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Called the jihadis next door . Good afternoon, everyone. And welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with our politics lead. For a second morning in the row President Trump threw a wrench into the plans of his own administration officials. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson was asked yesterday about the decision by six gulf states in the most to cut ties with qatar over claims that qatar supports terrorism. Tillerson suggested that the United States would not pick a side. We certainly would encourage the parties to sit down together and address these differences. This morning, however, seemed to overrule secretary tillerson suggesting that the u. S. Was siding with the sawed its, tweeting, among other things, quote, during my recent trip to the middle east i stated that there can no longer be funding of radical ideolo ....
The historic meeting with kim jongun and President Trump, were about 30 hours away. But it is the meeting with the si canadian Prime Minister that is getting so much attention, so well come back to you to delve into that. The white house is in a huge shoving match with one of its closest allies. The president s advisers hitting hard this morning using extremely combative language about canada. The president backed out of signing the joint g7 statement, and is personally slamming canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau just hours after saying all his relationships were a 10 out of 10 pertaining to the g7 community. White house people blame betrayal by Justin Trudeau. Lets go to jeff zeleny in singapore. How is t ....
They have exchanged insults and oreats from opposite sides of dee world, but tonight President Trump and kim jungun are both in singapore at separate hotels less than half a mile apart. Within hours, these unlikely bargaining partners will meet acce to face bringing very tifferent agendas to the table. Their nations have no diplomatic relations. Onn in their positions, a sitting u. S. President and a north korean Supreme Leader have never met. Tlittle more than two weeks ago it appeared the summit was not going to happen. Cbs evening news anchor jeff glor is leading our coverage in singapore. Jeff. Ol glor elaine, President Trump told reporters on the tarmac last night that he was feeling very good about this upcoming meeting. These two men leaders of countries for nearly 70 years of animosity and diplomatic tension be ....
Yes. Because they were united in the g7. They came together. There is a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad faith diplomacy with president donald j. Trump and then decides to stab him in the back on the way out the door. Thats what he did with that stunt press conference. Thats what weak dishonest Justin Trudeau did. That comes right from air force one. Youre probably wondering how we got here. Lets start from the beginning. Yesterday. What youre about to see is President Trump before he left g7 summit, denying reports his relationship with u. S. Allies is anything less than perfect. The relationship that ive had with the people the leaders of these countries, i would rate it on 0 to 10, i would rate it a 10. Minutes later trump hopped on his plane and headed to singapore and Prime Minister ....
World. Back in the u. S. Tonight, the wildfire doubling in size, more than 2,000 homes in danger. They are going door to door tonight. The severe storms from iowa all the way to the east coast. Winds ripping off rooftops, flash flood watches tonight from d. C. To philly. The deadly house explosion, blown to pieces. Several homes in that neighborhood badly damaged. And the heartbreak over the loss of Anthony Bourdain. Tonight, what weve now learned about his final days. Announcer this is a special edition of world news tonight with david muir reporting tonight from singapore. Good evening tonight from singapore where we begin the week with all of you at home a night early on this sunday night because both President Trump and kim jongun have landed here in singapore. This has not happened before with a sitting u. S. President and of course the stakes are enormous. Kim jongun ....