the north korean revolution and every north korean has a purpose in that struggle. a lot of them, especially the north korean defectors, say terrible things about kim jong-un. there are less likely to say those things about kim jong-il and you'll never hear them say anything about kim il-sung. even defectors see kim il-sung as a visionary leader and a great nationalist for the korean people. >> what should the everyday american know about the current south korean government? >> i think it is important to understand that south koreans have a sense of grievance against united states, not just because of the division, it is well-known that we divided korea and established a separate state. we helped establish a separate state. then we left korea in 1949 against the wishes of the south korean government at that time who begged us to stay, who said if you leave the north koreans will invade. they asked for concrete guarantees from the united states that in the event of a northern invasion we would come back. those guarantees were never given. this is part of the reason t

the koreans like to claim they have 7000 years of history on the korean peninsula as a korean nation. that is not true, but they have a very long history as one united people. they have become very divergent but that has been a recent development in the last 50 years. they look at the very long past they have had together as proof that in the future we can reunified. how exactly would that happen? that remains to be seen. it is not clear how that would happen. the official plan is for a loose confederation between the north while they try to work out the sticky details of how you would reunify the state. practically, it is impossible as long as the kim regime is in power in the north, but that does not stop koreans from wishing that it would happen. >> to protect the partition, the united states has had troops there since the end of the conflict. from a troops are on the ground and how many are from the south? >> i believe there are 28 thousand troops on the korean peninsula right now spread and bases throughout korea. they are under a base rate concentration program right now. they w

>> the koreans like to claim they have 7000 years of history on the korean peninsula. that is simply not true, but it's true that they have a very long street as one united people. divergent, bute that has been a recent development. they look at the long path they've had together as proof that in the future we can reunify. how exactly would that happen? that very much remains to be seen. it's not clear how that would happen. the official plan is for a confederation, a loose confederation between the north and the south. while they try to work out the very sticky details of how you unify the state. it is practically impossible as long as the kim regime is in power in the north. therotect the partition, united states has had troops there since the end of the conflict. how many troops do we have on the ground today? how many are from the south? >> there's about 28,000 troops on the korean peninsula right now. they are under a concentration program right now. the next few years, they will be re-concentrated into one large base south of seoul. they were a tripwire force. an

so the south korean government can regain the trust of the south korean people.lly from last year. i visited incheon national —— international airport at the end of last year. shortly after i became the 19th president. and i was informed that they have increased more full—time workers. who were before part—time workers. this is an example about how we are moving forward. we have indeed opened a new era, more optimistic, more positive future. it has been opened. we are open to dialogue. a more mature, open to dialogue. a more mature, open society that is what south korea is going to be. my fellow people, you have lit the light of democracy into south korea. we have got to the till —— facilitate such as sprint into a more practical way. south korean government has taken responsibility and our pupils ownership has changed and fold so much from 30 years ago. now we are going to follow south korean pupils will and that is what we are going to focus on. we are going to increase and enhance the human rights of every single south korean. we also announce the that we have

the koreans like to claim they have 7000 years of history on the korean peninsula as a korean nation. that is simply not true, but they have a very, very long history as one united people. they have become very divergent but that has been a recent development in the last 50 years. they look at the very long past they have had together as proof that in the future we can reunified. we can reunify the race. how exactly would that happen? that very much remains to be seen. it is not clear how that would happen. the official plan is for a loose confederation between the north and the south while they try to work up a very sticky details of how you would reunify the state. practically, it is probably impossible as long as the kim regime is in power in the north, but that does not stop koreans from wishing that it would happen. >> to protect the partition, the united states has had troops there since the end of the conflict. how many troops are on the ground and how many are from the south? >> i believe there are 28,000 troops on the korean peninsula right now spread on bases throughout kore

the north korean economy grew by almost 4% in 2016 according to south korean central bank estimates.ns people have more ways to enjoy their rare time off, like this group of factory workers having a picnic and singing karaoke. they're happy to share their meal with us and seem even happier to let loose. we expect north koreans to work hard. this, we don't expect. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. going somewhere? whoooo. here's some advice. tripadvisor now searches more... ...than 200 booking sites - to find the hotel you want and save you up to 30%. trust this bird's words. tripadvisor. >>> cnn has been reporting on north korea for more than 25 years. this aircraft has been flying for 50. it's a part of soviet planes operated by north korea's only airline, still flying despite sanctions with regular international flights to russia and china. our flight takes us to a place cnn has never been allowed before. as a

north koreans. aware of the firm resolve of that only the united states the believe that ryan says you believe what he says. yes. i think that it was a firm stance of the us president did form the circumstances for where we are today and hopefully this will lead to a better solution than more mr penn japan is more closely monitoring the situation there are two options here a breakthrough that would lead to a genuine dialogue many people are skeptical about it all more tension chances are he said that he's going to give a deadline for twenty twenty if nothing happens he will revise the constitution and then to pave the way for japan to have his own armed forces is this a likely scenario well i think one of the most suitable players in all of the hole in. the heart of our and that's that he's going to keep the an advocate of pressure on our sanctions are doing everything. in terms of putting more and more pressure on the one who can give up the nuclear weapons which is when you don't know when or. wha

to south koreans. when he refers to the sea between korea and japan as the sea of japan instead of the east boil.t makes korean blood there is a chance that a preemptive strike against north korea without firm south korean support could lead to a backlash against the american president that could have unforeseen there is a chance thatconsequenr position in east asia. host: this is the history and lesson for the age. we don't have a rockstar -- in southck solid ally korea. mr. fields: we do at the moment, but that could change drastically with a rash american decision. we could get away with it, but nobody knows. there is a wholesome scent of possibilities. we tend to think if we strike first, x number of koreans will die. it will make much more sense from the north korean perspective if we were to attack them not to level seoul, but to show that they had rolled the dice with tens of mainly -- the dice with tens of millions of south korean lives. they will say, do you really need the americans? they are

>> well, i'm sure the inter-korean dialogue we are having right now with the north koreans will contribute to creating an environment conducive to further progress in the inter-korean relationship. but at the same time we believe we should not be too hasty in reaching any kind of a conclusion regarding where we can go at the end of the day. >> so you also heard ash carter said that he supports the current administration's version of and plans for coercive diplomacy. does that meld with the south korean position? >> well, again, as ash carter has pointed out, i believe the defense and deterrents are the marria major pillar in playing the game vis-a-vis north korea right now. but the other game plan is enment and dialogue which we will be pursuing from now on. >> so we asked also, what game is north korea playing? let's go back to the extraordinary moment on new year day when the north korean leader kim jong-un gave this speech and offered that new -- sorry, that olive branch to south korea, while also saying that he had a nuclear button on his table and then of course he had president trump

for south korean men. of. shows like love unification the young north korean women are paired with south korean men who proceed to instruct them on the ways of the modern developed country in which they now live in the message and there is less than subtle conforms to the south korea nationalistic narrative that north korea is the weaker female nation. that needs protecting by the strong the must go inside the culvert. the concern is that such a calicut showed him a chore and objectified image of these women is then extended to all north korean defectors and to the north korean population in general. so south koreans may end up looking down on north koreans or thinking we can treat them careless when. we're done and pain. there's another issue that doesn't help with the perception of north koreans on occasion some defectors testimonies have been sketchy and inconsistent parky on me is a defector who became a celebrity after a run on now on my way to meet you has stories attracted a lot of attention one of

are produced for a south korean audience, not north koreans. they just watch it for their amusement and entertainment. but, those contents so far do not actually relate to the north korean citizens' way of thinking. those cultural contents cannot make them critically analyze the life of north korea. that is why we should make tailor-made content, which can educate north korean population. i think it is time we should invest to make that kind of very simple content which can compel -- can tell the basic concepts of freedom, human rights, and democracy. rep. engel: thank you very much. to mr. chrise go smith of new jersey. rep. smith: thank you for your courage and for being here. for providing your insights and observations. i remember during the cold war, it used to be said that the iron curtain is not soundproof. your idea of ratcheting up the freedom broadcasting could not come at a more timely point in this terrible, escalating conflict. thank you for that, that has to be followed up on. let me ask you two things. first, you have made a stun

in fact, more than 206,000 koreans or people of korean descent now live in canada. in fact i'm proud that many of these korean canadians live in the riding that i have the honor of representing. these ties only increase our firm desire to avoid a devastating conflict on the peninsula. we welcome last week's agreement between north and south korea to hold military to military discussions and for north korea to participate in winter olympics next month. these are encouraging signals. no true progress can be made in addressing instability in the korean peninsula until north korea commits to changing course and verifiably and ir rreversib abandoning all of its weapons of mass destruction. we understand that in these extraordinary times it's vital that we come together. as neighbor, friends, partners and allies to con front threats of aggression. nowhere in the world do we see the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction on the scale of north korea's program. we cannot stand by and let this threat persist. at stake are the safety and security of all the people of the

want to get the north koreans to come if the north koreans and the delegation will be much more unlikely to launch ballistic missiles or you know stage war games journey in the olympics which is a big fear that you know it my might escalate tensions so they have that they have agreed a number of things for example they've agreed that the north koreans will said the delegation of high profile that a geisha founds musicians officials sporting officials as well as performance to perform at the opening ceremony as entertainment they've also agreed. on potentially look potential further talks on reuniting siblings families that were split by the one nine hundred fifty s. war that divided north korea and south korea the north koreans also took a job but trump saying that his claims that these talks say he's a success it's a nonsense and a completely baseless boast also and this is this is a big guy i think is the biggest thing to come out so far the south koreans have proposed direct talks between north korea and south korean military officials and in this climate of fear escalation of continu

the end of the korean war.you want to understand what's actually going on in pyongyang, if you want to know why make the decisions they make, one of the things you have to understand are these rare moments when the palace opens its doors inadvertently and lets omu in. and one of those mts, perhaps its most spectacular moment, was the assassination of kim jong-nam. >> narrator: north korea has been ruled for seven decades byi the kily dynasty. they have created a fearsome police state accused of systematic human rights abuses. kim jong-nam was the oldest son- of kimil, who ruled northfo kore17 years. >> narrator: his mother was kim jong-il's mistss, a famous north korean actress. >> his mother was number one film star in my generation. and his mother was a married woman with a daughter. every north korean people knew his mother's name, sung hae-rim, very popular lady. so kim jong-nam was not the sony fficial marriage. to >> nar the boy's existence was kept a secret in north korea. but he was brought up in luxury

south korean president says he's willing to meet north korean leader kim jong un if the success of such a summit would be guaranteed when moon pledged to push for more talks with the north to resolve differences between the two nations over pyongyang's nuclear program this follows talks between officials from the. two nations on tuesday. when people's lives need to be stable and therefore relations cannot continue to worsen between the koreas i do not seek immediate reunification firstly we need to tackle key issues between the two koreas this is my top priority i want to emphasize the denuclearization of north korea will be the first step to peace i will try to remove the distrust between north and south korea and provide a safe a daily life for everyone so let's get more on the. spot and kathy novak she is live for us in seoul so progress on the into korean talks cathy but are they any such of a solving the bigger issue to talking about the bigger issue of the north's nuclear program. well monday and has been making this speech and taking questions on the occasion of the new year and

some critics have questioned the decision to allow south korean athletes to train at a north korean ski resort which is known as the leader kim jong un's pet project they worry that south korea is helping promote tourism there and while there has been a thaw in north and south korean relations these talks have been limited to discuss india lympics and not the bigger issue of north korea's nuclear weapons program so the question remains what happens after the olympics when the u.s. and south korea are due to resume joint military drills which always anger the north pole throughout twenty seventeen kim jong un matched aggressive woods with twenty three missiles in sixteen tests and he told to donald trump with his talk of having a nuclear button on his desk to which trump in true trump style just had to respond that his was bigger but kim's rhetoric toward south korea was markedly different even offering a hand of friendship. we should actively create an atmosphere and forward the national reconciliation and reunification improving ties between the north and the south is an urgent issues

if you look closely you can see that south korean brand names have been covered by north korean banas like i say you just have to pay attention to the details i'm wondering when north korea suddenly got all the money for these gigantic construction projects almost eighty percent of pyongyang was destroyed in the korean war over the course of three years the united states dropped around thirty tons of napalm bombs on various towns and cities nevertheless north korea was economically stronger than south korea until the seventy's thanks to the support of the soviet union after that north korea slid further and further into isolation. and let it end here you will meet. with. all. it's not possible every day to film a live concert for workers on the streets of pyongyang in recent years i frequently try to capture such images but to no avail and this footage dates back to twenty said team and i was allowed to film this every day seen in north korea one for. a score for me i'm allowed to take a taxi for the first time for that to happen my chaperone even had to call the foreign ministry beca

we are told that both the north korean leader and the south korean president will have a live feed at will be able to monitor their progress. top of the agenda as you heard in my report will be the pyeongchang olympics and whether pyongyang will send a delegation to those. we are expecting that part of the talks to go well, as both leaders have said that they want that to happen. then they are expected to move onto other inter— korean relations, things like divided families, whether meetings can take place, but even if this does lead to a period of peace and stability we don't know it yet know what else will come out of it because any lasting agreement here on the korean peninsular will have to focus on denuclearisation and kim jong—un has been very clear that although he is open to dialogue with the southee is determined to continue with his nuclear and missile programmes. we will be monitoring how those talks go for you. rico. thank you very much. we'll return to this later here in newsday but first let's take a look at some of the day's other news. the trump administration says it

international good to see you today a korean war allies gathering to talk about the korean crisis in effect the group of people meeting together for the first time in nearly seven decades what kind of signal does that send out. well that's been a lot of rhetoric and posture on all sides. and this program the two parties key to the korean crisis apart from north korea china and russia are excluded from this meeting of twenty western. nations in canada. now obviously for its part of america's got so far strong. he doesn't want to exclude the. vast bulk of the which is supported by russia and china as a way to solve problems but as far as the traumas can sign he does want to give up that option and hence the exclusion of both russia and china from these talks now as far as north korea's going so. for the first time they're talking to the south koreans but what does kim jong un want what he wants out with lee is that insurance policy the insurance policy is his nuclear weapons and his missile delivery programs now he has to make substantial progress on these two fronts so he feels a litt

much together in the opening ceremony under the korean. female ice hockey team. now that seems quite meaningful if you look at what's happening but according to donald trump it is the opposite now in the interview donald trump praised china but said that they could be doing more to help the effort to isolate the country economically he also was very critical of russia and said that russia wasn't helping at all and his interview was pretty clear in saying that he thought the correct approach and the efforts by the united states to threaten to put pressure on north korea with sanctions he thought that was the best way forward to bring peace to the korean peninsula and anything so corresponding kaleb mopin with the latest. and i'm joined now on the line by brian baca he's c. national director of the answer coalition good to have you on brian. it's it's not the best sign we've had some good news today about you know improvements in relations with regards to korean i was at the u.s. president saying that a peaceful solution might not be possible is he right. yes of co

well i think it's partly because kim jong un the north korean leader wants money he wants the south koreans of you know he's willing to say ok i'll send my two figure skaters to the south korean olympics but what he wants south korea to do is first of all to drop its sanctions to resume into korean projects like the case on industrial complex which shoveled almost one hundred million dollars into the hands of the regime every year and of course he wants more aid from south korea so this is going to be an issue of money because he does need relief from international actions against him and you know president trump's got to work very closely with his south korean counterpart moon jay in because mungy in actually wants to put money into the hands of kim jong il and and so we've got to stop them we thought affective job of stopping president moon up to now but this is something that you can't declare final victory and trump has a lot of work to do to convince the south koreans not to put money into the hands of a very dangerous tyrant olympic games coming to south korea might that create some g

will the winter olympics mark the turning point in inter—korean relations that the south korean presidentonsistently said they could be? the north and south korean governments are meeting for the first time in two years. they will discuss the possibility of the north sending these athletes with a delegation to the pyeongchang games. the north korean leader used his new year address to say he was open to dialogue with the south. but he also said north korea was a nuclear state that would now mass—produce nuclear missiles, something entirely unacceptable to south korea and its ally, the united states. the talks are taking place here, the truce village of panmunjom, which straddles the border in the demilitarised zone that divides the two koreas. some say they are an important step in the right direction, and are confident it will lead to at least a couple of months of peace and stability. i personally, and also korean people, really hope that this successful pyeongchang olympic games will make breakthrough, this stalemate of korean situations, so i really hope that pyeongchang olympics will

and south korean governments. at least two people have been killed after protests across a band of a rising bread prices the government's warned demonstrators that acts of destruction would be met with force police have been arresting opposition leaders confiscating newspapers to control the situation some of the reports. there is anger in the sudanese capital her people in small numbers have been protesting against a sudden increase in prices of basic commodities it's not limited to southern. almost half of the citizens that have protesting now but the voters. because it's the. cd in a very hard and violent way. read is the most important staple for more sudanese and the prices have gone up after the government began a series of reforms to improve the economy the government stop importing greek since last month hoping that it would create competition between private companies and bring down prices but bakeries say they have raised prices due to a shortage of flour god ordered will have low in line if they don't p

when he was here, kim jong-nam would often eat at this korean restaurant. >> (speaking korean): >> (speaking): narrator: though he'd been living abroad, kim jong-nam hadn't cut ties to north korea. analysts suspect he was running an international business network, generating funds for the family. >> (speaking korean): >> kim jong-nam was involved in a whole host of illicit businesses thanorth korea conducted. he could have been involved in the nucleamissile arms trade,en he could have nvolved in currency counterfeiting, he could've been involved with some drug smuggling. so it was unclear exactly what he did for a living, but we know that he was involved in this whole host of things that... gorticularly that involved money and currency tha back to north korea. >> narrator: by 2007, kim jong-nam was a wealthy wheeler-dealer, believed to be playing a key role in his father's regime. nearly a week after th killing, the malaysian police announced a major breakthrough. >> as investigation progresses, four suspects has been identified, which could assist us very much on the investigation. and i ca

he says it's one of the north korean spies, still tailing kim. >> the north koreans made sure that theym every second. >> reporter: speaking with police, kim gestures to his face. >> and reports of this moment say that he wasn't really making much sense anymore. he was having trouble sort of holding a coherent conversation. >> reporter: they reportedly later say they notice a strange smell. you can see them take a step back. they escort kim to the airport medical clinic. by this time, the poison is already taking effect, causing every muscle to spasm, which explains that suddenly stiff walk. >> and already his legs are starting to stiffen. he's got a little duck waddle going. this isn't sort of that healthy man we saw just moments ago. >> reporter: again, clark points out a man with a roller bag and a strange interest in kim. >> you can see him just sort of strolling very, very casually. he's going to take a quick glance, and then he's going to keep going. >> reporter: he says it's another agent making sure the poison is doing its work, which it is. minutes later, kim dies in an ambulan

south korean and north korean government negotiators are meeting for the first talks between their countriesmore than two years. they are expected to discuss whether the north will send a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea next month. a series of north korean nuclear and missile tests, and the insults traded between pyongyang and washington, have raised tensions on the peninsula to the highest in decades. earlier i spoke to the bbc‘s sophie long who is in the south korean capital seoul just before they sat down to begin those talks, the first time there has been government—level talks between the north korean and south korean governments in more than two years, there was a lot of national press there. a huge amount of interest in this, of course, here, and both parties spoke to media present. ri son—gwon, the north korean leader of the delegation, said that he was here with the hope that we could give a new year's gift to our people, and he said he hopes for precious results from these talks. he actually suggested that they could allow the media to stay in the room in peace hou

and south korean navy to try to stop freight at north korean ports. it does have potential ability to further heighten the effect of sanctions. i think there's no doubt about that if we were to do this. but it is also an act of war under international law. the north koreans already say the sanctions are an act of war. but this, everybody would agree in some sense, is an act of war. it is a tool that countries do not employ often. north korea might shoot back at our navy or at other assets, an immediate tactical sense. above and beyond, the main concern i have about this option, it doesn't prevent them doing trade across the border with china, the land preventand it doesn't them flying in high-technology equipment if they still need them for their missile programs. it runs a risk of escalation. the last option i will mention is direct assassination of kim jong-un. i probably wouldn't feel like i was being very polite bringing up that kind of an option here if it weren't already in the public discussion. we know from reports last fall, there are element

and south korean navy to try to stop at north korean ports. it does have potential ability to further heighten the effect of sanctions. it is also an act of war under international law. the north koreans already say the sanctions are an act of war. but everybody would agree in some sense, it is an act of war. it is a tool that countries do not employ often. north korea might shoot back at our navy or other assets, but above and beyond to that is it does not prevent them from doing trade across the border with china and it does not prevent them from flying in high-technology equipment but they still need for their nuclear missile program. it runs a risk of escalation. the last option i will mention is direct assassination of kim jong-un. i would not feel like i would be very polite bringing up that kind of option if it were not already in the public discussion. we know from reports last fall, there are elements of existing combined forces that would go after military control of which kim jong-un is the top rung. therefore, one would ask, why do

so 38.6% of koreans say yes, that military action will occur. 43.1% of koreans say no. 18.3% are not sure. for 39% to say yes is not that different from gallup. you will remember that 37% said that there was a possibility that north korea would start a war. gallup asked whether respondents agreed that the u.s. should take military action if north korea continues to test its nuclear weapons technology. this is only a continuation of testing, it is not used in some way. 33% of the public agreed that the u.s. should take military action. 59% disagreed, 7% did not know. for 33% to agree is higher than i expected, but that number is suspiciously close to the working estimate of the strength of conservative voters in south korea. our working model of south korean politics is a 33% are conservative, 33% are progressive, and 33% are swing voters and move in the middle. so on this question, conservatives stand out. now, gallup asks whether south korea should have its own nuclear weapons. 60% agreed. 35% disagreed. this seems high but my recollection is that previous polls have gotten similar

he couldn't express anything in korean. he had to hide that.two sisters at the centre of this book who live by the sea and dive and do all the things that you do to keep yourself going, to find things that can be sold and create a living, they're, in a sense, holding on to a culture which they feel, i suppose inside themselves, is permanently under threat? well, it actually was. they were really the only divers on the island. and the japanese actually prized them. so they would take a lot of them and transport them to japan to dive over there as well. so to stay in the little small area that they were, they were very lucky and to be able to do it for themselves. well, lucky but we have to say that what happened to them in this story cannot be described as very lucky. they undergo appalling deprivation, they are taken to what is effectively a brothel forjapanese soldiers, we see what happens to one of them there, it is a very searing experience, of course, for effectively a young girl. but your whole theme is that the relationship between these

and the south koreans that the military exercises would be delayed, did the north koreans then accepthe offer to have these talks? right? so are we in a de facto first half of freeze for freeze where the military exercises have stopped, the north koreans are willing to talk? could this lead to something like what rex tillerson said the u.s. is not going to entertain? >> the u.s. is never going to entertain a freeze for a freeze, and the reason is that if you actually stop military exercises like the foul eagle exercises that have maybe been postponed, the ability of the alliance to defend south korea would degrade very fast. and so the united states is not going to do that. also, that is a moral equivalent. the military exercises are illegal. one thing about this foul eagle exercise, the dates were never announced until just three or four days ago when mattis said they would start after the paralympics. it's not entirely clear they were postponed but clearly what the united states is doing is trying to make the conditions for talks on tuesday good. so those exercises won't start until

the korean market has decided to exclude korean pricing data.ecting those stocks. shares have eased declines after declining 8/10 of a percent. hold, and5 buys, one one sell-call. let's talk about bitcoin and the latest slide, bringing other cryptocurrency rivals down over concerns regulators will tighten their grip in places like china and south korea. joining us is our bloomberg markets reporter. what should we say to regulations? what is the state of regulations right now? spectrum between places we know have clamped down on cryptocurrency, such as china, and south korea to a certain extent. flurry of regulatory news recently. itsouth korea, we have heard is inspecting banks that provide virtual accounts related to cryptocurrency, to clamped down on money laundering risks. we heard that china is considering limiting power which to bitcoin miners, is a huge deal. chinese miners still dominate the bitcoin mining space. fever?could this end the justina: we have seen china banning bitcoin trading, in exchange. the cryptocurrency world has really

what i do think is the south koreans would be grateful to the north koreans if the north koreans promisedot to make trouble for the olympics, they got through that period, it would buy the north koreans another three to six months to work on their nuclear capacity and every month that goes by, they seem to get better at it or every, you know, year that goes by, certainly. and so i think that is a legitimate concern of this administration. how are they going to stop this? it is possible, anderson, if the north koreans work out some sort of a way of living together with the south koreans, we could be faced with a situation where the south koreans say we can live with a north korean bomb, we don't like it, we hate it, but we think we can deter them from using it and by the way, we're on a better path. >> david gergen, gordon chang, appreciate it. gordon chang is author of "nuclear showdown: north korea takes on the world." >>> just ahead, another president tweet causes concern. coming up next, new reporting that undermines two key white house claims about the russia investigation and a forme