what is at stake for the u.s. diplomatically as the president meets with leaders of the five nations and could an unfiltered trump under the nuclear threat with north korea really cause more harm than good? well, i think it remains to be seen, fred, how north korea reacts to that rhetoric. look, i think what these leaders are looking for right now is, yes, the u.s. is going to be tough, but they are also looking for assurance, they are looking for clarity on the u.s. position, so much more than rhetoric, i think that these leaders are going to be looking for what the trump administration policy is. there have been a lot of mixed messages, particularly on north korea, so you have the fire and fury coming from the president, but then, you know, you have secretary of state tillerson talking about, you know, a diplomatic back channel. so i think these leaders want to know what to expect in the event that north korea continues those provocations. and china is really important in this wh
window. former u.s. presidents have criticized trump s policies or leadership style at one point or another and in a new book called the last republicans, bush 41 and bush 43 take direct aim at president trump, calling him a blowhard and expressing concerns that he doesn t know what it means to be u.s. president. cnn special correspondent sat down with the book s author for an inside look at that incredibly candid conversation. former president bush 43 told you when trump entered the race he thought. he thought interesting, won t last. won t last, but when trump started to rise, i think he became concerned. because he saw this populism of donald trump getting in the way of america s position in the world. he gave you rare insight, though, into his criticism of donald trump. what did he tell you?
going to be out there. is there a way you re very close with former president george h.w. bush. in your review or even with your recent interactions with him, was there any real consternation about kind of breaking the ranks of that kind of code of silence that comes with former presidents not commenting or saying anything about a sitting president? i don t think so, because let s remember the interviews for the book were actually done before he became president, so i don t think you re going to see them going out to do this again. they ve said what they are going to say, and there s one person, of course, we re waiting to hear from. we reached out to the white house to hear if president trump had comment. we have not heard back, but maybe watch that twitter account. you never know. anything can happen. all right, jamie, thank you so much for bringing that to us. appreciate it, good to see you. still ahead, as president
carter page doesn t seem to be helping himself or the trump team by doing continuing interviews on this, but the overall story that came out last night that he went to moscow and that trump campaign knew about it and he met with a russian official, that s old news. spoking of which not being able to recall, president trump insisting he can t recall a campaign meeting during the election when foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos floated the idea of setting up the visit between trump and russian president vladimir putin. here s president trump yesterday, and about what he can and cannot remember. i don t remember much about that meeting. it was a very unimportant meeting, took place a long time. don t remember much about it. i m a very intelligent person. one of the great memories of all time. so, david, the president, you know, has said he has one of the greatest memories of all time. what s going on here? yeah, it was just last week that he reiterated that claim, that h
from ultimately all these questions swirling around the administration about what russia did to try and up end our democratic process. josh, how do you see it, advantageous or, you know, potentially dangerous if the two were to meet? no, there s no problem with president trump meeting with president putin. they should meet. that s part of regular diplomacy. it s part of trump s job. i agree with david, the problem could be what he says both inside the meeting and after the meeting and how does that maybe disjoint with u.s. policy, but i would point out here, you know, just from your opening, right, the story of trump and putin s relationship is being overtaken by the continuing drip, drip, drip of revelations from the russia investigation and yesterday is a good example, because actually, in fact, carter page admitted to meeting deputy prime minister during his trip to moscow last year, in an interview with the washington post, that s been public for 13 months, but yesterday the