ruler to decide on a response before choosing a path forward. should we be waiting on the saudis? first of all it s notable and striking the saudis haven t publicly blamed iran but asked for an investigation. a year after dismissing calls of their murder of columnist khashoggi. saudi arabia hasn t been willing to join secretary of state and trump administration officials in officially ping the blame on iran. even if the administration were to decide on a more military response to this, they face enormous credibility issue. in selling any possible military action. they have complained about iran so many times they blame iran for so many different actions it s unclear and we re starting to see in the reporting around
yeah. this is the kindergarten stuff. i have to believe when they respond they will say we like patrick byrne. he was good in business. but this story is 100% fugasi. they are not going to do that. they will no comment. if they come out to deny this. do you have anything in writing? this is the silly part. this story is so wild you have to have proof. chris, i am light years beyond the world you are talking about. sara, do we have a response from james comey or law enforcement? so right now we reached out to james comey, fbi, doj, we don t have a response from them. cnn hasn t independently corroborated the claim patrick byrne is claiming. he did not provide any proof of
21 minutes past the hour. president trump is delaying his plan to have thousands of undocumented immigrants arrested and deported, at least for the time being. here s what he tweeted. at the request of democrats, i ve delayed the illegal immigration removal process, deportation, for two weeks to see if democrats or republicans can get together and work out a solution to the asylum and loophole problems at the southern border. if not, deportations start, unquote. undocumented families and activists have been speaking of their relief. cnn spoke to some of them. reporter: here in los angeles, right at the top, mayor eric garcetti had called these threatened sweeps inhumane. so, when they were called off, there was a sense of relief and also a lot of cynicism. that s because a lot of activist
monday. he says he looks forward to when those sanctions can come off. the sooner the better. the president has been under pressure from democrats to de-escalate the situation. tomorrow we ll see what kind of additional sanctions in addition to the already existing punishing sanctions the trump administration has in mind. sarah westwood, thank you so much. so, the penpals are reportedly at it again. north korean state media is reporting dictator kim jong-un received an excellent letter from president trump. cnn hasn t received confirmation from the white house that president trump did, indeed, send the letter but cnn s paula hancocks has more on what we do know. reporter: we are back to the letter writing between the leaders of north korea and the united states. kcna, stat-run media in north korea says that kim jong-un has received a letter from president trump. they ve also published a photo showing him reading that letter. now, according to ccna,
mayor pete returns. friday he came face-to-face with angry protesters. yesterday he offered his vision for the future of policing in america. i want to live in a country where a black person and a white person feels the exact same thing when they see a police vehicle approaching and that thing they feel is safety. we ve got to work towards that together in the name of our values. cnn will be at that town hall in south bend today at 3:00 central time/4:00 eastern. adam schiff and ron johnson are guests on state of the union with jake tapper at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. president trump is putting a brake on ice deportations