Doubts about the meeting that could bring him a Nobel Peace Prize and where would that leave the nuclear program. Well talk with a correspondent inside of north korea. And explosive lava eruption and forcing evacuation on the big island. The video of the molten lava vaporizing everything in its path with the fears that a power plant might be next. Almost to the lead, im jake tapper. Well begin with the politics lead an the white house minutes ago addressing the president s maximum Pressure Campaign on the department of justice, breaking with norms and pushing for an investigation into the very people investigating him and his campaign team. This comes after the revelation that a confidential fbi source in 2016 had conversations with Trump Campaign staffers. The president responding to that news today saying, quote, if they had spies in my campaign during the campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. Sarah sanders revealing that the meet
Scam and may end up getting caught in a major spy scandal. The president going as far to give the story a name. Spygate. Kaitlan collins is at the white house following all of this. Kaitlan, whats behind this change, if you will . Now declaratively saying that there was a spy on his team . Reporter well, there has been quite a change from what the president has been saying over the last few days and to what he has been tweeting today. He went from saying this could be an allegation saying it was possible that his campaign was spied on by the fbi to today stating it as a fact each thoveh multiple officials have told cnn there was no spy planted into the Trump Campaign. Instead, was there an fbi intelligence source, a confidential intelligence source starting their investigation into russian interference in the election. The president essentially stating it as fact. His Deputy Press Secretary was on television a few moments later after he tweeted that and he would even go as to far as to
Region . Reporter yeah, its a big shift from President Trump who has in the past been celebrating china and congratulating and thanking it for helping tighten the economic noose around north korea as far as the Trump Administrations socalled maximum Pressure Campaign which is designed to punish it for the Previous Nuclear weapons tests and Ballistic Missile launches. The South Koreans dont really want to talk about this allegation coming from President Trump. Their message has been to focus the white house on going ahead with this planned singapore summit. President moon jaein of south korea urging President Trump to stay the course, dont try to get worried about recent criticism thats come from pyongyang against washington and against seoul, as well. Thats all the more striking when you consider that north korea has been quite critical of south korea over the course of the last week even though the two leaders held a summit at the end of last month. And only at the last minute did nor
The situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking tonight, Jared Kushners lawyer confirming today just a little while ago that his client was interviewed a second time by the special counsels team. About the firing of james comey and about the Trump Campaign contacts with russia. Lowell also confirmed hes been granted full security clearance. Our correspondents and analysts are all standing by. First to the cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. I want you to listen to what abbe lowell told me in the last hour. Your client Jared Kushner sat down with the special counsel last month, the interview lasted several hours. What was the focus . So the focus of jareds cooperation has really been dictated by what the special counsel wants. Back in the fall they were interested in understanding some of the issues about general flynn and he answered all their questions then, and in april we basically followed their lead, and the topics were the appropriate topics. You know tha
Now lets go get it done. [ cheers ] history unfolding in the deep south. The first black gubernatorial nominee from a major party, stacy abrams, still facing an uphill climb to win in november. Good morning, everyone, welcome to early start, im dave briggs. Christine romans getting a late start. We start with the historic summit between President Trump and kim jongun, now in question. President trump questioning whether it will happen, and he did it with south koreas president sitting right beside him. Theres a chance that it will work out. Theres a chance, theres a substantial chance that it wont work out. I dont want to waste a lot of time, im sure he doesnt want to waste a lot of time. Theres a substantial chance that it wont work out, and thats okay. That doesnt mean it wont work out over a period of time. Secretary of state mike pompeo says the administration is still working toward a june 12th summit. And south koreas National Security chief saying, quote, theres a 99. 9 chance i