international press of dismantling its main nuclear testing site. cnn s been invited, south korean journalists got a last-minute invitation. but u.s. defense officials tell cnn that is basically a p.r. stunt, that the site is almost destroyed after north korea s sixth and most recent nuclear test in september of last year. sure would be nice if the reporters were able to bring weapons experts with them, nuclear experts, to tell them what they re seeing, make sure it s not a staged event. thank you very much for that from seoul. will ripley is there. sending pictures from the plane yesterday. the intelligence was this place was ready to collapse. they couldn t continue to test there. we ll go live to washington and politics digital director zach wolf. quickly on this north korea summit, they already had this commemorative coin marking the summit in singapore. now it s a flip in the coin whether it even happens. where are we headed, and how would the president of the united states gu
director, zachary wolf. will the president say something in response? the counterpuncher in chief, what do you think? well, we know the guy likes to tweet and this is clearly what is in his what he s seeing on cable news. so i wouldn t rule it out. but, you know, he said so much already about north korea, about sort of raising expectations for this summit. it s something he essentially needs and canceling the iran nuclear deal last week, he kept pointing over to this and saying i m going to make a much better deal. so he s extremely invested in making this happen. how he does that, we ll just have to see. president moon from south korea is at the white house the 22nd. what do we expect that north korea wants out of this? some type of negotiating? well, i mean, there was some criticism when the you know, the beginnings of this were happening. that what north korea essentially wanted was this seat
you have subsidies, fines that go through if you don t have insurance. so completely enmeshed in the federal government. to say that we ll step back, i don t see how that can be possible actually. that s right. and the one thing you wonder is republicans have been trying to repeal obamacare for seven years. so if they fail, if they can admit defeat that, and i m not sure that will happen, but if they do, does that mean the fever breaks and they start to work with democrats and conversely do democrats start to work with republicans. that is a real open question. i don t see how that happens in the short term. you can t leave democrats out of this conversation because it seems like their lone cause is opposing trump policies. you have to stand for something at some point. they have to come to the table, too. takes two to tango. we ll see if they do. zach wolf, thank you. so could obamacare real fail is this experts don t think that
long. first lady melania trump was seated next to putin at the dinner. the white house says near the dinner s end, the president of the united states got up there his seat elsewhere, went over to his wife and that s when he began speaking with putin in full view of the other world leaders. and it concludes that the insinuation that the white house is trying to hide a second meeting is false, absurd. it is not merely perfectly normal, it is part of a president s duties to interact with world leaders. president trump has demonstrated american leadership by representing our interests and values on the world stage. not a lot of shared interest and values though between the krund and ru united states and russia. zach wolf is joining us to discuss. this came to light because a guy who runs you group ian bremer
republican lawmakers claim it encourages states to overspend on medicaid. however, most americans view the program favorably. and president trump promises that no one with medicaid will lose coverage. however, the congressional budget office estimate of the house bill found that happen 14 million americans will. we have to look at the senate version and see how that fares, and we may get a peek today when the cbo is expected to come out with its analysis, this week, as early as. that may be key to the future of health care. zachary wolf is digital director for cnn politics, live from washington. good to see you, sir. the president says there he wants this bill to have heart. here s what counselor to the president, kellyanne conway, told george stephanopoulos on saturday. these are not cuts to medicaid, george. this slows the rate for the future and allows governors more flexibility with medicaid dollars because they re people in need. if you are currently on