white house. boris, thank you for that. cnn political analyst and professor at princeton university, julie zelzer and senior analyst savannah dinegrab. things are starting to come together. what s your take now? my take is we re definitely better off than we were before. we don t have rockets flying, so that s good. but i think john bolton has placed some cold water on the president s statements that kim is an honorable man and being very open in these negotiations. and we have to be very wary of shiny objects right now. kim is saying, okay, we re going to stop nuclear tests, we re going to close down this facility. we have to ask why he s doing this. it s not an olive branch. he s taking these steps and making these pronouncements because he said we don t need
investigation and him saying this right now seems like he s potentially admitting to something. maybe, maybe not, but he s not the person that should be spinning this particular line he s spinning. julie, we also heard the president saying there s no collusion, it s a witch hunt. he s also bragging on how toughest on russia. this is a line we hear over and over again from the president. is this really about standing up to russia, or is this about firing up his base like he did last night? it s about firing up the base, it s about controlling the political narrative. this is what the president does repeatedly. he will take any story, good or bad, and he tries to craft the way in which we should think about it. here you have this meeting. it looks like it was exactly what he said it wasn t, but now he s telling it in a way that explains he s on the right side. and the russians are actually trying to undermine him. just because he says he s tough on russia doesn t mean he is, and i th