South korea. So President Trump is in south korea. Hes about to address the south korean parl lnlt. This is the first time a u. S. President has addressed the Parliament Since the earlier 90s when bill clinton was there. Its certainly the first time any u. S. President has spoken anywhere in the Korean Peninsula since this president threatened that he would totally destroy north korea. Its the first time any american president has traveled to the Korean Peninsula since President Trump threatened north korea with fire and fury like the world has never seen. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. That was august. That was President Trumps red line promising what he would do if north korea made any more threats to the United States. North korea responded immediately to that red line by threatening to bomb guam. Then they shot missiles over japan, then they tested a hydrogen bomb. While the preside
Plans to name north korea, iran and venezuela by name. Bill the president tweeted this. Big day at the United Nations. Many good things and some tricky ones happening. We have a great team. Big speech at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time end tweet. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts here in new york city to preview all of this. Good morning. A little bit of information there. Frame what you are hearing from white house officials. The president has talked about this idea of principled realism. Not an idealistic vision of a utopia world and he doesnt want to nation build and create democracies using military force. What he really wants to do and he will say in the speech he wants to create stability around the world. He will talk about the principle of America First but use it as a jumping off point to encourage other nations of the world to go after their own sovereignty to pursue policies that increase the stability and increase prosperity for their own citizens and band together as I
Right now says the nurmg one thing the North Koreans are going to be looking for is an announcement from President Trump about whether or not hes going to put north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terror. That country was originally on the list. George w. Bush and that administration took him off in 2008 as part of the deal they were working on as a diplomatic gesture. What decision do you think President Trump should make . Frankly, i personally dont think he shouldnt dolgt. I dont see the intrinsic gain by putting him back on the terrorist list. Were not going to treat him differently with all the sanctions weve imposed on him, and its more symbolic and a negative message to the North Koreans. If on the one hand he is reaching out, lets make a deal, i wouldnt do that. Id hold that back as a stick, but not do it right now. You have made very clear that you dont believe that the North Koreans will ever give up their nuclear ambitions. And the question is, when you hear the
Halli desk hallie. Kristen, thank you. We are watching the brazilian president open up the General Assembly giving his speech in front of the marble tiles of the president a couple years ago. With us now is joel reuben, former secretary of state under president obama. And National Security and Foreign Policy reporter with the associated press, josh leaderman. Thank you for being here on a pretty big morning. Joel, let me start with you because in the words of the New York Times as we saw from the president on someday one, he came, he saw, he gripped and grinned. He was mr. Nice guy on monday. Lets talk tuesday, mr. Tough talk now as we take a look at him getting seated. This is yesterday here. What do you think were going to hear from him on day two . Hallie, its great to be with you. We are going to hear the president speak to you about north korea, but we also need to hear him say americas vision for its role in the world. This is a critical speech. Its a real opportunity for him to
Officials have been telling us is that the president is going to really change course from what has been the direction, the policy, of republican and democratic president s for decades, really, the president saying that the u. S. Will not dictate to other governments what kind of system of government, what kind of values they should have. As you well know, thats been a staple really of American Foreign policy, is to encourage Democratic Values abroad and not only that that is consistent with american values, but that serves american interests, open society, democracy. The president emphasized this word sovereignty, american sovereignty, sovereignty at home and sovereignty abroad for other countries. Thats a loaded word. If you listen to china for years, sovereignty to them has meant dont interfere in our system and dont preach to us about human rights. For an american president to go on the world stage at the u. N. General assembly and say that is not his priority, that is the conts in