what had been tried with north korea wasn t working, sanctions weren t having the intended effect, china was not intervening in a way that made them change their stripes. so is president trump s handling of north korea working better? well, it might be. i ve commended him for 14 months for making north korea his top priority. i don t think i command the tweets little rocket man and the rest of that, but i think the pressure put on north korea by a coalition is making an impact. and i think that china is aligning here in a way that it hadn t in the past. china and north korea, according to the scholars at the wilson center, are not best friends. let s understand that. there s been mistrust for years. but in this case they have a common interest, which is regime survival for the moment for the kim family and also relevance for china in what comes down. jane harman always good to see you, hans nichols in seoul, thanks to you as well.
cut off the sound, mute the sound, that has every, every trapping of something of a cover-up and something of a misdeed. and i might add, with all of the protesters and as i said we have people on the ground from action network, they ve not been violent. to go to a city council meeting to want to be heard, to stand outside of a ball game, they ve not tried to do any the o only violence we ve seen here is 20 shots at stephon clark. reverend al sharpton. always good to talk to you. sorry it s usually under these circumstances. we re officially in uncharted territory with north korea. for the first time ever kim jong-un reportedly committing to ke nuclearization, we ll go to trump s reaction and if there s real hope on the peninsula. we ll also dig into the markets a little bit and how the news is affected stocks. let s take a live look at the
putting new pressure on president trump. her lawyer attempting to force trump to talk about her alleged hush money agreement. michael avenatti wants to depose president trump. cohen is the one that admitted he paid stormy daniels money to silence her. an encounter trump s representatives deny. now, if the new motion is granted, president trump could be required to explain under oath what he knew about the agreement and when he knew it. the motion citing a meeting between both sides lawyers last week and this morning here s what avenatti says happened there. i think one of the things that was significant during that meeting was we asked mr. harder, mr. trump s attorney whether mr. trump was a party to this agreement and we heard crickets. they don t know, he said they don t know yet whether mr. trump was a party to this agreement. how do you not know if you re a party to an agreement unless you re trying to make it up as you go along?
also this morning the white house is hailing what senior officials are calling a historic new trade deal with south korea. it overhauls the current six-year u.s./korea free trade agreement which president trump had called a job killer. among the key provisions of the revamped deal, south korea agrees to reduce its steal export foss the u.s. by nearly a third. it doubles the number of cars each u.s. automaker can export to south korea to 50,000. in return, south korea escapes the president s new 25% tariff on imported steel. cnbc editor at large john harwood joins me to talk about. the u.s. had a 22 poib 9 become $23 billion trade deficit in goods with south korea last year. is wall street buying the number that this new deal could improve that by at least several billion dollars? well, it could, but this is pretty low hanging fruit in terms of an additional agreement. we already had, of course, the bilateral trade agreement between south korea and the united states. and the trade def