frumm winning the tour defrance, his second win in three years. he crossed the finish line with ease after officials stopped the race clock because of slippery roads. president obama is now on the ground in ethiopia. it s the second part of his historic trip to africa and it is a first time a sitting american president has ever visited the country. he arrived this morning from kenya but this visit is a controversial one due to the fact that it is some of the country s most poor areas and the most poor human rights record there. something the president says he will address with ethiopian leaders. white house correspondent kevin cork is traveling with the president and joins us live tonight from ethiopia. good evening, kevin. reporter: julie, good evening to you. you re right about that. also tomorrow the president is expected to talk about the important need for regional security cooperation here in east africa and we obviously got a huge reminder of that today in what happened in som
integrate china into the international system. the hard liners have lost touch with reality in a sense. jenna: there is so much happening around the globe. a lot of our attention right now is focused on the middle east. we see some of our top officials, including the president traveling to asia, is that a good move or strategy at this moment? that s a good strategy in the sense that we really need to pay much more attention to the periphery around china these countries are asking the u.s. for more leadership. as you point out this is the first time a sitting american president has visited burma and cambodia. you have secretary clinton who is there, defense secretary panetta. the other thing we ve got to remember is this is not the only part of the world that needs attention, because while we are looking at asia and that is a really good thing the chinese are trying to take one of our bases in the azors, and if they do that they will be dominant in the atlanta atlantic. jenna: which b
meeting regardless of what happens on june 12th in singapore. it is the first time a sitting american president and the leader of north korea set down face to face. the president said he hopes that meeting can be something that he one day calls his proudest achievement before he gets north korea to give up the nuclear weapons. that will be something we wait and see. it will be june 12th and we ll be in singapore, kate. kaitlan, thank you so much. let s discuss this, joining me, kelly maxman who served on the national security council under president bush and obama and bruce clinger, former cia deputy division chief for korea. thank you for being here. kelly, singapore, june 12th, location, does it matter? i think singapore is a perfect location. singapore is a very close and trusted partner of the united states. it is seen as relatively neutral in the region and they have good security apparatus there too. i think it is quite a good
his second win in three years. he crossed the finish line with ease after officials stopped the race clock because of slippery roads. president obama is now on the ground in ethiopia. it s the second part of his historic trip to africa and it is a first time a sitting american president has ever visited the country. he arrived this morning from kenya but this visit is a controversial one due to the fact that it is some of the country s most poor areas and the most poor human rights record there. something the president says he will address with ethiopian leaders. white house correspondent kevin cork is traveling with the president and joins us live tonight from ethiopia. good evening, kevin. reporter: julie, good evening to you. you re right about that. also tomorrow the president is expected to talk about the important need for regional security cooperation here in east africa and we obviously got a huge reminder of that today in what happened in somalia as once again that country w