This country. I want to thank kim jong un who really was excellent to three incredible people. Greg i never thought i would hear that. But i never thought we would have a former reality Game Show Host running the most powerful country in the world ever. And that reality and the reality of this mornings release are connected. The release, what does it mean, and to the north korea threat, happier days to all of us, it is too soon to tell, but you would have to be in your own prism of bias not to see this as a promising step to the correction of the world, right, chuck . It is so troubling to say that kim jong un treated the americans excellently. The release should not be exalted, it should be expected. Greg what a wet blanket, but the development putting ins perspective. Taking turns after shock of the porn interest, three americans are free. Once you get past his unseeded lead past, his entire past reveals that talent. They elected a unique toolkit for unique times. Able to engage rogu
Primary. We have that and much more. I am yasmine vossoughian. We begin with the news that has the world reacting. President trump fulfilled one of his signature promises ending the United States involvement in the iran nuclear deal. We cant under the dekag agreement. The iran deal is defective at its core. If we do nothing, we know exactly what will happen. Therefore i am announcing today that the United States will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal. I will sign new sanctions on the iranian regime, instituting the highest level of economic sanction. Any nation that helps iran in its quest for Nuclear Weapons could also be strongly sanctioned by the United States. The obama team has responded to trumps decision in a lengthy statement. President obama lays out several facts about the nuclear deal, some of which go straight after several of President Trumps arguments as a sort of fact check, while adding the reality is clear that jcpoa is working. That is a view shared by our european
And a cnn exclusive. The special counsel is talking to a Russian Oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars pesticide paid to the president s personal attorney. What is that about . Good morning, and welcome to early start. Im christine romans. That needs explaining. Well get to it in a moment. Im dave briggs. Its may 9th, we have live reports from tehran. Breaking news, mike pompeo in north korea this hour. According to the south korean government officials, the newly minted secretary of state is expected to return home with three american detainees. Lets bring in cnns Paula Hancocks live with us from seoul, south korea. Good morning. Reporter hello, dave. We know from one south korean official that they expect mike pmpeo to leave pyongyang with three detainees. It is just an expectation, at this point. We have no clarification or confirmation that that could happen. The u. S. Secretary of state on his way to pyongyang said that theyve been asking about this for 17 months, and th
in the senate. jesse: more popular than paul ryan mitch mcconnell, and when you have these people in the primaries that are all bernie voters, they are going to nominate the kooks that want to impeach the president and go out in the general in november and get savaged. and i m not saying that the republicans are going to keep the house, but it does not look good for the democrats. juan: kennedy, a good week for republicans if you look at the candidates that won the primary that jesse is talking about, you did not get hard, hard, hard right-wing guys who would implode in the general election, you got people tonight, president trump in indiana at a rally for mike brom who is a pro trump business guy who is going to run against kennedy: who beat united states congressmen to secure the nomination to run for the senate as a republican in the fall. indiana is a very important state. it is a politically interesting states where there is a democratic senator right now,
i think if there was any single factor based on polling at different times, the debate, and the things i saw, it was more likely president trump s, i don t know what to call it, but don t vote for don tweet. reporter: the eventual winner is the attorney general patrick morrissey. he earns the right to take on the company, joe mnuchin, in the fall. on tuesday, it was indiana businessman mike brom is a surprise win beating out two sitting members of congress taking out jim donnelley. in ohio, jim renacci will take on incumbent sherrod brown. in north carolina, a number of house races had primaries. it was robert pittinger, the incumbent there, the company republican, who lost in a rematch to mark harris. it will be mark harris who will move on to the general election. thanks. two other midterm races of note in indiana, vice president mike pence s older brother, greg