The white house. An important commitment made by north Korean Leader kim jongun at the last months summit with President Trump is apparently being delivered upon. At the time he said his country was dismantling a major missile engine testing site. There has been no official announcement yet from pyongyang. New satellite photography indicates the regime is beginning to tear down facilities at a launch site in the northwestern part of the country including a missile engine firing stand as well as a gantrylike structure used to assembly rockets. Bill how much can we read from it, greg . At the very least experts are saying its an important confidencebuilding measure towards denuclearization with north korea with caveats. There were no expert observers present, no way to verify what was happening and not dismantled there the actual launch pad and the site is used for liquid fuel missiles. More and more the regime is dependent on more mobile, faster to use solid fuel rockets. And there is n
The president says wait a second, what, financing . Then he has to explain it. The president did not know about this before this conversation at least with regard to the transaction that were talking about. Julie kevin corke is live from the north lawn with us this morning. What a morning. You can imagine if there are, julie dozens perhaps or at least a dozen such taped conversations you can imagine how you would snip at this story to death between now and the 2020 election which might explain why the president is on twitter this morning asking the question why would Michael Cohen tape their conversations . Take it to the president s social media platform. What kind of lawyer would tape a client . So sad. Is this a first . Never heard of it before. Why was the tape so abruptly terminated, cut while i was presumably saying positive things . I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped. Can this be so . Too bad. Here is a clip from one such recording again about we be
Wieselberg about how to set the whole thing up so, what are we going to pay with funding yes. And its all the stuff all the stuff, because you know, you never know where that company, you never know where hes going to be he gets it correct. So, im all over that. I spoke with allen about it. When it comes time for the fansing, it will be listen what financing . Well have to pay wont pay with cash . No, no, no, no. Ive got no, no, no the audio at the end is muddled, and it is unclear whether mr. Trump suggests paying with cash or not paying. The president s attorney, rudy giuliani, has said no payment ever came from his client. Giuliani tells the Washington Post it sounds like cohen is explaining something to trump that he doesnt understand. And now giuliani disputes that the recording shows mr. Trump knew about the mcdougal deal at all. I dont think anyone can suggest that this represents anything where the president did anything wrong. I question the strategy of doing this, of trying t
But if we were to judge trumps mood by his twitter feed, a very different narrative emerges. He has fired off no less than ten tweets about the russia investigation in the past 24 hours, including one that takes a particularly sharp jab at the special counsel directly calling mueller, quote, disgraced and discredited. Then there is trumps attorney Rudy Giuliani. This week he told chuck todd truth isnt truth, but here is the truth. We dont know what mcgahn said to t to t to the special counsel. We have a good sense obviously of what mr. Mcgahn testified to. I can figure it out from how do you say that good sense . Have you debriefed him . No, no. But mr. Dowd has a good sense of it. He talked to them at the time. You dont know 100 of what he testified to, to mr. Mueller . I think that through john dowd we have a pretty good sense of it. John dowd yesterday said, ill use his words rather than i mean, mcgahn was a strong witness for president. I dont need to know much more about that. Whi
Can you . Inside that war room of how to combat fake news. Plus mike pompeo ready to arrive at the white house to debrief President Trump on his trip to saudi arabia, after a journalists perhaps final piece is being published today. Hans nichols, a lot is happening there. President trump is getting ready to head out to mountantana for western swing. Before he does, hes meeting with secretary pompeo. Do we know if he has arrived yet . Reporter we have not seen any movement. He was scheduled to show up at 10 00 a. M. We typically see pompeo go in. Youre looking at the scene right there. Were not seeing him arrive right now. The interesting thing about this 10 00 a. M. Meeting is that at 11 30 is when the president has his intel briefing and will likely get, if there is additional intelligence, he will get all the latest data, all the intercepts that could potentially give some indication of what happened inside that saudi consulate in turkey. He is there to give a political read because