welcome back, everyone. well, north korean leader kim jong-un wants to send a message to the world and the united states. that message? less emphasis on the nuclear threat and more on future prosperity. join celebrations of the country s 70 th anniversary, north korea showed off its might but not its long-range missiles. instead there were messages on the economy and diplomacy. the new theme wasn t lost on u.s. president donald trump who tweeted this. thank you to chairman kim. we will both prove everyone wrong. there is nothing like good dialogue from two people that like each other. well, our paula hancocks is following the story from seoul and joins us now live. paula, you covered the mass
horrible. how can he use such language! [ laughter ] yeah, to bill s point, i think our country has definitely become more divide since 1992. but with president trump in the white house, there s a little bit of a different thing, even if you were with a country divided with two opponents, you could still treat a funeral respectfully, and politics around that funeral respectfully. what trump is doing, he could not have been sitting there without changing the dynamic of that funeral, and that wasn t lost on anybody. if you just look at the commentary around the picture of the first families and melania trump, his absence was the subject of the commentary throughout the weekend. if he had been in that picture, it would be a different dynamic. it s how disparaging he was of jeb and even barbara bush in the 2016 campaign. but sitting presidents don t
i don t know. is that serious? deny dennis rodmania part from mike pompeo, the only other american that s been in the company of kim jong-un. i have to believe that the president s briefing will include not directly from rodman but something rodman may have given to our intelligence apparatus along the way. one more real quick if i can. smerconish and everyone else, i m hoping his kids burst in again. mia i hope that wasn t lost on everybody, that my guest was the one that had that viral moment. there it is. i never get tired of watching this, especially because i do these own remotes myself. i always live in fear that it will be my miniature dachsund, mr. lucy, who will come crashing into the room barking while i m doing a live hit with brooke baldwin. you can catch up with us any time on cnn go. wolf blitzer with live coverage of the funeral of former first lady barbara bush.
it s a rare day when president trump can resist tweeting. remember all the way back to last week when he was twitterless for 48 hour gs. it was actually a thing far while. along with tweeting about steel today, he did find time to tweet about the actor alec baldwin. randi kaye has all the back and forth. i am not a crook. okay. plus, i bet nixon got one scoop of ice cream for desert but i get two scoops. two scoops. reporter: alec baldwin doing his best impression of president trump donald trump on saturday night live. it may seem what s coming out of my mouth is all b-a-n-a-n-a-z. reporter: when the hollywood reporter asked him this week how long he can keep playing donald trump, baldwin responded every time i do it now, it s like agony. agony. that wasn t lost on the man in the oval office. before dawn friday morning,
it s a rare day when president trump can resist tweeting. going back to last week he was twitterless for eight hours tweeting about steel today. he tweeted about alec baldwin. i am not a crook. okay. plus, i bet nixon got one scoop of ice cream for desert but i get two scoops. reporter: alec baldwin doing his best impression of donald trump on saturday night live. it s all part of the plan. reporter: when the hollywood reporter asked him this week how long he can keep playing donald trump, baldwin responded every time i do it now, it s like agony. agony. that wasn t lost on the man in the oval office. before dawn on friday night, despite what is happening in the