happening. that came out of nowhere today, and for the first time we are learning the u.s. is communicating directly, as you heard, with north korea. the white house won t say who is doing the communicating, but the washington post has the story tonight. quote, cia director mike pompeo made a top secret visit to north korea over easter weekend as an envoy for president trump. the clandestine mission, which had not been previously reported, came soon after pompeo was nominated to be secretary of state. trump s revelation came at the start of a two-day meeting with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. the president also addressed the seemingly improving relations between north and south korea, giving himself plenty of the credit. north korea is coming along. south korea is meeting and has plans to meet with north korea to see if they can end the war, and they have my blessing on that. and they ve been very generous that without us and without me in particular, i guess, you would hav
the white house won t say who is doing the communicating, but the washington post has the story tonight. quote, cia director mike pompeo made a top secret visit to north korea over easter weekend as an envoy for president trump. the clandestine mission, which had not been previously reported, came soon after pompeo was nominated to be secretary of state. trump s revelation came at the start of a two-day meeting with japanese prime minister shinzo abe. the president also addressed the seemingly improving relations between north and south korea, giving himself plenty of the credit. north korea is coming along. south korea is meeting and has plans to meet with north korea to see if they can end the war, and they have my blessing on that. and they ve been very generous that without us and without me in particular, i guess, you would have to say, that they wouldn t be discussing anything including the olympics would have been a failure. instead it was a success. they do have my blessing
and ohio s republican governor tweeted, a true leader preserves and offers hope, doesn t take hope from innocent children who call america home. jonathan karl joins us now. and we re learning about a possible meeting at the white house between president trump and vladimir putin. the kremlin says the president invited putin and the white house is reacting tonight, jon? reporter: the white house won t say who extended the invitation, but they say that one possible venue for a trump/putin meeting would be right here at the white house. tom? jonathan karl for us tonight. jon, thank you. next, the severe weather watch, and the winter weather alerts across nine states tonight, from montana to michigan. it comes after a fast-moving storm. icy roads causing this accident on i-70 in st. charles, missouri. and heavy snow postponing today s home opener at yankee stadium. look at that. abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all. rob, good evening. reporter: good evening to
sought can be done through written sbregtointerrogatories production of documents. it doesn t necessarily lead to the conclusion that an oral deposition will follow. as you know, gloria, the white house won t say if president trump knew about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. clearly, this story isn t going away. do they need to at least answer that question? well, wiyou know, they ve go michael cohen saying that the president didn t know. they have michael choohen s representatives saying that the president didn t know. it s very clear to me that sarah sanders doesn t want to touch this at all. and her language is to the best of our knowledge, the president has responded. he has hasn t responded. he hasn t talked about it personally. he s going to have to at some point. he doesn t have to talk to the media about it. we would like him to, but he doesn t have to. but he may have to talk about it in court. and that is where he faces some jeopardy. because, you know, going back
reporter: that s right. the white house is really not saying anything at all. friday was the day that these new rules put in place by john kelly to redistrict access of classified information for people like kushner who have interim security clearances. those rules went into place yesterday, but the white house won t say who they will affect. kushner is having a lot of trouble getting his security clearance. cnn has reported that this ongoing mueller investigation is making it more difficult for the fbi to clear the issues that they have had with his background check and as a result he is not expected to get his clearance anytime soon. and in the meantime, he has a portfolio of issues under his belt that include middle east peace and also regularly viewing the presidential daily briefing which is a significantly classified document that the president gets about active intelligence matters on a daily basis. so the issue here is what will john kelly decide. president trump was asked ab