to what josh was talking about, how do you define what success is. there are four ds everybody is looking for. denuclearization, demobilization on the north korean side. north korea wants from americans de-escalation and some talk about development, economic development and money coming in. i think the agreement on definition about who is talking about what when is going to be how success is defined at the summit. gayle, josh okay, dave, quickly. the president is in an interesting place. he s unpopular broadly at home but his north korean approach is very popular and gives him room to define what success is in the short-term. it will be very interesting to see what he does with that. north korea very important for him diplomatically, internationally, but also domestically as well. david, gayle, jim, josh, thanks so much. fred, back to you.
to be sure. president trump and kim jong-un now a little less than 30 hours away from first face-to-face meeting. commander in chief and supreme leader landing this morning. no sitting u.s. president has ever met with a north korean leader. we just don t know what the impact of this will be. we do not know if there will be any kind of agreement. but the mere fact they are meeted substantial in and of itself. let s bring in our panel, cnn national security correspondent jim sciutto in singapore, washington post columnist josh roggin, cnn political analyst and senior correspondent for the washington examiner david drucker and cnn national security analyst and senior fellow on council of foreign relations, friends gathering from around the world. what a great discussion. josh, i ve been readings what you ve been writing over the last day or so. you re suggesting the president is really lowering the bar here
this precipice of delving into a full on attack of the fbi. i imagine, david, that has to do with the fact that republicans want to be the party of law and order. normally it would seem the party would be so interested in maintaining integrity of the top law enforcement agencies in the country and yet, some of them are making political calculations here. it s definitely a little bit of a switch for some republicans. normally they re on the side of law enforcement agencies and they give the benefit of the doubt to the conduct of those agencies. and look, don t forget, in 2016, after then fbi director james comey s news conference in which he called hillary clinton extremely careless for use of a private e-mail server, fast forward to october of that year, ten days before the election he sends a letter to congress saying in effect we re taking another look at this e-mail scandal. two days later, oops, never mind. democrats were outraged at jim comey and his conduct and felt
whatever conclusion is based on what has been presented to him. congressman, thank you so much for that. we appreciate you spending time with us this holiday week. thank you. happy new year. i want to bring in our panel. joining us senior political correspondent fompt washington examiner david drucker, associate editor and columnist from real clear politics and host on sirius xma.b. stoddard. i do want to talk about health care. i first want to talk to you about the russia investigation and what we have heard from democrats and republicans. it s not all congressional republicans saying that robert mueller can t be trusted or that are questioning the objectivity of the fbi and doj. marco rubio has full faith in mueller. he heard from congressman francis rooney who doesn t and suggested there should be a purge at the fbi and d.o.j. what do you make of this seems
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