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Region . Reporter yeah, its a big shift from President Trump who has in the past been celebrating china and congratulating and thanking it for helping tighten the economic noose around north korea as far as the Trump Administrations socalled maximum Pressure Campaign which is designed to punish it for the Previous Nuclear weapons tests and Ballistic Missile launches. The South Koreans dont really want to talk about this allegation coming from President Trump. Their message has been to focus the white house on going ahead with this planned singapore summit. President moon jaein of south korea urging President Trump to stay the course, dont try to get worried about recent criticism thats come from pyongyang against washington and against seoul, as well. Thats all the more striking when you consider that north korea has been quite critical of south korea over the course of the last week even though the two leaders held a summit at the end of last month. And only at the last minute did north korea invite south korean journalists to plan for the ceremony in north korea for the dismantling of its main Nuclear Testing site. That is expected to happen this week. Cnns been invited, but a u. S. Defense official tells cnn that the ceremony is nothing more than a p. R. Stunt, that the Nuclear Testing site was mostly destroyed by six previous north Korean Nuclear tests including the most recent and powerful one in september of last year. David and christine . Yeah. Reports that were it was ready to collapse. The fact that there were no nuclear inspectors there, with all due respect to will ripley and company, tells you a lot. Thank you. And no experts allowed to go with the journalists. Its journalists. Theyll be doing their best reporting there, no question. Live now to washington and digital director zachary wolf. Lets talk here about the north korea summit, june 12th, singapore. This has been rolling out with reality show flair, do you think this is going to happen . Reporter it sounds a lot less likely. If you kind of compare trumps rhetoric about it last week when he was getting out of the iran deal and say, well, weve got this north korea thing coming up and, you know, making a big deal out of theater of all this was going to happen and now, eh, no it might happen it might not, no big deal. Which kind of seems like a big switch to me. And the other thing is that trump is sort of coaxing kim to the table whereas before it felt like there was a head of steam on this thing. It certainly doesnt feel that way now. Yeah, and youd still like to hear from mattis and the intel officials on the president saying we will protect him. We will guarantee kim jonguns safety, youre talking about the worlds worst human rights abuser, a murderer. And we, the United States, will protect his safety. Hopefully we will hear from the Intel Community or the defense officials. Lets turn to an article you wrote on cnn. Com. Donald trump doesnt seem to want you to trust the government he leads. Of course, this is based on his allegation that there was a spy planted in his campaign. Heres what he said yesterday in the oval if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace to this country. That would be one of the biggest insults that anyones ever seen, and it would be very illegal aside from everything else. If they had spies in my campaign, during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. Does this fall in line with the three million illegal votes . Is there any evidence of it, and where do we go from here politically . You know, the three million illegal votes, the allegations of wiretapping by president obama, it with the exception of the three million illegal votes where theres no evidence, with a lot of these conspiracy theories, he will take a kernel of something and kind of twist it into this Conspiracy Theory where the deep State Government is is kind of out to get him. Its clear he doesnt trust the apparatus of government thats around him. And this is just the latest example of it. And you know, add that to him sort of kind of flailing around, trying to protect himself and undercut the Mueller Investigation and, you know, it moves on from there. Theres this really fascinating moment with lesley stahl that i think feeds into this because you say he doesnt trust the institutions around him i mean, maybe he does trust the institutions around him, but he doesnt their findings may not be favorable to him, right . He tries to undermine them. And just as he does us in particular as he does with the press. Listen to this moment. He said, you know why i do it . I do it to discredit you all demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you. Amazing, right . That was on monday night, the deadline club. Shes talking about what donald trump told her about why he calls everyone fake news and says things arent true when they are. It sounds a lot like what hes trying to do with the special counsel investigation, too, calling it a witch hunt, constantly, you know, for months ahead of the sort of undercutting its credibility beforehand. And you know, sort of attacking the idea of their indisputable facts. There are no indisputable facts in Donald Trumps mind. You have to repeat over and over that something is wrong or that something may have happened, and then people start to believe it. Its not just a theory. There seems to be a deep root distrust. When you hear the president talk in the oval office and walking to reporters, he talks about news reports hes seen, fox and friends and hannity and fake news. He naeever talks about his inte community or defense officials. This seems to be a deep rooted mistrust. Yesterday he met with corey lewandowski, not with his cabinet or advisers moving forward. What does it tell you . Yeah. Tells me that he would rather talk to the people around him who he trusts, you know, and you saw it with the north korea when you referenced yourself you hope that we hear from the apparatus, the Intelligence Community, what do they think about protecting kim jongun, things like that. He is sort of insular and surrounded by people that he wants to talk to, and hes not going to go out, you know, curious mind and ask what the government thinks, he fundamentally doesnt believe them. Zach wolf, nice to talk to you. Come back in about a half hour. Thanks. Another wednesday on capitol hill. Nothing unusual to see here. Homeland security secretary kirs the Intelligence Communitys assessment that russia interfered in the 2016 election to help donald trump. As a reminder, intel officials said, quote, we further assess putin and the russian government developed a clear preference for president elect trump. We have high confidence in these judgments. Heres what nielsen told reporters after a closed door briefing with house members. Do you have any reason to doubt the january, 2017, Intelligence Community assessment that said it was Vladimir Putin who tried to meddle in this election to help President Trump win . I do not believe that ive seen that conclusion. What the january, 2017, assessment that the specific intent was to help President Trump win, im not aware of that. That puts nielsen directly at odds with the Intel Communitys findings that we read to you. Later she claimed russia tried to manipulate Public Confidence on both sides via a statement. A historymaking night in georgia. Democrat Stacey Abrams winning her partys nomination for governor in tuesdays primary. Shes the first black woman in the country to win a major partys gubernatorial nomination, winning the state house will be an uphill battle, though. No democrat has been elected governor in georgia since 1998. Abrams doesnt know who shell face in november. Her republican opponent will be decided in a runoff between Lieutenant Governor casey cagle and secretary of state brian kemp on july 24th. No matter who it is, though, abrams says she is ready. This is our moment, our chance to lift up georgia. And if we fight, if we push, if we work, we will win. [ cheers ] abrams not the only woman to win in the south. In kentucky, former marine pilot amy mcgrath defeated one of the bestknown figures in kentucky politics, lexington mayor jim gray, in the sixth district democratic primary. Shell face republican congressman andy barr in the general election. Nine minutes past the hour. This year marks a decade since the financial crisis. Yesterday Congress Vote to roll back rules adopted in its wake. The house vote in favor of a Bipartisan Senate bill to ease rules on Community Banks like bb t and suntrust. Republicans and moderate democrats say doddfrank hurts these banks. Strict regulations stifle lending they say. It raises the threshold for federal oversight from 50 billion to 250 billion, leaving only the biggest banks jpmorgan chase, wells fargo, bank, they will face the toughest scrutiny. Theyll have annual stress tests, will have to provide plans on how to safely dismantle if they fail. Senator crapo says this will help Community Banks spur Economic Growth and create jobs on main street. Progressives, they warn any rollback would trigger another financial crisis. The bill is not just bank oversight. This loosens regularulations for lend regulations for lenders and makes credit freezes free for all americans like those whose data was exposed in the Equifax Breach last year. The bill heads to the president s desk. Hes expected to sign it before memorial day. As Congress Cuts regulations, look at this banks had their most profitable quarter in history. Profit up 28 , a record 56 billion. Banks have never been so healthy. Theyre doing all right. You know, shocking to get any democratic votes today. There were 33 democrats to vote for the legislation. So to call it bipartisan is rare, indeed, in 2018 it was definitely the small banks that have been really lobbying their Democratic Congress people that they wanted a rollback of rules. Ahead, conditions in hawaii getting worse for residents as kilaueas eruption nears the threeweek mark. Next, well hear from a man hit by a lava bomb. The best way to hit the beach . With neutrogena® beach defense® sunscreen. 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Hey, good morning. Reporter good morning, i said finally, right, an unexpected thriller in these playoffs. The last time we saw these teams, remember, the rockets, they were humiliated. They suffered a 41point loss in game three. And last night it looked like it could be more of the same. Houston falling behind by 12 points at the start. James harden came in to this game on a mission not to let his team give up. I wanted to show the play everybodys talking about. Here he is watch. This the nasty onehanded dunk and foul over draymond green. You know green was not loving that moment. Steph curry catching fire, scoring 18 in the third quarter. Breaking out that shimmy dance got going there once again. Eric gordon, however, one of three rockets in double digits, knocking down a clutch threepointer late. Houstons defense really rising to the occasion in this one. 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And one idea could be to leave it up to the home team to decide whether or not the players are going to come out to the playing of the National Anthem. And if teams do appear, then they could be assessed 15yard penalties for players who choose to kneel. Several former nfl players have taken to social media against the reported idea. When asked about the penalty for kneeling solution, an nfl spokesperson told cnn, as always, conversations at League Meetings are candid, thoughtful, and thorough. The clubs explore every option and idea on any policy and discuss the drawbacks to each approach. We will continue the conversation tomorrow. Tomorrow is today. Well see what comes out of it. You were holding your hands up kellyanne conwcolin kaeperni unsigned. Keep politics off the table. Maybe keep in the locker room. The president not about to get rid of the issue. 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The president seething over unfounded claims the feds spied on his campaign. Allies in congress will see classified russia documents tomorrow. No democrats allowed. Tonight i say thank you all. Now lets go get it done. [ cheers ] history unfolding in the deep south. The first black gubernatorial nominee from a major party, Stacey Abrams, though, still facing an uphill climb to win in november. Welcome back to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. The summit between President Trump and kim jongun in doubt this morning with less than three weeks before the scheduled date for this historic event. Mr. Trump publicly questioned whether it will happen and did it with south koreas president sitting beside him. Theres a chance that it will work out. Theres a chance, theres a substantial chance that it wont work out. I dont want to waste a lot of time, im sure he doesnt want to waste a lot of time. Theres a substantial chance that it wont work out, and thats okay. That doesnt mean it wont work out over a period of time. Secretary of state mike pompeo says the administration is still working toward a june 12th summit. And south koreas National Security chief saying, quote, theres a 99. 9 chance its still on. The president keeping hope alive, offering guarantees to kim jongun. We will guarantee his safety. Weve talked about that from the beginning. He will be safe. He will be happy. His country will be rich. His country will be hard working and very prosperous. Theyre very great people. Lets get live to seoul and bring in cnns ivan watson. The president appears to be blaming china for the shift in north koreas tone. And you hear there guaranteeing the safety and prosperity of the north korean leader. Is they guarantee the United States can back up . Reporter thats a really good question. Its so striking did you ever think youd hear a u. S. President guaranteeing, offering to guarantee the safety of a north korean dictator . It shows what a remarkable period were going through in relations between washington and pyongyang. The u. S. Made a deal with libya more than a decade ago for it to hand over its nuclear weapons. And some security guarantees. In the end the u. S. Ended up turning on Muammar Gadhafi and supporting the same rebels who dragged him into a ditch and shot him dead after a rebel uprising backed by nato and u. S. Air strikes. There is a question about whether or not a deal with the u. S. Holds particularly after the u. S. And President Trump just pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. The south korean president , he traveled to washington to try to convince President Trump that, yes, north korea was serious about talking about denuclearization. Is it the same denuclearization that the Trump Administration wants . Complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization . North korea this week says it is going to make a show to the International Press of dismantling its main Nuclear Testing site. Cnns been invited, south korean journalists got a lastminute invitation. But u. S. Defense officials tell cnn that is basically a p. R. Stunt, that the site is almost destroyed after north koreas sixth and most recent nuclear test in september of last year. Sure would be nice if the reporters were able to bring weapons experts with them, nuclear experts, to tell them what theyre seeing, make sure its not a staged event. Thank you very much for that from seoul. Will ripley is there. Sending pictures from the plane yesterday. The intelligence was this place was ready to collapse. They couldnt continue to test there. Well go live to washington and politics digital director zach wolf. Quickly on this north korea summit, they already had this commemorative coin marking the summit in singapore. Now its a flip in the coin whether it even happens. Where are we headed, and how would the president of the United States guarantee the safety of kim jongun, arguably the worlds worst human rights abuser . Reporter i mean, i dont know how exactly how he would guarantee the safety. I guess hes suggesting the u. S. Government wouldnt endanger him, wouldnt, you know, kill him. I dont know. Thats kind of a strange thing for him to say. Its clearly different this week from last week when last week trump sounded very bullish on this meeting, you know, not promising it was going to happen but sort of offering it up as his great you know, the great Foreign Policy flag he was going to plant in the ground. This week he says if it doesnt happen, thats okay. And hes clearly trying to coax kim to the table. Theres no denying that he put a lot of his own Political Capital into his ability to make a deal here and pointed to that as a reason that its okay to get out of the iran deal. Im going to make new deals. You cant make deals if you cant get to the negotiating table. Its clear that he really wants this to happen. Whether that will happen i think is totally up in the air. Yeah. At the same time, playing out in washington is this drama over a government informant or a fullblown spy operation against the candidate trump. Thats the way donald trump portrays it at least. This is what the president said yesterday about that issue if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace for this country. That would be one of the biggest insults that anyones seen, and it would be illegal aside from everything else. If they had spies in my campaign, during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. Details of this are still emerging, right. And were going to hopefully hear more about this in the days ahead. Certainly the president s allies are tomorrow in a big intel briefing. No democrats devin nunes, trey gaudy the president can seize on this spies in my campaign and that can feed into this deep state mistrust that has worked so well for him. Like when he said, you know, president Obama Wiretapped him which did not end up being the case. There was a kernel of truth. People being surveilled in trump tower. And he twists that into this kind of nefarious deepstate thing going on. It gets back to the fbi and the Mueller Investigation into possible collusion. He feels like its this witch hunt out to get him. So he doesnt trust the government thats there. Hes leading a government he doesnt trust is the end result. To your point, all he needs is that kernel. That one piece that makes it all true, even if its not just one piece of impropriety by the Intel Community, the doj. Lets talk about the president last night surprising everyone in his administration and certainly republicans talking about a second round of tax cuts that might be on the way. Listen. Were going to be submitting additional tax cuts sometime prior to november. Its going to be something special. You see what its done for the country. Its going to be something very special. He says hes going to meet with the house ways and means, the people who write the legislation, give more tax cuts. We already had some pretty big tax cuts for corporations. We have tax cuts that expire for individuals. Theyre not the the polls dont show them all that popular overall. Did the president think he would be able to goose that sentiment into the midterms . Reporter it doesnt seem like the kind of thing he would be able to pass through congress before the midterms. That might be something of a Campaign Promise or or campaign tease maybe is more accurate way to look at it. Especially since we dont have any sort of specifics at all what kind of tax cuts are these exactly m exactly. That might be nice to understand. The republicans main accomplishment from the policy perspective was the tax cut law, and it hasnt generated the kind of support. At least according to opinion polls, that youd like to see. Its not going to be a motivating factor for a lot of voters. I wonder if the fiscal hawks could the economy is hot. How would you pay for it . To zachs point it might be a narrative for 2018 midterms. They want to raise your taxes, we want to cut them. Good political narrative moving forward. Thank you, sir. Thank you. A historymaking night in georgia. Democrat Stacey Abrams winning her partys nomination for governor in tuesdays primary. Shes the first black woman in the country to win a major partys gubernatorial nomination, winning the state house will be an uphill battle, though. No democrat has been elected governor in georgia since 1998. Abrams doesnt know who she will face in november. The republicans are headed to a runoff. No matter who it is, abrams says she is ready. This is our moment, our chance to lift up georgia. If we fight, if we push, if we work, we will win [ applause ] abrams was not the only woman to win in the south. In kentucky, a political n newcom newcomer, former marine Fighter Pilot amy mcgrath defeated jim gray in the sixth district primary. A sinking feeling setting in at the white house literal empa sinkhole steps from literally. A sinkhole steps from the white house belieriefing room. A reporter noticed it after days of steady rain. Experts coming in to find out what to do next. A science professor tells us the geology of the white house doesnt naturally lend itself to sinkholes. Could be the result of previous construction on the lawn or just that draining of the swamp. Dictionary. Com had good fun with this, as did all of twitter. Two definitions of sinkhole. The second a place into which foul matter runs. There was also a sinkhole one year ago today at trumps maralago resort. Thats right. Read from that what you will. 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Center park, expect sunshine by this afternoon even though it looks gloomy at the start with a departing system. We are in between fronts. Warm weather back behind us going to be building in across the central plains. As you said, the south where all the rainfall really is going to be confined. This morning, a generally quiet setup. One of the summertime regimes. The afternoon heat bubbles, the possibility of heavy rainfall across central, southern georgia, the panhandle, even west florida. The flooding concern remains high, generally one to two inches. Some areas four to six inches. And watching a disturbance that could work into the south and become a tropical system over the next few days. Pedram javaheri, thank you. Thats your weather. Heres your cnn money. Well check on cnn money this morning. Lawmakers stopping any deal the Trump Administration might make with chinese tech giant zte. A senate panel yesterday said it would not accept reduced penalties on zte citing National Security concerns unless the white house can prove, can prove that zte is playing by the rules. Intelligence agencies warn zte tech could be used for spying. Last month the Commerce Department banned zte from buying vital u. S. Parts, a punishment for violating u. S. Sanctions. That crippled the chinese company. President trump says hes looking at alternative punishments like a big fine or management changes. Lawmakers concerned here the president is prioritizing an economic win over National Security calling it had move a trade concession calling this move a trade concession to china. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin says thats not true. This was not a quid pro quo or anything else. This was merely that president xi asked President Trump to look into this, which he has done. Right now the u. S. And china working out the details of a trade pact. 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