to the president s re-election campaign efforts head into 2020. all right, thanks so much. let s go to jim sciutto now also covering the g-20 summit and this news conference. our chief security correspondent, and wanted to talk with you more about this overture by president trump to perhaps have a handshake at least with kim jong-un at the dmz when he areavrives in south korea. yes, and as with so many ideas, plans, announcements the president tweeting this out seemingly to the surprise of the north koreans. their official reaction at least was they had not received an official request, but the president making this hail mary pass, you might call it, when he goes to the dmz tomorrow. this would be the third face-to-face meeting between the u.s. president and kim jong-un. and keep in mind a third meeting with no progress on what the
debate. officials are saying they have no idea what he s saying. ben carson says his intel on syria is better than the president s. someone did tell me he said that earlier today. i guess it s not common that maybe it violates my job description as a spokesperson to be speechless. i think in this case i am. so join iing me now is cnn senior political correspondent and jim sciutto, our chief security correspondent. ben carson said he had these sources about china in syria. you have these documents and the sourcing. where is this coming from? it s right, we have the documents here. it s about 15 pages.
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weapon, period. jim is with me now from washington. our chief security correspondent. in terms of a challenge for the secretary, how big of a challenge is this for him? it s a big challenge. you just heard the secretary there talk about the members of congress leaving with a sense of confidence. that s what s lacking here. they have no confidence that the iranian side will live up to their commitments. they say the only way to make that happen is keep their feet to the fire, in effect, by adding even more sanctions than there are today. as you say, they re getting that from both the republican and democrat side. it s interesting, actually. the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce, even invoked the name of nelson mandela, citing the use of economic sanctions in ending apartheid in south africa. of course, the administration s point of view is, listen, we already have stiff sanctions in place. this deal has only relaxed them modestly. if you impose new sanctions no