on twitter that north korea has dispatched one of its top aides on his way to new york to engage in more discussions about that potential summit in singapore even though the entire summit hasn t been formerly reinstated yet. president trump confirming that high ranking north korean official kim young alcoh-chul i heading to new york with the on again off again summit with kim jong-un. the president is pushing his advisers to move ahead with the talks as scheduled despite concerns there s not enough time to prepare. a lot of people are working on it. it s moving along very nicely, so we re looking at june 12th in singapore. that hasn t changed. reporter: a close aide to kim jong-un arrived in singapore late monday to discuss logistics with u.s. officials. meetings north korea never showed up to two weeks ago. meanwhile a top white house official is leading a delegation in north korea. those talks happening in the
of the biggest wins for him with public support. it s one of the few places we ve seen throughout the entire trump presidency that he actually was able to bring a swath of democrats to his belief that he s moving in the right direction on north korea. he hasn t been able to bring democrats on board to anything. so this is a really key moment for him and he knows it, i think, by looking at all the behavior. no one has said this more loudly and clearly than you, david. i do think this north korea moment means more than just what s going on the peninsula there. it has very much to do with the domestic politics and very much to do with how the president views himself in this president who very much wants to sell himself as the deal maker doesn t have a whole heck of a lot of deals up until this point so say paris, iran. this means very much to him and i think it means a lot to him to have it happen on june 12th. no doubt. you remember how he was rolling
ought to go to the next safest country but we are seeing many immigrants that want to come to the u.s. because we re a great country. the chief-of-staff suggests that separating children from their parents could serve as a deterrent on coming to the united states. is that a humane policy for a country? we need to be focused on the children. what is the safest way to handle children and make sure that they are reconnected with a safe home or with their family. is the administration sometimes is the administration focused on the children as you put it? i think that congress needs to make a fix to this. there s more that we can do but extending policies from the previous administration on this same issue on immigration needs to be solved. can i ask you a question based on something the president wrote this morning? do you think robert mueller and his investigators are trying to meddle in the 2018 midterm elections? i don t know that i can give
president trump confirming this morning that north korea s former top spy is heading to the united states for meetings, so will the president trump/kim jong-un summit happen in two weeks and what will happen at this summit? let s get the bottom line with david chalian. the developments in north korea are just coming in every hour if not sooner than that. so many different diplomatic teams are all over the world from singapore to the dmz to this top spy coming here to the u.s., so it sure seems like the president s letter fast track this had somehow. all those developments you re describing are after the fact that he canceled the meeting and all those developments are happening, which i think indicates just how much donald trump wants and needs this meeting politically to come off successfully. his desire for it doesn t make it any easier to pull off, but politically, this has been one
out that date and the location. he was teasing it out much like he does with any kind of big announcements from his reality tv show days and you re absolutely right. he wants it on that date. he lifted the curtain on that and he wants you re right. it s not just that people like it, it is on brand for him as the deal maker that he sees this so important to accomplishing it. we re having a debate, an internal debate, i would love to have you weigh in. when the president tweets something that is fact-free and evidence-free and is a conspiracy theory as he did this morning, should we read it verbatim? does it give it oxygen because it is our job to parse presidential statements and help analyze them for the viewers and what they mean, but when it s fact-free and just to peddle a conspiracy, what s your thought on that? this has been the conundrum for many journalists during the trump era. i do think there is value in exposing and showing a fact-free presidential statement, but i