has spoken with the north koreans since this whole offer by the north koreans to meet with president trump and president trump accepted, and take a listen to what he had to say. you ve talked to the north koreans? i ve talked to north koreans and i sent a single message to them, which was that this was an amazing opportunity for both sides, and they need to respond, and i also, you know, when i was in pyongyang, i saw the three american prisoners there in june last year, i think i was the last outsider to see them, and you know, i would really like to see them released, so i pressed the point to them, this would be an incredibly good time for them to release those prisoners, so that they can be reunited with their family, and that that in itself i told them would be a very positive message. do you think they ll do it? i hope so. now i asked yun why we have
the dictator he calls rocket man and he delivered. more accurately, south korea s national security advisor gave out the news. he had the invitation to sit down with kim jong-un, and president trump accepted. here s the statement in full. today i had the pleasure of telling president trump of my visit to north korea. i would like to thank president, the vice president, and his wonderful national security team, including my friend h.r. mcmaster. i explained to president trump that his leadership and maximum pressure policy together with international solidarity brought us to this juncture. i expressed president moon jae-in s personal gratitude for president trump s leadership. i told president trump that in our meeting north korean leader
did they stand at the urinal and talk about substantive issues? we don t know. number two, he said president trump accepted president putin s denial of the meddling in our elections. we don t have a definitive authoritative readout of that meeting. it s one government s word against another. and then the third thing is, throughout the interview, he was disparaging the news media and the intelligence community using themes we hear a lot here in the u.s. it was disturbing on many levels but not surprising. evelyn, you nail it there there are the striking overlaps. and we all know the term talking points in domestic politics. but it seems that russia has the appearance of providing the talking point to sort of thread a needle on meddling because trump himself, prior to the interview we just aired last week, had basically said, well, i don t think putin said i said i accepted it. there s a difference.
number two, he said president trump accepted president putin s denial of the meddling in our elections. we don t have a definitive authoritytative read out. it s one government s word against another. and then the third thing is i don t know if you caught this but throughout the interview he was disparaging the news media and the intelligence community. using themes we hear a lot here in u.s. it was disturbing on many levels but not surprising. evelyn, you nail it there there are the striking overlaps. and we all know the term talking points in domestic politics. but it seems that russia has the appearance of providing the talking foints to thread a needle on meddling. because trump himself prior to the interview we aired last week said basically i don t think putin said i said i accepted it. there s a difference. he said that he thought it. they have sort of seem to both
interview. yeah. yeah, ari, well, i did work with a i met foreign minister lavrov in my three years that i worked at the pentagon. of course i i met the minister defense and the deputy mirptss of defense. this is a quintessential opportunity that lavrov did not waste with mess with america. he did it on three counts. first of all he started to muddy the waters. how many times did they actually meet? how many times meetings did they have? did they stand at the you arenle and talk about substantive issues we don t know. number two, he said president trump accepted president putin s denial of the meddling in our elections. we don t have a definitive authoritytative read out. it s one government s word against another. and then the third thing is i don t know if you caught this but throughout the interview he was disparaging the news media and the intelligence community. using themes we hear a lot here in u.s. it was disturbing on many levels