says that president macron actually brokered this potential summit between putin and bieden. what more do we know about how all this developed? reporter: laura, it came after a week of last-ditch diplomacy. president biden convened a rare security meeting with his advisers in the situation room with the white house with one official telling me it lasted nearly two hours as they tried to chart a path ahead on this high-tensions issue. and so shortly after president biden spoke with french president macron who, as you said, acted as a broker, he had had multiple conversations with russia s president putin. and so they agreed to this on principle, but i want to be clear here that there is no time set, there is no venue set for this presidential meeting. it all exists in principle on the very high condition that russia does not invade ukraine at all. and, of course, this comes after we heard lots of warning from
granted, the us said we were on the verge of an invasion, given president putin leaving 30,000 estimated russian troops to the north. today, we understand, from the us, that president emmanuel macron of france has brokered a potential summit between president putin and president biden. then dmitry peskov has said that is premature, it is not concrete, it can happen but a lot would have to happen first. meanwhile, there is an extraordinary meeting between president putin and his security council happening today. and a lot needs to happen for such a summit to take place. the country s foreign ministers have to meet to thrash out an agenda. and nothing will happen at all if russia decides to invade. so, ukraine will no doubt welcome the continued diplomacy, but, as you allude to, it is delicate. allude to, it is delicate. james, daily reports allude to, it is delicate. james, daily reports pretty allude to, it is delicate. james, daily reports pretty much - allude to, it is delicate.
more in the eyes of some. the fact that he has had a third meeting with the u.s. president, when previous presidents did not want to meet him because they wanted to see something happen first. they wanted conditions on any kind of potential summit. so from kim jong-un s point of view, this really is only going to be played positively. there was some concern, according to some experts, that he may feel he is being summoned by the u.s. president. but i don t subscribe to that. the fact is he has these amazing pictures he can now take home. stepping over the border with moon jae-in just last april. and now the exact same pictures stepping over the border with the u.s. president donald trump. he has an historic picture which i know will be playing on a loop here in south korea. interestingly, they haven t actually reported on this yet. we will have to wait and see what they do say.
democrats, of course, are going to opposite it meanwhile, the president s also going to be thinking about whether to declare that national emergency, which would enable him to set in motion a process to build the wall without any congressional oversight. so i do not think he s going to shift over these next three weeks from his focus on the wall and trying to meet that campaign promise but there are few other things on the horizon, including a potential summit sometime in february with north korean dictator kim jong-un that would be the second summit between kim and trump. it s something trump is very eager to do after he s been receiving flattering letters from the north korean authoritarian dictator we ll see if that comes to shape. there is that coming up after all. what a magnificent front four to get us started after a consequence friday night as we said skup
shift over these next three weeks from his focus on the wall and trying to meet that campaign promise but there are few other things on the horizon, including a potential summit sometime in february with north korean dictator kim jong-un that would be the second summit between kim and trump. he s been receiving flattering letters from the north korean authoritarian dictator we ll see if that comes to shape. there is that coming up after all. what a magnificent front four to get us started after a consequential friday night as we said joyce vance, frank figliuzzi, jeremy bash, phil rucker once again, our guests always say robert mueller speaks volumes in an indictment so what else did this one have to say today later, with no money for the wall, the president doubles down on his telling of a rather gruesome tale of human trafficking and no one knows where he got this one.