i doubt that people genuinely have the kd of feeling towards kim jong un as they did for kim jong il. (translated): we would say, how can this boy who's still wet behind the ears be in power? but the north korean government spread these rumors that althe was young, he was very wise. tht's what the government k saying. narrator: jiro's undercovell footage shows peoplever the country being forced to prove their dedication to the new leader, but some resenting having to it. these soldiers were ordered to build a railroad from kim jong un's birthplace to pyongyang to mark him coming to power. narrator: the undercover footage even sho a local official criticizing k jong un's successio narrator: to compensate for his lack of experience, the regime made parallels with his grandfather kim il sung, who is still wi worshipped and is officially eternal president of north korea. there are all kinds of rumors that kim jong un even had cosmetic surgery to look like his grandfather. but certainly his style seems to be more like kim il sung as well. trying to be a reincarnation of his grandfather is

the border has become even more tightly controlled since kim jong un took over as supreme leader two years ago, the third ruler in the kim dynasty after his fathernd grandfather. he inherited the world's most isolated country, where the people have no internet and ste state has almo total control on any information coming in or out. even with the tight security, jiro and his japanese news organization manage to get the footage out. narrator: he is going to meet one of his contas, who has made it across the border with new images from north korea. narrator: they secretly film in journalists are allowed to visit. narrator: these are pictures kim jong un doesn't want the world to see. jiro has recruited a netwos of ordinary north koliving in towns aoss the country. risk their lives to get the footage. one of his contacts is a state employee, but has been smuggling footage oufor five years. he agreed to speak if his identity was concealed. (translated): this is dangerous, and if get caught, i know i'd immedly be executed as a traitor to the korean people. but i've got to do this. i've got

the winner has been kim jong un. over. e again, games not far, certainly kim jong un has made main scores. for example, in a meeting with a u.s. president, that's a big deal for the korean leader. not only kim jong un, but his grandfather and father wanted to meet with u.s. presidents, but that never happened until this time. and kim jong un was able to .reate an image of a leader he brought his wife to attend a bank quiet. that is great for north korean leaders. so certainly wanting to promote a certain image to the international community. d he was able to restore a strained relationship with china and south korea. until this in march, kim jong un never visited china or met with president ki. but since march, he met three times. and so a lot of tensions between those in south korea are creating a relationship -- [indiscernible] > and even though we haven't lifted sanctions but to say international sanctions have been quite easy for -- [indiscernible] >> and it is much more difficult for the united states to get cooperati

mike pompeo seems to have a good rapport with kim jong-un. just saying that sentence alone is astonishing considering where the u.s. and north korea were when we seemed as if we were on the brink of war, now they'll have banquets together in pyongyang so they're slowly building trust and trust is slowly earned but there are still a lot of walls up on both sides that need to be broken down and the americans will be going in with big asks. secretary mike pompeo is about to ask for full transparency about north korea's nuclear program. are there facilities the world doesn't know about? will the inspectors be allowed in and then an aggressive timeline for dismantlement. but you've heard the state department saying they're not talking about a timeline which indicates they know it will be a long haul. and the north koreans said in singapore they would return the remains of u.s. service members killed in the korean war. officials have been on standby. they sent in kas pets to accept the remains and it hasn't happene happened. >> all right, will ripl

they we re the top aides of kim jong—un.last month and discussed that. after mike pompeo left, there was strong criticism of the us, saying america was making too many demands and that america had displayed a reg retta ble and that america had displayed a regrettable attitude. what the north koreans said is that the trust between the two countries was facing a dangerous situation. mike pompeo, after leaving north korea, went to japan and tokyo, and in the last half—hour, there was a press conference which he held with the korean foreign minister and also the japanese foreign minister. they are all in agreement about what denuclearisation means. they have some agreement there and might pompeo said that denuclearisation is going to happen and that he was there and that he feels that the north korean by what it expected of them. the of disputing what the north koreans were saying. that is all the time for now. and give so much tojoining us. bye— bye. hello there. and the summer heatwave goes on. it was another hot, sunny, dry d

the report says that kim jong-un said he never heard the song., it was last year when the president was calling kim jong-un "little rocketman" as he was launching ballistic missiles over japan and other provocations. that apparently is a little joke from the administration to kim jong-un. reporters that were traveling with the secretary asked him if that was true. the secretary would only laugh that one off. it also goes to show how far the personal relationship between the president, what he's been saying about kim jong-un has changed dramatically in the past year. the president continually is bringing up how north korea and kim jong-un have not for months tested nuclear weapons, have no longer fired ballistic missiles. it was on january 1 when kim jong-un announced that his country had completed its nuclear program, it wanted to focus on their commit and that began the outreach to south korea and to the united states. but there is still skepticism as to whether or not this charm offensive is genuine or a long play by kim jong-un to get sanction

mike pompeo did not meet kim jong-un.ng-un was traveling in the northeast of the country looking at potato farms and factories. since then, the optics look bad. north koreans were a no-show at a meeting which was supposed to take place yesterday at the demilitarized zone with the americans about the return of the remains of u.s. service members who died in the korean war. this is politically important. it is delicate. donald trump has said that some of the remains have already been brought home from north korea. that is not true. there was a signing between trump and kim jong-un about expediting the return of those remains which is not happening at the moment. that meeting which is supposed to take place yesterday has now been rescheduled for sunday afternoon. on top of all this, we have the u.s. pushing at the united nations security council with new evidence that shows north korea is sanctions busting on the import of petroleum products. saying the north koreans have gone way beyondlocated target f0 barrels. and asking

all of that between president trump and kim jong-un. haks s halie jackson is at the white house for us. president trump declared on twitter that there is no threats from the north, sleep well tonight. what's going on tonight? >> reporter: the total response coming out formally from the president from white house officials here. the president basically is saying hey, that handshake says it all. they stood there and agreed to denuclearize, get rid of the nukes. that's what the expectation is from this white house. you heard secretary pompeo of the confrontation. he's helicoptericontinuing his trip when it came to the talk that she's supposed to be holding. he did not meet with kim jong-un considering that was some of the expectation settings prior to that trip. to the president on ward, it seems, continue on with these talks. there are words that's raising eye brows and questions and that word is contract. there was no contract signed. there was an agreement as you remember. it was a statement that says hey, we'll work on this moving forw

kim jong-un said he had never heard of elton john. trump then told him, well, he is really good. i'm going do get you the song. i'll send it to you. and that trump also asked kim jong-un according to this source did you mind when i called you little rocket man? and we're told that kim jong-un said, no. he did not mind. where does this all leave us? clearly, pompeo did not get any furthering. that they would have liked to have seen, maybe a time line of denukizati denuclearizati denuclearization. >> refused to meet with him on this third visit to pyongyang. michelle, thanks very much. excellent reporting. >>> also breaking right now, president trump arriving a little while ago in belgium for a very important nato summit. as he left the white house and via twitter in the flight across the atlantic, the president complained that nato allies aren't paying their fair share. nato leaders have made it clear they aren't happy about the president's criticism and getting an enthusiastic reception. guess where. in russia. let's go there. senior

using harsh rhetoric against them and then sitting down with kim jong-un.resident obama over the same. let's see if they are quiet over the sudden meeting with iranian leaders. iranian parliament said breaking the deal means there is no possibility of talks. >> secretary of state is now the translator. oren, thank you. >>> senate republicans rejecting the president's threat to shutdown the government in september if he doesn't get funding for the border wall. at least for now. >> we will finish up the set of appropriation measures and we will take four steps to the goal of completing the regular appropriations process and funding the government in a timely and orderly manner. >> the president wants to shutdown the government. you know, that is his prerogative. i think it would be a mistake and i don't think it will be necessary. >> even members of the president's own party are learning though shrug off or ignore his sporadic impulses. still the president persists reiterating the shutdown threat on monday. >> after many, many years of talk within the united

at a missile site what does this mean for kim jong un's commitment to denuclearize the korean finance we'll get reaction from washington also. this city the islamic state . in northern iraq was liberated three years ago but only a fraction of the minority who once lived there. will have an exclusive report and a smartphone ban at schools in france kids are outraged parents are happy but the teachers worry it will be tough to enforce. golf it's good to have you with us tonight reports that north korea has not stopped working to build new ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear weapon the washington post says that u.s. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at a site that has produced them in the past well this puts into doubt the promise made by north korean leader kim jong at a summit in singapore just last month he reportedly told u.s. president donald trump that he would end all missile and nuclear testing we'll get reaction from washington in just a moment but first this report. on the surface relations between the u.s. and north korea have been warming earlier this we

he is on his way to meet with kim jong-un right now. his third trip to north korea. as one official tells cnn, some experts growing more skeptical the regime is ready to give up its nuclear stockpile. >> will ripley has been to north korea 18 times. he is in beijing this morning for us. evening for him. bring us up to speed. >> reporter: secretary pompeo is on his way to pyongyang. it's a trip he made three times. when he hits the ground, he has a huge task ahead of him. the pressure is on to deliver on the vague promises made in singapore, good vibes between president trump and kim jong-un, because now the credibility of this summit kind of rests on what happens in pyongyang. when the secretary is expected to sit down with the north korean leader kim jong-un. the u.s. will be asking for things that may not be very attractive to the north koreans, not in the short term. they want transparency about their secretive nuclear program. that means a full account of how many warheads north korea has. no hidden warheads. the u.s. wants to know where all of them are and they

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how do you think kim jong-un is going to respond to that? north korea has always defined it as global arms control. they'll go to zero when we go to zero, the rest of the nuclear powers. and also they define the korean peninsula as including things as the strategic bombers on guam. what we need to do is get a much fuller agreement such as we had with arms control treaties. we need to get that from pyongyang with robust verification. >> and john bolton seems to think denuclearization could be done in a year. does that seem realistic to you? >> whether it's one year or 15 years as outside experts call for, what we need is to get them to commit to it. the policy would be a se sequential operations of data declaration, interviews with scientists, some inspections, some challenge inspections. and then destruction. we could be doing a number of things simultaneously. even as we're verifying. they can be moving some nuclear weapons to a destruction facility even as we verify how many is actually in the arsenal. >> as somebody who has been in this f

both times met kim jong-un.irst time since that big summit on june 12th with kim jong-un and president trump. you would have thought they would have met at that stage. so mike pompeo, it has been said privately and on air that pompeo has quite low expectations of whether they can get agreement there. is he being dissed? being called a gangster is not a good start. >> true. >>> conversations that they knew the sexual misconduct 30 years ago and did not report it at ohio state. a former wrestler at the school t , he told about jordan and he had to hear the conversations because he was there. the ohio lawmaker denying the accusations this weekend. >> i nerve sver saw or heard of abuse. if i had been, i would have dealt with it. >> the chairman of the house freedom caucus calling on members to support jordan. the ohio republican expected to return to washington this week to fight the allegations. >>> american soybeam farmers and -- soybean workers and farmers set to lose. the u.s. is combating china's unfair trade p

so they've said we will not be like those countries. >> reporter: even if kim jong-un's promises wereanalysts believe it would take at least two years for u.s. officials to be able to verify that kim's weapons program has been effectively dismantled. that's if kim is transparent and allows inspectors in from the outside. something most experts believe he's not going to do any time soon. >> some very important questions about what the north koreans are actually up to. >>> next -- longtime trump lawyer michael cohen breaks his silence and i'll talk to michael avenatti coming up. we're drowning in information. where in all of this is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you partner with a firm that combines trusted, personal advice with the cutting edge tools and insights to help you not only see your potential, but live it too. morgan stanley. almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to lib

kim jong-un could be coming to america.eader could have round two of talks with president trump in new york in september. le let's bring back the panel to talk about this. the fact we are learning secretary pompeo will be going to north korea on thursday, what kind of assurances, phil, does he need to come back with that would be seen as credible at this point? >> boy, this is really the hard part. we thought that the summit, the president went to, was the big deal. i think the big deal is two components that the secretary of state talking about. the first is intention. what do the north koreans want to do? are we clear on what we mean by the term denuclearization if you can say it. the second is complicated. bolton national security adviser saying to do in it a year is unrealistic. pompeo needs to talk about is everything from where are the scientists and engineers? where's the documentation and the nuclear materials and the facilities? and then you get into how you monitor over time to ensure they don't rebuild. you are n

north korea, kim jong-un, they see that.g-un has reestablished a better relationship with china. it was pretty much in the gutter a couple years ago, the chinese were deeply frustrated with kim jong-un, they saw him as the source of the instability they feared. now he is back in the driver's seat with the chinese. it makes it much harder to get to yes for the administration. >> stay with us. next on "gps," president trump has a mild week ahead in foreign policy. he will be at the nato summit. he has a meeting with the queen, prime minister may in the united kingdom then man know oman know with vladimir putin in hell inc. sinky. when we come back i will ask my panel what to expect. -and we welcome back gary, who's already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in. it's not a question, gary. on march 1, 1810 -- [ ding

kim jong-un didn't even approval it until the final hours, keeping us guessing.ively simple confidence-building measure would take more than six weeks. raising series questions about the far more complex, far more contentious negotiations over denuclearization. >> the north koreans understand -- >> reporter: this week secretary of state mike pompeo told the senate intelligence committee north korea is still producing fuel for north korea weapons. pompeo, fresh off a disappointing trip to pyongyang, little if any progress on key issues. and a widely perceived snub by kim jong-un, who did not meet with him. the u.s. was later criticized by north korea for making what they called gangster-like demands. in may north korean officials took cnn to what they claimed was the destruction of this nuclear test site. these new images show they may also be dismantling a satellite launching station. but u.s. intelligence agencies believe north korea is upgrading other key weapons facilities, including a ballistic missile plant and nuclear reactor. their assessment, kim jong-un

this puts into doubt the promise made by north korean leader kim jong-un.t a summit in singapore just last month, he reportedly told u.s. president donald trump he would end all nuclear testing. we will get reaction from washington in just a moment. but first, this report. reporter: on the surface, relations between the u.s. and north korea have been warming. earlier this week north korea returned the remains of american soldiers 65 years after the end of the korean war. the gesture of peace came weeks after an historic summit. a day later, u.s. president donald trump declared that north korea was no longer a threat. but now the washington post has published reports citing u.s. intelligence that could undermine the apapparent diplomatic progress on the peninsula. according to the report, this missile research facility in north korea is being built up, rather than torn down. neighbor south korea is on alert. >> the south korean government is closely watching north korean movements and closely y working with the united states. however, i hope you understand t

so the death toll of kim jong-un is really high. president trump says these nice things about kim, it leaves people concerned about how he thinks this process is going to move forward. >> shepard: gordon chang, thank you. >> thank you. >> shepard: ahead, tensions with the neighbors to the north and south. mexico has elected a new leader and he's a critic of the president's immigration policy. he's a left winger. to the north, canada is making good on threats to strike back about the president's tariffs. details ahead. were made for better things than psoriatic arthritis. as you and your rheumatologist consider treatments, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for psoriatic arthritis. taken with methotrexate or similar medicines, it can reduce joint pain, swelling, and significantly improve physical function. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma, and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an i

and i'm not sure if kim jong-un does. the first step is to stop making nuclear fa materiel, and get that place shut down and list these places so we know what it is they're doing. then i think after that, there should be an effort to go after the fissile material, which depending on their bomb design, could be 20 bombs or 60 bombs. i think there is a lot to be done and john bolton knows that very well. i have the sense he's trying to burden the thing with missiles and other issues, which obviously we need to get at. i am not sure if this is an achievable objective as he describes it. >> we'll see what secretary pompeo comes back. ambassador christopher hill, thank you for joining us. >>> just before we go, the white house says that president trump has had a half hour phone call with mexico's president-elect. he said they had quote, a great talk about border security, trade, and nafta. so we'll see where that relationship goes from here. and that is it for our program tonight. thanks for watching "amanpour" on pbs. join us

but i think kim jong un got a taste of what was out there when he visited singapore.nt to that, now famous casino that has an image of a boat on top of it. maybe he wants to see new york city. who knows? >> harris: more thin an image come at ship is huge. >> when i meant image, i meant, not a real ship. >> harris: great to see you. let us bring in republican congressman. a member of the affairs committee paired thank you for being on the program. after the summit, the president tweeted that, technically the north korean nuclear threat was gone from north korea. where does that but the actual facts? >> it was progress for kim jong un to be signing that document to commit to denuclearizing the nation. there are multiple steps ahead. that was a brief but firm statement that was made. next, we have to make sure that there is total accounting and complete verification, that there is total denuclearization of north korea. on top of that, in just a days and weeks that are ahead, secretary of state mike pompeo going to north korea. at times, we will sit at the table and look

he thinks he has a contract with kim yong june and that kim jong-un will honor it? by the way, this is the same president who's been repeatedly sued by his own contractors for not honoring his contracts. but there was no contract. there was no real agreement in singapore beyond these vague assurances from north korea that they would work towards complete denuclearization at some unspecified point in the future. they've never shown any evidence they're going to give up their nuclear weapons. the only question to my mind now is how long is donald trump going to keep this charade going? how long is he going to keep pretending that there was a serious agreement and that it actually amounts to something? i suspect he will try to keep it alive, at least through the election so he can claim he reached this great deal. it was obvious from day one to every objective observer that there was no deal, that donald trump was being taken to the cleaners. you know, the big question i have now is how will trump react when he's been duped or rather when he's duped himself into thinki

kim jong-un is not fully agreed to denuclearization after the summit with president trump. to work toward denuclearization. also, we understand from the u.s. official, that washington is not too worried about the liquid fuel icbms for the reason they take so long to put together. that the u.s. intelligence agencies would have advance warning. clearly the challenge at this point according to the u.s. official for the trump administration is to find out exactly what the north koreans have and what is in the program ahead of kim jong-un giving inconvenieventory and potentialg he would give that up. many experts saying they are likely to try to hide some of their facilities. are there secret facilities? will they admit to the arsenal they have here? this is an issue that previous administrations have come up against and now this is an issue for the trauump administration well. dave. >> curious how the president tweets about this in the days ahead. paula, thank you. >>> a white house official now confirming what is plainly obvious. the president's press team is not coordinating

to give up americans want kim jong—un to give up all of his nuclear weapons while mr kim probably doesmp sitting down in front of them to have a meeting with him. there were always warnings about it and of course we heard from us intelligence officials saying they had evidence that north korea continued working on its nuclear programme even after the singapore summit. and that is why there was lots of pressure on mr pompeo to get more thanjust lots of pressure on mr pompeo to get more than just words from pyongyang and to get more details about the denuclearization plan. south korean officials have been advising washington to turn tone down the language and make kim jong—un feel more comfortable about what he can agree on. but that did not work too well because north koreans seem rather upset after mr pompeo spent two days in pyongyang. for the third timei two days in pyongyang. for the third time i should say as well. mr pompeo was expected to meet with kim jong—un but apparently that meeting never happened and the us delegation had to leave after he held two meetings with kim jong—un

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what nbc news has learned about kim jong-un's efforts to keep his program alive. >>> a call for change at a nationwide protest, but will demanding the abolishment of i.c.e. backfire on democrats? >>> and the change coming to the supreme court and what it means for abortion. how chief justice john roberts could play a key role in an unexpected way. >>> new this morning, growing concerns over evidence that north korea is ramping up its nuclear program. multiple experts exclusively tell nbc news that north korea is deceiving the u.s., despite president trump's claim that kim jong-un agreed to denuclearization. nbc's janis mackey frayer has details. >> reporter: it was a remarkable moment. the leaders of the u.s. and north korea standing shoulder to shoulder, pledging to denuclearize the korean peninsula. but now, more than a dozen u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news that despite this month's historic summit, north korea appears to be pushing ahead with its nuclear program, stepping up production of enriched uranium in recent months at multiple secret sites. one official saying of th

the third tripo pyongyang and first since the historicince donald trump and kim jong-un. expected to meet on saturday before he leas for tokyo. let's speak to the bbc's in seoul. what's going on and what do we know about this meeting between these two men? reporter: well, as you mentioned, mike pompeo arrived on friday afternoon and he met with kim jong-un's right-hand man. the only meeting as faas we know that took place yesterday. it wrapped up around 7:30 p.m local time. and they spoke for about three hours. before breaking for dinner. apparently the mood appeared relaxed. mr. pompeo joked that this is his third time and if he came one more time then he would have to start aying taxes there. and to which north korea leaders -- leader's right hand man the more you come the more trust we can build betweenne another. and this morning, his first meeting was scheduled at 9:00 a.m. local time. which is about an hour ago. we'ttill d know who he's meeting with. as you can imagine,ma infon is only trickling in. what i'm doing is basically following some journalistse who accompa

spy satellites reportedly spotted renewed activity at a missile site what does this mean for kim jong un's commitment to denuclearize the korean peninsula we'll get reaction from washington also coming up a city the islamic state turned into a ghost town in northern iraq was liberated three years ago but only a fraction of the minority who once lived there. will have an exclusive report. plus a smartphone ban it schools in france kids are outraged parents are happy but teachers are worried about being able to enforce it. and as the temperatures soars off the scale what happens if you just have. the relentless heat. on the advice of berlin's road builders as we sweat way through a real. it's good to have you with tonight reports that north korea has not stopped working to build new ballistic missiles that could carry a nuclear weapon the washington post says that u.s. spy satellites have detected renewed activity at a site that. has produced them in the past al this puts into doubt the promise made by north korean leader kim jong un at a summit in singapore just last month he reportedl

the point is president trump has based his policy on a judgment that kim jong-un wants to give up his weapons. no one really thinks so except for perhaps trump. the other thing is maybe kim does want to give up his weapons but the north korean military doesn't want. to there is a opinion that kim doesn't have a firm grip on the generals that could be it. either case, it's really bad news for the united states. >> michael, national security adviser john bolton brought up the pocket of disarming north korea inside of a year. let's listen to what he is saying. >> i'm sure that secretary of state mike pompeo will be discussing this with the north koreans in the near future, about really, how to dismantle all of their wmd and missile programs in a year. if they have the strategic decision all made to do that and they're cooperative, we can move very quickly. >> within a year? >> well, what our experts have devised is a program that with north korean cooperation, with full disclosure of all of their chemical and biological nuclear programs, nuclear missiles -- that. >> hasn't happened yet?

north korea, but the president still releasing what he calls a, quote, very nice note from leader kim jong-unur excellency in the letter. noticeably absent from that nice note, any reference to denuclearization. andrew stevens is live for us in seoul. andrew, good morning. >> good morning to you. absolutely right, no mention at all about denuclearization. it was a nice note, i guess if you're donald trump. but on the ground, the reality is that the talks seem to be going pretty much nowhere at the moment, following that very disappointing meeting in pyongyang last week between mike pompeo and kim yong-chol, the number two in north korea. the optics seem to be going from bad to equally bad, if not worse. the latest is that the u.s. delegation, who were supposed to meet with the north koreans yesterday to talk about repate reeting the remains of u.s. servicemen who died in the korean war. the north koreans did not turn up to that meeting at all. the americans were there, and they heard around about noon that the north koreans would meet them not on thursday as was widely expected but on sunday

we expect mike pompeo to meet with kim jong-un tomorrow. we don't know whether kim is going to give a timeline. as you say skeptics are circling because there has been a lot of evidence put forward and talk from the intelligence community in the u.s. that kim is ramp ing up its nuclear operations, its enriching uranium for fissile material. it's expanding a ballistic missile manufacturing site and there is one perhaps piece of leverage that pompeo can use and that is the sis spended military drills between the u.s. and south america and other nations as welt. they were suspended, you remember donald trump told kim jong-un he would suspend those drills. he told them provocative, donald trump did, echoing pyongyang's words on those drills but if pompeo comes away empty handed and if donald trump can be convinced that this isn't at this stage the great deal he hopes it will be, those exercises could come back on the table or could be threatened as a way of leveraging for kim jong-un. but at this stage we don't know erica. >> unknowns, andrew st

kim jong-un agreed to with that hand shake, et cetera?yes, i think that's a great example, where they're talking, one-on-one, certain words mean different things to different people, and certain phrases mean different things. and there's no expert in the room when he's talking one-on-one. and with vladimir putin, remember, he's been at this for 20 years, he's on his fourth presidency now. our president is new to this front. so i just wish and hope that he takes somebody into that meeting with him. >> remember, the president wants to be best friends with vladimir putin, he tweeted so in 2016. >>> and now to the international rescue mission in northern thailand, rescuers pulled out four more boys from a flooded cave this morning, bringing the total number of boys saved to eight. they were rushed to a nearby hospital after spending more than two weeks trapped inside the cave. but the operation is not over. four boys and their soccer coach are still in the cave, all of them will have totreacherous, u route to's indicate. matt, what is the lat

president trump saying he trusts kim jong-un. elligence agency telling cnn they do not believe kim is ready to give up the weapons any time soon. that report being shared around the united states intelligence community. if they all concur, that would be a complete assessment passed up to trump. with his skepticism, will he believe the intelligence or will he push forward with possible plans for a summit in the united states in september with kim jong-un as axios is reporting. after secretary pompeo leaves pyongyang he'll travel to tokyo and then brief the president at the nato summit in brussels. certainly lots to talk about. >> absolutely. no question. thank you so much. >>> let's get a check on cnn money this morning. stocks around the world are mostly higher. a short day for wall street. u.s. markets close at 1:00 p.m. today to get a jump on 4th of july. a positive day yet. a big tech rally. del is ready to return to wall street going public after five years. computer company went private back in 2013 so it could overall its bu

slept just fine. >> reporter: on his two previous trips to north korea, pompeo met directly with kim jong-un. friendly encounters. not this time. no meeting with kim. still, leaving pyongyang, the secretary sounded upbeat. >> these are complicated issues but we made progress on almost all of the central issues. >> reporter: but shortly after pompeo flew off, the north koreans put out a scathing statement, calling america's attitude "regrettable" and even "cancerous", calling the u.s. demand for denuclearization "gangster-like." >> if those requests were gangster-like, they are -- the world is a gangster. >> all right, jon karl live with us tonight from the white house. and jon, tough words from north korea, but president trump says he still has faith in kim jong-un? >> reporter: that came in a tweet today, david. the president saying, quote, "i have confidence that kim jong-un will honor the contract we signed," and then he added, "even more importantly, our handshake." so, david, if the president is concerned about this latest turn, he is not showing it, at least not yet. >> all right, jon

sides, that americans of course want kimjong—un to give up all sides, that americans of course want kim jong—une treated as equal, to have mr trump sitting down in front of him to have a meeting with him. so there were always warnings about it. and of course we heard from the us intelligence officials, saying they had evidence that north korea continued working on its nuclear programme even after that sing —— singapore summit. that is why there was a lot of pressure on mr pompeo to get more than words of commitment from pyongyang, to get more details about that denuclearisation plan. south korean officials have in advising washington to tone down that language, to make kimjong—un feel probably more comfortable about what he can agree to. 0bviously that didn't work too well, because north korean is seem rather upset after mr pompeo spent two days in pyongyang, for the third time, i should say. —— north koreans seem rather upset. mr pompeo was apparently supposed to meet with kim jong—un but apparently that meeting never happened, and the us delegation had to leave after he held two meetings with

what would be the thing that would motivate kim jong-un to give up his nuclear program? driven by this passion for reunifying korea. and america has really been painted as an ultimate evil in north korea. why would he give it up? what would he have to get in exchange? >> i mean that's a very good question because north koreans have always said they need a security guarantee. but how do we give a security guarantee? north korea met by that by u.s. pulling troops out of south korea. but it's hard to give a guarantee to north korea. and north korea's existence was all about having the united states as their number one hostile enemy. that sort of justified their existence and all the suffering of the north korean people all these years since the founding of north korea. beyond having nuclear weapons as deterrence against the united states, beyond trying to get guarantee from the united states, it's also the reason for their existence. i think it's going to be a very hard thing to achieve. but since president trump said we are going to get there i think pompeo said we need to

and now kim jong-un's regime is making new demands on the u.s. on top of all of that, former trump campaign adviser carter page admitted he informally advised the kremlin. paul manafort's criminal trial is set to begin this week. the fbi has a secret tape of the president and his lawyer michael cohen discussing a payment to a former playboy model, and the plot is thickening on an alleged russian spy here in the united states. and remember, we still don't know what happened during the president's one-on-one meeting in helsinki with vladimir putin. let's start with our white house correspondent. the president is reversing his walk back on russia. what's the latest message he's now sending? >> reporter: well, wolf, after what could only be described as a week of damage control by this white house, insisting that the president did believe the intelligence community's assessment that russia meddled in the election, the president is now making fresh calls to end the investigation into russian meddling in the election and whether or not any trump offici

north korean leader kim jong-un was out today too. they marked this day in the north, they call it victory day. white house did say we are encouraged by north korea's actions and momentum for positive change. the trump administration is under pressure to deliver on the main denuclearization aimed at that summit in singapore last month between president trump and kim jong-un. this was one of the promise and harris, they are hoping there will be more to come. >> harris: greg, thank you very much. let's bring in my next guest republican congressman lee zeleden on the house foreign affairs committee. this is a big day. there could be more to come. what does this tell you about the texture, the tone of the conversations perhaps president trump has had with kim jong-un? >> it's an important sign of progress. you're seeing a commitment being fulfilled. it's important to note that north korea was making concessions before the talks even took place. they stopped their provocative missile testing and development. they kim jong-un signed a docum

mike pompeo had a meeting this morning or this afternoon, actually, with kim jong-un's number two.uarter hours. pompeo has been dialing back a bit on expectations. he said that he is not expecting a time line from north korea on denuclearization. indeed, we're not sure what sort of concrete steps the u.s. are asking for and what is on the table as far as north korea is concerned. pompeo has been referring back to that meeting, that summit back on june 12th, between donald trump and kim jong-un, where they signed off on their full commitment to denuclearization. mike pompeo says, i'm here to basically -- his line was seeking to fill in details of the commitment. he says, north koreans -- he is expecting the north koreans to do the same. that's woolly language as far as what they are expecting. there's a lot of skepticism in the u.s. intelligence xhucommun as to the commitment that north korea is showing and likely to show to a full, verifiable denuclearization. >> appreciate it. thank you. >>> scott pruitt is out. his deputy, andrew whieeler, wil lead the agency for now. while he ma

third visit sin kim jong un agreed to give up nuclear weapons. officials say part of the mission is see how committed kim is to promises. they've upgraded nuclear research facility. u.s. officials say there are signs that trade between north korea and china is actually on the rise. we will have more on this later on so. tracee: president trump narrowing the list of supreme court justice nominees. cheryl: blake berman at the white house with the latest names. >> president trump believed to be down to final 3 contenders to replace kennedy, bret kavanaugh is a local, revered by many between the bush orbit. ray on this kethledge and amy cone barrett, based out of chicago, she was put into the post by president trump. clearly not on short list merrick garland who is confirmation process was stimet. that didn't stop chuck schumer that he should nominate garland. it was more like a check the box kind of phone call. schumer did warn the president that if he nominates somebody hostile to roe versus wade and obamacare would be catastrophic. decision coming

word on the street was he was china's favorite son in case something happened to kim jong-un.avid: the iranian agreement was negotiated by john kerry and barack obama, did you support that agreement? condoleezza: i did not support that agreement. i felt that gave the iranians too much at a time when we had the upper hand and could have gotten more. i also thought the verification means were very weak, so i would not have signed the agreement, but i said i probably would have stayed in it because once you are in an agreement, you don't want to signal the united states turns its back on agreements that are there. it won't be the end of the world. david: let's talk about vladimir putin. you have met him. condoleezza: i have, many times. david: does he speak english? condoleezza: he was teaching himself english, and by the time we left office, he could converse a little bit in english. i know him well. he liked me, actually, used to. i was once with him and he said, russia is only great when it has been run by great men. you think, vladimir the great, is that the message here? he

as you mentioned, mike pompeo arrived on friday afternoon and he met with kim jong—un‘s right—hand man as we know that took late yesterday. it wrapped up around 7:30pm local time and they spoke about three hours before breaking for dinner. apparently the mood appeared relaxed. mike pompeojoked that this was his third time and then —— that if he came and other time he would start to pay taxes to make. to which the right—hand man suggested that the more he came the more trust could be built. this morning his first meeting was scheduled at 9am local time, about one hour ago. we still do not know who he is meeting with. as you can imagine, the information is only trickling in. i'm basically following some journalists who are accompanying mike pompeo to pyongyang as far as i could tell they are not updating regularly. yesterday, all of a sudden, just as the meeting wrapped up we started to get a lot of tweets from mike pompeo and the journalist but as far as we know they have now set up a working group to nail down some of the details of the denuclearisation of the korean peninsula which wa

. >> harris: responded to critics with kim jong un. >> i really believe north korea has a tremendous . i got along really well with chairman kim. he had a great chemistry. is it possible to mark have you been in deals? have you been in things when people didn't work out? it's possible. stay with some white house officials are so optimistic about the progress of those talks that there could be a second meeting with kim jong un in new york, the september, during the u.n. general assembl general assembly. the regime would first have to show progress for that meeting to happen. so, we are looking for measurable things. this is one of the things that we did not get with the rim. lisa? >> lisa: secretary mattis said two weeks ago that he had not seen any steps that north korea has taken to dismantle their weapons. so that is concerning. i think a lot of the americans including congress would like to see some sort of plan that north korea actually want to denuclearize and that they are going to be honest in that way. that's to be a means for transparency. that is one of the biggest pieces of

we had productive good-faith negotiations. >>> pompeo left pyongyang without meeting leader kim jong un. but north korean officials say a personal letter from kim was given po pompeo to deliver to president trump. nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennett has more on this. jeff with, a welcome to you. is there an explanation to this discrepancy between the north koreans' account and secretary pompeo's account? >> this development certainly comes as no surprise to long-time korea watch who are make the point that the north korean regime is an unreliable partner at best and point to this cycle of hope and inevitable disappointment when it comes to dealing with north korea on this issue of eliminating its nuclear weapons program. to be clear, secretary pompeo traveled back to the region with a mission. he was there to flesh out the details of that vaguely worded joint declaration that the president and kim signed at the singapore summit just last month. remember the president touted that as a game-changing moment on twitter. he said north korea no long irposes a nuclear threat. he

pompeo doesn't get to meet with kim jong un.t negative sign i can think of quite honestly, brooke. there's been glashl speed with which things have been done since the singapore meeting almost a month ago. nothing that the north koreans promised that they would do immediately including returning the remains of american soldiers. it has not happened. if he doesn't get to any of them, it's very bad news. on this rip roaring glashl speed on die nuclearization, joe, we know that by having the singapore summit, the trump has always elevated kim on the world stage, and that kim has this win with the seizing of the unilateral military exercises on the peninsula, does kim have all the leverage now? >> he has met now, what, she jing ping three times. trump, south korean president, twice. he is no longer the kind of character tour that we used to see him as. now he is seen as a regional leader. meanwhile, everything that has been promised by president trump, well, it hasn't happened, and it just shows you how hard this is. we cannot appro