Trump down because of his public reputation of not doing what his lawyers tell him to do and not paying his bills. Tonight we have more ed of just how right those lawyers were of donald trump when they turned him down. The president keeps doing things that lawyers normally dont have to advise their clients not to do. Like attacking the federal prosecutor who is investigating him and attacking the Justice Department and the fbi because they are investigating him. It wouldnt occur to lawyers to tell their clients do not attack the prosecutors or the lawyers or the fbi. But it does occur to every lawyer, ever lawyer, to tell their clients not to talk about the case with anyone, especially not to talk about the case with other potential witnesses and people involved in the case. But donald trump has done that, and he has done that repeatedly and that is tonights breaking news story in the New York Times. Which cary it is headline, trump spoke to witnesses about matters they discussed with
4 00 a. M. On the u. S. East coast. And first a Major Development in diplomacy. The president of south korea has announced hes sending a delegation of high level officials to north korea on monday for a twoday visit. One purpose, to build on the dialogue that developed between the two koreas during the winter olympics. Another, to open a path to direct talks, perhaps, between north korea and the United States. Joining us from seoul to give us some context is andrew stevestons and our will ripley, who has reported from north korea numerous times is live for us from beijing. First to you, andrew, the two koreas extending the goodwill from the olympics. This sounds, perhaps, significant. Tell us what you know about this meeting. Well, it is significant. Just in the fact that they are actually having a meeting, natalie. This will be the first time in years that they have sat down and the South Koreans are sending some heavy hitters in their delegations. The delegation of ten people, its le
American news. Listen, im going to cut to the bottom line right now and tell you that i do not know why secretary of state Rex Tillerson was abruptly fired today and neither do you and anybody who says they do know, well, were going to get as close as we can to that tonight. Right now, it is still a mystery. Nevertheless, he is out and so im going to do that awkward camera turn right now. So we can add the name of the secretary of state to the list of departures of senior officials from the Trump White House and the senior ranks of the trump administration. Just in the past couple weeks we have had to move my Camera Position so that we can show you this bigger wall so we could make room to add a third column here on this wall. We were two columns before. We had to add hope hicks as she resigned and josh raphael as he resigned from deputies communications director, the one that worked for jared and ivanka and jared and ivankas other friend, the guy trump put in charge as the office of i
Resigning. Anyone apparently over frustration focused largely on chaos at the white house. New reporting tonight that the president green lit the communication director he fired after tendays on the job, Anthony Scaramucci. Let him go on television and trash talk john kelly. The same john kelly who has put out three different stories on who knew what when on john porter. There is the departure of communication director hope hicks who was dating porter. Are you keeping this all straight . It is a bit what is the word here . Chaotic. The president sees it differently. He says there are ten people, the ten best people in any field lining up to work for him. And he set the stage with that bold claim with this Early Morning tweet. The new fake news narrative is that there is chaos. Wrong. People will always come and go. I still have some people that i want to change, always seeking perfection, there is no chaos only great energy. Leaving aside to chill that mark about personnel changes migh
Unexpectedly overturn negotiations like a flimsey coffee table. The vacillateliing positions on immigration, in a piece titled, quote, the a president not sure of what he wants complicates the shutdown impasse. Quote, one thing was clear to both sides of the negotiations to end it. The president was either unwilling or unable to articulate the immigration policy he wanted. Much less, understand the nuances of what it would involve. Heres the enduring image of the president during the shutdown. No notes, no details, no staff, hat on. All of this said, the white house took a victory lap this afternoon. Democrats realized that the position that they had taken frankly was indefensible and that they had to focus on first funding our military, protecting Border Patrol agents, funding Vulnerable Children through the c. H. I. P. Program. These were things that they didnt disagree with. They agreed with everything that was in the c. R. The president stayed firm. Republicans stayed firm. And dem