Around. He started shooting at mr. S seaman, and everybody started screaming and freaking out. Mr. Seaman ran up and tackled him. Reporter seaman threw a basketball at the shooters forehead, swatted the gun out of his hand, and tackled him. Lease a hero. Without hes a hero. Without him, im not sure all of us would have made it. Good to be with you. Can they salvage the summit . This morning a mix of cautious optimism and renewed faith that the meeting between kim jongun and President Trump may happen after all. This less than two days after canceling the upcoming sit down. President trump says his team is having, quote, productive talks with north korea. With 2. 5 weeks to go, can this meeting really happen . Our team of reporters and analysts are covering every angle including will ripley who just returned from north korea hours ago. We start with cnns Sarah Westwood in washington, though. When he says productive talks, how much confidence is there that this meeting could actually sti
And sieman tackled him. Reporter threw the basketball at the forehead, swatted the gun out of his hand. Hes a hero. Without him, im not sure all of us would have made it. This is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good morning, salvaging the summit. This morning, cautious optimism, renewed faith that the meeting between donald trump and kim jongun may happen after all. Less than two days after canceling it, mr. Trump says his team is having productive talks against with north korean. With 2. 5 weeks to go, can the meeting happen on the day originally scheduled . Will ripley is following the reaction, but well start with Sara Westwood live in washington. Good morning. So obviously very different information coming out from 48 hours ago. We saw in a tweet President Trump saying we are having very productive talks with north korea. Any idea who is involved in the talks, and specifically whats being discussed . Reporter President Trump is creating a lot of whiplash ove
Spoke to regime officials there. We want to start with matt rivers live in seoul, south korea. Matt, what are you learning about the meeting . Well, this has just come out in the past 30 minutes or so. It came as a huge shock to those of us in south korea and around the world. We know these two leaders met in a surprise visit from 3 00 to 5 00 p. M. Local time here in south korea. That would have been in the wee hours of the morning on the east coast of the United States. And not a ton of detail yet. Were just getting this video in for the first time showing those two leaders meeting, greeting each other like old friends. They met for the first time in late april at the first interkorean summit. Not a lot of details about what they spoke about so far other than the office of the presidency here in south korea saying that they spoke about implementing the joint declaration that came out after that first meeting in late april but the more important point would be that they spoke about th
Lets start with breaking news. President trump announcing moments ago an american prisoner, josh holt, will return from venezuela tonight and be reunited with his family. For the past two years, the former mormon missionary from utah has been jailed in venezuela, making pleas to the American Government to come save him. The president tweeting just moments ago, looking forward to seeing joshua holt this evening in the white house. The great people of utah are celebrating. Cnns Sarah Westwood joins us from the white house to tell us more about holts story and how his release came about. Reporter thats right. This morning President Trump celebrating the release of an american, joshua holt, from a venezuelan prison where hes been since 2016. President trump, as you mentioned, tweeted twice, confirming the news that holt has been released. The holt family has confirmed josh was released, saying in a statement via their lawyer moments ago, we are grateful for the joint efforts made during th
The president tweeted moments ago, quote, the failing New York Times quotes a senior white house official who doesnt exist as saying even if the meeting were reinstated, holding it on june 12 would be impossible, given the lack of time and the amount of planning needed. Wrong again, use real people, not phony sources. Now to the latest twist, north and south korean leaders holding a surprise second meeting in hopes of saving the summit. Kim jongun and moon jaein sharing a warm welcome at the dmz overnight. Cnns Boris Sanchez is live at the white house with more. Boris, things are changing moment to moment. Give us the latest. Reporter thats right, fred. A rapidly changing and developing story, similar to what you would expect from the Season Finale of a reality tv show. Look, even days before President Trump sent out this letter pulling the United States out of a summit with north korea, there were some skeptics within the adm administration doubting the meeting would take place. Beyon