kim jong-un to vladivostok where he met with president putin unfortunately.us pandemic began, our relationship turned out to be put, as it were, on pause, eh, but in general, all the programs that were previously agreed upon. they are with us now, as it were, at the start, as soon as the borders are opened, the borders remain closed throughout. it's almost 2.5 now. we are all ours. implement, i think we can do it. alexander ivanovich is another very important question. this is certainly a tension in this region that is being created. well , let's just say, the united states is trying to carry out. there are mass exercises they are trying to accuse the dprk of the dprk leadership of escalating tension with their tests and so on, although, as i understand it, the government is in the blues. it just shows by these actions that they can defend themselves, but i won't be here, of course speaking for the dprk government . the leadership of the dprk is protecting its interests. they carry out their policy based on the current situation. the situation is always very

because of the first part of your two-part question is the right one, which is all of us looking at kim jong-un'sice, who is t kim jong-un's office, who is . >> kyrsten sinema's office who is not looking at legislation and others who can't imagine that she wasn't little bit abreast of the negotiations, and what happens in carried interest, when you get into the tax piece of this, there are red lines that are ultimately in this bill that manchin and schumer brokered that are things that kyrsten sinema said she couldn't get behind that she had issues with. so this is not yet a done deal, but i think for democrats, if they can manage to pass this, and not look back at where they've been and not look back and say well, this is a package that used to be $2.5 trillion, and then all of these elements of the economy in it, and now whittled down to this, and if they focus on the positive pieces of this, i think then they will be able to take this into the midterms, and look, what's in this, it is still pretty huge. things like being able to better negotiate for prescription drug prices and shoring up subs

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only news is tsn ukraine is breaking diplomatic relations with north korea, the main reason is kim jong-unay on the day he recognized the terrorist pseudo-republic of the people's republic of china, the reaction of the ministry of foreign affairs of ukraine was immediate, our diplomats consider such a statement by the korean dictator to try to undermine the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ukraine, and a gross violation the constitution of ukraine, the un charter and the fundamental norms and principles of international law also in the ministry of foreign affairs reported that after the break of diplomatic relations, neither political nor economic contacts with north korea will be carried out due to the international sanctions imposed on this country a few weeks ago. syria also recognized ukraine as a quasi-republic. has already begun the introduction of a trade embargo and the imposition of sanctions on syrian legal entities and individuals, the work under the gun, a hundred sets of protective equipment was handed over by the organization unesco in the frontline journalists who ar

donald trump met with kim jong-un three times. president biden met with kim jong-un but people didn't criticize him for meeting with putin because you have to try. in this case i probably would have advised against the trip because it seems premature if you're not clear that you're going to get any benefit and you are essentially rehabilitating a guy who has blood on his hands the u.s./saudi relationship requires attention i mean you can't just ignore it indefinitely, but you do have to ask what are we getting from this visit that justifies essentially taking the saudis into a rehabilitated status. i'm not clear what that is yet. >> absolutely. we asked the energy expert about this and she said maybe in august at the opec meeting we'll get the deliverable on oil the president's team kind of hinted at that today, so i suppose we could suspend judgment for a couple of weeks at least what about on the iran front a couple of things of notice there. he mentioned he'd use force and that he's not willing to wait forever for iran to rejoin

less than 10 years later, pyongyang was returned again the reason for the list was the murder of kim jong-un's half-brother. today, the dprk is a country in exile where a dictatorship reigns and citizens live in poverty. for russia to become the fifth on the list, the usa has been fighting for more than one year, in particular, congressmen have called for the recognition of the russian federation a sponsor of terrorism even under trump's presidency, the list of cases of aggressive russian behavior in recent years is long under putin's authoritarian regime, russia invaded and annexed parts of its neighbors' territory participated in disinformation campaigns to undermine elections in many western democracies, in particular in the united states , used chemical weapons to kill coordinated military actions in syria together with the iranian islamic revolutionary guard corps and hezbollah, and also supported the taliban in afghanistan formally the decision to recognize the country sponsor of terrorism in the united states , the secretary of state approves, this position is currently held by anthony

presented evidence to the us authorities and they took massive action, the department ofjustice kim jong—unooks like ton of bricks. . ., ., , of bricks. french authorities froze massive _ of bricks. french authorities froze massive assets - of bricks. french authorities froze massive assets and i of bricks. french authorities i froze massive assets and there is a major case going on there. switzerland froze $20 of assets, the is going on there. spain, poland, leatherwanyi, spain, poland, leather wanyi, latvia, spain, poland, leatherwanyi, latvia, i mean, all sorts of places, big action. —— lithuania. french, irish? nothing. in a statement to spotlight, we were told the economic crime bureau did open an investigation and ireland. but no evidence of banality was identified. yet, the bank statements that millions of the money was laundered through ireland, and there is one payment that jumps out. ireland, and there is one payment thatjumps out. it comes wrapped in at the secrecy of a uk limited liability partnership, but from a bank account in estonia into one of the most notorious crime gangs

leonghub kim jong-un stressed that washington is mistaken in calling the actions of the dprk provocationsnizing joint military maneuvers that threaten the security of his country, summarizing his statement, the dprk leader specified that south korean troops would also be destroyed in case of their aggression. in iraq, hundreds of protesters broke into the parliament building, located in a specially protected green area in the center of baghdad. judging by the footage, the security forces did not interfere, as a result, the protesters managed to get to the main hall. there they waved national flags and sang songs in such a way that people opposed the nomination of candidates for the premiership of the country, mohammed shiyah, and whose sudanese support pro-iranian parties. some time later, the demonstrators began to leave the building, it is reported that now security forces have taken control of parliament since last year, iraqi legislators are unable to elect a new head of government and president. the audience sold out all the tickets for the tour of the krasnoyarsk opera and ballet th

everybody said it, even kim jong-un. tiny kim, tiny teeny kim. little tiny feet. smallest feet you've ever sign, i'm telling you. my feet are fine, his are tiny, let me tell you that. he's a teenie weenie kim. he told me last week while we're eating fro-yo yogurt, i got vanilla, kim got the swirl. he likes the vanilla and chocolate together, but no thanks, i like my fro-yo like i like my voters, white and sloppy, okay? [ laughter ] >> guillermo: wow, okay. next question. what can be done about high gas prices? >> thanks for asking the question, gustavo, come on. look here, amigo. you don't need a gas station for gasoline. gas stationth are for selling soda pops and nudie magazines and reading in the woods. >> guillermo: oh, yeah, i like those. [ laughter ] okay, mr. trump, what is your response? >> gas. you know. some people call it gas, okay? we call it gasoline, all right? nobody knows, nobody cares. let me tell you, many people are saying it's dinosaur, dead dinosaur poop, that's what it is, i don't know. we used to have so much of it, tive-rex poop, put it in

he's developing romance with iran with north korean kim jong un, china, basically it's a troubling developmentssians are gearing up with drones because iranian drones are legal, robust technologically. why? they were developed stolen, reverse engineering technology from america and israel. the russians will take advantage of it. not good in terms of drone technology themselves and it will fill a critical gap putin's military capability in ukraine. eric: to get a step further, if it's drones now, could be other arguments if russia runs out as the war continues? >> absolutely, i would not rule out out. this is why let me putin is getting ready to visit iran's leader tuesday, july 19 and iran together with putin's article. the russians already are having robust arms trade with iran and iranians want weaponry from russia and the russians are desperate for technology from iran, specifically the drones iranians have developed, illegal supply routes, foreign competitors. the drones are cheap and unfortunately we can't do anything about it. this is a very that strategic development for u.s. interest t

amy: north korean leader kim jong-un said thursday his nation is ready to respond with nuclear weaponsf provoked by the united states or its allies. kim's remarks came during a massive ceremony in pyongyang marking the anniversary of the 1953 armistice that ended hostilities in the korean war. >> our armed forces are thoroughly prepared to respond to any crisis's in our state nuclear war detrent is lly prepared to mobilize, accurately and promptly to its mission. amy: kim also blasted south korea's new president yoon suk-yeol, saying he was pushing the korean peninsula to the brink of war. his comments came as u.s. and south korean officials said the north was preparing to carry out its first nuclear weapons test since 2017. president biden says he has recovered from covid-19 and will resume his normal schedule. biden spoke from the rose garden wednesday, where he encouraged people to get vaccinated and boosted, and to wear masks in public, indoor settings. president biden: here's the bottom line. when my predecessor got covid, he had to get helicopter to to walter reed medical center.

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north korean leader kim jong-un says he is rated to use nuclear weapons in conflict with a nice or theouth korea. he was speaking on the six and i've anniversary at the korean war. president macron has welcomed the saudi ground -- crowned prince to the -- the government has been linked to the 2018 killing of journalist jamaal khashoggi. he is marking a year in office with dwindling support it with gridlock in congress, they broke up a demonstration of his supporters, they blame them for sabotaging the latvian presidents demands. a wave of violence against the police as a new president appears to take office. 25 officers have been killed this year, dozens more have been injured in attacks using firearms and explosives. colombians have mourned the dead individuals across the country, police say a powerful drug cartels behind most of the murders and may even be offering rewards for targeting securely forces. dw's johan in bogotÁ told me more about the cartel being blamed for the attacks. >> according to the government, the attacks have been carried out by the gulf clan, the largest crimin

the way some people he liked to visit, kim jong-un, people cowered in his presence and he liked that. he discovered that they wouldn't do it. through the course of the administration beginning as early and firing comy he tried to get rid of people and put loyalists in the place. watching the january 6 committee hearings we understand that better because we see what he was trying to do in the justice department and the department of homeland security. he was trying to put in people to say the law doesn't matter. i care what the boss says. >> you wrote "running the world" about the history of the national security council and how the apparatus came to be. tell me why we developed this notion of a more permanent apparatus and how should we balance that? >> we developed the idea of a permanent apparatus in the government so we didn't have to reinvent the government every four years. we wanted continuity, the benefit of the resources. the apparatus you talk about actually created 75 years ago and worked well ever since. they report to political leaders but their oath is to the constitution

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. >> all the time you've got to deal with bad guys, xi in china, putin in russia, kim jong-un in north can't choose the people you deal with. saudi arabia matters. the administration simply doesn't have the luxury of ignoring the guy who quite possibly will run this country for half a century. >> you could argue that doing something about iran, pushing back against a growing nuclear threat and a present missile threat from iran is almost enough, especially if it's coupled with a better saudi/israeli relationship. >> yes. for better or worse, the saudis play a very, very important role in the region and globally. the more the saudis can see the practical benefits of cooperating with the united states on these regional issues and other things, i think we're all going to be better off. i agree with richard. you cannot choose the foreign leaders you're going to have to deal with, especially if they're in leadership positions in countries that you have to have interactions with. that's why i think president biden felt it incumbent upon him to not forgive mohammed bin salman for what he did,

what kim jong un's bench pressing for the price of bubblegum cigars? how about vultures.oting a dangerous decline of vulture populations, which could lead to the spread of deadly diseases like the plague and rabies. which is good because i'm tired of everything being made in china. vultures are vital by eating corpses, which helps keep ecosystems and pathogens in check, not to mention a great way to hide evidence, right, kat? so in terms of the planet, vultures do way more good than prince harry. eric and fly around the globe, lecturing us on climate is the hub that, but a flock of vultures can pick up dead path are clean before he can even get his bib on. so is that a fair comparison, the prince and a vulture? why not? one feeds from the dead, the other feeds of the brain dead. to remind you that america truly is the land of opportunity for opportunist, especially for the people who game the system through book dramatics. you want to make a buck, just take up the old operation theater and let it rip, like after chipotle. anyone can do it, including adobe prints with hair

>>> north korean dictator kim jong-un says he's got nukes and he's ready to use them in military conflict. now his closest neighbor, his u.s. allies responded to the threat. >>> and a mcdonald plant burger? available, they say, for a limited time only. very limited. wire dumping the option. >>> the facts, the news, shepard smith back in a few moments. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit coventrydirect.com to find out if your policy qualifies. or call the number on your screen. coventry direct, redefining insurance. >>> the chinese president xi jinping delivering a stern warning to president biden as tensions escalate quickly over taiwan. in a call that lasted more than two hours, xi jinping warned preside

when he spoke to north korea's kim jong-un saying that he would pay with hell, fire, and fury if he launched a missile in our direction. you know what? nothing happened; right? he called him rocket man too. >> the press was very offended by it. >> there's that. >> we're almost a year out since the afghanistan fall, right, and the taliban taking over that country and that capital about the time it takes to deliver a pizza, i wonder if seeing that, if you're china and then seeing putin attempt to invade ukraine, if now china is so emboldened to say you know what? this country is weak in the u.s. they are not going to do anything. >> it is a very fair statement to say, and i will say not too long ago we had another guest on "fox & friends," an expert in intelligence of russian dissent. she has been following the ukraine situation. she told me she's very concerned about the depletion of our own weapons because we're sending so much to ukraine, so not a good time to get into yet another spat with another major power. >> does anybody think we actually know where all those weapons are going that we

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first beyond our borders tonight north korean leader kim jong un says he is ready to use nuclear weaponsn potential military conflicts with the u.s. and south korea. kim says those countries are pushing the korean peninsula against the brink of war. south korea is expressing what it calls deep regret over the threat. this is a live look at paris, one of the big stories there tonight, france's culture minister visits the restoration project at paris' notre dame cathedral. the trip comes more than three years after shocking fire tore through its roof, knocked down its fire and threaten to bring the rest of the medieval monument down as well. the second phase of the effort will be launched at the end ever the summer. the restoration is expected to be completed in 2024. just some of the other stories beyond our borders tonight, we'll be right back ♪ rock and roll ♪ we built this city ♪ we built this city on rock and roll ♪ built this city ♪ your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers q

conversation when you were working here at cnn in 2018, and donald trump was meeting with kim -- kim jong unea, and we talked about the importance of the optics and how those pictures speak without people going to read the columns on what was actually accomplished or not. so does this offer the saudis the degree of potentially ra habilitation, the image alone they hoped for. >> there was no way the president wasn't going to greet the crown prince who he was post hosting on behalf of the king, and part of the bilateral discussions friday night in saudi arabia. there was no way they weren't going to meet one another and have a greeting. it was a one-second fist bump, the president moved on and was much more focused on what the agenda was in the room. >> all right. let's move on and talk about russia and iran. president putin leaving russia i believe for the first time since the invasion. he's going to be in teheran. and we know that the white house says that russian officials were there looking at some potential weapon-capable drones there, your concerns about iran's assistance and this meetin

topic of north korea, you are north korea making a concerning statement that it is in the words of kim jong-une nuclear deterrent. what is the significance of that? >> well, it came out of nowhere as far as i know because he had been pretty quiet last few months. i don't know what the significance is. i've always thought their nuclear program was an insurance policy for the kim family. but if they deploy it, there is no question that north korea is -- talk about fire, north korea's existence would be a total risk. i can't imagine why they would want to do that. i think there is a much tougher new government in south korea, which is just not going to roll over to rhetoric like that. >> understood. what would deploying mean? would that mean putting nuclear warheads on missiles? >> i don't know. let's see. while we're at that, let's talk about iran for just one minute. because iran is basically at breakout. if it had the intention and we don't think it did -- does yet to weaponize, it can and that was, i thought, the best reason for biden's visit to the middle east, to israel and to the gulf coop

north korean leader kim jong-un was elected in 2014 with 100% of the vote.castro 99.4% of the vote in 2008. while syrian president bashar al-assad was elected with 97.6% of the vote in 2007. even if citizens of such nations are allowed to check a box on a ballot, they possess only a whole right. i am sorry. but if you seriously think the u.s. electoral process anything like bashar al-assad, if you think our elections in 2020 were anything like north korea 's, then you are not fit to sit on the state supreme court! you should be working, i don't know, infowars. the truth is, in the u.s., in our democracy, how waning it might be, the rise and the use of trump boxes in the 2020 election gave voters in key swing states and access to vote. 24/7 option for returning their ballots, for having their voices heard. in the midst of a global pandemic, lest we forget. look, making voting easier, matters. giving people more options, more days to vote, more ways to vote, that matters, it has value. democracy is supposed to be about having as many citizens as possible, vote

donald trump met with kim jong-un three times. president biden himself met with vladimir putin last spring about this time in europe to discuss issues that obviously didn't result in any progress in the relationship but people didn't criticize him sow much for trying to meet with putin because they realize have you have to try. in this case i probably would have advised against the trip because it does seem a little premature when you're not clear if you're going to get any benefit and you are essentially rehabilitating a guy who has blood on his hands . >> sure. and some of the -- >> u.s.-saudi relationship requires attention you can't just ignore it indefinitely but you do have to ask what are we getting from this visit that justifies essentially taking the saudis into a rehabilitated status and i'm not clear what that is yet. >> absolutely. we asked tilly mccroft, the energy said maybe in august they'll get the deliverable oil. the president's team kind of hinted that today. i suppose we can suspend judgments for a couple of we

a pariah, put himself in a box, and you always have to deal with bad guys, vladimir putin, and kim jong-unu can't choose the people you deal with, you got to play the cards you're dealt, and so it matters and the administration simply didn't have the luxury of ignoring a guy who will quite possibly run his country for half a century. >> let's talk about the deliverables or lack thereof from the president on this trip. no concrete agreement from saudi arabia to increase oil production but there is a sense down the road that they may. no concrete agreement to normalize ties with israel but baby steps there as well. give us a sense, what is your assessment, did the president debt to go what he needed -- get to do what he needed to do over there. >> i don't look at deliverables for a president's trip and it usually takes years to get to that stuff. this is an investment. a down payment for ma what matters and we had to get saudi arabia out of the penalty box because of what they've done and not because they've improved that much but because they're a factor. you could have an overrun and saudi

. >>> and in north korea overnight a new warning from kim jong-un threatening to use nuclear weapons. >>> let's get right to our reporters covering it all around the globe. >> reporter: i'm clare sebastian in london. the u.s. has revealed it's ready to trade convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout currently serving a 25-year sentence in the u.s. to secure the release of wnba star brittney griner and paul whelan, another u.s. citizen convicted of espionage in russia, that's according to people briefed on the matter. despite the offer being on the table since june a senior administration official subjected russia has yet to officially respond. the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken says he expects to speak to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in the coming days to discuss the potential swap. >>> i'm selina wang in beijing. president joe biden and chinese president xi jinping are having a phone call today as tensions are running high. beijing is furious over a potential visit by house speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan. china has urged the u.s. to cancel her trip, threatening powe

north korea's kim jong-un says he's ready to use nuclear weapons against the united states and southeconomy continuing its jekyll and hide ways. gas prices down for 46 straight days, but the gdp down for the second straight quarter. jerome powell hikes rates again and joe manchin stuns, striking a historic tax and climate deal that larry summers says will fight inflation. >>> the justice department's january 6th investigation heats up, talking with trump insiders and asking about trump's actions and conversations around january 6th. >>> emailsd showing the fake elector plotters say it was fake and merrick garland says no one is above the law. >>> a witness list expanded to trump's cabinet and plans to subpoena ginni thomas. >>> trump and his former number two square off in a party quagmire. >> as president biden emerges from covid isolation, 75% of his party say they want someone else in 2024. justice samuel alito mocks critics of his roe decision, while cnn reports chief justice john roberts tried to save roe until the end. >> the pope goes to canada, bubba watson joins the liv tour

is this a real threat or do you think kim jong-un is crazy enough to do it?ful rhetoric, turning seoul into a sea of fire, one of their favorite metaphors but they have the means to do so and speculation, testing of nuclear weapons hasn't happened yet, a reminder this is a problem that persists, something all the foreign policy experts said donald trump handled poorly when during the trump administration after that initial escalation followed by us and south korean pushback, long period of no provocations out of north korea. stuart: if donald trump was still the president do you think they would be making these threats? >> no i don't. i think they -- not used to the idea of coming in from the cold and cooperating with the us but the fact that kim jong-un was willing to meet with trump was a different situation. as you pointed out these adversaries, only a year ago they look at president biden begging for more oil from saudi arabia coming home empty-handed and other acts of weakness, biden having the first policy that neglects east asia, our military presence

you always be part of this extended political family, but i gotta worry about kim jong-un and vladimir putin. i can't worry about george conway tweets in part because he wasn't worried about george conley suites. he was being the president. he mentioned george to me probably three times. specifically and frankly when you quote the president about george that was also very sparing as opposed to georgia send over 100,000 tweets and counting 100,000. i think when president trump left the white house, it was about 20 or 30,000 is certainly wasn't 100,000 and he's still at it and this is a free country and george can tweet if he wants but there's a cost to spending your time a certain way and you know, i choose not to spend my time that way i don't want to i don't want to regret living so much in my life online at now. let alone with these four kids alone later, but but look it's a hell of a way to try to get your wife. let's always love george but madonna, so can you all men it's a hell of a way to try to get your wife to leave her job to try to force her out of her job. you think he did i

let's not forget here that we see kim jong-un from the outside.e has a story to tell to his people. he needs to make sure he needs to feel popular in the country, and he needs to justify why he is the leader of that country. how does he do that? by accusing other people, accusing south korea of giving them the virus, and also by telling them they are the most powerful country in the world. haidi: the pandemic has made it very difficult for diplomacy and humanitarian aid. what do you think with insights that you have would be the most effective way foreign governments can improve the situation? >> the fact is we don't have much information about what really goes on in north korea. and the fact they have refused help, in terms of getting vaccines. they have refused south korean help, yuan help, all sort of help. i think instead of speculating on what is going on there, it is no secret that the country was locked down for three years. it is no secret of country has had covid. and they have come up with this story about how they came up with their own

clearly kim jong-un is threatening his seventh nuclear test and the japanese just recently radicallythe taiwanese of course are being rather provocative themselves, understand, they're under the gun. of course, we've had some missteps, some gaffes by the president, mr. biden, with regard to taiwan and that has, of course, stirred the pot and beijing for president xi. so we need to recognize, yes, whether it's what happened in leading to world war ii or world war i or much further back in history, we've seen a series of steps here. let there be no doubt that president xi is in charge of china. he had as a very clear mandate. he's a marxist leninist in spite of what some of our economic advisors would like to think, everything is rainbows over there, it's not. they're very hogmonic. and listen to south com who said the other day that she sees strategic choke points around the world controlled my china that would control maritime operations. they're sucking up major resources around the world and doing precisely what we're trying to do and control the microchip industry. so, these thing

i remember when president trump said to kim jong-un, said we have a red button, and trump said we have a red button bigger than yours. and you cannot dictate to us. >> china's red button is getting bigger every day. >> that it is. >> john: have a good weekend. so sandra, this is clearly something that is of greater and greater concern by the hour. we'll be talking more about this coming up on "america reports." senator john thune will be joining us and congressman michael mccall. >> sandra: and michael was part of a small group of lawmakers the speaker invited to join her supposedly on this trip to taiwan but declined, he says for other obligations. but first the fiery readout of the phone call from xi, one version from china, and then the readout from the white house that looked much different and then the statement from russia that it's standing in solidarity with china on this issue, john. it's a developing story to your point hour by hour. see where this goes next and we'll be speaking to those lawmakers coming up. president biden signing a disaster declaration for the state of ken

today shows an example of how to pass through an independent policy, this, oddly enough, is comrade kim jong-unvery simply, because you imposed sanctions against us, you supported the sanctions against us . what grounds do you have to protest against our decision of the absolutely pragmatist policy of the europeans, we must learn from north korea to protect exclusively our own interests, because there is no other way today. well, as for what can be done on the street, if there was a nuclear explosion and somehow cleared up, you know in this situation only morality can be cleared, and then, if you have time and this is very not a fact, interesting news. e on the topic of what processes are currently running in the european union, the european commission is dealing with hungary about raising the price of gasoline not for hungarians for foreigners. it is clear that hungary is now a little cheaper than anywhere else, and the hungarians are also in this sense. treat with care to their achievements. i mean, a contract with the russian federation, from the curious about the war, which could last for y