what s called a her mitt kingdom, all of a sudden was launched into a role of eek equality with president trump, with the president of the united states. if he takes that to the bank, the prestige with his own people and his negotiations with everybody else, and in fact he keeps his nuclear weapons, and he keeps his missiles, and that s just not going to change. christopher, before you go, the nato summit is coming to london on tuesday and wednesday, and once again vladimir putin is dominating the headlines with a new fight breaking out among nato members. what can you tell us about that? reporter: look, the big fear in london is not of vladimir putin. the big fear is of president trump. that he will do something to blow up the whole summit. which they aren t even calling a summit. they are calling it a meeting of leaders because they re worried that as a su plit it will just completely, summit, it will just completely collapse. the problem is that trump wants
threat. dni coats has come out and said so at risk of for maybe being fired for having said so, and gina haspel has said they don t intend to denuclearize. so they can send back some remains, but the president has given kim jong-un another eliot elevating, legitimizing event. bringing him out of the her mitt kingdom. he is no longer a pairia. he visits with the chinese, the russians and the chinese immediately after the summit last year. eased trade restrictions. this is also at the help of moon jae-in, the south korean president. but certainly trump is accountable. his son said tonight on fox, my father got a meeting with these people, as if that was the goal all along. unless something very surprising happens i really fear that president trump is going to walk away with nothing concrete from the summit and promise a third summit. and i think chairman kim cannot believe how much he is winning.
and fury, president trump broke precedent by agreeing to a summit in june in singapore. after a nearly fire-hour meeting, they announced a denuclearization agreement. we ve developed a special bond. 2018 comes to an end with reports that the her mitt kingdom is still operating secret missile bases. you have made history tonight. it was the year of the woman with hundreds of women running for and elected to office, especially congress. 14 women elected in the senate, bringing it to a total of 25. 102 women will serve in the house next year, breaking the previous record of 85. only 13 gop women will be in the house next year, the lowest number in a quarter century. supreme court fights are
moniker leader of a her mitt kingdom. reporter: at that time, cnn was even told plans were being drawn up for a possible u.s. military strike. then came kim s new year s day speech expressing his desire to soften relations with his enemies. the so-called olympic thaw with his sister extending a warm hand to moon jae-in. two meetings between kim and moon, including the optics of a groundbreaking summit, even holding hands and the announcement of a planned summit with president trump. we ll be meeting on june 12th in singapore. it went very well. reporter: there were two meetings with chinese president xi jinping and mike pompeo. and now the russians want in. arranging their mean meeting with vladimir putin. a crucial question now, what made kim change? the maximum pressure campaign, the sanctions regime against north korea has taken a serious bite out of the regime.
get us here totally. you previously gave the credit, enormous credit to the president, it took from what you re saying, a trifecta. we re on the verge of seeing an american president sit down with the leader of north korea, which they call a her mitt kingdom, hardly anybody gets in there. that s all very, very true. and at the same time, previous presidents have row fused to do this until there was some concession on the part of north korea. president trump has taken a different step. decided to sit down and see what could be done. i m hopeful. let s be hopeful. harris: an interesting word. representative garamendi of california, thank you for the word of hope. thank you. harris: waiting to hear from the white house now on the one-year anniversary of special counsel robert mueller s russia investigation. when it happens, we ll bring it to you live. president trump set to hold a by bilateral meeting with the secretary of nay co-. who puts in the money and the fight against terrori