North korean actions just reenforced for both leaders why this is the number one threat to both Prime Minister abe and to President Trump. I think the north korean actions were deliberately timed after what was a pretty good week in terms of u. S. Policy in asia, with regard to President Trumps call with xi jinping and secretary mattiss trip to the region, i think the Trump Administration said look, were here and were not going to be an easy issue to deal with. Right now the National Security advisor is said to have broke on the law and critics call for him to be fired, for him to step down. How much does that impact the advice that this group can give the president at this time . I think the precedent is going to get advise from a wide range of people, including the folks in the State Department,
particularly those commitments to china that would affect the finances that north korea has for building these missiles, there may be a statement that comes out of the u. N. Security council
It looks like hes going back to exactly how he got elected. Hes going to the people and bringing his arguments to the people. But there is a particular sound here on the media where he talks about the media deserving a failing grade. Do we have that . Take a listen. The medias job is to be honest and tell the truth. Then i think we would all agree the media deserves a very, very big fat failing grade. Not all of them. We call it the fake news. Even is using the word fake news. When did you hear it first, folks . Judge jeanine is this classic donald trump where he has been graded for the fast few days about the first 100 days. He literally spun it around and graded the media. You look at the Media Coverage of this president. An analysis was released last week that said from january 20 to april 9 of the 1,900 mines, 186 minutes of that time was either neutral or positive. Which means 96 of the time was negative coverage. The American People know the fake news is real, they dont tell the
Second, the second, to study evidence actually exist . Today the top democrat on the House Intelligence Committee says he doesnt think so. I dont expect well see any evidence of this either. I agree with timecard. One of two possibilities here. The president quite deliberately for some reason made up this charge are perhaps more disturbing the president really believes this. Reporter the charges former president barack obama ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the election. The former president has led the charge. So as the current fbi director reportedly asked the Justice Department to publicly reject the president s claims. Congressman schiff plans to ask about it directly when he testifies before the full Committee Later this month. Republicans have also been very critical of President Trump on this issue. Just today, john mccain said thursday road need for congress
to investigate these wiretapping allegations. Here is why. Ive no reason to believe the charge is true, but
Taking part in any kind of sales of oil that would violate u. N. Sanctions. The Treasury Department note d last month that there were north korea ben shipping companies that were attempting these ship to ship transfers likely of oil to evade u. N. Sanctions, but the president is on vacation here in maralago. He was on the golf course when the tweet was sent. Weve reached out to a number of of his aides at National Security counsel. Was there something new that set off the president . Some new piece of information he had confirmed . Did he know there was a new Transfer Attempt and we got no response ch its Worth Remembering that the president travel wg a very thin staff when he goes on vacations like this. So its possible that even his own staffers dont knowd the pr to send this tweet today. All right, thank you very much. With me now, the author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world, gordon
chang. And cnn security analyst, bob. Gordon, let me begin with you. The word fs f
Bring section 8 usc 1324 charges or any criminal charges against state or local officials. I believe the request for made. The department of justifiable is reviewing what avenues might be available. Martha the answer to that is yes they are looking into it. Good evening, everybody. Im Martha Maccallum and this is the story. Also tonight some reporters at the white house incredulous as the white house doctor declared that the president is in excellent mental and physical health. Watch this. Can you tell me how a guy holler all those diet cokes and never exercises is in as good a shape as you say he is in. Its called genetics. I dont know. Martha Everyone Wants to get on that plan. He rarely sees the president when he terms as stressed out conditions. He has the ability to wake up every day and sort of reset when he is faced with the pressures of the office. More to come on that fascinating afternoon News Conference today. The president no doubts is going to need all of his faculties as