level. something that we know president trump likes to go in, believing he knows the art of the deal and he can make this happen because he has a personal relationship with kim jong-un. being on the ground there, was there surprise? what s your take on what happened and why it happened? yeah, well, chris, nuclear negotiations with north korea is not a new york real estate deal. it s much more nuanced, much more complicated and there are a lot of high stakes here. president trump, you re right, thought he could come here, get face to face with kim jong-un and bridge whatever divide existed in those earlier negotiations between the two countries representatives. it was not to be. critics say he s been woefully naive here. even within his own administration, officials in the white house that we spoke to in the run up to this summit believed trump was potentially going to come here and not get anything. it may be a wasted trip. it was forced early.
if benjamin netten yahanyahu is convicted, it could be a problem. there are elections in april. these are going to be very hotly contested elections. it s possible that these allegations are going to defeat nett nett nett netanya netanyahu. it s not clear whether he ll be able to survive these allegations and this unprecedented historical indictment. thank you for that. again, the breaking news here, benjamin netanyahu after two years of an intense investigation, we have been waiting, we have been hearing that an announcement befowhethe indictment would be coming. indeed, they ve indicted benjamin netanyahu. we ll have more on this throughout the day. meanwhile, no deal. the president turning away,
tweet from adam schiff, no fan of the president. he said today walking away from the summit was better than making a bad deal. it s also the result of a poorly planned strategy. i want to take those kind of one by one. ned, let s start with the first part of that. senator lindsey graham, mitch mcconnell, even, you know, a lot of coloniumnists made this poins well, it s better to have walked away. i think it is better to have walked away. i don t think we should have been in this situation to begin with. for over a year now president trump has engaged with north korea but it s been a lost year. president trump s engagement to date from real diplomacy. we have yet to see real dipl diplomacy. we ve seen pageantry, in my mind, designed more with president trump s domestic political standing and poll numbers in mind.
he thinks it was about the trump tower meeting with the russians. who were the family members you briefed on the trump tower moscow project? don trump jr. and ivanka trump. if donald trump and son donald junior are involved in the russia deal, is it possible the whole family is compromised with a foreign adversary in the months before the election? yes. did that sound to you like house members are teeing up to call the kids in? they re certainly interested in the kids. i think they are a little bit concerned and worried about doing it knowing that it will cross that red line that donald trump long ago said involved his family. so as they look and see whether to begin calling the kids or do they start with some of the business associates of donald trump first, i think they work their way up to the kids. both donald trump jr., eric, and
hearing about that and much, much more on cuomo primetime. all right, appreciate it, j.b. let s do that right now. i am chris cuomo. welcome to primetime. as you heard, the president s lawyer tonight says he was wrong to suggest that potus never signed anything after our primetime exclusive that proved that potus signed a letter of intent on the russia deal. but how about the president? he looked you in the face and he said, listen to me, there was a deal, everybody knew about it, there was a letter, and it was signed by michael cohen. now, there s another wave in this story. mueller, it seems, does, in fact, have sights on roger stone, one-time key advisor to the president. wait until you hear what he told me. the spin offensive is in full effect. and a mistake of colossal proportions. that s what a senior administration official calls president trump s decision to pull troops out of the fight in syria. even senate republicans are lit, and we re going to go one on one with a key