what s the concern going forward now? considerable concern going forward. they say between this incident and the nba, with the nba and president trump s deference over hong kong china could feel emboldened to intimidate any american business into towing their line or the chinese could feel emboldened enough to send security forces to repress the protesters in hong kong. people have been worried about that for a long time. let s see what happens on this front. thanks very much. more breaking news next, fear about safety has house democrats weighing extreme measures to protect the whistle-blower when and if that person testifies in the impeachment inquirinquiry. we re learning new details. you name it.
this 35-year-old kim jong-un is a master at politics. and now he s got the major powers, the major powers of the world at his beck and call doing his bidding. and so add to the personal tension, the clock is ticking tonight. kim jong-un has given the trump team until the end of this year to come up with some kind of advancement on a nuclear deal or bust. president trump is entering his reelection campaign where he may soon have his attention diverted away from north korea and to top it off, president trump s top man at the state department on north korea, steven beegen, today came out and said the two sides still don t over vn a common definition between them of what denuclearization even means. wolf? that s pretty significant. brian todd reporting. thank you. the breaking news next, house democrats target president trump s inner circle grilling hope hicks. plus more of his fellow presidential candidates are now calling out joe biden in a
questions over whether the u.s. and its allies should keep enforcing sanctions and whether those measures threaten a second meeting between kim and trump, which could move them further toward a historic nuclear deal. they should not be paused. the point of all of this is to demonstrate to the north koreans that if they engage, if they work with us to denuclearize the penni peninsula the sanctions will go away. reporter: tonight they re concerned that keeping up the pressure campaign could be weakening. they say president trump has been reluctant to call for new sanctions even though the state department and treasury department have been doing that. they say the south koreas are backing away from calling for new sanctions or wanting to enforce them, and kim jong-un is well aware of the resolve for sanctions could be weakening. wolf. thank you. breaking news next, the former fbi director james comey cast gates president trump for lying about the fbi and congressional republicans
access to a legitimate, medically appropriate information. pro-life groups like concerned women for america say this is nothing but a political stunt by democrats, quote, the fact that three governors are willing to take the path on $10 million and instead choose planned parenthood over care for poor women is shocking. this is an unmasking of the radical ideology behind abortion and proof that health care for women was never the point. there are a lot of strong opinions on both sides of this issue, the of human services received 190,000 comments on the proposed rule. the agency is going through all of those before deciding whether to make any changes to the room before it goes into effect and once it does a lot of folks planning to file lawsuits. my mailbox was flooded the last few weeks from people on both sides of this was there s a lot of passion in the administration not afraid to weigh into it. breaking news next, donald trump orders sanctions for turkey over
trump. reporter: but experts say trump delivers a victory to putin every time he says something like, quote, nato is as bad as nafta, which a diplomat says he told g-7 leaders behind closed doors last month. trump is basically handing him a gift that putin has long sought. in fact, this was a goal of the soviet union throughout the cold war. divide the united states and europe. we never thought a u.s. president would be the one to carry this out. analysts are worried about the long-term implications that trump s leniency towards putin is going to have. they say it could send signals to the russian president that he can meddle in elections in america and elsewhere or that he can take aggressive action against other countries and that america won t stand in the way. signals that are very dangerous when it comes to vladimir putin. jim, when you re at the summit in helsinki, we ll all be watching that very closely. we ll be looking for some independence between the president and vl