In the east. North Korean Leader kim jongun making a secret trip to china to meet with the president. Its his first foreign trip since coming into power in 2011. It comes as kim gets ready the meet with President Trump in the coming weeks. Mr. Trump tweeting theres a good choons kim will do what is right for his people and look forward to meeting with him. Breaking overnight, Stormy Daniels attorney asking a federal judge to depose President Trump. He wants to know what the president knew about the 130,000 payment to the porn star days before the election. Lets begin with cnns ivan watson live in seoul, south korea. What have you learned . Alisyn, this was a surprise and secret summit. They didnt tell the world that xi jinping met until after kim jongun got back to north korea. He traveled by Trump Campaign between north korea and the Chinese Capital and back. Its been a secret meeting and came after years of frosty relations between these two supposed longtime allies, china and nrgtd.
Began with whats believed to be kims train. Cnn asiapacific editor Andrew Stevens in the Chinese Capital what can you tell us about this surprise twoday trip . The big news, it is kim jongun. That was the general feeling, that it was kim, given the level of security that there has been in beijing for the last couple of days. He arrived with his wife, were just finding out that it was at the ins equation of the chinese. President xi jinping inviting kim over to talk. Obviously about whats going to be happening at the talks, interkorean talks, the big summit with donald trump later in may. What im just getting now, this is a the Xinhua State News Agency quoting kim jongun himself saying, if south korea and the United States kindly respond to our effort, create an atmosphere of stability and peace, and take gradual and simultaneous steps, the issue of denuclearization on the peninsula can be resolved. Thats what were getting at the moment. Now confirmed, i think its been confirmed now bec
I could be up there tonight smiling like i love it. Then im supposed to and, you know, you got to smile. If you dont smile, theyll say he was terrible. He couldnt take it and if you do smile, theyll say, what was he smiling about . Theres no win. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. For the second year in a row, donald trump skipped the white house Correspondents Dinner. His last visit there apparently wasnt enjoyable. Remember those jokes barack obama told about him in 2011. But he didnt skip a beat when it came to attacking the media. Instead of going to washington, d. C. To do it in a hilarious monologue, trump went to washington township, michigan, rallying his base with his usual free willing rants. Perhaps its best that trump wasnt at the dinner because he probably would have been even angier than he was in 2011. After comedian Michelle Wolf unleashed 20 minutes of scorching riske comedy, sparing no one, mike pence, not members of trump cabinet and not the media either. Prompti
Thank you for spending part of your Holiday Weekend with us. Right now south of the u. S. Border in mexico a mass of people is on the move, more than 1,000 strong, heading towards the United States. These are people mostly from central and south america, and what theyre doing is part pilgrimage and part political protest because many of them say when they get to the u. S. Border theyre going to try and cross it and stay in the United States. This socalled caravan prompted a tweet from the president this morning. His words, mexico is doing very little if not nothing at stopping people from flowing into mexico through their southern border and then into the u. S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws. He ends with need wall. President trump commented further this morning as he and the first lady went to church in south florida. Watch. Mexico has got to help us at the border. They flow right through mexico. They send them into the United States. Cant happen that way anymore. Also today
Hear from the president tonight . Reporter hey, there, ana. As you know, you can expect the unexpected when trump speaks to his supporters. Hes here at a rally in maycomb, county. There are several hundred supporters on hand. Were expecting the president to talk about a number of issues tonight, notably, possibly, the communications between north and south korea this past week. There are talks over potential denuclearization, his upcoming possible meeting with north korean dictator kim jongun. Further, the president can go into a number of different topics, as you noted, the russia investigation. The president has repeated that refrain that it is a witch hunt and a hoax perpetrated by democrats to explain their loss in 2016. The president also could potentially go after democrats, as he often does at these rallies. Earlier today on twitter, he attacked montana senator jon tester for his role in downing the nomination of Ronny Jackson, the man that the president had pushed to be the nex