terrorism and extremist movements bent on harming innocent civilians, we must properly vet those coming into our country. this ruling sauls a moment of profound vindication following months of hysterical commentary from the media and democratic politicians who refuse to do what it takes to secure our border and our country. so a mixed message there. the president has been blasting again and again democrats for not, he says, wanting to secure the borders, with little evidence of that. it is clear the president is seizing upon this supreme court victory which specifically is about that third version of the travel ban revised again and again, not the overall immigration argument. but he is making it part of the argument. he s going to be speaking in the cabinet room with members of congress who are over here for a prescheduled meeting. but john, important to point out, what has changed here at the white house since that early travel ban, steve bannon, of course, his top adviser, was deepl
member of many meetings with people like jared kushner, steve bannon, michael flynn. these go on after trump is in the white house. then you see his patron, the crown prince of saudi arabia sneaking into the u.s. even more mysterious, you see the same guy nader turn up in eric prince in the seychelless at mohammed s second home there for a meeting that s designed to put together eric prince as a representative of the trump campaign with a russian businessman close vladimir putin and also close to george nader. so whatever happened in that meeting on august 3rd with donald trump jr., it was the beginning of something. we don t know exactly what, but
even begins that denuclearization isn t the end all be all of what could be a few hour meeting between president trump and kim jong-un, what do you mean by that? so when you look at this idea of getting president trump back on the same page as chairman kim, essentially what president moon is going to do is layout the template, the game plan that he used to get the summit and to get the panmunjom declaration out of the summit on april 27th. in many respects it s this idea of eye on the prize and using his experience as a previous deal and something as a deal maker for president to focus on. the idea is not to negotiate at the table in singapore but to hammer out a declaration, a joint u.s./north korea declaration to be officially unveiled at singapore and to focus on that, i think, is a way to get the background noise out of the picture here. how significant is it where will ripley is heading right now, the nuclear test site, the fact that they re dismantling it
ie, you re going to be dead is what he s saying there. the statements by vice president pence as well as john bolton, those statements that they ve made are from the previous periods. these aren t new statements. it s just a timing aspect. the key focus here from a north korean perspective is they met with pompeo twice, first as director of ceo and second as secretary of state. what s discussed between pompeo and chairman kim that becomes the basis of a north korea understanding of an agreement with president trump. they re trying to make sure that that understanding still remains in place. i think this is going to be a message that president trump moon will carry as well that will go back to the events preof last week. those facts are what president moon is going to emphasize. you think that what they could actually achieve in the next three weeks in a way is to lower expectations here, set up a meeting before the meeting
stuff happened. and so the precedent is very dangerous that an investigation will be launched simply because a president wants to stop an investigation. there are some do you see this as rod rosenstein capitulating for the president or buying time for the investigation? if there s no there, there what s wrong with having the inspector general look into it and, you know, settle it once and for all? that s a really important point, anderson. there is no there, there so all of this is likely to be seen eventually as a sideshow. the mueller investigation is proceeding, grinding along, bringing indictments and seeking and obtaining convictions. but the point here is that the principal of the objectivity and independence of the department of justice has been it s a face-saving bone to the president but has larger implications. the second thing that came out of this meeting is that chief of staff kelly will meet