dmz. he tried to helicopter up there the last time. president trump would take the helicopter up but couldn t get on the ground. he always wanted to go. when we heard he would go to south korea we figured he would go to the dmz. today s tweet came as a surprise. he let on earlier this week he may try to contact him some other way other than having a one-on-one meeting. this morning s tweet was a bit of a surprise. i m told typically with most presidents you wouldn t put something like that out unless you had the whole thing pre-cooked and all arranged. you put out the tweet come down, meet, it s already done. apparently it s not. this is an open invitation. the president might have said something about it when he responded to the birthday greeting that president kim gave him a couple of weeks ago. there was nothing pre-cooked in this. the president reaching out to say if we can put this together
listen to the president here. iran potentially has a phenomenal future. i say that about north korea else also. i ve cited about north korea. i think north korea has phenomenal future, and i think iran also has a phenomenal future. i would like to i thing a lot of people would like to see them get to work on that great future. so i will sign this now. i appreciate y all being here. thank you. the president also give this message to the scream leader, the ayatollah khamenei, saying he s shown a lot of restraints r but he may not continue to do so in the future. the president let slip a little bit of what was in the letter from kim jong un that he recently received. he said it was a birthday greeting and that both the letter from kim and the letter he sent back to kim were very nice. birthday greetings from chairman kim. dana: happy birthday indeed. john roberts of the white house. thank you. is that white house hits iran
donald trump took office, but there s a a great deal of mystery surrounding kim jong-un. brian todd talked with the author of a new book that pulls back the vail on this secretive ruler. reporter: new indications that north korea s violent young dictator is carefully calculating his approach to trump. a new letter to the president administration sources say was a birthday greeting for donald trump wishing him good health. but the letter contained no substance. no details on how to move the nuclear talks forward. still administration officials tell cnn they view it as a, quote, reset, set issing the tone for a possible third sum t summit. and the president is predictably plooezed. i received a beautiful letter from kim jong-un. i can t show you the letter, but it was a very personal, very warm and nice letter. reporter: an indication that a biographer of kim jong-un shows that kim knows what
president trump and the first lady watching the single f-35 fighter jet along with the visiting polish president and his wife. enhancing military cooperation between the two countries. it calls for an additional 1,000 u.s. troops to be stationed in poland. meantime the president saying more about that letter he received from north korean dictator kim jong-un just ahead of the one-year anniversary of their summit in singapore. he just wrote me a very nice letter. unexpected, and someday you ll see what was in that letter. someday you ll be reading about it. maybe in 100 years from now, maybe in two weeks. who knows? an administration official describes the letter as a birthday greeting. the president s birthday is friday. a source familiar with the letter s contents says it contains nothing of substance or a way forward on the stalled
one of the tankers. and birthday greeting. after a series of harsh comments, it turns out kim jong-un s new letter to president trump is a birthday greeting as a biographer says the north korean dictator knows just what buttons to push with the president. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. white house press secretary sarah sanders, a dogged defender of president trump, even after dropping regular press briefings will be leaving the white house. president trump announced the long-expected move saying sanders should run for governor of her native arkansas. meantime, the president is defending his extraordinary statement that he d accept foreign help in 2020 and wouldn t necessarily tell the fbi about offers of dirt. a senior gop source calls the remark really, really bad and says it would be an impeachable act. also breaking tonight the