you've been in the room with kim jong-un.u see he has a historic shift in attitude and direction? >> i think so. he has made fundamental change. what we called paradigm change, paradigm change in his way of conducting fine policy. also it is very, very important for president trump to cult have a personal dynamics with chairman kim jong-un. okay. when the secretary pompeo negotiate with his counterpart of north korea, if things go wrong, then suppose president trump make a phone call to kim jong-un. he can fix all the problems. look, north korea is a country of one man rule. it is a country of one leadership. therefore, once kim jong-un make decision, things get done. personal dynamics of the true leader seems to be an important feature in the venture. >> and very briefly, we have 30 seconds. is there anything that worries you? are there any risks you see on the horizon? >> no, i don't think that -- it's just the beginning. devil is in the details. but we understand north korea quite well, therefore i can we will be able to o

off kim jong un and. by his father and later on kim jong un criticized his younger brother and said he lacked leadership qualities so that was enough motive. for him just to kill kim jong nam and also you have to say you have those four north korean suspects who fled the country and the north korean side has shown no sort of cooperation of willingness to corporate in this highly suspicious case and the quick question is if you will ever find out the truth ok it looks like this case is turning into an international thriller sandra rocks so for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much we have some sports for you now in the first world football rankings since the world cup are out and they show a massive drop for germany the team that went into this summer's tournament right number one here's what the new talks here looks like france of course takes over the first position by virtue of winning the world cup second belgium third brazil force is world cup runner up croatia way down number fifteen is germany this af

nam was the hop off kim jong un and. by his father and later on kim jong un criticized his younger brother and said he lacked leadership qualities so there wasn't a motive. for him just to kill kim jong nam and also you have to say you have those four north korean suspects who fled the country and the north korean side has shown no sort of cooperation or billing this to corporate in this highly suspicious case and the quick question is if you will ever find out the truth ok it looks like this case is turning into an international thriller sandra rocks so for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much molly's president abraham boubacar cato has been officially reelected for another five year term was declared the winner of the country's elections securing sixty seven percent of the vote the opposition led by small sissay have already said that they will reject the results of the presidential runoff the campaign was marred by accusations of fraud by violence and low turnout . kate and now faces the amends task of lifting this wes

it does remind kim jong-un that donald trump has said, kim knows what he is supposed to do to start denuclearizationknow all the details. but our commander in korea hinted last week that what we want to see is may be an inventory of weapons, get more information. maybe whatever it is denuclearization is on track but the engine is stalled right now. and so we are waiting to see if kim will move it forward or not. arthel: explain this, doctor grant. in light of reporting they say 18 days after the summit in singapore with president trump and kim jong-un it was discovered kim jong-un had no plans to denuclearize. so this is conflicting reports according to what you just told me that you are hearing and meanwhile you have president trump, continuing to post flattering and favorable tweets about kim jong-un. is that part advisable as the president tries to continue his offensive? >> yes. first, the intelligence report i take it with a grain of salt because it is sort of all reported. we really want to see what happens after singapore. i think a key part here is if kim does move towards denuclearization,

officials hand delivering trump's letter to kim jong-un this weekend.orth korean side told cnn the regime believes there is a strong possibility of a second summit between the two later this year. john bolton said for now a visit from trump's top diplomat might work best. >> secretary of state mike pompeo is prepared to go back to north korea to meet with kim jong-un. we've proposed that in our most recent letter from the president to kim jong-un. the president is prepared to meet at any point. >> reporter: tonight analysts say there is significant pressure on president trump and mike pompeo to move the nuclear needle with north korea. >> the trump administration clearly is feeling some pressure. they need to see north korea take some tangible step toward denuclearization. everything they've done so far, whether it is blowing up a tunnel entrance on a nuclear test site -- or dismantling one missile engine test facility instrument, none of that goes to the heart of the matter. >> reporter: and the heart of the matter experts say is getting kim's regime t

position because the north koreans don't seem to want to play by the same rules of the game and kim jong un has never told us what tina colors ation really means and in fact the north koreans have not even promised to deliver anything close to what they promised to deliver in the september two thousand and five agreement which was part of that then six party talks and then they agreed to of course verification and inspections all of that and to giving up their nuclear weapons and kim jong un this child that's not him that feels like stalemate to me bunny it's you know you've got everything seems to have to happen between washington and pyongyang. and going back to our original point about the tension with china china should be a player in this it's a major stakeholder in the region but i mean it's hard to see how it could get involved on the how anything can even move forward. well i guess one interesting wrinkle here is that president trump said that maybe there'd be no deal with north korea and tell there is a resolution to trade tensions with china if that's the case we're going to wa

and even though the white house says he's going to meet with kim jong-un.here is been all these signs and up to this point, president trump was willing to give north koreans the benefit of the doubt. that looks like it is changed right here and right now. that's why it is a significant development. >> i want to bring in jonathan, hans used the word here, jonathan that i am going to start with with you here, the word being skepticism. >> could it be here the last two or three hours reporting extensively on the latest member of the president's inner circle to take immunity deal to start cooperating with prosecutors and all of a sudden, at about 1:30 on a friday afternoon of the midst of all of the coverage, the president decides to announce that the north koreans are not who we thought they were, distractions? >> if that's what he was going for, it does not work because this the one distraction where everyone will look at tweet and say, anyone who has been paying attention and say what took you so long? this is not going to stop us from talking about the fina

un had a standing order with standing instruction to accept to kill kim jong nam kim jong un himself while he was still living in self-imposed exile while he was still alive in macau had believed that he was in danger yet this child does not answer any of those questions or produce any evidence to help us understand those questions lawrence thanks very much. gunmen are attacking a training center for afghanistan's primary intelligence agency in southern kabul the police say the attackers entered a neighboring building to launch the assault from the rim of the stones primary intelligence agency security forces are trying to move people living nearby to safety. turkey says is ready to enter talks with the united states over the dispute that soon tyrus pileup and its currency plunging. kasra purse come to turkey's aid with an investment of fifteen billion dollars the dispute with the us began after turkey detained an american pastor accuse links accused of links to the failed coup mike hanna reports now from washington. afternoon in the search collating trade war between the u.s. and na

i think from his tweets, he is still trying to keep a relationship with kim jong un because from hism jong un promised denuclearization but it may be time to go back to maximum pressure. >> judge jeanine: great discussion. thank you, guys. up next on the special edition of "hannity," we have highlights of president trump's speech in ohio. he warnedgh what would happen if the democrats win in november. doug schoen and david abella react next. don't forget to pick up a copy of the book, if you like what we are talking about tonight, "liars, leakers, and liberals." stay with us." ♪ bass pro shops and cabela's bring you the fall hunting classic with huge savings. like this cuddeback black flash game camera for only $75. and these keen men's waterproof hiking boots for under $90. ♪ >> it's interesting, we have the strongest economy in the history of our nation, and we hear about a blue wave. why is there a blue wave? we are doing better with travis. there are more people working than at any time inhe the histoy of our country. i don't think there's going to be a blue wave. i hope there is

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the banned nerve agent considered by the un as a weapon of mass destruction and used to kill kim jong was found on the women's clothes the judge said their intention to kill could be inferred from the fact they targeted his eyes to ensure the substance which penetrate his bloodstream quickly defense lawyers say the accused are disappointed with the judge's decision to take the case to trial instead of acquitting them outright it does not mean that the judges would have duty what it means and is this day to judge by the days of promised us against. his death and because most of the court wants to hear gavel should just be. the judge said he couldn't rule out the possibility that the killing was a political assassination but said there wasn't enough evidence to prove that police have also charged for north korean men who they say trained the women but left malaysia hours after the attack u.s. and south korean officials have accused north korean agents of planning the killing north korea denies any involvement in a few months the two women will have a chance to tell their story as they t

placing accused of deadly nerve agent under kim jong nam's face at the kuala lumpur airport last years more. jonathan: these young women are the only defendants facing trial. they are hoping for an acquittal , but were disappointed. the judgeul the evidence backs the charge against them of murdering kim jong-un and, -- the estranged half-brother of north korea's ader. lawyers for the two, and indonesian and vietnamese woman, said they were recited to carry out what they thought were harmless prank >> it does not mean that the judge will not find them guilty. the case must oceed. now they are to hear ourtoersion of the. jonathan: four north korean men charged with them fled malaysian the same day kim jong nam was attacked. it is believed they ran the operation. malaysiaro f diplomatic relations. the north korean embassy has no .ambassad the militiamen left pyongyang -- malaysian one left pyongyang after beingeld hostage, the government said. and yet alaysia refuses to r blame north korea fothe killing. jonath head, bbc news, kuala lumpur. in italy, as many as 20ss people are still g da

. >>> president trump is prepared to meet with kim jong-un again at any point.ording to u.s. national security advisor john bolton. and he told fox news that the president is not alone. >> the secretary of state mike pompeo is prepared to go back to north korea to meet with kim jong-un. we've proposed that in our most recent letter from the president to kim jong-un. the president is prepared to meet at any point. but what we really need is not more rhetoric. what we need is purchase from north korea on denuclearization. >> let's bring in cnn's will ripply who joins us now live from hong kong. good to see you, will. why are we seeing this push for a second summit with kim jong-un given very little progress was achieved as a result of the first summit. what are the benefits and what are the drawbacks for doing this? >> well, the north koreans blame the united states for lack of progress since the first summit. they feel since his most recent trip to pyeongyang mike pompeo went in there what they view with a list of demands. and yet the north koreans say they haven

president trump could have a second meeting with kim jong-un later this year. we have a report from tehran and hong kong. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> two econ nerds. president trump admitting during the 2016 presidential race his son don junior met to get information on an opponent. in a tweet sunday, the president called the trump tower meeting totally legal and done in politics all the time. adding i did not know about it. >> that tweet directly contradicting the earlier statements. the president acknowledging for the first time the purpose of the meeting was to gather dirt on hillary clinton and not to discuss russian adoption. as for it being totally legal? it addresses that the president is now concerned over don junior may have legal exposure in the robert mueller russia probe. that is according to sources close to the white house. >> cnn reported that michael cohen may have knew about the meeting despite his denials. let's get more from boris sanchez. >> reporter: christine and phil, it has been a swift move from

about top stories so far two women accused of killing the half brother of the north korean leader kim jong un will face trial for murder in malaysia last year they were seen on security video seeming to smear a nerve agent on to kim jong nam space of the air force of kuala lumpur. turkey says it's ready to enter talks with the united states over the dispute that seen tyrus pileup and its currency plunging the dispute with the u.s. began after turkey detained an american pastime to keep most of the links to the failed coup. but twelve months state of emergency has been declared for the italian city of genoa as the search goes on through the rubble of the collapsed bridge at least thirty nine people confirmed dead so far the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance. no new report from human rights watch says prospects for a free and fair election next month in the maltese are under threat from a government crackdown on dissent in a fifty two page study researches described how the government of president abdul gayoom has introduced vaguely worded laws to intimidates and arbitra

in the months before their singapore some us donald trump and kim jong un traded insults and threats of nuclear war but the leaders pulled back from the brink to deliver a diplomatic spectacle as an unexpected concession from the u.s. . we will be stopping the war games which will save us a tremendous amount of money or unless and until we see the the future negotiation is not going along like it should. the u.s. military exercises with south korea have infuriated p.r. nyang for decades trumps decision to suspend them surprise both u.s. allies in the region and top u.s. military officials critics said he was handing kim a major symbolic victory without getting any concrete commitments that north korea would denuclearize since the june so most terms diplomatic gamble has delivered some modest returns pyongyang has returned what it says are the remains of u.s. troops killed in the korean war it is also put its nuclear missile test on hold though the un's atomic watchdog says it's still developing nuclear weapons and it's the lack of progress on that front that could wind relations back

can a nuclear deal now be reached or is this more posturing by the kim jong-un regime?e'll talk with a congressman who recently went to the region. and a white house advisor's new warning to russia on election interference, but will vladamir putin be listening? whether we are doing enough to protect the elections coming up. stay close. as king midas, i here, you will too.nt. your oil change comes with a tire rotation as well. ooo! i could put that on an airplane banner. our $19.99 oil change also includes a tire rotation. book an appointment online. but he has plans today. so he took aleve this morning. hey dad. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can't do that. aleve. all day strong. all day long. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain, for up to 12 hours of pain relief with just one pill. 4 out of 5 people who have a stroke, their first symptom... is a stroke. 80 percent of all strokes and heart disease? preventable. and 149 dollars is all it ta

now kim jong un had believed that his life was in danger when he was living in self-imposed exile in macau but of course the true intention or the who really gave the instruction to kill kim jong un is something that the trial has not explored and it's something that we can only speculate. italy's prime minister has declared a twelve month state of emergency in the wake of tuesday's bridge collapse in general at least thirty eight people died the number the government expects to rise the deputy prime minister is blaming a lack of maintenance as questions are raised about infrastructure throughout the country that as a butler report from general. on what remains of genoa is marandi bridge vehicles seem to be frozen in time left where they were abandoned moments after the bridge collapsed on tuesday the driver of this truck managed to stop just metres from the edge others were not so lucky in difficult conditions emergency workers continue to search for survivors we have the pieces of the of the bridge collapse in the now we're using the cranes to move those b.b.c. zone to try to enter

nam was the hof off kim jong un and by his father and later on kim jong un criticized his younger brother and said he lacked leadership qualities so that was enough motives to for him just to kill kim jong nam and also you have to say you have those four north korean suspects who fled the country and the north korean side has shown no sort of cooperation of willingness to corporate in this highly suspicious case and the big question is if you will ever find out the truth ok it looks like this case is turning into an international thriller sandra rot so for us in kuala lumpur thanks very much it's to the u.s. now where more than three hundred fifty news outlets across the nation have pledged to run editorials today in defense of press freedom they're condemning president donald trump's attacks on what he calls fake news and his suggestions that journalists from news organizations that oppose him and his policies are quote enemies of the people of boston globe newspaper launched the initiative using the image you see behind me president trump's use of the terms news and enemies of the peopl

, and that was kim jong-il.ow did your meetings come about? how did your discussions go? is trump, do you think, being properly prepared? >> well, we had spent in the clinton administration quite a lot of time dealing with north korea, from the first moments in '93 when they had threatened to pull out of the nonproliferation treaty through an awful lot of talks and agreements. but a year or so before i went there, what had happened was that the president then asked for a complete review of our north korea policy, which was led by former secretary of defense bill perry. and he was the initial person to go to north korea after the review to say, it was kind of fork in the road time. they should either negotiate on their issues, or we were prepared to use a number of our different tools. they decided to negotiate. and what happened was the number two man, vice marshal cho, came to the united states in order to invite president clinton to come. and president clinton did, i believe, the right thing, saying, you know,

kim jong-un might come to the white house but kim jong-un recently executed agenda. we don't have to develop more nukes because we going to start developing nukes and that's what you get executed four. north korea has no intention of stopping the nukes. they have no intention of giving freedom to their people. so that is not the direction they're going to. i'm sure those politicians will keep the status quo that the people are suffering and the military will continue if we do not take action. >> host: yeonmi park, what are you doing today? >> guest: i'm a writer, and now i am running my own organization with my partner, my co-defector from north korea was actually at the state of the union that i'm trying to rescue my fellow defectors are trapped in china like myself was, that we rescue them to safety and we get information inside north korea so let the people inside north korea that they are slaves. and the rest of the world -- so that's what i do and i hope that i do know that. they change will not come from politicians. if ever diplomacy works, it will not work. t

. believes he has struck up with kim jong-un.ople in hawaii are being moved away from their homes as a hurricane nears the american pacific islands. hurricane lane's already brought flash floods, power cuts and torrential rains. the latest reports suggest it's lessening in force, but it's still carrying winds of over 120 miles per hour. james cook reports from hawaii. this is what hurricane lane has done to hawaii already. —— hurricane lane. and it is still churning towards the islands. so far it is not the ferocious wind, but the torrential rain which is the biggest problem. there are reports of catastrophic flooding, of landslides, and a water rescues. tourists among those who have been pulled to safety. attention, please leave the area! the big island in hawaii, hawaii county, has received in some cases to eat of rain already. unfortunately there is more to come, so the impacts are going to grow. hundreds of islanders have been forced to flee their homes. has this ever done this before? no, this is the first time. i've been he

secretary of state mike pompeo, who leads the north korean negotiations, is now expressing caution over kim jong-un'se up nuclear weapons, just one day after president trump praised the north korean leader. pompeo telling reporters, chairman kim made a commitment to denuclearize. to the extent they are beying in -- behaving in a manner inconsistent with that, we can see we still have a ways to go to achieve the ultimate outcome we're looking for. president trump insisting it's all going well with kim. >> what i did with north korea was great. i got along great with chairman kim. i got along great. that's a good thing, not a bad thing, by the way. >> reporter: but there is still no denuclearization agreement and pompeo revealing days ago, kim is holding on to his vital weapons capabilities. >> yes, they continue to produce phfissile material. >> what kim is doing so far is not seen as significant by u.s. intelligence. test tunnels were blown up, but the u.s. believes the explosions were superficial and the tunnels could be rebuilt. some destruction of facilities seen in commercial satellite imagery is

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so put the onus more on them than on kim jong-il who refused to denuclearization. >> then the optics you know, does this announcement from the president undermine the work of the secretary of state, even though, you know, sarah sanders, the white house spokesperson, said trump sent out this tweet canceling this visit even while pompeo was in the room so everybody knew about it? publicly, does did send the right message? >> to have the secretary of state announce a new envoy and then 24 hours later issue what really is a tepid rain check on this trip. the president left the door more than ajar. he said he looked forward to seeing chairman kim, his words, at a future date. president trump said kim jong-un is not keeping his commitments, he's not denuclearizing, he's still looking forward to seeing him. so you have to wonder why that is, if kim jong-un is still violating international law, a can't imagine that president trump needed any more evidence than what was in the iaea report earlier in the week saying they weren't denuclearizing to decide to cancel this trip. >> if it's not an e

it has been less than two months since president trump and kim jong—un met at the historic trump—kim nowhere closer to figuring out what that actually means. all that mr pompeo has said here at the meetings in singapore is that the timeline, in part, is up to the north korean leader. and until then, economic sanctions on pyongyang will stay. karishma vaswani, bbc news, singapore. let's speak to our correspondent in washington chris buckler. is this a stumble in relations? is it being taken seriously? there is a strange difference in the leaderships between kim jong—un, donald trump and those within their administration. donald trump sent out a tweaked thanking kim jong—un for sending back the remains of american soldiers, talking about his nice letter and kindness. at the same time, you have many within his administration deeply concerned. while north korea talked about denuclearise asian, actually they've seen no evidence of it and there is growing concern among the intelligence agencies that although pyongyang says it wants denuclearisation, it's not making any strides whatsoever t

he had the negotiations with kim jong-un. he said things went well and they had a good rapport.e progress. mike pompeo saying over the weekend that north korea is in violation of the united nations resolution and urging to continue sanctions against north korea. north korea responding saying the united states is not living up to the end of the singapore summit and they may have to walk away with the pledge to denuclearization if they don't get sanctions relief or formal end of the korean war peace treaty we told you about. north korea feels the person they can negotiate with best is donald trump directly with their leader. that is what my sources are telling me they want to happen. they say the exchange of letters a good sign. we have to watch and see if they do set a date to sit down and what might come out of it in terms of concrete steps to denuclearization. >> thank you, will. >> and if that is the most important story of the day. steven seagal, all classics, now responding to the appointment as russia representative on russian humanitarian ties. seagal is humbled and honore

that the -- the praise of kim jong-un, thanking him for a, quote, kind action comes the same week thewashington post" broke the reporting that north korea is working on one, possibly two new missiles at a very critical location and factory and the fact that we just heard secretary of state mike pompeo testify under oath before the senate that, yes, north korea is still produce this fissile material. we know they're still enriching uranium. >> it's appropriate for the president to thank chairman kim for these actions. that's -- could be part of a negotiating technique to praise him, asking him to do more, continue to engage. but truthfully when you see the other more important elements of denuclearization which have not been accomplished and there doesn't appear to be movement toward that, in fact all indicators from the intelligence community and the state department is just the opposite of happen iing, it seems to be strange these kinds of effusive comments from the president to mr. kim are saying some of the things that -- are indicating some of the things that we're seeing. the one

>> we don't know the context from kim jong-un or the letter from president trump to kim said, but now this is the new thing, fred. ever since the two met, it needs to be a letter from either leader to one another. it doesn't matter almost any more. these are just pleasantries. we think we should talk, we are committed to denuclearization. that's what the foreign minister and pompeo said. yes, we should talk to one another when they shook hands in that video, but this comes at a week where there's a lot of concern over north korea, it is not making good on commitments that kim jong-un made to president trump. you had a week in which there has been reports that north korea is continuing to develop its nuclear program. this week pompeo said north korea will be setting the pace of its denuclearization because there's not been any progress. even though there are pleasantries between the two leaders, it is true that although it is progress that they're talking, we're not getting much progress in the way of denuclearization, giving up that nuclear program. >> what about sanctions. is there a

the repatriation was agreed at june's summit between trump and kim jong-un. attending the arrival of the boxes in hawaii where the remains will be thoroughly examined was u.s. vice president mike pence. >> some have called the korean war forgotten war. but today we prove these heroes were never forgotten. today our boys are coming home. for more on this we crossed to senior research fellow. thank you for your time. just have significant is this repatriation of remains yet -- remains? event but iymbolic think it is also meaningful of a of a trust building process between the u.s. and dprk. this time kim jong-un -- which was included in the singapore agreement signed on june 12. but still i think this is beginning to long-term trust building process. -- good political achievement for president trump to gain as the u.s.rt people feel proud of those government actions. you talk about building trust. really this doesn't take the u.s. any closer to the main issue which is denuclearization. or does it? >> the negotiation for denuclearization process is really now ve

his take is that this has failed and the fault of kim jong-un only.has never had much hope for talks with him because i knew north korea wasn't serious about denuclearization. the president took a gamble to try a peaceful resolutions but this effort failed and kim jong-un is 100% at fault. are you willing to go that far and where we are in the status that we are in with north korea? >> no, i'm not. i don't believe these have failed. i believe that kim jong-un is not interested in going as far as i would like him to go but we know that the world i believe is safer today than it was when president trump came into office because of the discussions with kim jong-un. we're not seeing rockets being fired anymore. not seeing underground testing of nuclear weapons at this point. we don't see the kind of aggressive advances that north korea was making. so i think the president has made the right move and especially with his secretary of defense and secretary of state with the statements that they've made. we'll move ahead with i believe the joint next year wor

>> and kim jong-un said yes. so the one-year period that we've talked about from the point where north korea makes the strategic decision to denuclearize is something that the north and south koreans have already agreed to. why is that significant? president trump has gone out of his way to hold the door open for kim jong-un. that's what the singapore meeting was about. >> but how long do you give the north koreans for their strategic decision to denuclearize? do they really understand what that means? should that have been written down? >> it's hard to believe they don't understand it. secretary pompeo has done extraordinary followup diplomacy after the singapore meeting. as i say, we expect that's going to resume in the near future. it's a hard task. i don't envy him but he's worked very hard at it to pursue president trump's goal of getting north korea denuclearized. >> and we'll be patient for how long? >> i think we're counting on north korea following through on the commitments that they've made. >> and i j

i asked him, did you ever speak to kim jong-un. no. i said wouldn't it be maybe a good thing to give it a shot? obama couldn't get a meeting. clinton couldn't get a meeting. bush couldn't get a meeting. you know, with the family. bush couldn't get a meeting. nobody could get a meeting. this one's tougher than the father. i say that with respect but he's tougher than the father and tougher than the grandfather. they couldn't even get a meeting. i got a meeting. john: secretary of state mike pompeo announcing today he's heading to north korea next week, making it his fourth trip this year. joining me, former navy pilot and former intelligence operative, fox news correspondent lee gabriel. we talked about north korea for years. they have lied about everything. everything. without exception. how in the world can we trust this guy now? >> i think that we won't trust him. i think that we will look for verifiable steps that are taken by the north korean regime to show whether or not they are actually sincere in willingness to denuclearize. th

than kim jong un indicated in singapore and then reconsidering a strategy was the right move to make. to do that. the real problem is the president, to be frank, misjudged kim jong un unless if we can get on a better track. arthel: to follow up that i have time. less than 18 days after the summit with kim jong un there is a new discovery that north korea had no plans to do you make a list of all the things to shake hands with the president and privately to see tim. as the president premature on that sunday? should he have relied on the resources and the fingertips and intellectual intelligence before agreeing to the meeting and is there any way the summit was the right move. i think it was the right move, but the president needed to do a much better job in nailing kim jong un down unless more explicit commitment, unambiguous commitments to denuclearization. kim jong said there must of us are and take all his troops out while he keeps his nuclear weapons for at least another 10 to 20 years. the deal was never fully understood on the north korean side and now we are paying the price in

kim jong-un strategy hopefully reflects a rationality on his part. competency of the american military power and deliver overwhelming force on to north korea if necessary. president trump's unpredictability in his tweeting in terms of deployment made to south korea and the surrounding area and the build-up to the singapore summit. these things are things that north korea pays attention to. i think as we come towards the end of the year, it will issbe clear whether north korea will dismantle things that would be hard to rebuild. at that point president trump will make a determination about how to go guaforward. >> bill: why do you say the end of the year? >> because when you talk about north korea dismantling and frankly at least i think over 10 sites instead of just 1 or 2 missiles launch sites and talked about the factory. we know where that is and a lot of scientists. there is a measurable way to see if north korea is back away from that stuff. if that is not happening by the end of the year, i think there is an understanding that north korea is no

meet kim jong-un again.hepard? >> shepard: thanks, jennifer. we're getting a look at what it was like inside that jet as it crashed down in a field in mexico. less than a minute after take off. at least 65 americans were on that aero mexico jet. a passenger recorded this video outside the window, strong winds, heavy rain. they all say that. and a passenger described the chaos. >> it was pitch dark. we started smelling smoke. we couldn't believe. we were trying to break the window with our legs, kicking the window. it wouldn't. it wouldn't break. >> shepard: i said 110 people on board. actually 103. apologies. 103 on board, all survived. many of them did go to a hospital. coming up on a jam packed afternoon, the government apparently considering doing away with security screenings at a punch of smaller airports in america. it's not to make your life easier. but first, if you're headed to paris, don't plan to visit the eiffel tower. we'll show you why in two minutes. sometimes, bipolar i disorder can make you

>> great question, rob, kim jong un has a unique opportunity to reach out for economic development andr commander in korea general brook says there is no going back for north korea, the un security council is still locked arms, kim needs and wants sanction's relief but going forward is the only thing, president trump told us in may it would go as slowly or quickly as kim jong un wants, it's about the political will in kim jong un's heart as our -- it's really on his shoulders. we have to keep the pressure on military and the sanction's pressure. rob: yeah. jackie: john mccain's lasting impact on military as he passed this weekend, a lot of thoughts on him this morning, what would you say about his impact on the military? >> as a national security analysts john mccain was a navy man through and through, naval aviation, he could be really tough on the air force, he made sure it was always admiral and command in the pacific but under his time in the senate naval aviation flourished. they got the new super hornet fighter, pa surveillance plane and set aviation up for radical new f-35 fight

this is keeping with what kim jong-un said on now yeew year's.w pyongyang is producing those missiles at a plant in the suburb of their capital. some experts are telling "the new york times" this is not unusual, north korea would continue this type of activity because they haven't agreed to denuclearize yet and if they stop the production they would be giving away their leverage. >> secretary pompeo now traveling there. might this be a warning message from the trump administration to get serious? >> reporter: well, we can look at it in a couple of ways. maybe it could be a warning message if president trump has decided he is not open to another summit with kim jong-un even though on the north korean side they believe that was a very lyingly possibility. but it could also be fracnkly te u.s. coming in with a different approach. in early july it was a contentious meeting. the u.s. was asking for a big surrender of nuclear weapons right up front. the north korean rejected that. they went back and forth. it got very tense. the north koreans felt they

like, you know there was a part of kim jong un as well that just wanted to be like, "now, please, "steper] now, if the north korea talks end up in kim actually giving up his nukes, this would be one of the greatest peace deals we've ever seen broken, which is why, believe it or not, south korea's president says that president trump deserves the nobel peace prize. because he says this never would have happened if trump hadn't played bad cop. you know? like, really bad cop. like, worst cop ever. like, "i'll let you borrow my gun for $5" cop. and trump winning the nobel peace prize or any prize is an idea that maga supporters really love. - i remember, you know, it was very rough three, four months ago. [crowd chanting] - [laughs] nobel. that's very nice. nobel. [chuckles] [laughter] - you know, that... that has to be the world's first nobel peace prize chants. like, that's how rowdy trump's crowds are, though. they'll chant anything. they'll be at a funeral like, "condolences! condolences! condolences! always in our hearts! always in our hearts!" [laughter] and now, look, i understand, so

but what's going on is the president is giving kim jong-un a master class on how to hold a door open for somebody. and if the north koreans can't figure out how to walk through it, even the president's fiercest critic can't say that he didn't open the door wide enough. but we're doing to have to have more negotiations with the north koreans no question about it. >> and karl rove is r who is also editor of the new yorker online, we understand there was a letter between trump and kim jong-un himself and president trump hasn't really called out kim jong-un on not moving faster on denuclearization and then you hear bolton protecting the reputation of the president saying he is working really hard, what is going on here with this messaging? >> i think bolton is defending the president, that's his job, but there's information coming out of the north korean summit that north korea is still building ballistic missiles and there's also intelligence reports that north korean officials have talked about destroying some of their nuclear weapons declaring that they have given them up and actually

am, a murder suspect charged, and illegal immigrant facing a judge after confessing to kidnapping kim jong un one. jillian: how donald trump responded as republicans demand justice. rob: still no collusion but major development from the bob mueller investigation, paul manafort guilty on eight counts. michael cohen cut a deal. jillian: to this leave the president in legal limbo? his attorneys say no. rob: deporting a, quote, despicable nazi immigrant. rob: sarah sanders defending the epic move donald trump just made. "fox and friends first" starts right now. good wednesday morning to you. rob: a lot going on. we begin with a fox news alert, illegal immigrant charged with murder after confessing to kidnapping kim jong un one. the mexican man detailing the final and terrifying moments to police. rob: the suspects prepared to face a judge. >> reporter: a tragic end to a story we have been closely following for five weeks, 20-year-old mollie tibbetts found dead in a cornfield not far from her hometown of brooklyn, iowa. and illegal immigrant admits to kidnapping, killing and dumping her lifeles

could kim jong-un be one of them? and could he meet with president trump somewhere, maybe trump tower? unthinkable a couple years ago, but this is 2018, phil. you just never know. >> about as good as you can put it. singapore felt like a sprint. last couple weeks makes it feel like this is a marathon. either way, will ripley will be participating in both. will in hong kong, thank you very much. >> make sure your laces are tied, will. >>> vice president mike pence heads to the pentagon on thursday to discuss the future of the u.s. military in space. president trump has been calling for the development of a space force. pence's arrival is expected to coincide with the release of a pentagon report to congress that contains recommendations for space components. it is not expected to call for the establishment of a separate space force military branch. that would require action by congress. >>> investigators are trying to identify the remains of a boy found during a search of a new mexico compound where 11 children were fo

pictures, videos that you see, you see kim jong-un with a notepad.or, the chinese leader, president xi, is actually dictating some of the things to kim jong-un. so, it's kind of a student-teacher relationship between the two of them, not that north korea doesn't do independent things, and sometimes they do anger the chinese, but the key thing here is that the chinese really are the only source of influence from the outside world with a little bit from russia. they basically control a lot of what north korea does have a foreign policy perspective, and that is something that we need to work much more carefully with the chinese, instead of engaging in direct trade wars with them. we have to be very careful in how we do that if we want them to help us with north korea. >> all righty. colonel cedric leighton, so grateful to have your perspective, always. thank you for being here. >> you bet, always a pleasure. >>> urban meyer is apologizing again. andy scholes, what's he saying? >> victor, meyer under fire for the way he handled wednesday's press conferen

meeting with kim jong-un early on and negotiating some of these details is important. because if i were kim jong-un or vladimir putin or any world leader, i would not want to break my word with president trump. if that's the direction that north korea is taking, there will be severe penalties moving forward as the president has promised many times along the way. it's important that north korea get back on track, keep their word, keep their end of the bargain. the north korean people have a lot to gain for that occurring. and i hope that will be the case. it's important to remember what we were talking about one year ago from today, a year ago from today we were talking about north korea launching test missiles, if you recall, on july 4 of 2017, they test launched an intercontinental ballistic missles that we didn't know they had before. fast forward to what we're talking about today and the story is different, whether it's returning the bodies of american soldiers back to the united states, at the end of the day talking about the negotiations, we've seen a very big con

the north koreans want assurances and guarantees that kim jong-un will stay in power.y that has been in effect since 1953. they want that before they give up the nuclear weapons. the u.s. believes that should happen at the end of the denuclearization process after kim jong-un surrendered his arsenal. this could be back to square one. da dave. >> will ripley, thank you. >>> "new day" is ten minutes away. the one and only john berman joins us. what is going on? >> i heard "new day" is ten minutes away. that is coming up fast. i'm fascinated by the north korea story. we will have will on in a little bit. what happened between june and now that touchurned this relationship sour or was it never a relationship to produce anything to begin with? we will look at that this morning. plus, we are getting more details about the tick tock how the president relented and ordered the flag to half staff to honor john mccain. what went on that it took so long? the coverage of mccain's passing was over the top and more befitting a president? he thought the coverage of the passing of john