Is as well. And cnn politics reporter to koppen. Former business partner, manafort, rick gates maybe called this week. He is considered a star witness. In exchange for his guilty plea. What is to be expected from him . Yes, thats right, fred. I mean, in many ways, this is sort of what everyone has been waiting for the trial to build up to. He was the man who is sort of on the inside so to speak on all of these different pieces of the puzzle that have been being put together by this testimony from, you know, from accountants, from the various sort of external factors in manaforts world. But this is the man who was, you know, supposedly according to prosecutors side by side with manafort as much as this went down and may be the one to testify, you know, exactly what he was thinking and doing and intending, which is so important when youre building this criminal case. You know, he also is sort of the connection to trump world. That we havent seen as much. And thats what has to be what peo
it s certainly not happening as fast enough as president trump this is kind of the shuttle diplomacy. secretary of state is going to be that conduit perhaps to help keep some kind of dialogue going or try to nail down some sort of commitment to bring credence to what the president said after the meeting which is denuclearize and mission accomplished. well, it s good to have this dialogue, but i think what s frustrating u.s. officials is, it s actually going in the opposite direction. you saw this u.n. report on friday that said north korea is trying still trying to procure parts and things to keep its nuclear program going. and it also is evading sanctions. and some of these countries are also, you know, helping north korea bust sanctions as well. yes, the tenor and the tone is much better than it was a year ago with all this fire and fury, but in actuallity, we re not seeing any steps on the ground, and it s quite frustrating for