yeah. at the same time, playing out in washington is this drama over a government informant or a full-blown spy operation against the candidate trump. that s the way donald trump portrays it at least. this is what the president said yesterday about that issue if they had spies in my campaign, that would be a disgrace for this country. that would be one of the biggest insults that anyone s seen, and it would be illegal aside from everything else. if they had spies in my campaign, during my campaign for political purposes, that would be unprecedented in the history of our country. details of this are still emerging, right. and we re going to hopefully hear more about this in the days ahead. certainly the president s allies are tomorrow in a big intel briefing. no democrats devin nunes, trey gaudy the president can seize on this spies in my campaign and that can feed into this deep
relations between washington and pyongyang. the u.s. made a deal with libya more than a decade ago for it to hand over its nuclear weapons. and some security guarantees. in the end the u.s. ended up turning on muammar gadhafi and supporting the same rebels who dragged him into a ditch and shot him dead after a rebel uprising backed by nato and u.s. air strikes. there is a question about whether or not a deal with the u.s. holds particularly after the u.s. and president trump just pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. the south korean president, he traveled to washington to try to convince president trump that, yes, north korea was serious about talking about denuclearization. is it the same denuclearization that the trump administration wants? complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization? north korea this week says it is going to make a show to the
international press of dismantling its main nuclear testing site. cnn s been invited, south korean journalists got a last-minute invitation. but u.s. defense officials tell cnn that is basically a p.r. stunt, that the site is almost destroyed after north korea s sixth and most recent nuclear test in september of last year. sure would be nice if the reporters were able to bring weapons experts with them, nuclear experts, to tell them what they re seeing, make sure it s not a staged event. thank you very much for that from seoul. will ripley is there. sending pictures from the plane yesterday. the intelligence was this place was ready to collapse. they couldn t continue to test there. we ll go live to washington and politics digital director zach wolf. quickly on this north korea summit, they already had this commemorative coin marking the summit in singapore. now it s a flip in the coin whether it even happens. where are we headed, and how would the president of the united states gu
end of last month. and only at the last minute did north korea invite south korean journalists to plan for the ceremony in north korea for the dismantling of its main nuclear testing site. that is expected to happen this week. cnn s been invited, but a u.s. defense official tells cnn that the ceremony is nothing more than a p.r. stunt, that the nuclear testing site was mostly destroyed by six previous north korean nuclear tests including the most recent and powerful one in september of last year. david and christine? yeah. reports that were it was ready to collapse. the fact that there were no nuclear inspectors there, with all due respect to will ripley and company, tells you a lot. thank you. and no experts allowed to go with the journalists. it s journalists. they ll be doing their best reporting there, no question. live now to washington and digital director zachary wolf. let s talk here about the north
region? reporter: yeah, it s a big shift from president trump who has in the past been celebrating china and congratulating and thanking it for helping tighten the economic noose around north korea as far as the trump administration s so-called maximum pressure campaign which is designed to punish it for the previous nuclear weapons tests and ballistic missile launches. the south koreans don t really want to talk about this allegation coming from president trump. their message has been to focus the white house on going ahead with this planned singapore summit. president moon jae-in of south korea urging president trump to stay the course, don t try to get worried about recent criticism that s come from pyongyang against washington and against seoul, as well. that s all the more striking when you consider that north korea has been quite critical of south korea over the course of the last week even though the two leaders held a summit at the