It is now krumpl time with just ten days until the two leaders meet facetoface in singapore. The harsh rhetoric starting to soften once again. North koreas exspy chief personally developing a letter from king jongun to President Trump in the oval office. The secret service carefully examining that letter for anything potentially dangerous before its presented. Both countries with a lot on the line for the highly anticipated meeting. It will be a beginning. Youre talking about years of hostility, years of problems. Years of really hatred between so many different nations. But i think youre going to have a very positive result in the end. Not from one meeting. I didnt cancel a meeting. I canceled it in response to a very tough statement, and i think were over that, totally over that, and now were going to deal and were going to really start a process. Do you believe kim is committed to denuclearization . Yes, i believe so. He wants to be careful. He wants to be, you know, hes not going t
Im anna cabrera in new york. We begin this hour with breaking news. The New York Times reporting this hour that Donald Trumps attorney sent a 20page letter to special Counsel Robert Mueller arguing why a president cant obstruct justice. According to the paper, the letter was hand delivered back in january and was an attempt to head off a possible subpoena for President Trump to testify. We are covering all the angles of this. Cnn senior White House Correspondent pamela brown is in washington, and White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez is at the white house for us. Pamela, tell us more about whats in these 20 pages. Any revelations . These 20 pages certainly offer a glimpse into the legal strategy and what has been conveyed to Robert Muellers team by the president s attorneys, and they made the case in this 20page memo that was hand delivered to Robert Mueller in january that the president cannot be compelled to testify and that he couldnt have obstructed justice under the constitution
World headquarters in atlanta, we welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im george howell. Im natalie allen. Newsroom starts right now. It seems like only yesterday there were insults like little rocket man or mentally deranged dotard. And warnings of fire and fury. Now it seems to have passed. I forgot about the dotard. That was one of them. You are looking at pictures from the meeting on friday. U. S. President trump sitting down with the second most powerful man in north korea, former spy chief Kim Yong Chol. He hand delivered a letter from kim jongun and mr. Trump announced the singapore summit is on. Our Global Affairs correspondent elise labott has more for us. Reporter President Trump and Kim Yong Chol emerged from the oval office smiling after a nearly twohour meet with trump telling reporters a summit with kim jongun in singapore is back on. Were going to be june 12th. Well be in singapore. It will be a beginning. Ive never said it happens in one m
The really spectacular number that has gone all the way down to 3. 8 . The last time we saw 3. 8 was in early 2000, before that 1969. There are about 6 million open jobs in america, there are about five or six million workers who havent reentered the work market. Thats a little bit of a point that you want to start to get to fix. Overall, a very strong employment report, something that economists call full employment. Wages up 2. 7 , that might indicate that now what we have been hearing from employers, theyre paying up for the workers theyre getting. Where are the jobs coming in . Retail, health care, across the health care spectrum we have seen jobs for several years now and manufacturing. That is interesting. What is the reaction to the tariffs . The tariffs is something that is really concerning to a lot of people who are, you know, invested in the markets, doing business in the markets because you have america, the United States sort of going at it with allies on trade here. And t
Puerto rico was an incredible unsung success. Reporter this tragedy will go down in history. And its not over yet. Tonight, a cnn special report, storm of controversy. What really happened in puerto rico. Welcome to old san juan. A city named after john the baptist by Christopher Columbus on an island that has been part of the United States for over a century. But one of the most tragic chapters in the long rich history of this place was written in the last year. And it is still unfolding. Its a story of unprecedented destruction that came from the ocean and for many an even more frustrating response coming from the president in charge of protecting it. Happening now, breaking news. Monster storm. Summer of 17 was a perfect storm of perfect storms. First, Hurricane Harvey blasted texas. It is delivering not only punishing winds but the potential for feet of rain. Feet. Then irma careened through the caribbean on its way to the florida keys. And when it graced puerto rico, they thought