoff. joe biden never talked to putin during the war. joe biden's people never tr

dictator that conveys a sovereign freedom of democracy, that will send a message to xi jinping, kim jong-un, any other aspiring dictator across the planet. victory means making these dictators regret the day they stepped one foot over a countries border that is not theirs. jamil: well said. rep. houlahan: new guys can try to guess what side of the aisle we are all from after this question. i was enormously disappointed by the speech. it was in no way, shape or form what i would have hoped for from the vice president of the united states of america. and why was that? he spent no time talking about ukraine. he never once said the word ukraine or russia, as far as i remember. rather, he spent the time curiously enough criticizing the european continent for the very things that we in the united states struggle with ourselves. i felt like it was a pot and kettle situation where i felt like i was not really sure why that moment in our history, our collective history needed to be about that subject. i felt like it needed to be about whatever the wall street journal article you were talking about w

security the president says he wants to have a good relationship with north korea and specifically kim jong un which fell off during the last administration. the four binding administration. when it comes to u.s. steel president trump said the japanese company and has agreed stop trying to by u.s. steel for $14 billion and that is something democrats and republicans opposed during campaign season and they will instead invest heavily in u.s. steal and auto manufacturing in the united states. we don't have the details of what it would look like but president trump said he will be there to mediate and arbitrate the talks when they happen. and doge came up. i had a chance to ask president trump about the numbet democrats have witches that doge engineers have access to stuff democrats don't think they should have. listen here. [inaudible] dispersing trillions of dollars every year and contains social security numbers and addresses and bank accounts. why does doge need all that? >> president donald trump: it doesn't and we get it very easily. we don't have good security. and what we are doing with w

we will have relations with north korea and with kim jong un. i got along with him very well.rants on social security. we are going to find out who they are and take them out. >> i need to be able to respond to the political question, that is the official question that we have. >> that is a very good answer. >> jesse: the trump news tornado does not end there, 47 also zeroing in on the one issue that will secure him a third term. "i will be signing an executive order next week ending the ridiculous biden push for paper straws." which doesn't work peered back to plastic straws. jessica. >> jessica: is that a joke? dana says if you have an 80-20 issue or 90-10 issue, take the w. i don't think you are going to meet much resistance on the paper straw front. i think it is great that the japanese prime minister came. president trump had a great relationship with abe, who was unfortunately assassinated in 2022, and they want to make sure they have a good and secure relationship, and that there will not be any sort of trade war or increase in tariffs and there is a lot to talk about,

who would you rather have and go toe to toe with, the likes of vladimir putin, kim jong un, xi or anyone biden or donald trump? he's the dealmaker in chief. he's the commander in chief. and it's only because of his strength that we're even in this position. and president trump's own words have been that russia invaded the neighbor under bush with, under obama and under biden but not him. it didn't happen his first term, and he's going to bring it to his end his second term. and i just laid out the framework to do that that the we're all -- he has a great team around him that everybody is moving out on simultaneously from our secretary of treasury to our secretary of state, to our secretary of defense and, of course, our special envoy. and that's what's going on. and and, you know, people are welcome to bring better ideas, but all a i've heard a is perpetuate more war. and and that is -- no one should be surprised that that's not what president trump campaigned on or intends to do. maria: well,, look, let me move on to the conflict on israel and, of course, we've been watching this week t

union under stalin, cuba, under castro or china under mao time today think of north korea under kim jong un or venezuela, nicolas maduro. compare those unproductive economies and the societies they created with the freedom and prosperity we've enjoyed the united states for the past 248 years. and, you know, i have some perspective on the threat that stakeholder capitalism poses to our democracy, our economic freedom, and our individual liberty. so who are these financial elites that want to alter or abandon our incredibly successful full of free market capitalist system? well, they're dominated by three massive asset management firms that strangely known as the big three, blackrock state street and vanguard. all three are primarily passive asset managers in the business of investing. other people's money is primarily moneys held in pension funds for one case or other retirement type vehicles. they're called passive asset managers for a reason. they're supposed to invest passively in a group of companies and let the ceos of those companies run them. they solicit money from investors and put

negotiations with all the leaders across the world including the communist leaders, you know, kim jong unthe end of the day, putin and him, they will work this out. and, again, president trump, he loves situations like this because he gets to hoe how to communicate -- show how to communicate and work out these deals. a dealmaker. the guy knows how to get it done. but we have to for the american people, larry. we probably had a million people either died or lost their lives or injured in ukraine and russia. that's a terrible shame of fighting this thing. ukraine has never any chance of winning this. putin knew that. we knew that. but the neo-cons here just kept pushing this war, and it's unfortunate. larry: just reading quickly from the truth social posting, i had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with putin. we discussed the middle east and the ukraine war and so forth. he said, we both agreed to stop the millions of deaths taking place. so he's saying we got agreement, putin wants to stop, okay? in that's breaking, to me. that's brand new stuff. then he says including that we be

north korean leader kim jong un's name. south korean officials say it's nothing. five. maybe we meet the ukrainians who show us the faked russian military papers he was carrying, suggesting he was from russia's far east and his military radio codes. another paper, handwritten pledges of brainwashed courage. >> chris wright. >> judge merchan jinna han marginata. jinna han marginata. joel berg durunda. >> shejaiya shejaiya bora. >> these notes from a soldier killed. really? a snapshot of the mindset inside the hermit kingdom. declarations of loyalty, even tactics on how to fight ukrainian drones, and also the suggestion that their presence here is about helping north korea prepare for war. it's a remarkable insight, but also a reminder of how this biggest land war in europe since the 40s is becoming more global, but also a glimpse of the fear they live under, how they inform on each other. notes from an officer writing a critique of his fellow soldiers. >> to. sara ganim john berman nayib bukele to. >> ukrainians filmed themselves taking dna samples from the dead, which t

everyone has always lived under people like donald trump or vladimir putin or kim jong-un. but the people said no. they said let us gamble on democratic freedom. let's pledge to each other our sacred honor, our property, our very lives, to fight for democracy and freedom. said tom paine, and then in 1776, he wrote a pamphlet to give people courage and hope. it was a tough time. the country was split and a lot of people were caving in to their monarchs and the plutocrats. any wrote a beautiful pamphlet called the american crisis. i want to quote a tiny passage for you. i'm going to update the passage, pursuant to nancy pelosi who said that tom paine was a feminist. he was for women suffrage in the 18th century, just as he was fighting for abolitionism. he wrote this line, and he said, these are the times that try men and women's souls. the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will shrink at this moment from the service of their cause and their country, but everyone that stands with us now will win the love and the favor and the affection of every man and every woman for a

not only will trump sanction russia, he's also threatening to take full custody of kim jong un. [ lightr ] when trump threatened him, putin was like, "ever since you start hanging out with elon, you've, like, totally changed." [ laughter ] well, some tv news. eight years after going off the air, "duck dynasty" is being revived on a&e. meanwhile, gen z is like, "what is being revived on what?" [ laughter ] the spokesman for the network said, "thanks to the january 6th pardons, we'll have at least 1,600 viewers." [ audience groans ] well, i saw that netflix is raising prices again. the version without ads is going up by more than $2 a month. >> steve: oh. >> jimmy: and they made the announcement in a video. look at this commercial i saw. >> netflix is proud to offer you great shows and movies, now at a slighy adjusted rate. our ad free tier is going from $15.49 to $17.99. and we'll keep serving up entertainment the whole family will love. still watching? we hope so. netflix. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: i mean, i get it. anyway. oh, hang on. i'm hearing that netflix just released another

world that can go toe-to-toe with vladimir putin, that can go toe-to-toe with xi, toe-to-toe with kim jong un, we can go down the list. it's donald j. trump. he is the commander-in-chief. there is no question he is the commander-in-chief. and i for one, and i think all americans around the world should have no doubt about his ability to not only handle hooton, but the complexity of driving this war to an end. and then on your first piece, on europe, i will take you back to 2014, you are right, there was a lot of hand-wringing in europe and not a lot of action. there was also a lot of hand-wringing here in washington under the obama administration and not a lot of action. they literally threw blankets at the problem. so i will remind everyone that putin had some type of conflict, invasion issue with their neighbor under president bush with george, under president obama with ukraine 2014, not under president trump 45, and again with president biden in 2022. the word should have been deterred. it never should have happened. and i have no doubt it would not have happened under president trump and

kim jong un has apparently begun efforts to transform a remote town near the border of russia and chinanto a must see vacation destination. but is it worth the effort of applying for a special u.s. passport just to go, or the risk? cnn's senior international correspondent will ripley, takes a look at the secretive country's tourism plans even by north korean standards, rason is not exactly a. >> tourism hotspot. a remote. >> economic zone. >> closer to china. >> and russia. >> than the capital. >> pyongyang. rason is known. >> for its shoe factory and banking system. there's also a textile factory and sea cucumber breeding farm. >> a typical. >> workday includes. outdoor exercise. weather permitting. >> in almost any. >> other place, tourists. probably wouldn't be lining up for the. >> chance to open a bank account. >> but this is north korea. the secret state. >> has chosen rason. >> as its. >> first post-pandemic. >> destination for western tourists. allegedly. >> will it happen next week? entirely possible. but will it be delayed. >> entirely possible. >> longtime tour operator. >> s

let's start with kim jong un in korea. how about nicolas maduro in venezuela? how about daniel ortega in nicaragua? how about vladimir putin? as you correctly point out a moment ago. there are plenty of dictators out there. zelenskyy is not one of them. he's duly elected. he is operating under his constitution. and by the way, his approval ratings are about 55 to 57%. that's ten points ahead of donald trump here in the united states. >> an important point to raise on that, especially. but trump is sidelined him from negotiations. frankly, they sidelined ukraine from negotiations. he has barred nato membership. so they need to give up territory. and cnn's reporting that they demanded 50% of ukraine's rare earth minerals. but i note he is asked no concessions of russia. how could ukraine possibly accept any of this? >> i don't think they can. and let's start with the the basics here. ukraine cannot give up any more territory than they have already lost to russia. they have already lost about 20% of the country. we've got to kind of allow them to hold that remaini

the united states and the administration sends messages that dictators like vladimir putin or kim jong un and korea can operate with impunity, or that they have a potential friend in the united states. it sends permission for people to do terrible things around the world. and they will. you bet they will take advantage of that permission and do things. vladimir putin, who has kidnaped tens of thousands of ukrainian children and have them in indoctrination camps, who targets civilian infrastructure, who has leveled ukrainian cities and who has said very clearly over and over again that he wants to rebuild the russian empire, which includes lots of european countries and nato countries. this is very dangerous stuff. and americans should be disgusted by it. >> i wanted to ask you about something that the president's national security adviser, mike waltz, said today. he's someone obviously you know very well, fellow veteran, you guys came in to congress in the same class, and he was asked if trump thought who was more responsible for starting the war in ukraine, if it was putin or zelenskyy,

we will have relations with north korea and with kim jong un. i got along with him very well.have illegal immigrants on social security, and we're going to find out who they are and take them out. >> unable to. >> respond to a theoretical question. that's the official answer that we have. >> that's a very good answer. >> the trump news tornado doesn't end there. 47 also, zeroing in on the one issue that will secure him a third term. quote i will be signing an executive order next week, ending the ridiculous biden push for paper straws, which don't work. back to plastic. back to plastic. jessica. >> is that a joke? >> finally. >> this is dana says if you got like an 80 over 20 issue or 90 over ten issue, take the w, i don't think you're going to meet much resistance on the paper straw front. i think it's great that the japanese prime minister came. president trump had a great relationship with abe, who used to be the prime minister and was unfortunately assassinated in 2022. and they obviously want to make sure that they have a good and secure relationship and that there won't

. >> kim jong un. >> nicolas maduro of venezuela, uh, daniel ortega of nicaragua. there are a lot of dictators. and by the way, sometimes those dictators fail and lose. think bashar al-assad of syria, a monster who's now given shelter in moscow. so i love that cover. i would have expanded it to these are dictators and make the point. there are some truly bad actors out there in the world. volodymyr zelenskyy is not one of them. >> no. and one wonders, you know, we're alexei navalny still alive. we're boris nemtsov still alive. any number of the people who fell mysteriously out of windows in moscow, or officials who were killed around the world, what they would think of labeling zelenskyy, but not putin, a dictator. >> indeed. and by the way, just in terms of disclosures, we should point out i am personally sanctioned by the kremlin, and i'm very proud of that. john. i have 50 medals. 28 of them are from foreign nations, stemming from my time as nato commander, commander of southern command. i could not be prouder to be sanctioned by the kremlin for all the reasons

meanwhile, north korea's leader kim jong un is making it clear his country will keep supporting moscow spoke after north korean troops returned to the battlefield in russia's kursk region, according to ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. earlier reports said north koreans had pulled back after taking heavy casualties. for more, we're joined by natalia gumenyuk, an independent journalist in ukraine, and she's speaking to us from kharkiv. good to see you again. so donald trump says he has spoken to putin. he claims. putin, quote, wants to stop people dying. trump said first he would have the war ended in a day. now that's turned to six months. so are you encouraged by anything you're hearing so far from the trump administration? because still, at the end of the day, they haven't actually presented any type of peace plan. >> so first of all, it's not like we really expected to have a very clear plan. and, you know, following the situation, of course, we remained extremely skeptical. first of all, about one day, then things happening before the inauguration. and really now as of ukrai

if you're planning a vacation, kim jong un wants you to consider north korea. he's begun efforts to transform a remote town near the border of russia and china into a must see vacation destination. cnn's senior international correspondent, will ripley, takes a look at the secretive country's tourism plans. >> reporter even. >> by. north korean standards, rason is not exactly a tourism hotspot. a remote economic zone closer to china and russia than the capital, pyongyang. rason is known for its shoe factory and banking system. there's also a textile factory and sea cucumber breeding farm. a typical workday includes outdoor exercise. weather permitting, in almost any other place, tourists probably wouldn't be lining up for the chance to open a bank account. but this is north korea. the secret state has chosen rason as its first post-pandemic destination for western tourists. allegedly. >> will it happen. >> next week? >> entirely possible. but will it be. >> delayed? entirely possible. >> longtime tour operator simon cockrell knows there are no guarantees when it